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Fender Mustang I
Fender Mustang is a new amplifier by Fender and it can deliver many sounds from clean to heavy distortion. It comes with 24 presets in 3 different banks. There is 5 different versions on the market and the cheapest are just $99. This is certainly a perfect practise amplifier designed for any beginner as well as more experienced guitar players.
All of the latest Fender amplifiers comes together with the well known Fender Fuse computer software which lets you change the settings of the amplifier with the computer. You need to link the Fender Mustang to the pc by using a usb cable who comes with the amplifier. Anytime you discover a sound you actually like you will be able to keep it either on the laptop or computer or directly to one of the 24 presets on the amp so that you will be able to use it without having to hook up it to the laptop or computer.
Then you will be able to switch all the effects either before as well as after the actual amp for different sounds usually if you use heavy distortion you will need to putt the reverb and also delays after the actual amp to make sure you get a nice sound. In case you want to share your sound you will be able to add it to the Fender fuse community so many others may use your options. Here you will be able to obtain sounds from many well known guitar players and also bands. For example if you like AC/DC and Angus Young sound you may download a patch with settings similar to his and upload it to your own Fender Mustang Guitar amp and start playing.
The Mustang family of amplifiers are really extremely good sounding and includes many good testimonials from many guitar players and what amazes the most is actually the actual price of the smallest amp that have the same effects as the larger models mainly a smaller speaker with less power. The bigger designs have more options and you can adjust a great deal more of the settings directly on the actual amp without the Fender fuse software program.
The Mustang I&II provides 12 modulation effects: chorus, phaser, flanger, vibratone, tremolo, step filter and octaver which you will be able to change on the amp. It also includes 12 delay and reverb effects that you also can control with a knob on the amp. In order to change the level you will have to hold down the exit button and then modify the corresponding knob to the level of your choice.
The usb connection provides you with a low latency output which you may use to record with directly from the amp. The Fender Mustang also comes together with Ableton live lite which is a multi track recording application. You also have an Aux input where you may play a tune from your own mp3 player or computer and play along, this will be a clean signal even in case you have got distortion effects.
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