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Post subject: Do you use pedals with your mustang?
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:56 am
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i had my mustang 3 for about a month now and i only hooked up pedals to it last night i hooked up a DOD FX102 Mystic Blues Overdrive in front of the amp and a DOD FX40B EQ, Landmine LC-1 Chorus, DOD FX20C Stereo Phaser through the FX loop

I really like the Mystic Blues OD on the '65 twin amp model and a few others i find that the OD aint to good at stacking on to a dirty amp (the overdrive on the amp works good for that) i find this OD works best on clean amps like the '65 twin with the gain at 4 on the amp and i got the drive at 10 on the pedal

The DOD FX20C Stereo Phaser i hooked up cause i find the rate knob on the amplifier and in fuse sensitive or something i find it hard to get the sound i like plus i find the DOD Phaser to sound a little warmer and less harsh

And my EQ worked as expected i just use it to add a little high and low i finds it just breaths a bit more life in to my sound

Now the Landmine LC-1 Chorus is my favorite chorus pedal i played so i decided to hook that up BUT when i turned it on it makes a really loud pop and then as its on it is noisey as hell i tried putting it in differeant spot in the signal chain and i even put it in front of the amp which made it a bit less noisey but not enough i find it impossible to use it with how much noise it make which is weird cause like i said it my favorite chorus i played and when i played it on my old amp (ibanez mimx65) it didn't make them noises at all its disappointing but i do really like the sine chorus on the amp anyway so it not to bad but i would like to use the pedal

the time i spent in the music store and the past month with this amp i didn't think i was going to really hook pedals up to it and keep them hooked up cause i really like pretty much every effect on the amp and with the 4 button footswitch on the way thats going to give me enough control along with the 2 button one also but im going to keep the Overdrive, Phaser and EQ hooked up for sure they sound sweet with it i loves my mustang

so do any of you use pedal with your mustang
and did any of you have a pedal you loved on other amp but just not the mustang i find it weird that that landmine pedal dont sound good on that amp

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Post subject: Re: Do you use pedals with your mustang?
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:31 pm
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Before I bought my Mustang V I had several other amps and a pedal board.
Regardless of which amp I am playing I always connect my guitar to the pedal board and then to the amp, so when I am playing the Mustang I use mostly the wah, I do not have the need to use any of the other pedals since tha Mustang pretty much has every effect I need except for the wah. :D


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Post subject: Re: Do you use pedals with your mustang?
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:41 pm
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Ax Man Nano wrote:
tha Mustang pretty much has every effect I need except for the wah. :D


the mustang do got a wha you just need the EXP-1 to control it :P

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Post subject: Re: Do you use pedals with your mustang?
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:52 pm
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Can someone please tell me how the EXP-1 pedal works?
Do you plug your guitar to the pedal and then the pedal to the amp input or do you run it throug the effects loop?


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Post subject: Re: Do you use pedals with your mustang?
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:15 pm
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I use a behringer TO800 overdrive pedal in front of my mustang V and it sounds very good with many of the fender clean amp models,i like it better then the mustang's overdrive stompbox effect.


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Post subject: Re: Do you use pedals with your mustang?
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:29 pm
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Do you plug your guitar to the pedal and then the pedal to the amp input or do you run it throug the effects loop?

Neither. The pedal doesn't take an audio signal, it has a digital connection to the amp. You plug it into the "4-button footswitch" socket on the amp (Mustang 3, 4 and 5 only). The amp 'reads' the signal from the pedal, and uses that to vary (inside the DSP) the audio signal. Note the pedal can be set to control (almost) any parameter of any effect in the amp, it's not just a volume pedal.

NB If you also have the 4-button footswitch, you daisy-chain that to a second socket on the EXP-1 pedal, so you can use both at the same time.

The corollary to all this is that you can't use the EXP-1 with the Mustang 1 or 2; for those, you'd need to get a conventional pedal that you can connect inline with the guitar signal to the amp input. And for completeness you could of course still use a conventional pedal connected like that with the M 3, 4 or 5, either with or without an EXP-1 too.


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Post subject: Re: Do you use pedals with your mustang?
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:06 am
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Scott-UK, thank you for the reply.
Very useful info.


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