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Ummm. short and sweet. sold my ZT amps and all my pedals. all of 'em.

Got a new amp a couple of days ago. It is a red tolex Mustang III V2.
Fuller sound than the Zt's. It's an amp I'm comfortable with and familiar with.

Sorry it's not tube. Old habits die hard. Agree

Pix coming if anyone asks.

Enjoying the surf,sun and sand!!

Last edited: Oct 01, 2014 19:57:49

Cool!

IMO.

Nothing wrong with the Mustang III, tubes or no. They're great if you want to experiment without having 300 pedals all over the floor, or if all you need is guitar + amp + 'verb. Let's see those pics!

Congrats on the Mustang! Smile
Would love to hear some demo from the Mustang by someone with an appreciation of surf. And red tolex? Yeah, gotta have pics!

I also picked up a non-tube amp 'bout a week ago. Older generation than your Mustang III (mint GDEC3 30). Kids got me a $100 gift card for Dave's and didn't want me sitting on it. Some guy had flown in to do an evening clinic with nothing but his guitar and his SD chip & then the amp went on sale as used. (Don't know what they went for new back when...)

Didn't ditch my Voxy modded Blues Jr though, nor the pedal board. Wanted to try something that Ivan mentioned before about mixing 2 sounds (his Vox and Fender) and I can get a decent little BF Princeton sound out of it. It's a pretty convenient little thing and the 2 together is a VERY full sound.

The speaker's a bit flubby but nothing new about that; a mint Weber 10A125 is going in it this afternoon.

Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel

DISCLAIMER: The above is opinion/suggestion only & should not be used for mission planning/navigation, tweaking of instruments, beverage selection, or wardrobe choices.

Last edited: Oct 02, 2014 06:46:14

zzero - Red Tolex - well alright!

Wes - I also love the sound of two different amps together. I've not used a two amp set up with Crazy Aces yet, recording or live but I do all the time for other gigs and at home.

Cheers,
Jeff

http://www.facebook.com/CrazyAcesMusic
http://www.youtube.com/user/crazyacesrock
http://www.reverbnation.com/crazyacesmusic

CrazyAces wrote:

Wes - I also love the sound of two different amps together. I've not used a two amp set up with Crazy Aces yet, recording or live but I do all the time for other gigs and at home.

LOL. I was 80% there with the GDEC when I wrote the above, but looked in the mirror & realized I wasn't bonding, so back to Dave's it went today. (I still would like to hear some surfy stuff out of that Red Tolex Mustang.) So, class outfit they are, they took it back, some other ca$h came out & I snagged a real Fender tone stack. (This also checked a bucket-list item.) Just the one pic, and then I'm outta zzero's thread. It's all in warmth/bark you might imagine, my amp guys's been thru it, and quiet as a churchmouse.

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Edited 8 October to substitute decent photo

Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel

DISCLAIMER: The above is opinion/suggestion only & should not be used for mission planning/navigation, tweaking of instruments, beverage selection, or wardrobe choices.

Last edited: Oct 08, 2014 19:36:58

Nice!
I Love Champs
and I agree with you, Dave Rogers and his gang are top notch indeed.

Cheers,
Jeff

http://www.facebook.com/CrazyAcesMusic
http://www.youtube.com/user/crazyacesrock
http://www.reverbnation.com/crazyacesmusic

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One red tolex Mustang III V2 in top photo
Same amp and "esquired" telecaster--current guitar.

Enjoying the surf,sun and sand!!

Looks great! How does she sound?

IMO.

So what do you do on a Sunday? You gather some stuff of the floor and you build a new amp! A silver face in this case. 4 speakers powered by a 4 x 12 Watt amp.

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zzero wrote:

One red tolex Mustang III V2 in top photo
Same amp and "esquired" telecaster--current guitar.

Man, that thing is gorgeous! Ready for the roadhouse! Cool

Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel

DISCLAIMER: The above is opinion/suggestion only & should not be used for mission planning/navigation, tweaking of instruments, beverage selection, or wardrobe choices.

Preston--she sounds like any other mustang. Models are close, closer than any modeling amps I've heard. I like the Twin reverb settings for surf, the reverb is good but not a lot of drip. The English 60's (vox) is really good, with the Tele I can do all my heroes music spot on. The amp has several "basic" sounds, basic twin, basic deluxe, and so on instead of
modded amp sounds. New feature I guess. Gives me a lot of options and I don't have pedals all over the floor.

Roadhouse worthy?? Alone, miked or direct out she'll work fine. Not too heavy to drag around. Good for rock, blues and surf and I guess for country. It has more bottom than the ZT amps but I never got extensions for the ZT'S. I like it but I wouldn't try to sell anyone on the idea of owning one--not my thing.

I need a proofreader!

Enjoying the surf,sun and sand!!

Last edited: Oct 03, 2014 09:02:42

zzero wrote:

The English 60's (vox) is really good, with the Tele I can do all my heroes music spot on.

That's good to know & was a shortcoming of the GDEC thing they called British Jingle (or chime or somesuch). If a person didn't know how to dial in the tube amp itself or knew what they were looking for out of a Vox tone-stack it was kind of unpaved territory for many with the predictable result. This sounds like a huge improvement. Smile

Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel

DISCLAIMER: The above is opinion/suggestion only & should not be used for mission planning/navigation, tweaking of instruments, beverage selection, or wardrobe choices.

Last edited: Oct 03, 2014 09:10:30

http://surfguitar101.com/forums/topic/24253/?page=1#p321709

Zzero, this thread had some info on tweaking the reverb from the Fender Fuse site.

One of the lessons-learned while neck-deep into FUSE was that effects (other than OD stompboxes) come out sounding better if put into the "effects loop" side of the amp, rather than connected in front as we'd physically put them. Perhaps the Mustang series has addressed this, but putting a tank in front on the GDEC was pretty horrid, while very nice "placed" in the loop. It's there to mess with, so mess away.
Smile

Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel

DISCLAIMER: The above is opinion/suggestion only & should not be used for mission planning/navigation, tweaking of instruments, beverage selection, or wardrobe choices.

Last edited: Oct 03, 2014 10:25:26

Yep, I need to get into the Fuse program thing and change some things up.
First I have to figure out the stuff!! I am not computer savvy at all!
Checking out that link too!

Enjoying the surf,sun and sand!!

zzero wrote:

sold my ZT amps and all my pedals. Got a new amp a couple of days ago. It is a red tolex Mustang III V2. Fuller sound than the Zt's.

With a 12" extension speaker on each I get full range and sound from ZT amps. They add spatial depth and bass. My guitar can be a proper bass with pitch shift down an octave and EQ. With different EQ it can emulate a Bass VI. The extension speakers have neo magnets and are rated hundreds of watts RMS.

My duo partner is delighted with the ZT Lunchbox + extension speaker, but not with the Lunchbox alone.

Insanitizers! http://www.insanitizers.com

Last edited: Oct 03, 2014 16:32:22

Squid! I know the ZT amps get a fuller sound with extension speakers. I didn't have the cash to buy any nor did I have the room to store them anywhere. Lastly, I had to keep several pedals around to do reverb, delay, tremolo, chorus and real distortion sounds. Those sounds are all built into the Mustangs. Just my style.
Please enjoy you're Zt's!!! You like 'em, that's what you should use! I had no technical problems with the amps, just application and storage problems. They are still excellent amps!! Agree Thumbs Up

Enjoying the surf,sun and sand!!

You have such a kind and thoughtful way with words, zzero. I am blessed with lots of room and gear. There are many paths to happiness, and may your Mustang provide one.

Incidentally, I get huge pleasure from music by The Mustangs (rautalanka band) from Finland. Abundant recordings are on Spotify, and several are on YouTube. (There are other bands named Mustangs, however). Now that you have a Mustang check their recordings of: White Acacias, Deep As Sea, The Tale, What a Splendid Thing, Sitting on Top of the World, Trak-Tor, and Crush Points.

Insanitizers! http://www.insanitizers.com

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