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Post subject: Fender Fuse/Fender Amplitube
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:34 pm
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This might be a stupid question, but what is the difference between Fuse and Amplitube. I currently have Fuse on my PC that I use with my Mustang IV...dig em both. I have yet to use Amplitube but have seen a few tutorials on it. Im just trying to figure out if they are both worth having or are they both very similar? Thanks in advance


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Post subject: Re: Fender Fuse/Fender Amplitube
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:44 am
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Fuse is free so it would be worth getting it.

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Post subject: Re: Fender Fuse/Fender Amplitube
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 10:41 am
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Fender FUSE is an interface software application that allows you to fine-tune and re-program your Mustang or G-DEC amplifier. Since the amp has 12 amps, 12 cabinets, stomp and rack effects, FUSE allows you to program in your saved presets the way you want and configure them the way you want so that you can use them without having to plug in a computer later.

AmpliTube is an amplifier modelling software application written by IK Multimedia to include a few Fender amps that you can use to turn your computer into its own guitar amplifier. It does NOT interface with the Mustang at all. It uses any one specific input to shape the tone to match the amp model you have selected.

I do not use my Mustang amplifier through AmpliTube. I use my Rocksmith USB cable to connect my guitar directly to my computer via USB and I use ASIO4ALL. But I also went to IK Multimedia's website, registered, and downloaded AmpliTube 3.7 FREE. I also spent about $100 and got almost all of their Orange amps, a Soldano amp, and a few extras to include models of Mesa Boogie Dual-Rectifier (red channel), Peavey 5150, etc, as well as all of the useful speaker cabinet models for them. It's really awesome to get a fully liscensed Orange Rockerverb 50 and the matching PPC 212 cabinet for only $25, as opposed to the real thing which would cost somewhere around $2,400 (almost 100x as much).

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Post subject: Re: Fender Fuse/Fender Amplitube
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 1:39 pm
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Wow thanks for the info FFXIhealer. Orange amps are pretty tight, that's cool that you can use that model (among others I guess) thru Amplitube. Even though you don't use Amplitube thru your Mustang, can you? That's what I would plan on doing. I would love to try that Orange. Ive been using Fuse, but I find it just as easy to control the Mustang thru the interface without even hooking it up to Fuse. I'm gonna have to give amplitube a try. Thanks again


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Post subject: Re: Fender Fuse/Fender Amplitube
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 1:50 pm
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You can use your Mustang as a USB Guitar interface, but here's the catch: The USB port comes AFTER everything except the power-amp section, so you get all the Mustang's modelling sound. You can't get around it.

If you're going to use AmpliTube, then you need as clean a guitar sound as possible, so I'd suggest NO speaker cabinet and the '65 Twin Reverb for the cleanest soudn possible. That way AmpliTube can do its job.

This is why I use the Rocksmith USB cable for my interface (it came with the PS3 game). IK Multimedia offers their own USB guitar cable/interface. In fact, they have a USB interface called the StealthPlug CS. It costs $100 and it comes with 50 Custom Shop credits (worth ~$50). Go check out what they have.

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Post subject: Re: Fender Fuse/Fender Amplitube
Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 3:56 pm
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Haven't been on here in a while, and honestly haven't really used Fender Fuse all that much. I pretty much just tweak the presets thru the amp. Can someone tell me what more you can do with Fuse, aside from accessing the web and the many tracks/presets from the community. Am I missing something. Don't get me wrong, Fuse is cool...but is there more you can do using fuse rather that working simply from the amps digital interface??

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Post subject: Re: Fender Fuse/Fender Amplitube
Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 4:42 pm
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Fuse is mainly for interfacing with the Mustang (and other relevant) amps.

It cannot be used standalone as an amp simulator, or as a VST insert in a software recording program. It is really designed to offer a nice looking/user friendly and, in the case of the smaller Mustang amps, more detailed way of reviewing and tweaking presets.

You can use it to play backing tracks, but since they are just wav or mp3 files, you can play them outside Fuse anyway, with any media player.

Having a Mustang III with the on-amp screen that allows for the editing of almost all preset variables, I really don't use Fuse all that often. I used it a lot more when I had a Mustang II.


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Post subject: Re: Fender Fuse/Fender Amplitube
Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 7:23 pm
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I find I use both. If I'm changing stomp boxes I use the computer, it's quicker. And I find it easier to adjust the boxes on the computer. If I'm tweaking and amp for gain, volume or eq, I like to use the amp.

Fuse is really helpful if you switch out presets regularly, or download one or two to try out.


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Post subject: Re: Fender Fuse/Fender Amplitube
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 4:11 pm
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That's pretty much what I do. I mean the Fuse software is definitely cool, but for the most part everything can be done from the amp. Thanks for the feedback


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