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Post subject: How do the Mustangs take pedals?
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 11:16 am
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Hello everyone. Quick question...

How well do the Mustang Amps take pedals?

If I set the Amp to the Bassman setting and put a Blues Driver Pedal in front of it, does it sound anything like a Blues Driver or is it just a giant mess?

Is there any kind of plain bypass channel?

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Post subject: Re: How do the Mustangs take pedals?
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 2:16 pm
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This might help Mike
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Post subject: Re: How do the Mustangs take pedals?
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:47 pm
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I used a Boss Blues Driver and Ibanez TS7 (similar to a Tubescreamer) with great results. It sounded best on the Twin reverb and Deluxe models. The super sonic was nice to. Didn't try the Marshalls or Metals yet. What I noticed most on those models was it boosted the signal and gave me more sustain. Rather than it becoming distorted, it gave me a clean boost and didn't color my tone much from the original sound. I was really loving it. I even used the Blues Driver and TS7 together in front of the amp with it set on the super sonic model. Wow, it gave me such a good tone. It was a mix of Eric Johnson, SRV and Santana. A very compressed, overdriven singing sustained sound. Best advice I can give is experiment as much as possible and don't worry about something sounding bad. I've made plenty of horrible sounds in my time. I have a Blues Deluxe amp and didn't pull incredible sweet tones out of it until I experimeted with many settings on it and my pedals. I almost traded it in, but I dialed in a setting that I just loved which eliminated most of the flabby bottom end.


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Post subject: Re: How do the Mustangs take pedals?
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 1:34 pm
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The only way I can make my mustang V take pedals semi well, is to use the studio pre amp function without any other effects,.. but If I use a modeler , like let's say a deluxe reverb amp... it sounds horrible!!!! my velvet fuzz, or the fat sandwich are unusable .... They sound heavenly on my tube amp, but no good on the mustang...


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Post subject: Re: How do the Mustangs take pedals?
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:37 am
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I think it more or less depends a lot on the type of pedal you're using. Stomp boxes and overdrives can be problematic because they present too hot of an input signal which causes some nasty artifacts. However I've used an ElectroHarmonix POG2, a volume/wah pedal, acoustic simulator, a harmonizer, and even an external compressor with success. All you can really do is try them out and see what happens.

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Post subject: Re: How do the Mustangs take pedals?
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:51 am
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The two fuzz pedals i tried (Fuzz Face Mini and Biyang Fuzz Star) did not work out too well. The Fuzz Face was ok if i tweaked a preset specifically voiced for that since it lacks a tone knob but that wasn't too practical. I really wanted to like it though. The Fuzz Star works better but the volume taper is wacky on that so there's a very narrow sweet spot in terms of where the volume knob can be before it is complete garble with the Mustang. My Rat and Joyo Ultimate drive work great and don't seem to care too much what amp model i'm using. I also have Behringer Compressor that works well with it. I like having a few pedals so I'm not so dependant on Fuse. I'd really like to get a Fuzz Face type pedal that works as I don't particularly care for the Fuzz stomp on the mustang.

This guy does really well with the Fulltone 70's fuzz.


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Post subject: Re: How do the Mustangs take pedals?
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 1:09 pm
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I have been using a DriveTrain overdrive with no issues...

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