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Post subject: Pickups, guitars and Mustangs..
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 11:19 pm
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So I am having some issues getting a good tone with my Mustang V v2 working with my strats with Dimarzio and Fender Vintage Noiseless pickups. I have an Epiphone ES-339 with ProBucker split coils that sounds wonderful through that amp, but not so well in my tube amps. Just the opposite with my three strats. All three of them kill through the tube amps, but have some funky type of over tones when I play them through the Mustang V...

One strat has vintage noiseless, one has two Dimarzio Virtual Vintage Heavy Blues with an X2N in the bridge and the other one has Area 58, 67 and 61 in the bridge. Anyone else running these and if so what type of settings are you using...

I am running 11's on two of my strats and 12's on another one...
I have 10's on the Epi...

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Post subject: Re: Pickups, guitars and Mustangs..
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 1:48 am
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I only have one Strat and one Gibson LP, singlecoiled and humbuckered respectively, but I had to set my sounds different for both axes. For instance, the Gibson one was much louder on the same presets as the Fender one. The Fender one was much quieter on the distorted sounds set up for my Gibson, while it was actually louder (if I remember correctly) on the clean channel set for my Gibson. I set up completely different patches for both guitars, matched them volume-wise but kept the pros of each guitar and didn't want to make both of them sound exactly the same - no point in having different guitars then :P

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Post subject: Re: Pickups, guitars and Mustangs..
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 7:56 am
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I have a MXR 10 band eq, I think I am gonna give that a try first in the chain or in the loop and see if I can get the tone I am looking for with my strats. Then I can just hit the button when I play the strats. I have two of my strats wired up with orange drop caps and tone for the neck, middle and bridge. The other strat is a standard wired deluxe players strat...

On another note, I think I saw you in a post about multi effects and the Mustangs. I am using a Zoom G5 in the stereo effects loop. I have a y-connector, it is an Ampridge GA101, in the input of the Zoom G5 and then run the stereo line outs back into the Mustang. It is working really good. I also added the scroll mod to the Zoom, so I can scroll through the effects a lot easier. Getting some nice Gilmour sounds and the rotary speaker sounds killer in stereo..

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Post subject: Re: Pickups, guitars and Mustangs..
Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 6:16 am
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I have CS69s and notice this a litttle when I use some of the stomps. I find its much better using my external pedals. Almoust sounds like a "rattle" in my case. Lowered them down quite a bit which helped but debating whether to put my lace pup back in the bridge to see if it makes a difference

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Post subject: Re: Pickups, guitars and Mustangs..
Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 7:52 am
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I stuck my MXR 10 band in my input loop to the main input of the Mustang V and and have the eq on it setup with the bass boosted up a little and the mid's and high's cut down. That took the flat sound out of the strats. I hooked up the Epi 339 and it sounded just as good or better with the same exact eq settings.

I a/b'd the Mustang V Deluxe Reverb and my tube 65 Deluxe Reverb Re-issue and got the Mustang pretty damn close to the tube amp tone, both at low volume. I have the DRRI clamped down pretty hard with a Weber Mini Mass and the volumes up a bit to get the tubes hot.

So far the pedal board I have for the input to the Mustang V is..
Buddah BudWah->MXR 10 Band->Joyo Ultimate Drive->ProCo Rat(92 LM308)->Mustang V
I use the Zoom G5 in the effects loop along with a Boss RC3 Loop Pedal..

It is pretty much matching the 65 DRRI in tone with those pedals..

My pedal board for the DRRI and my other tube amps is..
Buddah BudWah->EH Soul Preacher->Hardwire CM2->Fulltone Fulldrive 2->EH Small Clone->MXR Carbon Copy->Boss Volume Pedal->Big Shot ABY->Both Inputs of the DRRI

I have four tube amps, DRRI, Blues Deluxe Reissue w/ C-Rex, Original Blues Deville 4 x 10 w/ Ragin Cajuns-Emi Legends and an Egnater Tweaker 15 w/ 1 x12 Cab.

Those amps are all great and sound pretty good, but at 1am when I need a wall of amps sound in my headphones, that would be friggin loud with those tube amps...

So the Mustang V will let me get that wall of amps sound in my headphones, completely silent...

Another plus with the Mustang V is I can have the Fender Fuse running in the background of my Propeller Head Reason and I can tweak the settings of the Mustang V, just like a VST plugin on my screen..

The Mustang V has a lot better tone and a lot more options than the Line 6 VST for the Propellerhead Reason.

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Post subject: Re: Pickups, guitars and Mustangs..
Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 8:14 am
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Love the Joyo and RAT with the Mustags. Especially on the Deluxe and Princeton models. I have a current issue RAT but suits my needs for now.

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Post subject: Re: Pickups, guitars and Mustangs..
Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 9:10 am
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So I dinked around with the settings some more and still could not get the tone I wanted, so on a whim I lowered my pickup height on my strat with the Virtual Vintage Heavy Blues pickups, holy crap somebody took the blanket off of the amp..

Sounds much better now!

I could not find any specs on the Epi ProBuckers, but the Dimarzio VV Heavy Blues are..
Output mV: 170
DC Resistance: 8.53 Kohm

It was starting to piss me off, just my pickups and wiring on my main strats cost as much as a complete Epiphone ES-339..

So I guess if you are looking for a good bang around plug and play guitar for the Mustang V, the Epi ES339 is pretty damn good..

That Joyo pedal is a pretty good, the one I have is having a switch issue, it sometimes cuts the level off or way down when I punch it on, but a $21.00 OCD is pretty hard to beat, probably an easy fix, just have not got around to it just yet..

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