Modeling Amp made useable

[TRex]

I have had my Fender G-Dec 15 combo for several years now. Always has been a meh amp, so it got kicked out for my Jet City once I got it.

I decided to experiment a bit, and was curious what kind of speaker it had in it..so I took off the back panel to look. Of course I found out it was a not labeled 8ohm 8" speaker.

Then I tried playing it with the back panel off, and wow...much better. The British settings are no where near my Jet City, but it is actually usable for those fender cravings, and the out of my normal sounds I might want. Still the cleans are better than the drives.

Running my Hall of Fame reverb out in front helped as well.

I guess some speakers and amps run better with more air behind them...

Am I putting anything at risk by doing this. Lord knows the warranty is long expired, so I don't have to worry about that.

 

[Chickenwings]

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fwiw i installed a nice eminence (ragin cajun) in my buddys fender modelling amp. It sounded a lot nicer.

 

[TRex]

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fwiw i installed a nice eminence (ragin cajun) in my buddys fender modelling amp. It sounded a lot nicer.

I'm actually considering buying a nicer speaker and wiring in to a jack so I can use the amp as a head or a cab...

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[Securb]

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With some creative woodworking, you could make a cool lunchbox head out of it.

 

[TRex]

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With some creative woodworking, you could make a cool lunchbox head out of it.

That would be cool...man i have too many projects going.

 

[Leon Of Late]

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[dominus]

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With some creative woodworking, you could make a cool lunchbox head out of it.

That would be cool...man i have too many projects going.

 

[Drano Max]

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That is so freaking metal it hurts!

 

[dominus]

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I still need to install the Effects Loop into it. (There's a guy on the Peavey forum that modded one of the daughter boards on the Vypyr and Vypyr VIP to add that.)

 

[Lewguitar]

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The $320 Fender Mustang 3 comes with a nice 12" Celestion and is a 75 watt amp.

Doesn't need a thing.

Did my first gig with it last weekend and although my presets that I set up at home needed some tweaking on the hardwood stage it worked out fine. The bass player thought it sounded great.

 

[Scott_F]

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That is so freaking metal it hurts!

That's so freaking metal I can smell the oxidation.

 

[Scott_F]

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The $320 Fender Mustang 3 comes with a nice 12" Celestion and is a 75 watt amp.

Doesn't need a thing.

Did my first gig with it last weekend and although my presets that I set up at home needed some tweaking on the hardwood stage it worked out fine. The bass player thought it sounded great.

When I got mine years ago, there was a coupon to mail in for a free four button footswitch to go with the two button one. It worked well together. Six buttons.

I only bring that up if you are gigging and want to get super fancy pants.

 

[Lewguitar]

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When I got mine years ago, there was a coupon to mail in for a free four button footswitch to go with the two button one. It worked well together. Six buttons.

I only bring that up if you are gigging and want to get super fancy pants.

Scott, I did do my first gig with it last weekend.

I arranged my personal presets to alternate CLEAN (Twin Reverb) with OVERDRIVEN (Marshall w/overdrive, Deluxe Reverb w/overdrive, AC30 w/overdrive, etc.)

That way I could use the 2 button footswitch to go up or down from CLEAN to OVERDRIVE and back to CLEAN again with a single tap. Worked well.

The four button footswitch didn't get used much but I had planned to use it to turn effects on and off, with one button for tuner, one button for overdrive pedal, one button for delay and one button for tremolo.

I really do think the Mustang III is a great $300 combo amp. It or the $200 Mustang II might be the best buy there is for a beginning guitarist's first amp.

I'm not a beginner but I still enjoy playing through it and it's much lighter than my Deluxe Reverb.

 

[Diego]

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I'd love to drop my Eminence Wizard into my Roland Cube 60.
I love how it sounds with the external cab and supposedly it's way better with a closed back.

 

[Scott_F]

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I had you by 5 years on this one Lew! Haha.

https://forum.seymourduncan.com/sho...sus-III-Opinion&highlight=Scott_F+mustang+III