1966 Fender Mustang - Maiden Voyage on my Rig

[jonathancantwell1]

@Chavo933 true true

[ScareDe2]

what is the difference between mustang 66 and 65?

[creepingnet]

@ScareDe2 Not much, I've seen a few 64's and 65's with hotter pickups than my 66' though, which kind of follows the trend of Fender's 60's guitars being wound hotter at the beginning.

[nirvanafoo98]

i see a jag-stang :))))))

[acp025]

love it, the odd green is kind of odd, but it sounds amazing!

[sekacbarc]

what amp?

[m1ndNOVA]

I have recently come to a really strong love for mustangs.

[TheDopeOctapuss]

woow that distortion at 4mins is insane!! what did you use to get that sound?

[creepingnet]

@IDanClarkI mustangs have very little routing, just 2 slots for the pickups, one slot for the switches, and one for the pots.

[IDanClarkI]

@creepingnet

do mustangs have a totally solid body? like just routed for pickups and switches, or is it like the jagmaster where the whole area under the pickguard is routed out?

i wanna get one of thsee and put a humbucker in it :)

[jeffmara]

does it stay in tune well?

[sekacbarc]

Haha found a '66 Mustang in my attic yesterday. It's in great shape and sounds awesome. It's a lighter color blue and a white pick guard. Anybody have any idea how much this would be worth. I want to sell it seeing as how I already have 2 of them.

[JDog1024]

@sekacbarc Probably around $1,000 depending on condition

[DerIkke666]

is that a riff of a song or just improvisation? 7:02

[DerIkke666]

i love the sound from a fender mustang...it remembers me to nirvana

[ummiification]

amazing guitar I`ve got the same from 1965 ( I`m 13 ;))

[jonathancantwell1]

i want a mustang so bad .kurt cobain used that alot

[MrJONNcordwell]

fucking rocks

[manelcebas]

you're crazy!

[creepingnet]

@manelcebas This is a good thing

[Bluevetteboy2012]

Kurt Cobain used one just like this!

[miltonw]

fender juguar

[andy92811]

sorry but the amp killed the tone for me...

[bekerglas]

I have the 1965 reissue mustang, and i bet you can agree with me, these guitars are underrated. They have a amazing sound and if you look at price/quality, it beats the telecasters and strats easily.

[creepingnet]

@bekerglas I agree, I've been using the Mustang recently to play Deep Purple and Rainbow stuff, I can get a pretty Blackmore-like sound off the bridge position pickup with the right settings.

[WoWintosh]

@bekerglas

Hell no, no Strat, Mustang, Jaguar, Musicmaster, Duo Sonic, Coronado, Electric XII, Whopdeedinglefuckler Deluxe, can top the almighty Telecaster. From the heaviest metal to jazz, any tele can play any style

[BigEvilLadia23]

nice guitar man

[MrFENDERstratLOVER]

My God that Mustang screams!!

[sexpistolio]

btw. you're a great guitar player!!!

[creepingnet]

thankx

[sexpistolio]

wow, so much distortion with single coils! what DIST you've used?

[creepingnet]

Behringer V-Amp Pro

Amp sim set to the "British Hi-Gain" setting with the "Standard 78'" Cab Sim, I use a compressor to beef up the ponies from the pickups a bit during the shreddier parts.

The big trick to getting huge sounds out of single coils is a good amount of compression, and maybe a decent noise gate to go along with a very gainy amp or pedal.

[ELFKRUNCH]

i just got a jaguar HH and i love it :) i cant stand single coils, if u want jangly the HH goes there in spades, just use the bridge pickup on the rhythm circuit and u get incredible depth and great range in the lead circuit on the neck pickup. i much prefer my Jag.

[creepingnet]

To be honest, and the funny part is, I like the Singles on the Mustang better than I do the buckers on the Jaguar HH, that's why I traded mine in on it. I like the Jag HH, but I like the Mustang a tad bit more.

[leapphrog44]

do you recommend a jag or a mustang?

[fanofthemusic1090]

I'd bet a Jag is more versatile.  Depends on what you're playing.

[xoMissMaryxo]

get a jag stang its both haha

[quovardiss]

what do you think that is by his knee

[georgiarican1]

in my opinion i like the stang more than the jag. but thats my opinion. its up to u wat u want

[mtanyc]

both!!

[cessnalover]

great guitar man. i think thay look better than a strat

[monkeyyattack1018]

im bidding on a 66 right now, i really hope i get it..ur vid makes me want it even more now

[brez9091]

oh man! you were sounding so great...until you turned that chorus up. after the chros sounded great as well. real 60's mustangs are smokin' guitars and you play yours very well.

[supersucker72]

got my cij 69 ri 2004 red mustang today I couldn't be happier

[EvilPandaDog]

It's great to see someone to use a "Student guitar", a "Little guitar" like this, and actually use the vibrato. Great video.

[supersucker72]

man I played a 1966 sonic blue I think mustang today man I couldn't put it down it was beat up but that gave it character the neck was nothing like any other fender I ever played it reminded me of my old original jagstang I shoot myself everyday for getting rid of it. oh well some day. later man mike

[taylornutt]

Have you ever played a Squier Classic vibe duo sonic?  There are almost no videos on them and I wanted to get input from someone on how they compare to a mustang like yours.

[GrowTheCaine]

well #1 Squiers ARE cheaper Fenders they probly would just have hotter pickups and different hardware and plus real Fenders allways have a snappier sound its just natural lol

[pencildives]

Get a Fender Duo Sonic instead. They're just as cheap if bought used.

[MarijuanaGood4U]

is this an original or a reissue Mustang?

[creepingnet]

It's an original 1966 model, Cloth Wiring, finish checking on the neck and all, save for the paint job, which was originally Olympic White, then redone in Gold at some point, and then later the teal color it is now.

[Nockgale]

how much does it cost 2 get a guitars finish re-done?

[metallicahead81]

sweet shirt u should do a sound of madness cover by shinedown

[bigrussthefuss]

Cool guitar, Im glad you did a bunch of different styles and sounds, did you buy that mustang like that, or did you do that yourself.

i see the jag stang and the red guitar with black pickguard (epiphone?hagstrom?univox?) in the backround and it must mean you liked kurt cobains sound, so thats why im asking.

[creepingnet]

The guitar is a totally stock 1966 Fender Mustang that was rebuilt by Tommy's Guitar Shop in Everett WA. The Pickups read about 5K Ohms each (yes, I'm shredding on what are essentially low output single coils). I really made an impression on the crowd the other night shreddin' it up with this thing at Traci's Pub.

[creepingnet]

While the Jaguar is my favorite model, for some reason that particular Jag-Stang is my #1 guitar, it just has a magic to it that I can't quite explain. The red guitar is a really cheap Harmony H-804 with a humbucker at the bridge, and I feel about the same about those as Kurt Cobain did about the Fender Mustang (love/hate relationship). And yes, I love Kurt's tone, Nirvana was my first major guitar influence. Hence all the stangs, despite having been influenced by a lot of shred as well.

[almostepic00]

2:24

i love itt =))))

lol =]

[TheGamingGuitarist]

How does the tremolo bridge work on the Jaguar, Jazzmaster, Mustang, Jag-Stang etc? Does it ove? Can you explain how it works?

[creepingnet]

It's something I should do a video of the next time I have a chance.

[divrack]

They have a floating bridge Hence the constant tuning an occasional fret buzz Best way to fix is push the bridge to the front as far as it will go and tune from there and use that as your starting point The other way Ive heard to correct is to pin the bridge to the body but then no tremalo maybe more sustain but i wouldnt do it personally I just had my frets leveled and had a set up she seems fine minor issues but I dont use my temelo that often

[blakegamemaster]

those were some cool chords you were playing on 2:00 - 2:11

how long you been playing?

[creepingnet]

I've beeb playing 13 years The chords themselves are fingered. XXX |||||| ++++++ ||||0| ++++++ 0||||0 ++++++ |||||| EADGBE Hopefully my chord diagram will show up properly. They are SUS2 or add9 chords, not totally sure though since I'm kind of lacking inthe theory department.

[creepingnet]

Well, it looks like youtube comments don't work with ASCII chord diagrams. lol

[14221jack]

you have a vintage harmony guitar?

=O

the red one, it looks like a 1960's harmony vintage style

i have a sunburts reissue, not that great, i modified it, i'll later post a video of it..

[creepingnet]

The Harmony isn't vintage. The Red One is a 1999 model marketed by Rogue in the Musician's Friend catalogs, but manufactured overseas by Harmony. The model is H-804, and is the same design they have made for the past 20 years or so. It's basically an H-802 sans the nicer chrome P-90ish pickups, instead it has Strat pickups.

[14221jack]

ohh

looks a lot like the vintage ones.. the first started coming out in the 1960's

ive got a 2005 one

not that amazing, but its good

do you still have the original guitar neck?

[creepingnet]

Unfortnatley no, the neck on the H-804 was warped beyond repair. I had major buzz issues from the 5th fret through the 12th fret. I made due for a few years, but then I stuck an Arbor Strat neck on it and it seems to work well with that.

[JohnnyMastro]

Would buying a reissue mustang be much different?

[creepingnet]

Not that much, in the case of the 65' reissues or so I hear. I have not played a 65' reissue though, so I don't know. So far the only stang's I've played are a 1964' slab body (in 96'), 3 69' Reissues (2 competitions in 04', and a white model in 95'), and this one.

[TheGamingGuitarist]

Are those stock pickups in that Mustang?

[creepingnet]

Yep, they are the original pickups, I dunno who wound them or what year/month the date is though for sure, I might pop the cover tonight to look.

[creepingnet]

No name, they are grey bobbin CBS era pickups, marked 6-1-66. Have not tested the output, but they are very twangy and punchy. I used this guitar at Smokin' 66 rehearsal tonight, and it's going out live tomorrow. I'm likely to use it on some of the new songs, plus the reggae tune we've been doing.

[LiquidGenerationBand]

im gettin myself a jag here in a week, and not to sound unoriginal, but thats all very true, fenders can sound just as metal as a les paul can

[thebreakfastmachine6]

kickass!

[TPreston92]

your stang kicks ass, i have a 65 RI, best guitar ive had. and yes fenders are REALLY underrated on how heavy and metal they can get.

[mickyhodge]

its pretty awesome how metal fenders can get... there really overlooked for metal, what with gibsons, ibanez, jackson and esp pretty much being the dominant brands for metal players

[nilihelm]

Yeah, Mike!

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That thing sounds fucking extreme...