Fender Mustang I Amplifier (Guitar Lesson Review GG-602)

Hi how you doing?

Justin here.

In this lesson today
we are doing a review

of the Fender Mustang 1,

which is a 20 watt amplifier
with an 8 inch speaker.

It's a modeling style amplifier.

Meaning it kind of sounds like
loads of different amplifiers.

It's got some built in effects
and other fancy stuff.

It's also editable via USB.

Now, most times when a manufacturer

makes a kind of modeling amp,

they're going to make their pre-sets
pretty carefully,

and they should be the best sounds
the amplifier can make.

So what I'm going to do in this lesson

is just play through all of the pre-sets,

which I think there's 24 of
in this particular amplifier,

and just kind of jam around a little bit
with each different sound

Kind of play a few of the kind of,
the right stylistic things

for each of the different kind
of models.

I believe that via USB you can

program up all 24 of those spots,

So if you like metal
you can have 24

pre-set different kind of metal sounds
if you like.

So, we're not going to get
too much into that,

I just want to show you the kind
of the depth

of sound that this thing's got available.

Of course you want to get to
the website because

I'm going to have proper
audio files up there

delivered to you to listen to

so you can kind of compare
the different amplifiers,

rather than just listening
through YouTube,

which doesn't have the best
audio and it kind of,

some of the compression features
aren't that hot

on the YouTube audio front.

So, the pre-sets are arranged into
3 banks,

which are the Orange bank, the Green bank
and the Red bank.

Each one going A-G and then a hash,

So there's kind of 8 different pre-sets
within each bank.

So, we're going to be starting with
Orange A,

and just work our way through all of them.

So, let's get started.

[guitar playing with pre-set "Orange A"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Orange B"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Orange C"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Orange D"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Orange E"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Orange F"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Orange G"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Orange #"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Green A"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Green B"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Green C"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Green D"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Green E"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Green F"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Green G"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Green #"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Red A"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Red B"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Red C"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Red D"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Red E"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Red F"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Red G"]

[guitar playing with pre-set "Red #"]

Well, there you have it.

There's some of the sounds
that you can get from the

Fender Mustang 1 guitar amplifier.

It's kind of a practice amplifier.

I guess a good first amplifier.

Loads better than the kind of amps

that we got as beginners when
I was a kid

where it just had like,
one switch for overdrive,

and even then it was a pretty
horrible one.

So, you young guys that are
getting into guitar now

have got yourself a real treat
with this kind of

new modeling technology because
you can hear

the sounds are pretty respectable
for a small

kind of sub hundred pound,
hundred dollar,

kind of amplifier.

I'm pretty impressed generally.

This is, this is cool, and I haven't
even got to the computer yet it.

So, all of the sounds are
editable via your PC

or your computer.

Hopefully, for Mac as well cause
that's what I use.

I'm going to check that out
a little later,

and I'll review,
I'll put the reviews on

the website along with all of the

technical specifications.

And the website's probably going to be

a lot easier for you to compare the
different amplifiers and stuff.

I'm going to make some sort of Excel
spreadsheet thing

with all of the different practice amps

and what they're capable of.

So I'm hoping that it'll help you

choose the right amplifier for you.

So, I think that's it.

I'll see you for another review or lesson,
or something very soon.

Take care of yourself. Bye bye.