Fender Mustang Micro Headphone Amp Reviews

Must dang have.

Great for quite practice , ideal for learning songs with the Bluetooth feature pairing with a phone so easy to use for backing tracks or playing along with song's.

MUSTANG FENDER AMP

Nice Add to a Traveller guitar . Good old fender sound

Hude delay, not for shredders

How come nobody even mentions the crazy latency problem? I bought this for my silent midnight practice sessions, but it doesn't hold up quite well. If you're into any kind of shredding (fast solos, tremolo picking, sweep picking, etc.) the latency with any reasonable distortion level just makes it impossible to play (I'm using high-quality wired headphones). If you are using it as "clean amp", then the delay is much better, but then again, you might as well just listen to the string acoustics if you want to practice silently and not use any distortion or effects... Also, the higher the gain, the worse it starts to sound, so again, this isn't for metalheads. I'm very disappointed with this purchase, the huge latency definitely limits what kind of songs/techniques I can practice with this... But it might be okay for just slight jamming or other, more latency-tolerant genres. Honestly, it's hard to believe that all those YouTube "reviews" are not sponsored, since everyone is dead silent about this while this is the first thing that hits you when you try to play... I will give a try to the Vox next time, let's see if that's any better.

No juice

I will just point out the bad part. The good parts, everybody writes and makes videos about them. So, here it is: The battery sucks! Every time you want to play, the battery is dead and you need to connect it to a computer for a few hours first.

Does what you need it to

Great amp sounds. Easy to connect aux audio. Works with different Jack placements too. Money well spent

Pretty good for a novice as I am. Easy to setup and use, without any extra complicity.

All you need to be alone

Impressive sound quality, this is definitely the best device I've ever got. Obviously you are limited to the combinations you can make from the effects/amps/equalizers, but you have enough to get lots of fun.

Great bit of kit! Takes some experimenting to get the most out of it.

Overall this is a fantastic amp and I use it constantly. I originally bought it as I needed a quiet option for playing guitar so not to disturb my flatmates. Loads of amp settings, they all sound really good and are pretty vastly different from each other! I definitely recommend it for anyone looking for a headphone amp.

My only complaint with it is definitely a nitpick, but I'd like to see slightly more options for gain control, as well as some more effect options. However, as is you can still get some wildly different sounds all of which are awesome!

High quality practice tool

High quality, lightweight headphone amp for fuss free practice.

Easy to pair with smartphone via Bluetooth for easy play-along.

A multitude of amp sounds and effects. For bass the Studio Preamp in standard setting is by far the best sound for me, but it's nice to have options.

great for study

i am using it with a bass guitar so not at its full extent but it is portentous, and sounds very good on decent headphones.

It can receive Bluetooth audio like a background track and allows direct USB recording via a USB-C plug that charges the internal battery.

Easy to upgrade the Firmware, very simple and intuitive interface with few buttons. It uses a color code with its LEDs to indicate its operating status and selected amp simulation model.

A quick reference card explains this code, if you really want to know which amp is which.

I do hope that they could implement a tuner function in the next firmware upgrades: that would be a nice plus.

It is great tool for practising without disturbing others.

Very simple to use. No need to connect to an app and go through 5 different screens that have 50 different knobs each one. Also no need for a computer. Just plug and play.

The sound experience can vary a lot (from really nice to really bad) depending on the headphones and the guitar pickups. I would recommend buying a good pair of headphones if you don't have one.

The 4 clean channels sound very similar. I would prefer 3 clean channels with different tone, and additional crunchy tones.

I feel Fender missed the opportunity to have a tuner built-in.

Even though it is made of plastic it doesn't feel cheap.

It's ok

This headphone amp is quite good but somewhat limited in it's range of sounds. If you're looking for something straightforward it may suit you, but for something more customisable there are better options out there.

Don't buy this if you're colorblind

I bought this looking for an improvement over amplug which I thought was too noisy. Unfortunately, this device is not noise-free even though it's an improvement over the amplug. Bluetooth is a nice feature. My biggest problem is the user interface and the unfortunate way of color-coding amp choices. As someone who's colorblind, I'm finding it difficult to use.

For what it is, it's amazing.

A very cool little headphone amp. Some really usable tones and easy to use. Some minor inconvienence to have to refer to the led colour card for settings but it works and is simple.

I only have one negitive with this little amp. It can be quite noisy on some settings. This is not a problem with higher end pickups but the budget friendly pickups will suffer.

A must have for on the go practice.

Amazing for the money

Bought as a birthday present for a friend and they absolutely love it, got them back into playing guitar!

Wow.. Good one from Fender

I highly recommend this if you are a bedroom player and would not like to experiment or invest much on the physical Amps, Pedal boards..etc. This is a good companion for your Guitar leaning journey.

So good!!!

I got this little headphone amp to take with me on the road. It's very portable, USB-C rechargeable (so you don't have to take another cable or batter with you) and all you need to do is plug it into the guitar as well as some headphone, turn it on and you're good to go.

The best surprise was the sound. I'm a rookie to amps, but the quality of the tone blew me away, to the point where I prefer using it for practicing in my bedroom. It's really easy to use, sounds great and has enough options to tinker with the tone.

The USB interface works good, but I had a tiny bit of delay on my setup with my M1 iPad and Amplitube. Not much, but definitely noticable, so probably not ideal for using it to model amps via a computer or iPad. The sound seemed fine otherwise, so probably still good for recording a track at home, with the headphone output to monitor sound.

One thing that would've made this thing even better: I wish it had a built-in tuner. But otherwise, I really like it!

I get my practice in and my family get their beauty sleep!

I play guitar to relax and like nothing more than to get a good hour of blues playing in the evenings. I have a young family and I need to be sensitive to noise, this Fender Mustang Micro Headphone Amp was the answer to my dreams with no noise for my family, no matter what time of day! I get my practice in and my family get their beauty sleep!

Straightforward practice amp with excellent sounds

Useful and well realized piece of gear.

Basic features butt well implemented and above all good sounding amps.

Great and lots of fun for practice.

Does what it says on the box

This is great for silent practising and playing along with your favourite songs. I'm not much of an electric guitarist, and tend to stick with the amp and effect I liked most when I scrolled through the possibilities. I'm sure there's much more variety of sound available to anyone who needs it.