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Post subject: Mustang GT40 Looper Demo W/ Acoustic (VIDEO)
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 7:55 pm
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I got the 40, and it has exceeded my expectations by far. Not only am I getting awesome tones for my Strat and Gretsch, but I spent five minutes with the looper and footswitch – and a crappy $100 acoustic, which I did not plan on using with the amp – and it blew me away. The acoustic quality was terrific, and now I want to get me a nice Taylor or Martin.

Who wouldn't want an amp for home practice or jamming with effects, stereo speakers, Bluetooth backing track playback, a looper, acoustic capabilities, and on and on?

I shot this video tonight with my iPhone, and the audio is all from the phone as well (not garageband, as mentioned in the video).

https://youtu.be/Apxr6xohTcA

With a better guitar and acoustic mic, the rhythm/beat would sound better and fuller. But all I did was turn it to the "basic studio pre" preset and start playing. I can't wait to really start fine-tuning and perfecting some songs on the fly.

More higher quality videos, demos, and tutorials to come. I'm probably going to start my own looper demo YouTube channel.

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Post subject: Re: Mustang GT40 Looper Demo W/ Acoustic (VIDEO)
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 11:27 pm
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stevechapman wrote:
Who wouldn't want an amp for home practice or jamming with effects, stereo speakers, Bluetooth backing track playback, a looper, acoustic capabilities, and on and on?

Someone who values reliability and simplicity?

Who wouldn't want a guitar for home practice with two necks, four pickups per neck, built-in speakers, and independent bass, middle, treble, volume and phase per pickup?
Most everyone. K.I.S.S.

But when it comes to amps, people ooh and aah over the blinkenlights.


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Post subject: Re: Mustang GT40 Looper Demo W/ Acoustic (VIDEO)
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 1:04 am
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Excellent demo of the looper function, Steve. I'm still waiting for my four button pedal to arrive to try it. I have to admire anyone who can sit down and play in front of a camera. I totally go to pieces as soon as I know a recording is being made.


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Post subject: Re: Mustang GT40 Looper Demo W/ Acoustic (VIDEO)
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 2:46 am
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I can appreciate those points, arth1. I really can. But I bought it because I wanted all those features. I was bored of playing guitar through a plain amp. I wanted something to build and perform with. And thanks 1983. Lots of fun!


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Post subject: Re: Mustang GT40 Looper Demo W/ Acoustic (VIDEO)
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 5:22 am
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Nice demo :wink: Your GT40 sounds good with your acoustic !
As stratocaster1983, I'm waiting for my footswitch which will complement my GT100.


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Post subject: Re: Mustang GT40 Looper Demo W/ Acoustic (VIDEO)
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 12:09 pm
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arth1 wrote:
stevechapman wrote:
Who wouldn't want an amp for home practice or jamming with effects, stereo speakers, Bluetooth backing track playback, a looper, acoustic capabilities, and on and on?

Someone who values reliability and simplicity?

...

But when it comes to amps, people ooh and aah over the blinkenlights.


I have a somewhat different take: many guitarists are interested in lots of different kinds of tone, often at non-earbleed levels, and modeling amps like the Mustangs provide ways to get a variety of tones without breaking the bank. Tube amps are not cheap and often need to be turned up to leasebreaking (or divorce-inducing) levels to get that tone, and may need a variety of pedals as well; not compatible with many of us. This class of guitarist is a major target market for the Mustang line, especially the GT-40 (the 100 and 200 are aimed more at the gigging guitarist who wants convenience and flexibility, and can't afford something like a Kemper or Helix). I certainly like having a clutch of tweeds and blackfaces a knob twist away, at least for practice; time will tell if I eventually retire my Blues Jr for jams and pick up a GT-100 instead though (and some jam organizers supply a backline anyway). And certainly there's still a hankering for an honest-to-Leo blackface Deluxe or tweed Bassman too...(although the caveats above still apply).

Sure, I may get burned by Fender down the road on my GT-40, although I think I'm pretty much getting my $250 worth right now; I still love my THR-10C but the '59 Bassman is quickly becoming my go-to sound on the GT-40 and one I like better than anything on the THR (which is a nice piece of kit but cost $50 more than the GT-40, three years ago). And I do like using the iOS app via Bluetooth to create and tweak patches (and I've had no BT problems). Maybe that's all blinkenlights to you, but it's useful convenience to me, and I suspect to others as well. I know there are app and firmware updates in the fairly near future, so I'm certainly willing to see where this ship sails.


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Post subject: Re: Mustang GT40 Looper Demo W/ Acoustic (VIDEO)
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 12:47 pm
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Don't get me wrong, having some additional options is nice. It's when you go overboard with the options and they become the selling point, at the cost of usability and quality that I get a bit frustrated. Sometimes I just want to grab the axe, twist one or two knobs and play, and not spend 10 minutes on booting up an amp, preparing presets, and tinkering beforehand.


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Post subject: Re: Mustang GT40 Looper Demo W/ Acoustic (VIDEO)
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 2:58 pm
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I'm enjoying the basics...tweeds and the 70s Marshall. After playing with this for a month, I'm really impressed with the added depth and sensitivity of the models vs the v1 I enjoyed for 5 years. Even if they don't fix the UI issues (and I believe they will) this is a far better amp than my original Mustang....time to pick up another guitar and play some more....


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Post subject: Re: Mustang GT40 Looper Demo W/ Acoustic (VIDEO)
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2017 1:58 pm
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arth1 wrote:
Don't get me wrong, having some additional options is nice. It's when you go overboard with the options and they become the selling point, at the cost of usability and quality that I get a bit frustrated. Sometimes I just want to grab the axe, twist one or two knobs and play, and not spend 10 minutes on booting up an amp, preparing presets, and tinkering beforehand.

Huh, I don't understand. I don't have a GT but a couple of the older Mustangs and for me it is one power button and i am already dialed in *completely* with zero wait time for my tubes to warm up so I can preserve all of those tubes and then the amp might sound good and that takes around ten minutes. Of course I have foot switches and such but no twisting of any knobs. Haven't touched my knobs other than the Master volume in over a year. Sounds like you truly need a Stang. Your Avatar is turning all of us into alcoholics. Stop it already! <g>

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Post subject: Re: Mustang GT40 Looper Demo W/ Acoustic (VIDEO)
Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:45 am
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arth1 wrote:
Sometimes I just want to grab the axe, twist one or two knobs and play, and not spend 10 minutes on booting up an amp, preparing presets, and tinkering beforehand.


That's exactly why I got my GT40. 8)

Warming up a true valve amp, then dialing in the tone for the day, connect the Wah-Stomp just to find out the battery had died, redial the reverb (each and every time again!) was not too funny for me at the times, when there was nothing else around.

Create 5 or 6 favourite tones (including stomps, reverb and delays) on the GT40 and save it to the setlist. What could be faster for practice?


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Post subject: Re: Mustang GT40 Looper Demo W/ Acoustic (VIDEO)
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 9:15 pm
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Same here, I never touch the amp settings anymore. I just use one great sounding clean preset and it's saved in slot# '00'. I just turn he power switch on. It doesn't get much more simple than that. Oh and if I bump the knobs on my amp in transit, the setting don't change. Mustang III v1 owner but the same surely applied to GT amps.

Nice looper demo, I'd like to hear what you come up with once you've messed with the amp for a while.

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Post subject: Re: Mustang GT40 Looper Demo W/ Acoustic (VIDEO)
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:12 pm
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Is there an instructional video on how to use the looper on the this foot pedal?
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