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High-Performance Boss

vernacular, “Mustang” is synonymous with “student model,” which to most guitarists also means “basic features,” “competent-but-limited performance” and “affordable.” This certainly applied to Fender’s Mustang-branded guitars and basses of the Sixties through the Nineties. However, when Fender introduced its first Mustang amps in 2010, which featured digital modeling technology, “Mustang” took on entirely new definitions, still meaning

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