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Post subject: Recommend guitar for Mustang III
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 5:31 am
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Hi,

I'm looking for a guitar to pair with my Mustang III v.2. I'll be using it mainly for praise music at church. Max Budget around $1000. Any recommendations?


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Post subject: Re: Recommend guitar for Mustang III
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 6:03 am
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I think the Mustangs work well with a wide range of guitars. I use both a Tele and an LP with mine. They sound different, but only in the way you'd expect them to sound. In fact, one of the big advantages of an amp like the Mustang is that you can select different amp models and effects within it, to best suit particular guitars.

My advice would be to choose the guitar that feels most comfortable to play for you, and that produces the type of sound you want, regardless of amp. It's going to be easier to tweak the Mustang to fine-tune it to the nuances of a particular guitar, than to have to play a guitar that isn't fundamentally 'right' for you, whether acoustically or ergonomically, in the first place.


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Post subject: Re: Recommend guitar for Mustang III
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 6:35 am
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I think you also need to look at the type of worship music you will be playing as a factor to consider. Not all worship teams are the same and the music can range from the more melodic lighter fare such as Matt Redman to rock/pop like Casting Crowns or even metal-ish stuff like Kutless. This is one of the reasons I also have both a Stratocaster and a Les Paul. Stratocasters tend to be a bit more versatile particularly if you have at least one Humbucker on the bridge due to the ability to select between a wider range of configurations on the pickups. The one thing they aren't as good at is producing the fullness and punch for some heavier sounds that are more the domain of the Les Paul. I also have a Gibson 335 which has it's own type of sound, but it really fits in with almost any kind of song.

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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 6:36 am
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yep, these amps seems to respond well to pretty much any electric guitar. I primarily use a semi-hollow (Epiphone Lucille) with my Mustang III and it brings out everything I like about the guitar. The same goes for my Ibanez 'Joe Satriani' model guitar. And they are very different guitars with very different pickups.

If I had to pick a perfect pairing though, I think I'd try a Fender strat. All the strat demos of this amp sound amazing. So maybe try out a strat and see if you can get along with it (they're not for everybody).

As far as the 'praise music' thing, I have no idea. It just sounds like music to me, so I don't see how that effects anything.

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Post subject: Re: Recommend guitar for Mustang III
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 2:24 pm
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Hi grayson, I also play at my church and I have played an Ibanez ART300 for the last couple years. I think that particular model is not made anymore but they do have something similar though. However I would agree with the others that said first find a guitar that is comfortable to you and feels good playing it. You can do that in a store on any amp and as long as it feels good to you, then the beauty of the Mustang is being able to tweak between different amp models and add various effects to get the sound you want. Also you may just ask in a music store what they may recommend for more of the cleaner, "lighter" sound versus a more heavy rock/metal sound. I'm guessing that you probably don't play that style of music within a church service setting and so you can definitely look at guitars that lend more to that cleaner sound as opposed to those that probably wouldn't suit your music style. I had the guitar first and used to just play with a digitech multi effects pedal in a very small church building, and then expanded to a Mustang when the church building got bigger and have loved the sound ever since.

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Post subject: Re: Recommend guitar for Mustang III
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 5:29 am
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For a budget of 1000.00 I would go for two guitars instead of just one...

A Blacktop Strat and an Epiphone ES 339. I have both of these guitars and play them through my Mustang V Head and they both work really well, the Epi is just plug and play into the Mustang Amp and the tone is there...

After awhile I beefed up the Strat by switching the pickguard and wiring up two Dimarzio Virtual Vintage Blues and a Dimarzio X2N. Also wired it with a Gilmour switch and put a small trem on it... I bought a vintage wiring rig for the internals with a drop cap and also wired it for better tone control..

The Epi sounds fine just stock, in my ears...

The Blacktop sounded OK with the stock pickups, but I had planned on making a Gilmour guitar anyways and the Blacktops have a bathtub routing, so it is really flexible for mods..

Both of these guitars sound awesome with my tube amps...

For a little more money the Deluxe Players Strat is pretty good as well, I have a sunburst with a rosewood fretboard that I use with the Mustang V. It comes stock with Vintage Noiseless pickups, which have some pretty good clean tones...

This is what the Blacktop looks like now...

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Post subject: Re: Recommend guitar for Mustang III
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 6:41 pm
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The good news is, I haven't found a guitar my MIII DOESN'T like. My tastes range quite a bit, so I got a bunch of different guitars:

Ibanez RG3
Fender USA standard Strat
Fender Blacktop HH Strat.
Squier Vintage Modified "surf" Strat ( with Lipstick pickups)
Squier Classic Vibe '60s Tele
Schecter Solo Special ( an LP style single cut, with a p100 in the neck and a bucker in the bridge)- other than the Firebird, this is likely my favorite- that neck pickup just sounds HUGE!
Gibson Firebird
Gibson '50s tribute SG w/p90's
Epiphone Les Paul Trad plus top Pro.

Oh, and a cheapie Affinity Strat.


I got the Fendery sounds, the Gibson sounds, and some more specific tones, too. They ALL work well with the Mustang! I like how well the individual guitar's character shines through. It "reacts" differently to different guitars-as it should.


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