My Mustang Pedalboard today

This is the work done up until today. The white pedalboard is an ikea stuff that has almost the right size for me.

The neewer is a footswitch to change the 2 channels of the Mustang. The 2 preset i am actually using are:

1. a 57 clean with chorus that i use both as a main clean and as pedal platform. Works really good for both
2. the MB CRUNCH 1 that is the latest tweak of this preset of mine: https://fuse.fender.com/mustang/presets/mordor74-erotomania-ts63/

The pedals are (from right):

1. the dynamic wah from donner
2. the tom'sline black teeth set for a lead tone similar to Kiko Louriero on No gravidty
3. the sweet tom'sline plexion for a britsh overdive that goes from blues (rolling back a lot the volume on the guitar) to Iron maiden (less rolled back volume pot, neck PU for creamy solos) and up to vintage metallica with full pot and the kokko to tight basses
4. the kokko overdrive set to tight up every other tone or to get that bluesy tone using it alone

I am happy with the combination i've found except that as you can see the placement of the connectors does not allow to get the stomps perfectly in line. I've ordered different connectors and i plan to buy the TS clone from tom'sline.

I will be buyng some other pedal to have some fun but i really dont need it.Just curiosity and fun.

Kiko and the rat

I've always been a fan of Kiko Luoreiro (actual Megadeth solist and ex Angra) and his music, especially the album from 2005, "no gravity". I learned half of the title track.

I always wondered about the tone of that albun, i like it a lot.

I did some research in the past but did not find anything really relevant.

But...

I felt like there is something in common betwwen that tone and my Pro Co Rat clone, the tom'sline Black Teeth. So i did the inverse research: kiko louriero and pro co rat.

It comed out something really interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89CC56krbB8

I linked the brazilian review of this NIG shred pro, a brazillian made signature pedal that i think is a revisitation of a Pro Co Rat.

Musiwewe stomps

Today i discovered the Musiwewe lines of pedals.

They looks like digital clones. Maybe, because of that they work good with the mustang. I may never know.

If you look closer:

You can see 3 critical details:

1) they are made of plastic
2) the switch is more a videame button
3) the power connector is on the side

That given it is really hard that i will one in future.

PS: out of curiosity the orange drive should be a guv'nor or a mi audio clone

The Mooer Ultra Drive MK II is going back to Amazon

I've tested this pedal extensively thoose days and i think i will send it back.

It is not that i did not manage to make it work, it is just that it work good only with certain settings and not so good with others. Surprising the DS1 emulation on the ZOOM pedal board works better. I think it is not a pedal fault.
The Zoom thing is doing some sort of post EQ, while the Mooer Ultra drive has a peak in the low freqs that does not work well with the mustang. It works well with the notes from 5th fret but i really dont like the E5 chord.

The pointis that when i use the KOOK OD (TS clone), i can kick it in in any patch, while the Ultre Drive can be kicked in only on certain clean tones. Since i want something more flexible i'am going to try a RAT clone, and maybe another one too, since the rat clone costs half the price of the mooer.

Paul Gilbert tone on Alive and Kickin

If you dont know the song here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BaoEHNbyA

The intro is really lovely and while the main theme these days is me struggling with the Mooer Ultimate Drive II and the pedalboard in general, i also had a ride on some less used amp models, like the Marshall 80 clone. I wanted to ear how it sing with drive to the minimum and the result is that it is a really nice tone to play this Mr Big song, really close to the one on the album, to me.

Here is a screen of the amp settings:

As you can see is a fairly simple setting, where the trick is the subtle gain that will just push and compress the tone that bit.

The rest of the things are pretty casual, i will refine it and the publish on the fuse site.

Expanding the Mustang Capability Pt.3 - Update

So, now i have my Ikea pedalboard with actually installed the Donner Dynamic Wah, the Kokko Overdrive and the Mistang footswitch.

I had plenty tested the role of the Overdrive in the chain and i must say that i am not shure anymore that it can work as a mid boost. Not the way i expected it.

I find myself using it more to get a nice lowmid gain tone from the clean presets. It does this job very well and match very well with the wah also.

So i am not totally unhappy of having my TS clone onboard.

I also did some test with the Zoom distortion to find the one i may like.

Log story, short tell, today i will recive a Mooer ultre Drive II. The contender was the ProCo Rat but there where 3 main reason that lead me to choose the DS1 clone:

1) Steve Vai

2) the DS1 har plenty more gain (versatility)

3) the character of the Rat is really close to my Satriani preset, so i really dont need it

ProCo Rat clones video

I just posted this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC0XZ03xSIo

It's a video version of the list.

I plan to make other in the next days!

Expanding the Mustang Capability Pt.2 - A schema

I've made a simple schema to explain the idea i'm pursuing right now:

Nothing fancy and also nothing new, but explain a different approach.

It is not complete. Not all combination are listed, only the ones that i consider of graeather value.

As you can see in this schema the Distortion Pedal is use only once. Shurely it can be layered with the boost and the wah but i would like to test it on our digital amp before writing about it. Anyway for as much as i can see the named LEAD2 tone is a valueable addiction by itself.