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Post subject: Is this footswitching possible?
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:41 am
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Hello everyone. I'm new to the forums and I am thinking about purchasing the Mustang III amplifier. Can anyone let me know if the following is possible using the 4-button and 2-button footswitches together? I am in a band and I am planning on setting up a preset for each of the songs we have. I'd like to use the footswitches in this manner:

1. I would use the 4-button footswitch in Mode 2 to go up/down (or bank) through my presets until I find the one for the song we are about to play.

2. Once I found the preset for the song, I would switch to Mode 3, where I would use the 4-button footswitch to turn on/off the stompbox, modulation, and delay during the song. I would use the first button on the 2-button footswitch to turn on/off the reverb during the song and the second button on the 2-button footswitch for tap tempo.

I apologize if this topic has alread been covered in a previous thread. I searched the forum, but I didn't find anything that was as specific as my question. Thank you in advance for your responses.


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Post subject: Re: Is this footswitching possible?
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:31 pm
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Hey bny219,

You can do most of what you want but not everything.

In Mode 2 you can move up and down each preset and the bank button selects presets 10, 20, 30, 40... If you press the down button before bank then it moves downward, 10, 00, 90, 80... First press of bank will jump to the nearest preset multiple of 10 from the current one.

Once you select a preset you can select Mode 3 and toggle stomp, modulation and delay just as you thought.

The only thing that won't work the way you want is the 2-button, I would also like the see the Reverb/Tap added since these are the only two options not available on the 4-button. Hopefully in an upcoming release of firmware it will be added.

Currently the 2-button can be set to:
Down/Up
QA1/QA2
Stomp/Modulation
Stomp/Delay
Stomp/Reverb
Stomp/Tap

Hope this helps.


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Post subject: Re: Is this footswitching possible?
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:17 am
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Thank you for the information. I'm really interested in this amp because I play mostly rhythm guitar in a surf/rockabilly/rock n roll band and I would love to be able to have a ton on tones and effects to color up our sound. I'm just trying to figure out how I would use the footswitches. Maybe I'll go buy one of these amps at GC and try it out for a month. I can always return it if I can't figure out a footswitching setup that works for me.

By the way, modeling amps are a world I've never explored before. I've always been a guitar-cable-tube amp guy. I've never really even used effect pedals before.


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Post subject: Re: Is this footswitching possible?
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:33 am
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A thought... If you already have an amp (or amps) that you're happy with, then maybe the Mustang Floor would suit you better? I don't know the precise details of its footswitching, but it has more switches and options than the footswitches for the Mustang Amps. So it's more likely you'd be able to do what you need with it.

Another thing you could do, and this depends on how you like to turn effects on/off during a song, is the following. It kinda depends on whether you always want to use the same effect combination at a particular point in the same song.

Create a 'basic' preset for the song, including all the effects you want. Put this as the first preset in a bank (say, 20). Turn the effects within this preset on or off, as you want them at the start of the song.

Create other presets for the song, based on the first one, with various effects turned on/off as you would do during the song. Put these in subsequent preset positions (say, 21, 22, 23, ...).

Then, at the start of a song, you can use bank up/down to get to the right group of presets for the song. During the song, when you get to a point where the effect changes (say, stomp on/off, reverb on/off) you can then go up/down a preset to get to one with the right combination.

If you put the presets in the right order, then during a song you would just go 'up' a preset each time you want to turn an effect on/off. I think this has the advantage that you don't have to remember, mid-song, which footswitch does what and which one to press. You already know (because of course you'll have tested it all in rehearsal beforehand :)) that anytime you want a change, the correct change is simply to go to the next preset.

Of course I realise this doesn't work so well if you like to improvise with different effects 'live' during a song. But the above approach may still be workable: you could use the 2-button switch to change presets for the majority of effects changes you want (especially maybe the reverb that you can't do individually with the 4-button switch), while simultaneously using the 4-button switch in stomp-mode to turn individual effects on and off.

Just trying to think of other solutions for what you want to do.


Last edited by scott-uk on Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:47 am, edited 1 time in total.

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Post subject: Re: Is this footswitching possible?
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:45 am
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That's not a bad idea. I currently have a Jet City half-stack comprised of the JCA22H and 4x12 cab, but I'm looking to sell it. I have two young kids and my "guitar area" of the basement has gone from being the whole basement to an area just big enough for me to fit my amp and me playing. The half-stack is just too big. Plus, I don't use the Jet City amp in my band. I borrow a brownface Fender Vibroverb Reissue from a friend. The Mustang Floor does look interesting though.


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Post subject: Re: Is this footswitching possible?
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:51 am
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I have two young kids and my "guitar area" of the basement has gone from being the whole basement to an area just big enough for me to fit my amp and me playing


Solutions: get kids interested in guitars so they want you to have more amps in the basement; make kids play outside in the yard ("it's healthier for you to run about in the fresh air"); turn amp volume up to drown out sound of complaining children; sell children and buy more guitar gear with proceeds. :D


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Post subject: Re: Is this footswitching possible?
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 6:05 am
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I like the last suggestion. :D


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