Floods amp settings — YAMAHA GA15II

The Pantera guitar tone for “Floods”, dialed in for a YAMAHA GA15II with a Yamaha 112J. Studio version, The Great Southern Trendkill (1996) — famous clean intro/verse section

Original rig

Washburn Dime 333 or Dean ML with Bill Lawrence L-500XL bridge pickup → Furman PQ-3 Parametric EQ → MXR 6-Band Graphic EQ → Randall RG-100ES solid-state head

Shimmering clean with subtle chorus-like shimmer, tight low-end, glassy highs — the haunting clean tone before the heavy sections

Amp settings — YAMAHA GA15II

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	4
Treble	6
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Chorus pedal (e.g., Boss CE-5 or TC Electronic Corona Mini)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Essential for the shimmering clean tone; Dimebag used a Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble

Rate 3 · Depth 4 · Level 7

02Delay pedal (e.g., Boss DD-3 or TC Electronic Flashback Mini)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Adds the spacious, ambient quality to the clean sections

E.Level 3 · F.Back 3 · D.Time 5

Why these settings

The Yamaha GA15II is a basic 15W practice amp with only gain, bass, treble, and master controls — no mid, presence, or reverb knobs exist on this amp. The original Randall RG-100ES clean tone is tight and articulate; the GA15II's voicing is warmer and less defined, so treble is pushed to 6 to recover clarity while bass is pulled to 4 to prevent mud through the small speaker. Gain at 2 keeps it clean — this amp cannot produce Dimebag's heavy distorted sections without an external distortion pedal.

PRO TIPUse your neck pickup with tone rolled to 7 and pick closer to the fretboard for that glassy, almost acoustic-like clean attack Dimebag achieved; the clean intro is fingerpicked, not flatpicked, which softens the transients.

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