(light rock music)
- Hey everyone it's John Dreyer,
and in this video we're checking out
the Mustang LT50 amplifier.
It's got all the great features from the LT25,
but with more power,
more presets,
and you can even use the MGT4 foot switch
to call up some of your favorite presets.
It's incredibly user-friendly,
you'll be navigating and
creating your own presets in no time.
It has tons of great clean tones, distorted tones,
tons of great effects which we'll get into,
and it's all in this one amplifier.
So let's check it out.
Alright, before we go any further
let's talk about the setup
and what I'm using for this demo.
So the guitar is a Fender American Performer Telecaster,
and then I'm plugged directly into the LT50.
Now for the play-in,
I utilized two different presets.
The cleaner preset was preset number one,
that's Fender Clean,
and then the more distorted tone
was preset number two, which is Silky Solo.
Alright so let's walk through
all the controls on the amplifier.
We can start with the top panel,
and we'll start from the far left.
First up we have your input jack,
where of course you can plug in your guitar cable.
Auxiliary in, to connect to an external audio device,
so you can jam along with tracks,
or just to listen to music.
We have your headphone jack,
so you can rehearse without bothering anybody.
We have gain,
you channel volume,
and then 3 Band EQ,
treble, middle, and base,
and master volume.
Now here is your display,
so you can see what's going on
inside of the amplifier.
And then we have the encoder button,
which allows you to navigate through all those
parameters and menus and presets in the amplifier.
We have a bank of utility buttons here,
back, save, menu, and tap.
Tap allows you to actually tap in the time of your delay.
So if you wanna change the time of your delay
while you're playing,
you don't have to stop and scroll through the menu,
you can just reach over to your amp,
and tap in that time, and you're all set.
We have your on/off switch, and then USB
Now USB allows you to connect to your computer
and take advantage of the Fender Tone 3.0 app.
It's a free app that you can download from Fender,
and allows you to dig even deeper
into all the parameters in the amplifier.
And then on the back, we have your foot-switch jack,
and then a mono line out for recording,
or sending the signal to another audio device.
Under the hood, we have 50 watts of power,
with a 12 inch Fender special design speaker.
There's 30 factory presets,
but there's also room to store
30 additional presets of your own.
20 amp models, and 26 effects,
including 11 Stompbox effects,
like fuzz, overdrive, and compression.
Now let's audition some additional
amplifiers and effects in the LT50.
And we'll start on preset number one,
which is Fender Clean.
Let me remind you what that sounds like.
(strums chords)
Alright, a nice Fender twin clean tone.
So you'll see as we get around in the menu,
there's not a lot of digging,
you don't have to go too deep into the menu
to get to the parameters you're looking for.
Now you can see the 01 is surrounded by a blue box.
That means that nothing has changed in that preset;
it's either a factory preset that you have saved,
or your own preset.
Nothing has been changed.
But once we get into changing anything,
you'll see that it turns red,
and that reminds you that of course
you have changed something,
and that you should save it before moving on.
So let's click on the encoder,
and then we have the make-up of this current preset.
There is the name of the preset,
the amplifier is twin clean.
You can see four series of effects here;
two are in use,
the solid lines around stomp and reverb means
that we are using those effects,
and then the dotted line around modulation and delay
means that we are not using those effects.
And we can see it's still blue here.
And now when I click it one more time
or highlight it on the amp
so let's click that one more time,
and now we're in the amp menu.
You don't have to go any further.
Everything you need to know about the amplifier
is right here, on this screen.
Now if you click it one more time,
you see it turns red,
now we can audition some different amplifiers.
Let's do that.
So we have a lot of great classic Fender amps in the LT50.
Let's check out a few.
We have Deluxe Clean,
(plays riff)
we have the Princeton, a favorite of mine.
(riff)
Actually let's turn the gain up a little bit.
Drive the amp.
So turn the gain up to around 6 or so.
(riff)
And then turn the volume down on the guitar,
and it cleans up nicely.
(riff)
We have the 50's twin,
(riff)
and then we have Deluxe Dirt.
(riff)
So let's hear 70's UK Clean.
(riff)
Very cool.
We have 80's UK Clean,
70's rock,
(riff)
Alright moving on, we have some Doom metal,
there's Burn which is a great lead tone.
And then we have 90's rock,
let's audition that one.
(riff)
Pretty cool.
And then we get into some of the heavier tones in the amp,
Alt Metal, we have Metal 2000,
(riff)
I would say pretty impressive to get that kind of a tone
with a Telecaster with true single coils.
A lot of fun.
Alright, so that's the end of the line there.
So, now if you have gone in and changed,
if you like any of those amps,
you can save it.
It's reminding you by flashing red.
So you can save that preset to wherever you like.
Now let's audition some of the
really cool effects in the LT50.
Again using preset 1 as a starting point,
and then the encoder, which I'll click right now.
We can page down to the first available effects,
which is Stompbox,
you can see there is a compressor built into this preset.
We can click one more time,
and now we can audition different effects.
We have Bug Fuzz,
(riff)
we have Rock Dirt,
(riff)
Blues Drive,
(riff)
and then we have Overdrive,
and none, and we go the other way,
there's a couple I think we missed.
We have Sustain,
there's your Metal Gate.
Metal Gate is very useful if you're using
one of the heavier gain amplifiers,
which can make some noise,
so this will help to suppress some of that noise.
And then we have 5 Band EQ
which is also helpful,
depending on what guitar you're plugging in.
If you have Humbuckers, a darker sounding guitar,
you can use the 5 Band EQ to
fine tune the tone even further.
Let's scroll over to chorus.
Really nice, lush chorus in this amp.
(riff)
They have a Flanger,
they have a Vibratone, very nice.
(riff)
Sounds great with a little overdrive.
Tremolo, every great Fender amp should have a Tremolo.
(riff)
And of course you can change the speed,
slower or faster if you like.
We have Phaser,
(riff)
and that's it for Stompbox effects.
Let's head back to the menu,
go to Delay next.
Currently set to none,
but we can change that with a delay here.
(strum echoes)
Digital delay.
And remember in the beginning of the video
I talked about the Tap feature.
So if we tap in the time,
if you're playing along with a song,
you can tap along with that, to the tempo,
so 1,2,3,4,
and then you'll hear that delay,
(strum repeats)
2,3,4,
We can make it faster,
(strums repeat)
And this would be a good time to show you
if you wanna change any other additional parameter
within the effect,
again hit that encoder
until it's blue,
that means you can move around again.
You go down to level,
click on encoder,
it's red.
Now we can change that level,
to minimum or maximum, whatever you prefer.
We have an analog delay, or echo
and that's it for delays,
so let's head back
one more time to reverb.
It's currently set for spring reverb,
which sounds like this.
(strum)
Alright, we can audition some additional reverbs.
Here is Large Hall.
(strums)
Alright.
Now for this one I'm gonna turn the
level up just a little bit.
So one more time hit the encoder,
go down to level,
click and then we can adjust,
just max that out.
(strums)
Alright so let's go back to our reverb choices,
hit the encoder,
let's scroll the other way.
We have Plate.
(strum)
Really nice.
Arena for a larger type room sound.
(strums)
So those are your options for effects in the LT50.
Now remember,
if you find something you like,
whether you're changing an amp or an effect,
and you see that it's red in the menu,
that's telling you
you should save your preset.
So to save your preset
once you have it all fine tuned,
it's as simple as going over to your save button here.
Once you locate that
hit that one time
and then we have a few options.
We can save to that same location,
with the same name,
we can save as, we can change the name,
or we can even replace one of your other presets.
For now, I'm gonna go back up to save.
I can either hit the encoder once
or hit the save button one more time.
We'll do that.
Hit save.
And now your preset is saved into the amplifier.
Alright one last note regarding the
optional MGT4 foot switch.
So when you buy the foot switch
it looks like this.
With the LT50, we include this magnetic plate.
It slips right over the top of the MGT4.
Now all the functions listed on the foot switch
correspond with the functions of the LT50.
Alright so as you can see
this amp has lots and lots of
great features packed into it.
But with a very intuitive user interface.
You can record with it,
gig with it,
use it as a practice amp,
or even a writing tool.
Tones for whatever style of music you're into,
and new ones to inspire your creativity.
So if you have any other questions
relating to the Mustang line of amplifiers,
you can go to Fender.com,
and as always, stay tuned here for more videos.
Well see ya!
(heavy rock music)