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Post subject: Anyone else not using the factory presets?
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:30 am
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Had my Mustang III v2 for a couple weeks now, and at first I was very protective of my factory presets...making sure I kept backup copies around...making sure to not accidentally overwrite, etc.

Well, now I find myself just blowing away the factory presets at will. First, I put the 4 tones created by user "intheblues" into slots 00-03, because they are brilliant. Now, I find myself just overwriting the next available slot once I fine-tune a sound that I like. And I'm finding that having authored the new tones myself makes them actually more useful to me in terms of knowing where to look for a particular sound I need. I'm finding this approach much more useful than searching through 100 random sounds anyway.


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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:12 pm
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thoman23 wrote:
Had my Mustang III v2 for a couple weeks now, and at first I was very protective of my factory presets...making sure I kept backup copies around...making sure to not accidentally overwrite, etc.

Well, now I find myself just blowing away the factory presets at will. First, I put the 4 tones created by user "intheblues" into slots 00-03, because they are brilliant. Now, I find myself just overwriting the next available slot once I fine-tune a sound that I like. And I'm finding that having authored the new tones myself makes them actually more useful to me in terms of knowing where to look for a particular sound I need. I'm finding this approach much more useful than searching through 100 random sounds anyway.

Where can I find the settings from "intheblues"? Sounds like something I might be very interested in.


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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:17 pm
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I made a backup of the Amp in its factory state so if I ever want to load a factory preset I just navigate to that backup folder. I found that useful when I was learning the amp and wanted to start from scratch on a couple of the presets to hear where Fender had some of the models set but without the FX. Their Supersonic presets were pretty good out of the box I thought.

I’ve blown over every preset slot though but I’m using a Mustang II so that’s only 24. Do I use all those? Nope.

I pretty much use a 65 Twin with some chorus for my clean. A smelly bassman preset for bluesy stuff. And a few variations of Shane’s (intheblues) Tremolux which I love. Have it as is, one with the Fuzz Stomp added and one with the Greenbox added.

Right now this is my favorite preset on my amp which is that Tremolux preset slightly modified. Sounds real good with my bridge pickup at full blast and digging in.

https://fuse.fender.com/mustangv2/prese ... land-fuzz/

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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:18 pm
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Sterling Cadsteel wrote:
Where can I find the settings from "intheblues"? Sounds like something I might be very interested in.


Here's his YouTube channel as a start: https://www.youtube.com/user/intheblues

His demos of the Mustang and his blind tests are what convinced me to buy the MIII.

You can find his 4 Mustang presets by going to fuse.fender.com, and after logging in, search the presets for "intheblues". You should see his 4 tones that you can then download to your harddrive, which can then be added to your amp.


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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:19 pm
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Sterling Cadsteel wrote:
Where can I find the settings from "intheblues"? Sounds like something I might be very interested in.

https://fuse.fender.com/mustangv2/prese ... intheblues

the Tremolux is my favorite of his presets.

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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:26 pm
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thoman23 wrote:
Sterling Cadsteel wrote:
Where can I find the settings from "intheblues"? Sounds like something I might be very interested in.


Here's his YouTube channel as a start: https://www.youtube.com/user/intheblues

His demos of the Mustang and his blind tests are what convinced me to buy the MIII.

You can find his 4 Mustang presets by going to fuse.fender.com, and after logging in, search the presets for "intheblues". You should see his 4 tones that you can then download to your harddrive, which can then be added to your amp.

Thanks, Thoman. I haven't got a MIII at least not yet. I've gone out to try one twice now, once at G.C. and once at my local shop. Have not yet been able to find anyone to help me get a good sound out of it consistently but will go back when the owner's son is working. He says he has a II and loves it. I want to like this thing for the price, if nothing else. Everyone seems so happy with them I figure i'm not getting something right here.


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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 1:04 pm
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Great idea to have someone who knows the amp help you out. maybe have him load the Intheblues presets as well as some other presets to the amp for you when you give it a test spin.

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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 1:24 pm
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Sterling Cadsteel, what are you looking for but not finding on the amp? Perhaps we can suggest a preset or 2 ....

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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 1:35 pm
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strings10927 wrote:
Sterling Cadsteel, what are you looking for but not finding on the amp? Perhaps we can suggest a preset or 2 ....

It's not so much a matter of particular tones but simply navigating through all the dials correctly. For instance, I might find an amp model and when I try to tweak some aspect of the sound or tone I find myself in some sort of auto-wah or Ping-Pong delay or other. This navigation is what I probably need some hands-on help with. I'm not so intuitive with computers and such. But as for tones I would like to find a few good ones to start with and save them I guess. Something as close as possible to a warm tube tone for blues and a few progressively dirtier ones for playing around with would be good for a start. If I can get this guy's kid to get me started and I do buy the MIII it seems like this would be a good place to come back to for advice. Thank you everyone for all your help so far.


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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 3:16 pm
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thoman23 wrote:
Sterling Cadsteel wrote:
Where can I find the settings from "intheblues"? Sounds like something I might be very interested in.


Here's his YouTube channel as a start: https://www.youtube.com/user/intheblues

His demos of the Mustang and his blind tests are what convinced me to buy the MIII.

You can find his 4 Mustang presets by going to fuse.fender.com, and after logging in, search the presets for "intheblues". You should see his 4 tones that you can then download to your harddrive, which can then be added to your amp.

thoman23,

Congrats on your new Mustang and I am glad you are digging it. Just curious but dieing to know on the latest blind test which one was the Fender Mustang IV Modelling amplifier vs the Fender Super-Reverb Amplifier by Achillies? I cannot find the results anywhere on this one.

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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 6:40 pm
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Sterling Cadsteel wrote:
strings10927 wrote:
Sterling Cadsteel, what are you looking for but not finding on the amp? Perhaps we can suggest a preset or 2 ....

It's not so much a matter of particular tones but simply navigating through all the dials correctly. For instance, I might find an amp model and when I try to tweak some aspect of the sound or tone I find myself in some sort of auto-wah or Ping-Pong delay or other. This navigation is what I probably need some hands-on help with. I'm not so intuitive with computers and such. But as for tones I would like to find a few good ones to start with and save them I guess. Something as close as possible to a warm tube tone for blues and a few progressively dirtier ones for playing around with would be good for a start. If I can get this guy's kid to get me started and I do buy the MIII it seems like this would be a good place to come back to for advice. Thank you everyone for all your help so far.


What I seem to be seeing is how to tweak the amp settings. For that, simply use the actual amp knobs. Keep in mind, they are inactive until you turn them. What this means is you may hear a jump in settings when you first turn the knob.

At first, the lcd screen shows the preset info. name, which amp model, and a list of the 5 fx slots. If a slot says empty, there is no effect of that type associated with this preset. If there is a name there and it's highlighted, there is an active effect as part of the preset. If there is a name there, but it's not highlighted, that effect is turned off.

To change presets, simply turn the big knob to the right of the screen aka the "data wheel". When you first turn it on, the amp is on preset 00. On my v1 MIII, that was liquid solo, until I changed it. ( now it's "My Bassman") Turn clockwise to scroll through the factory presets. If you turn it counter clockwise, it takes you directly to the basic amp models, starting with preset 99. These are just an amp model, dialled in to a typical sound. No fx on any of them. It's a good place to start looking.

To see the actual amp settings for a preset, press the amp button. This calls up pg1 of the amp settings to the lcd screen. To adjust: PRESS the data wheel. This highlights the first parameter ( gain), turn the data wheel to adjust gain to your taste. The wheel adjusts in .1 increments- for big changes, use the physical knob, it's faster. Press again to move on to volume. ** Volume adjusts the loudness of a preset in relation to the others. You can use this to your advantage to get a virtual solo boost, for example. It also makes the master volume more or less "jumpy" If a preset is giving you trouble, jumping from too quiet to too loud with a tiny twist of master vol, try lowering the volume to fix**

To go to pg2 of the amp settings, either hit the amp button again, or keep scrolling through the controls- it'll flip to page 2 at the end of the row. pg2 is where you'll find sag, bias, noise gate, and cab. The cab control can make all the difference to a preset. For example, I heard a lot of talk about the 2x12c cabinet model, so I gave it a try with my favorite bassman preset. I liked it so much, I added it to the preset.

One word of caution: If you do not press the data wheel after pressing the amp button, turning the wheel will scroll through the amp models. All is not lost! Just scroll to the amp you were on, and go from there. This is true for all the effect buttons, too-with one exception:

To turn off an effect that's active in a preset, press the appropriate button ( stomp, modulation, delay, or reverb). To turn it back on, or activate an effect that is part of a preset, but inactive, press the button. To CHANGE effects, or adjust fx settings, press and hold the button. From there, it works just like the amp settings. ie turn the data wheel to change fx. press the data wheel to edit parameters. It's actually easier to do than to explain, lol!

Best of all, any time you change something, the Save button lights up. This is to remind you that you have altered the preset, and to save the changes if you like them. Press twice to save.

For a warm bluesy tone, I'd suggest trying the Basic '59 Bassman preset, and pushing the gain and volume controls. Depending on what guitar you're using, rolling off the tone, and/or turning the bass knob up helps as well. This model also has a control called blend on pg2 of the amp settings. This adjusts the blend of the 2 bassman channels- as if you'd jumpered the two channel input jacks on a real bassman, and were adjusting the volume controls to balance them to taste. For that matter any of the fender "tweed" type models are good for a warm bluesy sound: 57 Champ, 57 deluxe, 57 twin, and 59 bassman. The Champ, in particular, will give you that boxy, lo-fi old school sound from vintage blues records. Try it with some room reverb, too!

I made my default preset a slightly crunchy bassman with some spring reverb. I also changed the cab model to the 2x12c. Because I'm oh so creative, I called it My Bassman, lol. With single coils, it's warm and still mostly cleanish. With P90's it's just tipping over the edge, and with 'buckers, it gives me a nice light bluesy crunch. I'm pretty darn amazed at just how NOT digital it sounds!

I made preset 01 my "clean" tone. '65 twin reverb w/a touch of compressor and spring reverb. Vintage tremolo is also present, but defaults to off. It's just not a vintage fender clean without tremolo! Now it's a 2 channel plug n play amp.

I also have a pedal board plugged in. Od, into a distortion in front; chorus, micro flanger, and analog delay in the loop. Most are off unless I need them, but the chorus is a mostly on all the time effect. ( just a light subtle swirl to add depth to cleans and thicken up dirty tones) The amp handles all the real pedals I can throw at it quite well.

Hope that helps. Sorry for the War and Peace length post, but there's a lot of good stuff in this amp.


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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 7:56 pm
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HIO wrote:
thoman23 wrote:
Sterling Cadsteel wrote:
Where can I find the settings from "intheblues"? Sounds like something I might be very interested in.


Here's his YouTube channel as a start: https://www.youtube.com/user/intheblues

His demos of the Mustang and his blind tests are what convinced me to buy the MIII.

You can find his 4 Mustang presets by going to fuse.fender.com, and after logging in, search the presets for "intheblues". You should see his 4 tones that you can then download to your harddrive, which can then be added to your amp.

thoman23,

Congrats on your new Mustang and I am glad you are digging it. Just curious but dieing to know on the latest blind test which one was the Fender Mustang IV Modelling amplifier vs the Fender Super-Reverb Amplifier by Achillies? I cannot find the results anywhere on this one.


He should be posting the results soon. He waits for the view count on the video to get to a certain level first. The thing is, no matter what the results, both of the amps in the blind test sound great...so the point is already kind of made.


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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 10:45 pm
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thoman23 wrote:
He should be posting the results soon. He waits for the view count on the video to get to a certain level first. The thing is, no matter what the results, both of the amps in the blind test sound great...so the point is already kind of made.

The view count has surpassed and I clearly hear one that sounded better to me; just curious as subjective as this is.

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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:35 am
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Sterling Cadsteel wrote:
It's not so much a matter of particular tones but simply navigating through all the dials correctly.

I find it much easier using a computer and Fender FUSE software to make changes than using the controls on the amp. It's hard to try that out in the store though ....
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Just curious but dieing to know on the latest blind test which one was the Fender Mustang IV Modelling amplifier vs the Fender Super-Reverb Amplifier by Achillies

I think A is the Super and B is the Mustang. What do y'all think?

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I'm going with B for the Mustang.

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