Either if you look at guitar gods or at your friends that plays guitar in the basement or in some local stage, you may see a number of different approaches to gear/tones.
Here some sample for you:
1) The primitive guitarist: a guitar, a cable and an amp is all he need. Most of time i does not even use the reverb from the amp, preferring the ambience. You keep it simple, but you cannont archive anytone with that simple and you are down to 2 or 3 tones to do everything
2) The basic guitarist: add to the recipe a low number of stomps: distortion, delay, chorus, wah. With 3 or 4 pedals you can get almost everywhere exept for exotics like harmonizer
3) The stomp maniac: he has alarge pedalbord built with severalstomps and an even larger collection of stomps in his arsenal. With this type of approach you can go almost everywhere! It is not rare to find more than one pedal of the same type in this pedalboards, like 2 distortion, that may be the same model but with different settings. It looks like a cheap way but it is not cheap at all.
4) The multieffect guy. He is the evolution of the stomp maniac. The single stomps are replaced by a floor unit that can do everything and combination of effects can be recalled with a single foot strike. Very comfortable and also cheap.
5) The rackguy: the high end version of the mfx guy. Some use only a midrange rack unit, other may be in the range of the stomp collector. High quality, high flexibility, high control.
Ok, so, where do we go from here?
If you are reading this you probably own or plaw to own a Mustang amp.
Where do we place our beloved stang in this scale?
Obviously you can use the mustang like a primitive guitar player, but how far you can go from there?
Fender gave us a "limited" amount of flexibility, if you consider the number of effect and the number of symoultaneus effect. The basics are all covered, you also have the ability to manage combination so i think we can get in the real of the multieffect guy, but you need a bit of immagination to compensate the lack of flexibility.
3 Examples:
1) you have only one overdrive pedal, but you can compensate using different amp models. I think you can go really far, especially compare to a setup where you have 3-4 overdrive/distortion stomps but a regualr 1-3 channel amp
2) you cannot have wah and overdrive togheter but there is a pedal that do wah and fuzz together and you can twak the fuzz to act very much like an overdrive
3) you cannot have 2 delay in the chain, but you can use the pitch shift with no pitch as a simple delay
That said, what's the point here?
You my be asking what's the best way between the 5 above. Simply there is no right or wrong, it is just witch one works better for you. I may suggest you to keep it simple, or at least the simplier you can, but not too simple. One side you will risk to taste overprocessed on the other one consider that no reverb is ok only if your room has a good natural reverb.
Another thing to consider is the organization. Let me explain how i see it.
1) The primitive switch only betwwen the 2 or 3 tone offered by the amp, i've seen some tweaking the amp between one song and the other, someone using more than one amp to get different tones (same amp with different setting or totally different amps)
2 and 3) Manage a tone change with this board may be tricky, just like a dance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk6-H9Xu9Io
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz2-wO6vBIo
4 and 5) Management is pretty similar, all that change is, eventually, the quality of tone you get.
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