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Post subject: Re: 4Button foot switch
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 2:15 pm
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Loren Howard - Fender wrote:
Hey Guys,

If you need access to more than three QA Presets in a set, you may want to consider just saving your Presets in a certain order. The III, IV, and V allow you to save any preset to any slot, without the need for FUSE. That way, you can just advance through the Presets one at a time.


I was mostly jesting about having 13 buttons. I know it's not a realistic request for the current product line. However it would look something like Voodoo labs Ground Control Pro.

Keep in mind I'm only playing at home, no gigs etc. Also, my playing skills are limiting my career, not the amp. However, I it would be nice to assign each bank to the genre I'm in the mood for playing.

00-09 Jazz - clean and wet sounds.
10-19 Blues - fat clean to crunchy.
20-29 Funk & R&B & Disco.
30-39 Classic rock.
40-49 Reggae - clean to dirty. Some accoustic variations too.
50-59 Perhaps all accoustic variations.
No need for punk, country, metal, or shred on my amp, but you get the idea.

When it's time dance, bank 20 can cover James Brown, the Earth, Wind, & Fire, and Motown.
When I want to practice my Hendrix songs, I'll switch to bank 30. Then all of the presets are one button away. I could also mix in Zeppelin, Santana and U2 while I'm there.

Of course there probably aren't that many presets needed for each genre. And a preset could be copied and duplicated in more than one genre. A pickier player may want a different preset for his Les Paul than his Strat. So he could have 0-4 for HB guitars and 5-9 for SC guitars.

I'd imagine cover band guitarists would LOVE this. Different banks for different song sets, or different eq's various different venues. I'd think that once players spend the time to perfect and tune a setup like this, they'd be hooked on Mustangs for life. I could be wrong though.


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Post subject: Re: 4Button foot switch
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:03 am
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Dose anyone know if there is another Foot switch that could work on the Fender Mustang V? The four button isn't cutting it.


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Post subject: Re: 4Button foot switch
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 5:32 am
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What about the 2 & 4 pedal units together? I've heard that this combination adds a lot more flexibility.

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Post subject: Re: 4Button foot switch
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 6:46 pm
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I am a long time Fender Amp user and have used a 1st generation Cyber-Twin for gigging for over 10 years. I loved the flexibility the midi thru on the Cyber-Twin gave for selecting any preset you wanted or a players choice setting.

I was so impressed with the Mustang V that I had to have it and now as I am knee deep into the settings of the Amp I am loving what I am finding but, very disappointed by the lack of options on the footswitch. I was hoping I could at least set each bank with 3 settings. but that is not the case. It appears I will have to add the two button footswitch to allow for this kind of option.

I have been very pleased with the performance of the Mustang V, but the limitations the footswitch allows for the amp is like having a sports car that won't let you shift out of 3rd gear.
This is incredibly annoying. I purchased the amp to take advantage of it's great sounds for live performances. I cover lots of music from 70's-90's and having the ability to reproduce those types of sounds on the fly was the whole appeal of this amp line. I would happily have paid extra for midi support or more options settings on the footswitch.

Fender Please, Please, Please take this into consideration for those of us who religiously use your products. As working musicians we need this flexibility to take full advantage of this great Amp.


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Post subject: Re: 4Button foot switch
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 11:24 am
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rudyriosjr wrote:
I am a long time Fender Amp user and have used a 1st generation Cyber-Twin for gigging for over 10 years. I loved the flexibility the midi thru on the Cyber-Twin gave for selecting any preset you wanted or a players choice setting.

I was so impressed with the Mustang V that I had to have it and now as I am knee deep into the settings of the Amp I am loving what I am finding but, very disappointed by the lack of options on the footswitch. I was hoping I could at least set each bank with 3 settings. but that is not the case. It appears I will have to add the two button footswitch to allow for this kind of option.

I have been very pleased with the performance of the Mustang V, but the limitations the footswitch allows for the amp is like having a sports car that won't let you shift out of 3rd gear.
This is incredibly annoying. I purchased the amp to take advantage of it's great sounds for live performances. I cover lots of music from 70's-90's and having the ability to reproduce those types of sounds on the fly was the whole appeal of this amp line. I would happily have paid extra for midi support or more options settings on the footswitch.

Fender Please, Please, Please take this into consideration for those of us who religiously use your products. As working musicians we need this flexibility to take full advantage of this great Amp.


Maybe you've tried this and it still isn't enough but, here's what I did. I programmed my footswitch to have 2 clean sounds and 1 driven sound (for chorus, solos etc). One clean preset has less volume on amp so it's perfect (for my ears) for playing more acoustic songs - Johnny Cash-ish sound. The other clean preset is for playing clean solos or stuff like a lot of Red Hot Chili Peppers songs (ie Californication, The Zephyr Song, Scar Tissue, you name it). Now with these two clean presets you basically can cover your whole arsenal of the "need to be clean" part of songs (of course you can add some effects in fx loop which you turn off before you save the preset, but can, in 3rd footswitch mode, turn them on - like delay, modulation, etc to get even closer to the sound of each particular song you cover - although then if you do have to switch quickly between another preset and the clean preset and an effect is necessary - if you put it in fx loop and turn it off before you save the preset, you won't be quick enough to turn the effect on while playing).
The presets you have on Q1, Q2 and Q3 on footswitch mustn't be close together on the preset list so you can add some more presets right beside them - the combinations you use the most. For instance - the driven preset I have which I use for most of the songs I play doesn't sound right when playing Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana for example. So what I did is that I put an overdriven preset right beside the clean preset I use for playing some parts of that song, then instead of having the footswitch in first mode, I put it in second mode so I can quickly change by going up and down the preset list from clean preset to Smells Like Teen Spirit overdriven preset by going up from, for instance, preset 15 (clean preset) to preset 16 (overdriven). The clean guitar sound for Smells Like Teen Spirit is the same I use for playing RHCP's songs - but the driven sound of SLTS or the one I use the most doesn't quite cut it for Cranberries song Zombie - so I have footswitch in mode 2 again and save the Zombie overdriven guitar sound on preset 14 so I can easily change the sound I need.
Basically you can easily get like 30 completely different preset sounds at your feet's disposal, if you try this method, and with 30 completely different sounds you can cover a lot of songs. It's not like each and every one of these sounds is good for just one song and not for others :) And of course, you can always choose to buy the 2-button footswitch as well and get even more sounds available at your feet, if that's not enough for you ;)

Hope I helped.

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Post subject: Re: 4Button foot switch
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:36 pm
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I have an MIV and have been using the 2 & 4 button switches together, along with a volume pedal in the FX loop. It works great for playing live. Here is how I have my presets setup.

00-09 for lead overdrive
10-19 for clean
21-30 for mild rhythm overdrive

I use my 2 button switch set to up/down so I can move from one preset to another in each bank. 30 presets is more than enough for me.

I also am using a Wah and Tremolo that I like better than those in the amp. I plug my guitar into the Wah, then the Tremolo, then the amp. Works for me.


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Post subject: Re: 4Button foot switch
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:59 am
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Hi Guys,

Is there a way with the 4 button footswitch, to have more than one set of Quick Access presets saved on the amp that you can retrieve. For instance, having say a Clean, Light Overdrive, Solo Drive on Q1, Q2, Q3. and then changing to another bank to access another group of saved Q.A.s

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Post subject: Re: 4Button foot switch
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:24 am
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Unfortunately, 8beggars, there is only one set of the 3 QA slots.

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Post subject: Re: 4Button foot switch
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 5:46 pm
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Thanks Loren,

Guess i'll just have to organise additional patches so they are next to each other and use the up/down buttons.

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Post subject: Re: 4Button foot switch
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:42 pm
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I have a Mustang v and both 2 and 4 way footswitches and for playing live I want to make use of up to 9 presets by using the 2 way button as an up/down.
So I want to use presets 7, 62 and 90 together in QA1 and I know I can only assign 1 of them but previous posts have mentioned saving these in order so 7, 62 and 90 could be saved as presets 1,2 and 3 on the Amp itself, then I could assign the new number 2 preset to QA1 and use the 2 button step up / down. How do I do this and if I do what happens to the existing presets numbered 1 , 2 and 3?

Thanks for any advice

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Post subject: Re: 4Button foot switch
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:50 pm
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Yes, you can save any preset to any slot on the amp (using FUSE), but you are overwriting the previous preset.

You can also backup your presets in FUSE and restore them later, or do a factory restore. It's best to save all your presets in the FUSE library anyways that way you can recall them when ever you want.

Remember you can only save 100 presets to the amp. So you will have to overwrite some of them if you want to store your custom made settings.


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Post subject: Re: 4Button foot switch
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:01 am
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See my post titled "Mustang floor into Mustang IV". It features an absolutely cherished response from Fender.

I have raised the same concern about the floor controllers and there short-comings on a few posts here as have many others.

These Fender control boards are an absolute pain live on stage. many have asked for a decent multi-function board to control these amps and what response did we get from Fender. "The Mustang Floor" yet another product to blow your hard earned cash on.

But lets face it. As a company, you don't earn dollars by spending too much time on a customer whose dollars you have already secured. Better to create another product and chase down some new greedy green dollars.

So Alan / Loren, stick it were you deserve it, I just found a product that will do what I need and a company that for the moment at least, does listen to it's customers.

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Post subject: Re: 4Button foot switch
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:58 pm
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So theres no easier way of simply re-ordering / re-numbering the presets so that say in my case 7, 62, 90 become presets 1,2 and 3 without creating a load of hassle?
Ionly bought the extra 2 button footswitch coz I thought it would give more QA slots.....


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Post subject: Re: 4Button foot switch
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:24 pm
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SGSonic01 wrote:
[...]I want to use presets 7, 62 and 90 together in QA1 and I know I can only assign 1 of them[...]


There are 3 assignable "quick access" slots, and you can indeed assign arbitrary presets to any/all of them. E.g., you could have:

QA1->7
QA2->62
QA3->90

or

QA1->90
QA2->7
QA3->62

or all three 62 or whatever floats your boat.

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but previous posts have mentioned saving these in order so 7, 62 and 90 could be saved as presets 1,2 and 3 on the Amp itself, then I could assign the new number 2 preset to QA1 and use the 2 button step up / down. How do I do this and if I do what happens to the existing presets numbered 1 , 2 and 3?


Scroll to preset 7 on the amp.
Press the red "save" button.
You'll be prompted for the destination; scroll to the desired destination preset.
Press the red "save" button again.
If you didn't unlock the memory first, you will be prompted to do that before you're allowed to choose a destination and proceed. (You can unlock the memory via the utility menu. The memory lock presumably is to help avoid inadvertent overwrites.)

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So theres no easier way of simply re-ordering / re-numbering the presets so that say in my case 7, 62, 90 become presets 1,2 and 3 without creating a load of hassle?


Moving them around isn't that hard (see above), but you will need to use FUSE if you want to first save the first destination preset (to your PC), and write it back to the amp (e.g., to exchange it with the source location's preset).

HTH,

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Post subject: Re: 4Button foot switch
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:21 pm
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Thanks for the reply - I guess being a newbie its a bit difficult trying to explain what I am trying to do. I already have my 3 presets saved- 7 , 62 and 90 to each QA slot but in order to be able to access say my favourite 9 easily lets say for example I wanted to use the above ones plus presets 43, 6 , 61, 78, 14 and 23. Can I simply renumber them using FUSE so that my complete set of all 9 favourite presets are numbered 1 to 9 and then save the middle one to each QA slot i.e. preset 2 to QA1 , preset 5 to QA2 and preset 8 to QA3? I could then use the 2 button in up down mode to access my presets either side thus covering all 9 fairly easily in a Live situation. Truth is I haven'y used FUSE at all yet so am very wary about making changes when I don't understand the impact of doing so. Is what I am suggesting above doable? Does renumbering the presets overwrite those that are currently numbered 1 to 9 so in effect meaning I lose them?
Hope this makes sense! Thanks again for any advice.. :)


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