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Post subject: Fender Mustang and pedals
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 1:17 am
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Hello,

recently i've started using some pedal in front of my Mustang I v1, because of the limits of the single footswith and i wanted to share with you my experience, since many people stated that the old Mustangs do not take pedals very well.

This is what i try until now:

KOKKO OVERDRIVE: is a Tube Screamer china clone, it works very well, tight the sound as it is supposed to be, no problem with any setting. I can get a simlar effect with the onboard overdrive but i like the external pedal to engage it on clean and bassman presets.

DONNER DYAMIC WAH: onestly i like better the Mustang touch wah, maybe because i've found my sweet spot, but this solution is more pratical. Sound good and no problems at all

MOOER ULTRA DRIVE MK II: here comes the bad news. This is a BOSS DS1 keeley mod clone. Id does not work well. There is an unwanted unpleasent distortion in the bass frequencies (cannot play a decet E5 chord). I've tweaked some preset to make it work but there is no way to make a full use of it so i've sent it back. Odd enough i tested the emulation from Zoom (MS50G or G1Xon) and it doesnt have the same problem.

TOM'S LINE BLACK TEETH: this one has the the place of the MOOER. It is a clone of the ProCo RAT. Works has it is supposed to. Has less gain than the DS1 but some very pleasent tone with neck PU for SOLOs. Works with any setting expect fully crank volume, but i am ok with it. It works with both clean and full overdrive setting and i have no problems with low notes and chords.

I also have a TOM'S LINE PLEXION coming that i got for a cheap.

As a side note, i've discovered that the 65 model has slightly less good performances taking (Distortion) pedals (more than slight with the MOOER), the 57 is a better platform. Also i used to set some clean tone to maxium volume and set other preset from there. This is wrong. Preset volume should be set to work well with headphones at a volume of 8. Setting the preset volume to 10 may cause some distortion in the preamp stages (the real one not the modeled one).

Hope some of this information will be useful to you, if you want some more information i may be writing some more on may blog about it in the future.

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An Unofficial guide to Fender Mustang Effects here:
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USB Footswitch Opensource Project:

https://github.com/mordor74/mustang-raider


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Post subject: Re: Fender Mustang and pedals
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 4:51 am
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Hello !Thank you very much for sharing your taps in this topic. In your place, I would care to avoid overclocking the pedal. By over-controlling the signal, the signal will be a sinusoidal, harmonic, signal, rectangular signal. That's the other. Example of the distortion circuit. This produces a special sound. But, most of the time, it's not desirable.

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Post subject: Re: Fender Mustang and pedals
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 11:01 am
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varga jano wrote:
In your place, I would care to avoid overclocking the pedal.

how do you go about overclocking a pedal? I know the term in relation to computer processors would refer to making the processor run faster than the original factory spec. Is there something similar with pedals?


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Post subject: Re: Fender Mustang and pedals
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2018 3:56 am
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I think he probably means clipping... sending too much output from the pedal to the input of the amp.. he's right about that, it wont sound good at all.


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Post subject: Re: Fender Mustang and pedals
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2018 1:55 pm
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Yeah I guess either that or possibly the thing where you exceed the pedal manufacturers power input spec. Either way, clipping at the input is a bad thing in general with modeling amps. But I have had good results with several of my pedals (mostly Boss).


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Post subject: Re: Fender Mustang and pedals
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2018 12:09 am
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I really dont think it is a problem coming from the guitar signal. i have several guitar with different pickup solution and i also tested it with single coils that have a fairly low output. The only hope is that i got a defective sample, but who will ever know? It is gone forever, i am really enjoying the black teeth, so i am fine. I also got a Tom'sline Plexion and it works like a charm with the 'stang. Good from blues to maiden and also metallica if stacket with the TS clone.

Must say that i am really entusiast of my actual configuration. I am using the Mustang like a 2 channel amp: a very clean 57 with a chorus and a mesa fully driven. On the clean channel i go from a morbid over drive with the TS, the maiden and the tallica with the plexion and the TS, a very gainy sound a la kiko loureiro with the RAT clone. Plus the touch wah. All with the feets and without knobs involved. I am very pleased.

Only downside is that the pedals rised a lust of test them with my old champ 12, that is stored 1000km far from me. Will i resist to the temptation to have it sended to me?

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You can find all my Mustang tips here:
http://ridingthemustang.blogspot.it/
An Unofficial guide to Fender Mustang Effects here:
http://ridingthemustang.blogspot.it/p/unoffcial-guide-to-fender-mustang.html

USB Footswitch Opensource Project:

https://github.com/mordor74/mustang-raider


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Post subject: Re: Fender Mustang and pedals
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:04 am
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I have used an old pedal box which had chorus / digital delay / overdrive but found it drained too much of the amps power so I am now working with the pre set options in the amp and discarding my older pedal box. Shame really because I liked the digital delay which gave me the right amount of echo and because it had a separate pedal plus a bypass pedal it was easier to turn on and off when playing. The pre set options on the Mustang lll 100w have to be turned on or off manually still the amp is great and less of a dead weight when compared with the old Fender 75 valve.


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