I have to agree. I got got myself a Mustang 1 with a CIJ Jazzmaster for my 60th birthday and have been having a blast with it. Using it with the Fuse software makes tweeking it easy and a lot of fun. It's capable of making some really nice sounds. I use it with Garageband and the USB interface works good, sounds better then most of the GB amp sims IMHO. Cheap thrills for the bedroom player.

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I have the Mustang II and I absolutely recommend it to everyone for home practicing!!! The USB-Recording has awesome quality. I love the Sound of the 57 Deluxe and Twin Reverb. You can't go wrong with that amp!!!

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Yeah, the mustang is sweet for goofing off at home. I get a ton of use out of mine.

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I just bought a Mustang 1 for the recording aspect - I'm still working out the bugs with Latency issues - but it should be great for quick demos and such.

"You can't tell where you're going if you don't know where you've been"

I too have been toying with the idea of getting one of these Mustangs now for some weeks, but I'm knee-deep in cabinets of various kinds, so I don't want or need another combo amp. I also wanted to take advantage of the FX Loop and stereo capabilities of the latter models in the Mustang series (III/IV/V), so I waited and bought the head version (Mustang V). Should be here in a day or two. We'll see!

At a mondo 150w (75w per side stereo), its WAY more power than I need and you can't use an attenuator with a solid-state amp like this one, so it's going to be rather interesting. I've got a couple of 200-300w EVM-12L's sitting here, so speakers are no real problem, but my glass window panes are! Thus, taming its volume in a home/studio setting could get interesting.

Early observations/issues:

1) I don't care for the fact that Fender has made no photos available of the rear panel connections for this head. You can't find them anywhere and it makes it awfully tough to research the features (i.e., Send/Rtn jacks, headphone jack, etc.).

2) The Owner's Manuals are bit weak. They're generic (apply to all models), and could be a lot better;

and perhaps most importantly . . .

3) The single headphone jack (which shunts the signal from the pre-amp stage to the power stage and effectively doubles as a stereo Line Out for use to headphones or potentially a mixing board), is an 1/8" (not 1/4") jack, which is LAME in itself (!), and, its apparently situated off the rear panel (not the top control panel), which means that its at a right angle to the chassis. Thus, if that little hummer ever gets bumped or disconnected, and you're at full (or near full) volume, you're going to get 150-watts of streaming digital 'love' to your two (stereo) cabs, post haste! So sorry Fender, but that's un-nerving.

I'm just sayin' . . . .

Just got the Fender Mustang 1 a couple of days ago and it seems to offer a lot of potential. I'm quite happy to spend a bit of time reprogramming it to suit my style. Ive been using a little Vox DA5 recently and that only takes a couple of ticks to dial in a nice sound, well actually it's more fine tuning than anything else as the presets are very useable out of the box.

The Mustang on the other hand is definitely more labour intensive to set up good sounds but I think the Fender tones are way more realistic than the Vox or my Roland Cube 30 which I've been using for over 5 years. I only use modelling amps for recording and there's no way I would ever use one for gigging.

ruger9 wrote:

I just tried one this afternoon, as well as a
GDEC3-15 and a Vox VT15, and the Mustang sounded like
poo compared to the Vox... even on the Fender tones!

Well that doesn't surprise me because the presets on the Mustang out of the box are nearly all way too distorted and effected. I think the Mustang is more of a tool, a geek's amp if you like. Heaven forbid, does this make me a geek? I'll be sporting a goatee beard and a pony tail next if I don't watch it!

I know that these amps interface with Amplitube Fender. Can anyone tell me how well this works. I know that the Fender Outboard Reverb on Amplitube Fender is phenominal. Does it translate well to the amp? I have been looking into getting one of these Mustangs to use for demos but am scared to make the jump.

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interesting topic--i bought a mustang III a month or so back and i'm very pleased with it! so far i've only used the twin settings--adding reverb and some delay at times or upping the gain. have not done anything with the computer related software.
only problem is that it's too loud for the house. my fault entirely, macho and ego kicked in and the little mustang II was too whimpy for me. dumb--s. shoulda got the II but i like the sounds coming out of the III and will stick with it.
so, let's see how long it lasts!

Enjoying the surf,sun and sand!!

I had the Mustang III for awhile and ended up taking it back - NOT because I didn't like it. It is a really cool amp with endless potential for dialing in killer surf tones as well as anything else you could dream up. You really need to take advantage of the Fuse software and computer tweak-ability (is that a word?) to get the most out of this highly versatile amp, but even without the computer side of things there are tons of tone possibilities.

My reason for returning mine was that I had (probably unfounded) thoughts that it might likely develop issues a year or two down the road. With all of the electronic circuitry, dials, buttons etc. I was thinking that sooner or lately something is bound to fail. Maybe - maybe not.

The Mustang III is powerful enough to actually gig with, as well as being a great home practice/recording amp. Very lightweight and portable too.

I may very well end up with another one! The clean amp simulations are very accurate and worth the price of the amp alone.

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hi guys i have the mustang 2 amp pretty happy with it for rehearsal
but does any one of you guys have an awesome surf drip preset made
you could post in some way?
i would be happy as a pig in shit