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Post subject: Great little amp, how about a foot controller???!
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 6:39 am
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Really an excellent amp for the price! I'll be using it for practice, rehearsal, and jamming at venues. Lot of Horsepower for the Money and the Weight!!

What this thing REALLY needs is an outboard patch controller, as in, bank up, down and 1-8. The change between two favorite presets is good and will be useful, but it'd be awesome to be able to set patches up in order in FUSE, and then just up/down to them as needed!

Is the Mustang using MIDI over USB? If so then there are possibilities!


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Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 3:44 pm
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Hey Les,

There aren't any plans for that kind of footswitch at the moment. I will pass this along the our engineers though.

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Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 5:47 pm
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yeah anything would be better then the on/off 1 button option like at least a second button to turmn effects on/off mebbe ? I been playing with mine for several hours now and I have a million ideas of ways to make it better.


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Post subject: Midi over USB?
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:17 am
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Loren Howard - Fender wrote:
Hey Les,

There aren't any plans for that kind of footswitch at the moment. I will pass this along the our engineers though.

Loren


Loren,
Thanks for the reply! I'm really loving this amp, and I like the software once it's working. It's a little laggy on a Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop, is that to be expected? XP, coreduo, 2 gb ram.

I had a Line 6 Spider Valve: even with the tube power amp, the Mustang II just has a more organic sound, not all digital and gritty like the Line 6 products.

If I'm not being too nosey about potentially proprietary info, is the Mustang II using midi over USB to communicate with Fuse?? That would give me a starting point. I'm a long time Behringer Vamp Pro user, and I still have an FCB1010 foot controller that would KILL with the Mustang...

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Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 2:17 pm
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Hey bonedaddio,

We have heard some reports of sluggishness. We're working on that and a few other issues. There is also no MIDI functionality on G-DEC aside from SMF compatibility so MIDI over USB is not supported.

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I am using the mustang 2 for ejamming and it works really great as far as lag and latency, the whole needs different playback option is not too good though. You need the headphones in amp or the computer or both really


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Because this product is loud, awesome and gigable, it truly needs a footswitch such as the G-DEC 3 30 has, with multiple patch buttons. It's really held back as a product with a lame one-button, two-channel switch.


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Musicmaster2 wrote:
Because this product is loud, awesome and gigable, it truly needs a footswitch such as the G-DEC 3 30 has, with multiple patch buttons. It's really held back as a product with a lame one-button, two-channel switch.

Can you picture Jeff Beck in some nice Fender showroom, and he looks down at the footswitch, and then looks at the Fender rep, and kinda skrunches his eyebrows without saying a single a word :lol:


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heheheh I've been backstage with Jeff when he had that exact look. At my original brand new '66 Epi Windsor with the mini-bucks. Then he played it and his eyebrows went up.


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The hair on my arms would stand up if I was within 20 feet of such a guitar :shock: :)


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I agree about a better pedal. It would give the amp another selling point. You could however use the bypass function in fuse and strategically place your cursor over the effects to toggle them off/on. At $200 you could buy a second mustang and use an A/B switch.The first method may proove challenging in a live situation though. But for practice and recording it could work.


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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 4:37 pm
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Practically, we'll just have to use an amp stand, get the controls up to reachable level, and spin the dial a bit.


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bluesdelux wrote:
...At $200 you could buy a second mustang and use an A/B switch.The first method may proove challenging in a live situation though. But for practice and recording it could work.


So true, then you could NOT use an AB switch, and get an Eric Johnson/Joe Bonamass setup going with one amp dry, and the other with the delay/reverb... it would be sick!! And for $400.00!
I'm going to wait and prowl for another one that's used...

It would only give you two patches, but two patches plus a pedal or two would be one killer small live rig, with serious volume! One cleanish patch, one crunchier patch, and a pedal for OD (and learn to spin the effects knob, I suppose...)

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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 4:44 pm
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An additional footswitch could really be a money maker for Fender. You buy the basic amp to get your kicks, but then you want to do lots of switching, so you have to pay another $100 for a USB foot controller.

I would though. Haha.


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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 8:45 am
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Assuming for a moment we will be limited to the one single button switch......

It seems a firmware upgrade would make it easy enough to expand the functionality of it. For example the switch could toggle between the red and green channels of whatever position the selector is currently in, so one would have 8 two channel "amps" at that point. Of course Fuse would allow us to put whatever amp we wanted in that position, so red and green could be two different amps. Although this is not ideal for a gigging musician, it would go a LONG way in increasing the usability of the foot switch.

Please....


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