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Originally Posted by FrankHudson
If anyone is even mildly knowledgeable about amps, the trick when auditioning a Mustang in the store, or with a home trial, is to scroll past all the regular "featured" presets and to go the end of the list where you get just the bare amps modeled by the Mustang. One bane of modelers in general, and the Mustang is no exception, is that the featured presets are someone else's idea of a good sound.
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This is great advice for trying any modeling amp. Crappy presets are responsible for much of the bad rap digital gear gets. It's hard to know what they can really sound like until you strip away all the effects and tweak a bit.
One of the main advantages of digital amps is how easy it is to pack in all the effects and tweak-able parameters, so there really aren't too many options that
don't have a ton a bells and whistles. Bells and whistles is kind of what they do. Quilter is the only obvious one I can think of that does just simple digital, Fender type amp products but your getting out of "bang for the buck" territory there.