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FENDER LT25 - I bought one of these. Good or bad idea?
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- Опубликовано: 14 авг 2024
- I recently bought this amp from Sweetwater. Does it measure up?
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0:00 Unboxing
0:33 Intro
0:58 Criteria
1:39 Settings
1:57 Princeton (clean)
2:18 Princeton (crunch)
2:28 Princeton (cranked)
2:40 Deluxe (clean w/slapback, reverb)
3:04 Excelsior
3:34 Twin Reverb (surfy sound)
4:12 Does this amp fit the criteria?
4:52 Do I like the Fender models?
5:17 Let me know what you think
Gear used:
Fender 50th Anniversary Stratocaster
Fender 50s Road Worn Telecaster
Squier J Mascis Jazzmaster
Fender LT25 amplifier
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I'll be posting a video of playing through the amp with a backing track soon (no talking),
I'm gonna be honest, I didn't need to watch the review to the end, halfway was enough !
A serious and informative review, to the point I watched anyway.
A total no-brainer. I've seen enough and made up my mind to buy it.
Glad it was helpful!
I've had mine for about a year. I was lucky enough to find it used for $80. I LOVE IT!! I pretty much got rid of the presets, or tweaked them, and put in my own amps and effects that I found on the software. And, you don't even need the software, it can be done right from the amp panel, but it's cool to look at the software and make adjustments on my PC. Nice tones by the way, thanks for taking time to post this.
I haven't used this amp in a while. I should revisit!
@@anotherheadlessdemoI just bought this amp, and my only complaint so far is the poor quality of sound through headphones, as you mentioned also. I bought a $90 pair of Yamaha studio headphones, and still doesn't have good quality sound. Is there ANY way I can get better sound through headphones with this? Do you have any recommendations for better headphones that might do it? But these Yamahas are really good, so I may be out of luck. 😕
how did it sound with headphones I have a fender frontman 10g and it’s sucks with headphones
Finally a review with clean settings! Great video
Glad you liked it!
I recently purchased this amp after not having my old Premiere tube amp from the late fifties/ early sixties. It died more then few years ago. I did update the software and I think it sounds better. Not crazy about most of the presets so I will delete many and add some of my own. Thanks for your review.
You are welcome. Same here, most of the presets are not usable, at least for me.
Have fun with it. If you were a next-door neighbor of mine I would give you a bunch of my old toys like Behringer processor pedals digital stuff that I don't have an interest in anymore. I try to go straight analog with everything. Just enjoy the crumb out of it.
I think I’ll do that! Thanks!
I already like this little amp and you make it sound great. Nice job.
Also, compared to practice amp's available when I was starting out this is like a Holy Grail with some secret sauce. Just saying. Rock on!
Thanks!
I love that Stratocaster in the Crunch sound! Nice. I tested this amp with a guitar that I bought. The P90s on my guitar sounded great clean.
You certainly can get all kinds of sounds out of this amp; no question. My favorites have been the Princeton and the Excelsior.
I've owned this amp since February great little amp its sounds great, I do record with it which makes it great for practice, its a fun amp for the money you cannot go wrong, I love creating my own tones with the various pedals and amps their is an extra set of amps once you hook it up to pc the noise gate pedal is brilliant esp with my Stratocaster Type Guitar with 3 P90's, is it a 10 well close enough, one other detail a full power cord not an ac adapter, also i can bring the amp home and it can also revert back to 120 volts from the 240 here in the UK, brilliant.,
It does sound pretty good. I've been going back and forth between this and my Katana for recording. I haven't decided yet which one I prefer. Time will tell I suppose.
I am IN LOVE with your voice !!
Thank you!
Really nice showcase of the Fender LT 25
Thanks!
great demo and tasty playing ...love your channel man ...respect
Much appreciated!
I got one too. Yes is mono. I record with Audacity through the USB cable attached to my laptop. Then I split the track creating 2 ( L and R ) and pan both channels and add delay on one channel, it becomes a really good stereo effect recording.
I was using Garageband to record and was having latency issues, at times pretty severe. I haven't had those problems with any other amp or pedal. No idea why.
@@anotherheadlessdemo had same issue with a Macbook air. Think is related to the ASIO driver on osX? I'm using an ASUS Gaming laptop with Win11, no issue. Audacity is brilliant because you record on the backing track and get one file. So you need just to sync 1 video and 1 audio file, instead of 2 separate audio files ( guitar and backing track ).
This is a great staff for charting and practicing scores. The effects are plausible enough. But there is a small but ... If you want to get authentic sound, you will have to create or purchase a shallow cabinet for a 12 "speaker and with a wide front. It is better to immediately equip it with a microphone on a corrugated metal twisted" goose neck "bracket with a microphone jack. will solve many issues of a subtle color of sound.
Your guitars have a true signal very close to the reference.
If you put a full-size 12 "speaker with a good electromagnetic system and a membrane in a universal screen-like cabinet, then you will use this staff for any purpose of modeling and sound embalming.
As for the tube-like sound, the digital models built into your combo amplifier are of high quality. They have popular colors and will be easily recognized by listeners.
Whether you need a natural "tube heating pad" is hard to say now, you need to try without it.
Some of the exact textures of the sound grain are smoothed out by the inertia of the diaphragm of the dynamic head at a low signal load.
Stereophonic panning is solved in sound consoles and computer programs. They do the job best. There are already laid down the transfer functions in terms of intensity and time delay. If there are signals with constant reflections, then they are placed on the panorama without difficulty.
I apologize for not answering all your questions and not giving a firm and clear answer. But I hope for your decision if you accept these initial considerations.
I do think the models sound really good, especially the Princeton. So far, it’s been either headphones or right into the DAW. At some point I’ll take it to a gig without a drummer and see how it does.
I really appreciate your feedback too! As I said, it does make a perfectly good practice amp with lots of features and options.
No idea why this is called a beginner.
I don’t ant to go through thousands of settings to find a tone I want. The pre-sets are pretty impressive in themselves and you have plenty of slots to save your own, even overwrite the presets.
The tones and volume that this amp can produce are immense.
This is for home use and I chose this over the Katana II, everything I’ve seen and then playing both, all lead me back to this.
Some will moan “oh, it’s digital, not analogue” let alone being tube driven.
But at this power it can compete with tube and mess all over analogue.
I don’t care it’s digital, if it’s about “the sound” this is best at this level and you can’t beat the price.
I think it makes a perfect practice amp for home use (well, almost perfect). I've had many tube amps (I still own two), as well as digital and solid state amps. They can all sound good!
I just saw the end of the video and I want to thank you for the honest review. I think the amp sounds great! But I am a "bedroom" musician. I play for fun! I use my headphones quite a bit. What other Fender amp would you recommend that sounds great with headphones? Thank you for posting this.
I had an older Mustang II amp that I thought sounded much better with headphones than the LT25. I also have used one of the Vox Stomp lab pedals. The effects sound really good, but the interface is very clunky.
Try the mustang micro. It’s brilliant.
It may not meet all your needs but it certainly sounds good and the speaker still has to break in.
Oddly enough, I’ve hardly used the speaker at all! It’s either headphones or right into the DAW!
recently bought. in the house, however, it gives me a lot of rustle. can I join a noise gate? if yes in which jack hole? else, can I also join a pedal for loops? Thanks so much for the replies.
I'm sure you can add a noise gate or looper pedal.
I'm sorry, but I didn't understand if I can mount a looper and noise gate pedal (further). If I can mount them, do I have to plug them into the input jack or footswitch? Have you tried?
I haven't tried any pedals with this amp. Any pedals would be plugged into the input jack.
Besides it functioning as a guitar amp, do you think it could handle a digital piano into the aux input? Especially the lower frequencies. Thanks!
I really don't know. I'm not sure you would have access to any of the EQ controls. Just so you know, I sold the amp a few months ago and bought a Spark amp.
I've done a LOT of recording using the USB out on my LT25 into Cakewalk on my HP laptop with ZERO latency issues, so the problem is your device or DAW, not the amp!
Probably, but so far, this was the only amp or pedal that has had any kind of latency, some of which was exteme. Don't know why though.
I’ve owned my gt200 for a few years now…at first I didn’t care for the speakers and it took a few months of load playing for them to break in…also…went ahead an deleted all the built in settings…to me, the built in setting are mostly meh…it’s a fun amp that doesn’t take much time to get playing when I don’t want to hassle with setting up my tube amps…
By the way what kind of headphones are you using?
The headphones are Audio-Technica. Not the cheapest, but not pricey either.
Hey David . . . when you talk about latency here are we talking when your just playing the amp or when it's connected to USB for recording?
Hi Brandon, The latency is just when I'm recording - thankfully! As a practice amp, it works fine. :)
@@anotherheadlessdemo great!
How would you describe that 8" speaker's sound quality?
Does it have good bass response?
Does it have a "FULL" sound?
I'm debating on this or the LT50 simply because of the 12" and the headroom and the physical MID knob - what's your input?
(Is it worth the extra $100? I'll be using it as a living room corner amp mostly for Fender-style clean and light overdrive tones)
LT25 or LT50
For the most part, I've only been using the headphone jack for playing (late night mostly). That said, the 8" doesn't sound bad and I haven't found myself wishing it had a larger speaker (at lower volumes it has more bass than my Katana!). I'm sure the LT50 sounds better but I really didn't need the larger speaker and higher wattage. Also, I'm finding accessing the mid knob via the menu is pretty easy.
@@anotherheadlessdemo great! Thanks for the info David!
Also glad you referenced the katanas "lack" of bass. I have to use that katana librarian app to access the additional EQs to get good fender-esque bass.
Thank you!
I'll have to check that out.
hello! I was thinkin about purchasing this amp and ı saw this video. I also want to record guitars to my daw (I'm using macbook). since you've said that there is latency, ı've been having second toughts. could you tell more about that please? ıs there any way to solve it? how much of a deal breaker is it?
I've had much better luck recording with a Boss Katana. No latency at all. The LT25 is on FB Marketplace as we speak.
@@anotherheadlessdemo thank you, ı changed my mind and bought a marshall mg15gr what doy ou thşnk of that? I can’t record with that amp but at least the live performance is much better in my opinion.
UPDATE: I just sold it . :)
My LT25 records thru USB with amazing sound quality and ZERO latency issues with Cakewalk on my $300 entry level HP laptop, so David doesn't know what he's talking about. And, unless you want an amp that sounds like a buzzsaw or a swarm of angry bees, the MG15 has the worst drive channel I've ever heard.
Hi !
I can understand your disappointment with the effects, which are not stereo. I would like to know if the sound is still suitable for headphones? Would it be better to buy a fender Mustang V2, used for this specific use? Stereo effects are not what I'm looking for, but rather sound quality and quality amp modeling.
Other than the lack of stereo sound, the amp sounds good with headphones. You really get a good selection of amp models with this.
@@anotherheadlessdemo Thx a lot ! I own the Spark Amp and it's great on headphones, but I wanted more of a Fender sound.
By the way: what happened with the Quilter amp? Is it still in use? Would you still reccomend it in 2021 with all this competition around, for a surf rock sound?
Good question. I played my first gig since last September on Friday. A couple of players asked me about the Quilter. I still have it, but the Katana has been working out well.
Just to answer the second part of your question - I think the Quilter can do most styles of music really well including surf. All you need is either a good reverb tank or a pedal that does that kind of thing well (like the Oceans 11). With all the gear available, it's up to the player to get the right sound from any them.
@@anotherheadlessdemo Thank you for the answer. I was just recently checking some reviews of Quilter amps and I`ve noticed you were not using yours lately, that`s why I was asking about that.
I used it but was making so unusual humming sound so returned it so bad unwanted sound all in neutral settings also
Mine does humming, too
@@radeesfury827 I got vox pathfinder in replacement of this I am super happy with vox
I have it, along with a sh*tty Yamaha Pacifica 012
No matter what preset i choose, the "base sound" is always that of a Cruise Ship Horn. TWOOOOOT, TWOOOOOT
Next time: Boss Katana MK2, another planet
Sounds like you have a lemon there! My Katana V1 sounds way better than the LT25.
So here not very happy with that amp...
Too bad about your experience. I was close to buying the Mustang LT25 but went with the new Mustang Micro Headphone Amp as the cheaper alternative to check out the Fender emulated sounds before trying an LT (or GTX). Also, the LT doesn't have bluetooth input for play along while the Mustang Micro does. Sound wise the Micro a great little amp. But in Windows 10 the USB audio input latency is so awful I can't use it for recording and there's no proprietary drivers to help. I'd like Fender to create some useful USB drivers and add the Micro's bluetooth input into their LT line and maybe then I'll try an LT.
I thought about that one as well. It would be a good travel “amp.”
It's even better because the LT is limited to its speaker, the Micro can plug into stereo speakers and even compact ones for travel.
Mustang Micro doesn't have the app for tweaking, it's limited in adjustments with is buttons and you have to remember what each light color means, and if you want to record it with monitoring you still need to go through an interface.
LT25 has the app, and I think it would be great for recording throughout the headphone out into interface in line input mode. I really wish LT had XLR out for recording though. USB recording is hard for manufacturers to get right especially on windows, if you remember that you need full duplex for monitoring and backing track payback with low latency.
And I wish FENDER made Mustang Floor LT with latest modeling advances and impulse responses.
I figured out how to setup the Audio Interface driver and Windows 10 to remove the latency for recording into Audacity using the headphone out from the Micro.
@@jimmyjames2022 Exactly what I thought! The only way to really record with low latency is to use a proper audio interface. Which means between Micro and LT, the latter is better, because it has the app for tweaking. Portability is the only thing that really goes for Micro. But if your play at home, portability is not an issue and having the convenience of the built in speaker and knobs, and the app makes LT a more versatile and convincing option.
can u record your guitar sound with just hooking it up with the usb?
Yes, that's how I recorded the guitar in this video as well as the LT25 Jam I posted later.
Sound really good to me👍👍. Cheers.
It does sound good. I agree!
Hi guy's, im not much of a gear expert and i have one of these. I have a mexico strat and a brand new jack lead, and the presets just sound so rough ... very naturally trebley too.
Do you tend to use extra peddles and stuff to clean up the sound?
I didn't use any pedals in this demo. There's so many ways to tweak the sound, so I'm sure you could find a sound that works for you.
tryna upgrade an amp, should I go for Fender LT25 or the GT100?
It depends on what you are doing. If you're gigging with a drummer, the LT25 isn't going to cut it. Also, any of the more expensive modeling amps (GT100 or the GTX50 for instance) are going to have more flexibility, more options and sound bigger (and better).
You can use headphones with the Fender Mustang II? Can you recommend a brand and type of connection used?
Yes, there was a mini phone jack on the amp, at least that's how I remember it. The brand of headphones I was using was probably Sennheiser. I don't remember the model.
The hd280 are great models and can be had at low prices…
would you get an older / used mustang i ii or iii?
If i was in the market for one of these, I'd get the Mustang II. Forty watts was plenty for most any gig I was doing.
is it good for in a studio with a drummer?
If you are in a studio, yes. I'm assuming you'd be micing it? You could do small gigs with a quieter drummer .
Hi David, how do you access the extra 20 secret preset tones?
If you use the Fender Tone software, there's an extra 100 presets. Out of the box, my LT25 came with 30 presets and 30 empty slots to add my own.
Not sure about 20 presets after that.
@@anotherheadlessdemo did you update the software?
The Tone app for the LT25 has 100 presets, but 30 of them are the 30 loaded in the amp, so there are 70 additional presets that can be loaded into any of the 60 memory slots on the amp
does the amp have a line out so i can connect it through another speaker
No. It just has a headphone jack. The LT50 I think has a line out.
Would this pair up well for use with a harmonica?
I'm not a harmonica player, but I'm sure you could find a usable setting.
Do you know if this or the fender rumble 40 is better??
All the Fender Rumbles are bass amps. If you play guitar, stick with one of the Mustang LT amps.
didn't they make the damn thing compatible for your Android phone? At least with Bluetooth. Hell this is 2022... Got to go buy a bunch of other crap just so you can record your guitar... So you mean LEKATO can make a portable amp and plug your phone into it and record and Sounds great! And Fender has been in the business for 20,000 years and they can't even make a damn amp to be able to record to your freaking phone that sounds halfway decent....🐂
This amp doesn't have Bluetooth so connecting to any smart phone is out. The other Fender GT and GX series have Bluetooth and probably(?) work with either Android or iOS.