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Post subject: Getting Started Help - No Effects
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 11:35 am
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I just bought a Mustang I for my son who is just starting on guitar. The amp came with a bunch of presets, but I cannot seem to find out how to get a preset for "no effects". All of the presets have echo, reverb, chorus, etc. but nothing clean / no effects. I searched the Mustang downloads and forum but could not find anything. All of my amps are "old school" so I'm having a hard time getting started. Any help on how to find or setup a "no effect" preset would be appreciated. Thank you!!


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Post subject: Re: Getting Started Help - No Effects
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 5:01 pm
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Pick any preset, move the two effects dials on the amp a little bit in any direction, and then turn them full left.

Until you move the dials they are not 'active' and only reflect the pre-determined settings that are part of the preset. Once you move them, they become 'active' and you can use them to turn those effects off. As is often the case with modelling amps, some of the presets 'out of the box' are wildly over-effected, so being able to turn them down/off is very helpful.

That will turn off all effects, leaving you with the basic amp model tone - which you can't readily turn off, given that these are modelling amps and always model something ! (although some people have apparently found a way of forcing a 'no amp' setting, which you could find out about by searching here).


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Post subject: Re: Getting Started Help - No Effects
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:43 pm
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depepat wrote:
Pick any preset, move the two effects dials on the amp a little bit in any direction, and then turn them full left.

Until you move the dials they are not 'active' and only reflect the pre-determined settings that are part of the preset. Once you move them, they become 'active' and you can use them to turn those effects off. As is often the case with modelling amps, some of the presets 'out of the box' are wildly over-effected, so being able to turn them down/off is very helpful.

That will turn off all effects, leaving you with the basic amp model tone - which you can't readily turn off, given that these are modelling amps and always model something ! (although some people have apparently found a way of forcing a 'no amp' setting, which you could find out about by searching here).


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Post subject: Re: Getting Started Help - No Effects
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:23 pm
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Hello there. I'm also having the same question, and can't seem to find the solution by searching.
Has anyone of the you two guys above seen this thread with no amp settings, and could point us to it?

Thank you!


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Post subject: Re: Getting Started Help - No Effects
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:44 pm
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Loren - don't you think this should be a sticky?

There must be one customer a week who writes about this (two this week).

FIRST how to clear effects to zero, and secondly that the Mustangs will "always model something" and at there is no plain amp in this box.

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Post subject: Re: Getting Started Help - No Effects
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:32 am
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I've got another question. Is this amp even meant to be used to play/record acoustic guitars?


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Post subject: Re: Getting Started Help - No Effects
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:22 am
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Nope. But if you want, you can hook up an Acoustic Simulator (like the BOSS AC-3) to a clean setting (like the '65 Twin Reverb) and hook up an electric guitar to that. A very nice, convincing acoustic guitar sound.

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Post subject: Re: Getting Started Help - No Effects
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 5:35 pm
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R.S.Fraser Sr. wrote:
[...]the Mustangs will "always model something"[...]


This is actually not quite true.

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Post subject: Re: Getting Started Help - No Effects
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:18 pm
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As a technicality, it's not true, but ONLY because someone somewhere glitched their Mustang amp into disabling the amp models temporarily...long enough to save the preset and upload it. It's like saying you can't stand on benches in Playstation Home, when you can in a lot of places by using glitches in the program's clipping barriers.

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