New Mustang amps from Fender

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Fender announced new Mustang amps yesterday. They’re going to be strong competitors to the Katana amps. The color LCD interface is a huge step up from any low-cost modeling unit on the market. The high gain sounds are great and I’m impressed that they’ve done a good job with fuzz, which is notoriously hard to do digitally.
 
Tried 'em this past week. The GT-100 speaker is REALLY nasally until it starts breaking in; otherwise, a nice update on the Mustang line, with more models, more effects, and the ability to stack similar effects vs. only one mod, one OD, one delay, etc., at a time.

The little stereo GT-40 sounds good, and slays the similar Blackstar ID Core, and the Yamaha THR10.
 
I was just looking at the manual. I was surprised to see they didn’t add more amp models. I figured they’d at least add a model for acoustic amps like Boss did with the Katana. Hilariously, they kept the Fender Supersonic model. That’s about as desirable as the ValveKing models in Revalver.
 
I'm mildly interested. I love my mustang 2. I've even done a couple of low key gigs with it where I was pretty much musical wallpaper level.

The 1x12 model is what I'd probably consider.
 
jp_nyc said:
Fender announced new Mustang amps yesterday. They’re going to be strong competitors to the Katana amps. The color LCD interface is a huge step up from any low-cost modeling unit on the market. The high gain sounds are great and I’m impressed that they’ve done a good job with fuzz, which is notoriously hard to do digitally.
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I mean I guess, but is basically a power amp, a speaker and a box full of planned obsolescence.

I'm as guilty as anyone, sadly, but it reflects poorly on bedroom guitarists that many of us can't be sold digital signal processing unless it is in a Proper Traditional Box.
 
I have a Mustang 1 I want to ditch. Too fiddley. I just like to plug in and play. A few pedals to color the sound and I'm good.
 
I'm waiting for a head-to-head competition/evaluation between the GT 40 and Katana 50. Those are two I am really considering.
 
DFB said:
I have a Mustang 1 I want to ditch. Too fiddley. I just like to plug in and play. A few pedals to color the sound and I'm good.
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The Boss Katana 100 is your ticket.

bsman said:
I'm waiting for a head-to-head competition/evaluation between the GT 40 and Katana 50. Those are two I am really considering.
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Well, while the GT40 has more options, models, effects, etc, the Katanas will give you a more punchy and organic tone right out of the box - really, you don't even have to use the Boss software if all (either of) you are looking for is basic plug-and-play.

I had the K50 and it was great, but more limited than its' bigger brothers (weaker speaker and no effects loop); however, all of the Katanas have the best out-of-the-box tone out of all of the modelers in the price range IMO.
 
CBHScott said:
The Boss Katana 100 is your ticket.



Well, while the GT40 has more options, models, effects, etc, the Katanas will give you a more punchy and organic tone right out of the box - really, you don't even have to use the Boss software if all (either of) you are looking for is basic plug-and-play.

I had the K50 and it was great, but more limited than its' bigger brothers (weaker speaker and no effects loop); however, all of the Katanas have the best out-of-the-box tone out of all of the modelers in the price range IMO.
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I am happy with my Scxd and some pedals.
 
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CBHScott said:
The Boss Katana 100 is your ticket.



Well, while the GT40 has more options, models, effects, etc, the Katanas will give you a more punchy and organic tone right out of the box - really, you don't even have to use the Boss software if all (either of) you are looking for is basic plug-and-play.

I had the K50 and it was great, but more limited than its' bigger brothers (weaker speaker and no effects loop); however, all of the Katanas have the best out-of-the-box tone out of all of the modelers in the price range IMO.
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Hell yes!!! I love my katana
 
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