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Post subject: Mustang III and pedals
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 5:21 pm
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I was having some fun with my M3 this am, and made an interesting observation.

I had my OCD hooked up, and was fiddling with the controls when I cranked the level knob to appx 3:00. The master volume on the amp was set to 2. There was very little volume boost, but it DID drive the tone a lot harder. I was expecting to get a bunch of nasty digital clipping at ear bleeding volume ( this pedal has appx 27 db of boost), but that didn't happen! What did happen was some sweet sounding overdrive. It also sounded a heck of a lot better to my ears than the overdrive stompbox model on some of the presets.

I believe I was using the Bassman Drive preset, but it could have been the Johnny Marr Clean or the intro clean as well...

Now I'm kinda at a loss- was it the fact that the amp still had most of it's headroom left that allowed it to handle the big jump in input level? Digi amps normally do NOT like this... Did Fender perhaps set up something to protect the digital circuit from being kicked in the teeth?
I did not, and cannot try this at gig levels, so I do not know how it would take it then.

Good news for me, and other pedal guys! I'll have to keep trying and see how a volume boost CAN be had. ( probably via my EQ pedal in the loop)

For the record, I've never had a problem using ANY pedal with my Mustang. So, for those who are slightly disappointed that the amp doesn't allow all possible combinations of it's own effects: The amp is quite happy with whatever outboard stuff you care to throw at it.


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