Fender Mustang Micro Personal Guitar Amplifier Bundle with Austin Bazaar Exclusive 12-Pack Picks and Instructional DVD

Sounds great and it's easy to use great purchase

Very impressive device. Most tones sound and feel great to my ears/hands and I’ve played electric guitars since the 70’s. Now professional muso since the 80’s. Not a high gain guy can’t advise about some of those amps but the clean to dirty tones hit high scores in my book. I’d prefer slightly less compression for the ’65 Twin but backing off the guitar volume and cranking Mustang volume seemed to workaround excessive squish.Most every model is very useable and the device plays nicely with connectivity, bluetooth, charging and sound capture via USB-C. Great jamming tool and actually a useful Bluetooth mini phono headphone adapter for those of us with Lightening connector only iPhones. Also used similar manner in cars with line inputs to sound system.Relatively minor complaints - difficult to see the orientation of +/- switches. Not too big a deal if used regularly and familiar with the configuration/orientation but some visual contrast in those +/- recesses and the power ON/OFF/BT switches would go a long way to more easily enjoy this little guy right out of the box. LED colors can be a little difficult to tell which is what but scrolling usually finds a color I can easily distinguish and go from there.I tried other $40-$80 guitar headphone amps and they were okay but returned em once the Mustang Micro showed up. Fender Mustang Micro sounds great, bluetooth feature for jam tracks or simply routing bluetooth sound from phone to mini phono amplification such as automobile or powered speakers equipped with mini phono line inputs.Oh, the clean studio preamp is useable for acoustic or bass guitar. Majority headphone amps don’t seem to have that option. Can’t say much about battery life yet - it’s allowed hours of playing between charging so at this point ample capacity IMO.While the effects have limited editing they’re pretty close to what I expect from guitar effects. I kinda like like the preset speeds, levels and depths available. Very useable.Speaking as someone with pro experience using Helix, Fractal, Kemper, Fender modeling has been improving. These are the most convincing amp IR’s from Fender I’ve experienced to date.Would I attempt a full bore professional gig with this device? Probably not yet but for low-key casual gigs I would give it a shot using a mini phono or USB to XLR DI box.Update - Even more impressed since latest FW update 1.9.54Among minor tonal improvements to effects and increased volume for the Deluxe + Greenbox OD this FW also disconnects USB recording level from master volume and revised tone control to NOT affect BT audio. Other bug fixes and enhancements.MORE UPDATE - got my spare…Sadly people learning the hard way passive acoustic guitar pickups (UST) will not open the signal squelch circuit Mustang Micro employs to keep unwanted noise to a minimum. This is only a problem for acoustic pickups with NO onboard preamp. If your acoustic instrument requires a battery Mustang Micro will probably work for clean preamp setting. Patching after preamp (or wireless) seems to workaround the issue if you need to capture tracks into DAW or live performance. But it's no longer a simple headphone amplifier.Could be an “opportunity” for the bright minds at Fender to offer something more specific to passive acoustic guitar UST systems? Heck yeah, some of that acoustic IR stuff they’ve developed of late. Mic IR’s, preamp and efx choices tailored towards UST passive systems in a similar Micro format/package.UPDATE- Still my favorite quick amp solution for electric guitars.Recently allowed my #2 unit sit unused for a month or two and happy to report battery suffered very little SOC loss. Measured resulting charge about 7mAh needed to top off. Little more than 1% capacity loss.

When I first started playing I had to bring out a heavy amp and then plug headphones into the amp if I wanted to be quiet. This is such a cool invention. You just plug the headphones directly into it and have the same options that an amp gives you. I love being able to suck quietly now without worrying about anyone hearing me.

I have enough fender products to be an expert by now. One thing I will say is I have been waiting for the mini fender guitar the company promised for awhile now, but not arrived. However, this product is excellent just like all fender products.

I use this as a "pre-amp" into my normal Peavey amp from the 80s. Lots of interesting effects. They really thought of everything here. You have to download the manual from the 'web. The controls are a bit strange but once you understand them you'll get it. If I'd only had this 30 years ago. Definitely something that makes playing richer and more fun if you have a c-note to splash on this little thing. I'd recommend it.

I spent several hours researching the best and also easy to use headphone guitar amps, and found it interesting that all the competition, such as Nux knock down Fender's mustang for having less features and cheap quality. First of all, this feels like an excellent quality, well-made device. Secondly, it has plenty of features, doesn't require a phone and programming knowledge. It is perfect for what it was designed for, practicing without blasting the amp for those around me. I took it out of the box, plugged it to my bass, plugged in my headset and started jamming. Done. I also paired with my TV for youtube lessons, music sync, etc. Highly recommend.

I tried the other one FLAMMA FX20 and I didn't like the amp modeling and drums. I think if you are into metal you will like the FLAMMA FX20 better This one has more reasonable clean sounds that still add some tube growl. It can link to a PC via blue tooth so you can still play along with practice tracks. I suspect the the electronics of the two units are identical but they are programmed differently. This boomer likes a simpler more traditional sound.

Conceptually, a great idea. To just pick up the ax and play into headphones... ANYWHERE. Amps, EQ, & Effects are both fun and 'effective'. Battery life is excellent. Build quality appears to be solid.