Fender Mustang amp & Fuse software
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:38 pm
I have a Rickenbacker 360-12 (mfg 1993) in Mapleglo. It's got the black pickguards & hardware on it. Years ago, Roger McGuinn was kind enough to sign the pickguard for me, so it's truly a one-of-a-kind (IMO) guitar that's not going to be leaving my hands anytime soon. It plays better than great, too. The amp I have used for a number of years is a Fender Super 60, which is a tube amp, and I think it has 6L6 tubes in it. Sounds great, but the volume has to be up on it.
I recently purchased a Fender Mustang practice amp. It is a modeling amp, that has got me seriously considering adding one of it's bigger brothers. Among the amps it models are a Fender 57 Deluxe, a 59 Bassman, a 57 Champ, Fender 65 Deluxe, Princeton and Twin reverbs, a Fender Super-Sonic, British 60's, 70's and 80's, as well as American 90's and Metal 2000. The 65 Twin Reverb sound & the Vox AC30 (British 60's) sound both knocked my socks off. I've been experimenting with the software on it (Fender Fuse) where you can add all sorts of stomp boxes, modulation, reverb & delay between the guitar & amp, as well as rack gain, modulation, delay & reverb.
I've found some settings that are pretty close to the Byrds sound I am looking for, but haven't been able to get quite what I am looking for. I know a good deal of the Byrds recordings were with Roger going direct, and running the sound thru those tube compressors on the board. I haven't heard Roger (live) since he got the Janglebox, so I'm not really sure what the sound of it is or how he has it set.
What I'm trying to do is to basically duplicate the Byrds sound you get from using a Janglebox, on a 65 Twin Reverb amp (at least that's what it sounds like to me). Thus far, I can approximate the sound, but cannot quite get it. I am missing both that long, long sustain on the Byrds records (and I assume a Janglebox), and I cannot get the evenness of the Byrds recordings.
I'm posting here to ask if anyone has tried these amps or used the software to re-create the Janglebox on one of the modeling amps, or have used it to get the Byrds sound. Or, if someone here has a janglebox & is able to get that Byrds-y sustained, even sound out of their gear, what settings on the Janglebox you are using.
I'd appreciate any feedback (so to speak).
Thanks!
Steve
I recently purchased a Fender Mustang practice amp. It is a modeling amp, that has got me seriously considering adding one of it's bigger brothers. Among the amps it models are a Fender 57 Deluxe, a 59 Bassman, a 57 Champ, Fender 65 Deluxe, Princeton and Twin reverbs, a Fender Super-Sonic, British 60's, 70's and 80's, as well as American 90's and Metal 2000. The 65 Twin Reverb sound & the Vox AC30 (British 60's) sound both knocked my socks off. I've been experimenting with the software on it (Fender Fuse) where you can add all sorts of stomp boxes, modulation, reverb & delay between the guitar & amp, as well as rack gain, modulation, delay & reverb.
I've found some settings that are pretty close to the Byrds sound I am looking for, but haven't been able to get quite what I am looking for. I know a good deal of the Byrds recordings were with Roger going direct, and running the sound thru those tube compressors on the board. I haven't heard Roger (live) since he got the Janglebox, so I'm not really sure what the sound of it is or how he has it set.
What I'm trying to do is to basically duplicate the Byrds sound you get from using a Janglebox, on a 65 Twin Reverb amp (at least that's what it sounds like to me). Thus far, I can approximate the sound, but cannot quite get it. I am missing both that long, long sustain on the Byrds records (and I assume a Janglebox), and I cannot get the evenness of the Byrds recordings.
I'm posting here to ask if anyone has tried these amps or used the software to re-create the Janglebox on one of the modeling amps, or have used it to get the Byrds sound. Or, if someone here has a janglebox & is able to get that Byrds-y sustained, even sound out of their gear, what settings on the Janglebox you are using.
I'd appreciate any feedback (so to speak).
Thanks!
Steve