Floods amp settings — Boss kantana KTN-Mini

The Pantra guitar tone for “Floods”, dialed in for a Boss kantana KTN-Mini with a Ibanez GIO GRG170DX. Studio version, The Great Southern Trendkill (1996) — iconic solo tone

Original rig

Washburn Dime signature (Bill Lawrence L500XL bridge humbucker) -> Furman PQ-3 / MXR 6-Band EQ -> Randall RG-100 solid-state head -> DigiTech Whammy (outro squeals) -> doubled tracking

Aggressive, razor-sharp scooped high-gain lead with biting upper-mids and heavy delay/reverb wash

Amp settings — Boss kantana KTN-Mini

CHANNELBrown amp type

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	8
Bass	6
Mid	3
Treble	8
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Ultra Chorus UC200

Set subtle to emulate Dimebag's double-tracked lead width rather than a strong chorus sweep

Rate 2 · Depth 3 · Tone 5 · Level 4

02Boss DS-1 Distortion

Used as a tight front-end boost into the high-gain Brown channel to sharpen picking attack

Dist 2 · Tone 6 · Level 8

Why these settings

The Katana Mini's Brown channel provides the required aggressive solid-state gain structure, with presence and reverb set to null as the Mini panel lacks those controls (delay tape-delay knob on the amp can add space). We keep the amp's mids scooped at 3 and treble boosted to 8 to match Dimebag's signature graphic EQ curve. The DS-1 acts purely as a tight attack boost while the UC200 adds subtle width to mimic Randy Rhoads-style double tracking. Clean arpeggios: switch amp channel to Clean, bypass DS-1, and bring UC200 depth up.

PRO TIPPick forcefully right next to the bridge saddles and use wide, aggressive vibrato with heavy pinch harmonics at the octave and 5th nodes along the G string.

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