Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble (Solo · Distorted) — Guitar Tone

The Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble guitar tone is built on a Fender Vibroverb / ’68 Custom Pro Reverb, dialed in at gain 5.5/10, bass 5, mid 6.5, treble 6, presence 5.5 (community-researched baseline). Full breakdown below — then adapt every knob to your exact guitar and amp, free.

Amp settings (0–10)

Community-researched baseline. Your rig is different — GuitarToneAdapt re-dials every knob for your specific guitar, amp and pickups.

How these settings compare

Measured against the 54 blues tones in our researched catalog: Gain 5.5 sits right around the blues average (4.6); mids at 6.5 are right around average (6.5).

Guitar controls

Original gear

Amp: Fender Vibroverb / ’68 Custom Pro Reverb, boosted by an Ibanez TS-808/TS-9 (the only pedal)

Stevie Ray Vaughan played a Fender Stratocaster on the NECK pickup into cranked Fender tube amps (a pair of ’64 Vibroverbs), boosted by an Ibanez Tube Screamer — the only pedal on the record. His thick tone and sustain also come from very heavy strings (.013–.058). Warm, mid-rich, singing overdrive.

Gear used on this tone

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Pickups

neck (thick, warm Strat)

Effects / signal chain

overdrive, reverb

Tone character

thick mid-rich overdrive, warm Strat neck, singing sustain, dynamic blues

Recording context

studio

How it’s played

thick mid-rich tube-screamer blues overdrive distortion. This shapes how hard the amp is pushed and where the EQ sits for the Texas Flood sound.

Difficulty

5/5 · Solo

SRV’s aggressive bends and dynamics (on .013 strings) are extremely demanding; the tone is a neck-pickup Strat into a Tube-Screamer-boosted cranked Fender.

Worth knowing

• Texas Flood is a Strat NECK pickup into a cranked Fender tube amp boosted by a Tube Screamer (TS-808/TS-9) — thick, warm, MID-rich overdrive with reverb. Medium gain that sings; the heft comes from cranked tubes + heavy strings, not preamp gain.
• Use the neck pickup, a Tube Screamer into a clean-but-cranked Fender-style amp, push the mids, add reverb. Play with big bends and dynamics.
• Settings are community-researched starting points, not official recall sheets.

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Sources

• Texas Flood Amp Settings — Guitar Chalk
• Stevie Ray Vaughan Gear — Equipboard
• The Gear of Stevie Ray Vaughan — Gearnews

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