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Post subject: Playing a Bass on a Mustang I
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:52 am
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My son was wondering if he could also practice his bass on his Mustang I?? :?:
We are not talking about full volume or any thing.

Right now his practice amp is a very tiny Crate 'bass' amp.


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Post subject: Re: Playing a Bass on a Mustang I
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:12 am
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I hooked up my G&L bass up to my Mustang II once. I put it on '59 Bassman, clean sound, and it sounded ok. I wouldn't try to gig with it, but like you said it's for room practice anyway. It should be fine.


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Post subject: Re: Playing a Bass on a Mustang I
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 3:30 pm
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Fender's 'official' position, often stated on this forum by the Fender reps, is that using the Mustangs with a bass guitar voids their warranty.

Not sure that they've ever fully justified why they take that firm position - for example a real bass is said to be a no-no, but the bass tones produced by their own Mustang pitch shifter effect are apparently ok - but nevertheless they stick rigidly to it.


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Post subject: Re: Playing a Bass on a Mustang I
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 7:49 pm
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Wow, I didn't even know that. Weird, because my M2 still works perfectly and hasn't been harmed in any way by me trying out a bass on it (for all of 20 minutes, of course).


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Post subject: Re: Playing a Bass on a Mustang I
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 10:55 pm
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I could understand there might be some concerns over the 8 inch speaker in the Mustang 1, but one might reasonably think that, especially if played only at low volumes, the 12 inch speakers in the larger Mustangs should be quite capable of dealing with bass tones, (assuming that it is the speakers that they are worried about).

But even so they have never deviated from the official Fender position that none of these amps are ok for bass use, and that you use them in that way entirely at your own risk.


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Post subject: Re: Playing a Bass on a Mustang I
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 4:19 pm
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depepat wrote:
for example a real bass is said to be a no-no, but the bass tones produced by their own Mustang pitch shifter effect are apparently ok - but nevertheless they stick rigidly to it.


A guitar amps preamp isn't intended to handle bass frequencies. Neither are the speakers. The pitch shift is added to a guitar signal and then is transmitted to the speaker, rather than having the preamp nailed with low frequencies.


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Post subject: Re: Playing a Bass on a Mustang I
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:42 pm
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So the preamp doesn't get exposed to the lowered pitch shifted tone, but the speaker still does ?? Still doesn't really explain Fender's position.


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