Members ballhawk Posted February 22, 2011 Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 Everyone wanted a clip of my surf-90's. Sorry but this ain't it. I want to level the frets on that guitar. But..... I finally installed fuse and decided to at least do something to showcase the stang. All my recordings over the last 15 years have been in someone's studio. The last time I recorded something on my own I was using cassette tapes. So be gentle. I used audacity and my Kramer cheapo $99 strat copy guitar that I've modded into a really fun guitar to play. Vintage split shaft tuners,Bill Lawrence L-200's/298 (bridge), and GFS tremolo block. I originally wanted some medium gain thing but got frustrated trying to dial it in so I picked the supersonic model and tweaked it attempting to get that sound. I wound up not reaching that but found what i had interesting. Inspired by another thread yesterday I decided to use a jam track from the past. I tried to see if the amp would respond to different attack even with strong gain. There's no way to adjust input levels using the mustang usb and audacity so I just did a quick level tweak on the final mix. Not intended to be slick but more to just have fun jamming and rediscovering recording. It's all middle pup. So here it is... Dirty Sleepwalk. Oh and thanks to our hc member futurism for making the host site. http://www.netmusicians.org/index.php?section=user&value=ballhawk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Buttcrust Posted February 22, 2011 Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 those amps are so f'n cool:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ballhawk Posted February 22, 2011 Author Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 those amps are so f'n cool:cool: Yeah, a lot of fun. But I need to spend more time with it. I suspect that it may be better for recording than on stage use but I hope I find out different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members steve_man Posted February 22, 2011 Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gorebuc Posted February 22, 2011 Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 Is it possible to use the Mustang's USB with Audacity? I wasn't aware that ASIO drivers worked with the program. I hate the complicated ablteton program that came with the amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ballhawk Posted February 22, 2011 Author Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 Audacity doesn't use asio drivers. On win xp I installed fuse software, plugged into the usb and turned on the amp. I then started audacity and "mustang amp" was one of the input devices shown. However, as stated above, there is no way to control the input level because the control is "grayed" out. Some have said the amps volume and gain control can be used but I am not sure. Just start recording and adjust levels when mixing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wagdog Posted February 22, 2011 Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 You can't control the input level, it's an issue. One solution is to use the headphone out and go into the computers line in - then you can adjust the level. I love recording w/my mustang 1 and have been very pleased with the results. Haven't done much with "gainy" recordings, but the clean tones are just amazing. FWIW, I've been using reaper, which is so full featured it's scary - but once you get the hang of it it's an incredible program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ballhawk Posted February 22, 2011 Author Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 but the clean tones are just amazing. I agree that is the strength of the Mustang. In my limited exploration I couldn't dial in mild to medium gain tones I liked. I'll have to give reaper a look, sounds interesting. Now if only I could combine the Mustang cleans with the tonelab overdriven tones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pippers Posted February 22, 2011 Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 Adjust the amp simulator volume down to 3 or 4. All the heavier presets on the Mustang are set to volume 7 or higher, which drowns out the over driven tones to nothing but mud. Use your guitars volume knob+gain control to control the breakup, and finally adjust the master volume to where you want it as the final adjustment. Mustang puts out amazing high gain, and I'd say it surpasses my Tonelab ST now that I've found that it's because Fender messed up the preset volume levels. Adjust those and you'll be amazed. The mustang is very very sensitive to the guitars input level. Basically when you have the amp volume at 7 or more, and your guitar volume is at 5 or more, it's just a mess. You need to dial back the amp volume a LOT and work from there. The master volume is then used to get your final ear level volume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ballhawk Posted February 22, 2011 Author Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 I'll give it a try tonight when I'm home from work. Thx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the fretter Posted February 22, 2011 Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 Adjust the amp simulator volume down to 3 or 4. All the heavier presets on the Mustang are set to volume 7 or higher, which drowns out the over driven tones to nothing but mud. Use your guitars volume knob+gain control to control the breakup, and finally adjust the master volume to where you want it as the final adjustment. Mustang puts out amazing high gain, and I'd say it surpasses my Tonelab ST now that I've found that it's because Fender messed up the preset volume levels. Adjust those and you'll be amazed. The mustang is very very sensitive to the guitars input level. Basically when you have the amp volume at 7 or more, and your guitar volume is at 5 or more, it's just a mess. You need to dial back the amp volume a LOT and work from there. The master volume is then used to get your final ear level volume. I was getting pretty annoyed with the lackluster gain on my Mustang, but that advice just blew my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members benzem Posted February 22, 2011 Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 Is it possible to use the Mustang's USB with Audacity? I wasn't aware that ASIO drivers worked with the program. I hate the complicated ablteton program that came with the amp. Yes. I haven't even used the FUSE yet. I just plugged the Mustang into comp. opened up Audacity and it recognized it instantly. Just choose mustang as input source. Also one thing I noticed is that the green/red banks have different gain levels. The green bank British 60's is awesome! Plenty of gain for a lot of stuff and if you set gain to around 3 it's great for ac/dc style crunch. I just find I need to turn the treb up and bass down. The british 80's is great too. AFA cleans, twin wins as I find the dlx to gainy(and not in a good way) and the bassman similiar, tho it's cool if you turn the gain way down, with the bass. Lovin' this thing tho. I seem to play more since I got it. Just the simple stuff like chromatic tuner and fx and the fact I am not firing up a bunch of tubes for what may be a short jam makes it a great tool. I have other practice amps, but nothing I like this much. To me, this thing smokes the valvetronix and line6 stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaleH Posted February 22, 2011 Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 You can use the master vol on the amp for level. The master does not change your setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JoeBoy Posted February 22, 2011 Members Share Posted February 22, 2011 I am diggin these Mustangs. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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