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Fender Mustang Amps

Fender Mustang is a new guitar amp by Fender and it can easily generate a lot of sounds from clean to heavy distortion. It comes with 24 presets in 3 different banks. There is 5 different types on the market and the cheapest is in fact no more than $99. This is definitely a good practise guitar amp intended for the beginner or more experienced guitar players.

All of the new Fender amplifiers comes with the well known Fender Fuse software which lets you adjust the options of the guitar amp through the pc. You have to link the Fender Mustang Guitar Amp to the home pc with a usb cable that comes with the amplifier. When you discover a sound you like you may keep it either on the pc and also directly to one of the 24 presets on the amplifier so that you will be able to use it without having to connect it to the pc.

You will be able to shift all the effects either before or after the actual amplifier to get completely different sounds most often if you use heavy distortion you need to putt the reverb and also delays after the actual amplifier to get a great sound. In case you want to share your sound you may post it to the Fender fuse community so many others may utilize your settings. Here you will be able to come across sounds from a lot of well known guitar players and also bands. For example if you like AC/DC and Angus Young sound you can easily download and install a patch with settings similar to his and upload it to your Fender Mustang Guitar amp and start playing.

The Mustang family of amplifiers are extremely good sounding and has many good testimonials from a lot of guitar players and what amazes the most is the actual price of the smallest amplifier that possess the same effects as the bigger units only a smaller speaker with less power. The bigger devices include more options and you can modify more of the settings directly on the actual amplifier without the Fender fuse software.

The Mustang I&II offers 12 modulation effects: chorus, phaser, flanger, vibratone, tremolo, step filter and octaver which you will be able to change on the amplifier. It also has 12 delay and reverb effects that you also can control with a knob on the amplifier. In order to modify the level you have to hold down the exit button and then turn the corresponding knob to the level of your choice.

The usb connection provides you with a low latency output in which you can easily use to record with directly from the amplifier. The Fender Mustang also comes with Ableton live lite which is a multi track recording application. You also have an Aux input where you will be able to play a tune from your mp3 player or pc and play along, this is in fact a clean sound even in case you have distortion effects.
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