Really enjoyed exploring this feature on the MG-300. While amp modeling has come a long way, there's nothing quite like a real amp and the Mode function makes it possible to enjoy the best of both worlds.
I just runned in to something amazing. And sience we both pedal freaks I decided to bump that info in to you. I was watching a video where a guy used a hack for his Zoom Multi Stomp MS-70 CDR pedal. He now have all the effects from all Zoom pedals in this one single pedal. Souds crazy? Someone made this program and uploaded all the effects from all zoom pedals in to one effect manager. The pedal is fairly cheap, but the ammounf of effects you get after the hack is CRAAAZZZYYYY!!!!! It dont have to be MS-70 CDR. It works with many ZOOM pedals. Here is what I found: www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/the-zoom-hack-cdr-effects-and-others-on-g1on-g1xon.2081936/ Dont thank me.. Thank the guys who hacked the pedal!
So what do you set the eq of your fender amp is still all in 12 o clock,i can.t seem to get the tone that i want compare to the multi effects thatci own in the pass is way much easier,please help me pedal guy,i plug it straight to an amp that has no effect loop,
Hi pedal guy, another thing u could've mentioned is to go to into the aux input of a combo amp... It also bypasses the preamp. I output it studio and use all the wonderful cab simulations for a kick arse preset tone
Thanks for the suggestion and feedback. That's absolutely true. In my case, it didn't work as my amp is 30 years old, but definitely that's a good point. Be sure to subscribe for future vids!
I’ve been experimenting using the mg 300 as a Tonex, switched off all the effects. Dial in a clean amp, a breakup amp and a crunch. And a lead amp. Then run noise gate, tube screamer, to the input and delay, choruse, reverb. Output. Then into my aux on my spark 40, so the tone is not colored. Sounds really good. I’m going to try this at church next practice minus the spark and go straight to the board.
Thanks for this I have used studio direct and plugged it to a combo amp has alot of noise and feedback good thing I read the manual..This vid is helpful👍
I'm testing it out using the 4 cable method see how that sounds. I have a Boss OD-200 in front and using the MG 300 for effects and IRs. Thanks for your videos. Good stuff
How did you find hooking up pedals in front of MG300? A lot of us have existing pedals, even amp in a box, so I like to use use the FX and Ir, but want to ensure there won’t be issues like clipping when running pedals in front. Thx.
Thanks for the feedback. Based on the response I'm getting, I think we can count on seeing more MG-300 videos soon. Be sure to subscribe to get notified.
thanks again for your videos. have found your advice and tips very useful indeed in both this as well as the one about how to record. another option i've found which may help some is if the combo amp has an aux mode (my roland cube 30 did), use that along with the studio direct mode. this way you get to benefit from the cabinet modelling which is turned off in combo front mod. some of the IR's i've loaded make such an amazing improvement on the tone and now the recording from the Nux USB sounds more like what I hear from the speakers while playing, dont have to play with the eq on the amp anymore. cheers!
So its confirmed, plugging the Nux MG 300 into the "Return" bypasses the 3 12AX7 PreAmp tubes on my DSL20HR because you will not get sound if your guitar is plugged into anything other than the NUX MG 300. To me bypassing 3 of the 5 tubes on my amp is kinda silly. In my case thats a bummer because I wanted it as a pedal board in a nice neat portable package. NEVERTHELESS the thing sounds amazing with headphones and will be perfect for quiet practice and give my neighbors a break.
Hi Jordan. Thanks for the feedback. That's pretty much what I said would happen if you were to use the Return on your amp some time back. It bypasses the preamp of the physical amp, which is why the MG-300 can be used in the front of the amp as well. I showed this both ways in the video. Have you tried that?
@@ThePedalGuy Yes thanks for the advice, in front of the amp sounds a bit weird muddy, but I'm not worried. I'm totally impressed with the sound with headphones and its incredible what you get for the $$$. Ill try with a solid state and see what I get.
@@jordanrodriguez3651the good thing with plugging into the fx return is that it will give you consistent tones especially if you use different amps everytime. When i first started playing live, i will use whatever amp is in the venue. I always plug in front of the preamp and it's a hit or miss. Some bands who i played with will bring their own amps. I just want a minimalistic setup and don't want to bring lots of gears on the venue if i can. When i learned about the fx return, i always plug there and it was a game changer and getting good consistent tones with amp/cab sim enabled going through fx return .
G'day Mate I have just found you channel and look forward to checking out all your videos and learning about effects and all that stuff. There is just one small thing I would like to mention take it as a bit of advice from someone who speaks english but is not a fast talking American. Just be aware of saying the word pedal too fast when it is said fast it can sort of sound like another ped word that is not a very popular ped word if you know what I mean . Thanks for the channel and I really look forward to learning so much from you.
@@ThePedalGuy I just heard it and thought if you said that any faster it wouldn't sound quite right thats all great channel mate lot of good info in there
Can I use the amps in the MG-300 running it into my amp to use the modelling aspect? People keep saying you have to turn off the cab sims but then doesnt this just become a 150 dollar multi effects pedal? Thanx,
Hi. Well, yes and no. The MG300 can go to the front of your amp, which sounds best when the cab sim is turned off. But there's no 'rule' that you have to do that. It's entirely up to you. The other way you can use the MG-300 with your amp is via the FX return on the back of your amp, in which case you can use the Cab sim or not. Again it's up to you. I'm hoping that with the new MG-30 I'll be able to send a signal out to my amp via the Send/Return a la HeadRush but I haven't had a chance to check that yet.
Hi there, thanks for all your stuff about the MG 300 - it has been a real help as I navigate this pedal. One question if I may - what do the gain, level and master knobs specifically do when we are not in edit mode. Thanks in advance.
I bought this to practice with headphones. I like it so much that I would like to use it with all its effects on my combo amp is that possible with decent sound?
Yes it can be used as a usb audio interface. Just download the asio driver from the NuX website if you’re on a pc. If you’re on a Mac it’s class compliant.
In our Church where I play every Thursday night, we have a 24 channel mixer. So, if I connect this mg300 to that, will it work with all the effects? Or, do I need a DI box? Your reply is eagerly awaited. And, thanks for such a comprehensive look at one part of this processor.
Hi @@ThePedalGuy which output from the unit would I use to go into the PA? Usually you'd go into the PA using the DI Out (XLR), right? Or would you go from Output (1/4" jack) to the mixer Line input channel?
Quick question, can I use this pedal in the effects loop of my tube head and just use it for modulation/delay effects? If so, what setting would I use and which connections would I use? Do you think it would sound pretty good too? Thanks so much!
Hey pedal guy, i want to buy my first setup, but i don’t have the money to buy guitar, amp, amd pedal. I can only buy either guitar with amp or pedal, not both. But i do have an active speaker at home. Will the Nux 300 help me solve this problem? Can my guitar just with this pedal and an active speaker sound as good as it sounds with a real amp??? Please reply :’)
Super helpful. Thanks. Quick question, I have a Spark amp and a Blackstar IDCore10. Can I play the 300 through either of them using the Combo Front setting? Or would a different kind of solid state amp give me better tones? Thanks again.
@@ThePedalGuy I just put one on my wish list on Thomann. For that price there is no second thoughts and i can have it in my gigbag with IK multimedia nano amp! WOW! Thats a great solution for travel, and im planning a trip of my life and I want a guitar on that trip :D Thanks man! The best pedal in a pocket size so far. Size does matter :D
Could you(if you haven't already that is....) do an in depth tutorial on the Zoom A1 fourX ? I just got one and im finding very little info on youtube and all mostly in foreign language. As usual the manual is kind of unclear thanks pedal guy
Thanks Pedal Guy! Any tricks to fatten up the wah wah? Even when I use a nice fat patch, the wah sounds a bit thin. Wonder if the MG30 will allow the wah tone to be altered separate from the patch.
Putting the MG-300 into the "Return" on a DSL20HR didn't work for me. Do I have to keep the guitar plugged into the MG-300? If so then my guitar would bypass the Pre amp portion and thats kinda lame.
Hi Jordan. As I stated clearly in the video....you can use the front of the amp OR the return of the amp. You just need to set the mode on the MG-300 to ensure the best possible sound.
Connect the output to the return of the amp effects loop and the input of the GM 300m to the send of the amp and your guitar to the front of the amp.. . the mode is only emulation it does not changes the re real amp sound, on each preset remove the amp setting on the MG 300 and use the effects only,, get the sound from you amp , but you may not have all the crunch setting of certain types of amps because your amp may not hadel it, so set your amp as flat is possible and use the emulation.
@@igvelazquez1 Hello what do you mean by not enough crunch? Can i dial in amp Preamo distortion and use the effects in the mg300 when its in the loop. Are these units sucking tone? Dsl user too myself
Thanks for this info, I have just set it up to my combo front input and it sounds much better But my practice amp isn't great so I was also wondering if it's possible to plug the mg300 into my laptop via the usb ..to then output the sound (from the laptop) into some active monitors? As I would just like to use the nux amp modeller (and effects) direct to monitors. Is that possible? And how can I do it?
You’d have better luck connecting the Nux directly to the monitors. They should be good monitors though, not the cheap computer ones. I have a great resulst plugging the nux directly in the audioface, which goes in the computer and than can be recorded. The monitors are connected to the interface and works great. My interface is the Yamaha AG3, which is perfect for my goals. But there are many alternatives, better and worse. GL
HI! cheers, many thanks for your videos, i learn a lot of things. But, i had a question, when i put the rear mode i get back to edit and the gabinet is still on, the sound changes but the gab still on. if i want to conect the nux mg 300 into a fx return, what i should do? just put stack rear mode ? or put stack rear mode and bypass the gabinet manually in edit mode? hope you understand, my english is not good.
Hi @@ThePedalGuy - which output from the unit would I use to go into the PA? Usually you'd go into the PA using the DI Out (XLR), right? Or would you go from Output (1/4" jack) to the mixer Line input channel? Also, I have the NUX Amp academy. Would the following signal chain work well?: 1. guitar into MG-300 input 2. MG-300 output to Amp Academy "Return" 3. DI Out to PA
hi thank you for this. was getting real wierd sounds at first, much better now. i have a roland cube 30, i plugged it in with that combo front mode and in to the clean channel. on the combo amp is there any particular equalier settings i should put? i have bass, mid and treble from 0 to 10, trying to figure out what the eq settings should be there to get the real expected tone out of the pedal
@@ThePedalGuy thank you, sounds pretty good at the moment i think, but not sure if that's how it is intended to sound. i guess i'll find out once i connect it via usb and figure out recording that way, to compare what i hear vs what is recorded
Hello, does it really sound good in front of an amp? delays, modulations and overdrives? I've read that if you don't pass x virtual amps or ir's, no good is accomplished. I have a blues jr III and I don't have any effects loops, so it's my only option. Is it really a professional sound or are you talking in terms of something midrange?
hey, do you have any plans on reviewing zoom pedal like zoom ms50g? i own one it has tons of effects that you can stack like building a pedalboard and also amp simulator in it. thanks for this i video now i understand what that combo front. stack front, combo power amp and stack power amp on this pedal amp sim.
Thanks for the question. I don't have any plans for Zoom at the moment as they have been a little uncooperative about signing us up as a dealer. But I keep hearing good things about the newer products so I might reach out again to see about this. Be sure to subscribe!
@@ThePedalGuy already subscribe. yeah they have improve so much since the launch of multi-stomp series. i love my ms50g bcs it has all the same effects (except looper) as their higer line up but in a single pedal size package.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but if you want to use the looper function in the MG300 will going thru the front of the amp change the loop tone to the lead tone? Or is it just bringing the signal thru to the front of the amp?
Couple of questions. 1. Is the MG plugged into your computer? If so, can you unplug it and see if that is still happening? 2. Have you calibrated the volume pedal yet?
Thanks for the question. Actually, this very video should answer that question. You're going to use the MG300 in a live environment, just select either Combo Front or Combo Rear then route the output of the MG300 to your amp.
@@ThePedalGuy I want full perfect sound from Mg 300 (say presets 1b and 1c) with mg 300 speaker sound going direct into mixing desk for pa which is best mode to go direct into pa, and or to an amp bypassing amp effects please
Hello friend, sorry to bother you, i have a Fender Blues Jr and i do not want the mg300 to replace it, i only want to be able to add a tubescreamer or delay or any other effect to it. Is there any way that you could please tell me how to do that... what if i do not want to use any of the presets... once i switch to the combo front mode what exactly am i listenning ? because it seems that the presets take over and i dont want that, am i making any sense... i am extremly new at this multieffect thing
Do you connect to the front of the amp or the return? just wander fi there is not a sound brake on unwanted noise such finger squishing sounds when I used use high gain samples on a tube amp like my Blackstar HT 40 am? do I have to make other adjustments on the master?, I try the combo front and combo rear? how do I overcome that? do I adjust the levels in the mode controls?
Are you using an amp block in the MG300 preset when connected to the front of the Blackstar? If so, that probably won't work well as you'll be mixing a preamp into a preamp. I would suggest turning off the amp block in the MG300. Hope that helps.
Better than the sub par modeling that the spark does? I bought a spark and kind of disappointed with the tones. It’s a great little device, just looking for a a a better tone.
@@bryanhaggerty3634 I feel the same way about the Spark. I'm considering picking up a Nux MG300 and doing the above. Getting one of the smaller Nux amps is also a possibility (8 BT is the one I have my eye on).
@@sboistan I’ve been doing some research and I’ve found that the best thing to use is an FRFR speaker/PA when using a multi effects pedal. The difference between any guitar amp (such as the 8BT) and an FRFR, is that an FRFR is producing the exact sound that is being put into it. With a multi effects pedal or anything that models a guitar amp, this is the best option because you’re hearing exactly what that modeled amp and cab is intended to sound like. A guitar amp seeks to “amplify” or modify the signal is a way that a guitar amp intends to do to with guitar. (Best way I can explain it? Almost like going through a “filter.”) I went ahead and bought the Nux mg300 along with a Headrush FRFR-108 I found on reverb for $135. It is not wireless but it does have a ground button in case where ever you’re playing has a grounding issue that creates static. (You could also buy a portable AC power bank and strap it to the back. If you really want wireless). There is also a Bluetooth monitor made specifically for modeling equipment called the “IK iLoud.” Good thing have been said about that as well. I hope this helps! And I hope it sounds better than the Spark, Have to sell it in order to afford this shit lol.
Does anyone know is the output / phones stereo or mono? Because when I use aux in, and wearing headphone the music is stereo, but is there any stereo function from st chorus, delay or some reverb? Or all of the effects is mono?
What happend if my amp doesnf have aux in like vox pathfinder 10, vox path finder doesnt have aux in but it have 1 input 1 headphone/line out, can i use combo rear using headphone/lineout in my amp in this case vox pathfinder 10
Greetings Pedal Guy! I'm just wondering, what if i'm going to use a Cab Sim (Mooer radar to be specific)? My question is, Can I set the global Eq to "stack front" instead of "studio direct" Hope that you will notice this. Thanks in advance
Trying them out wont hurt anything, let us know what sounds best. Also, you can transfer and load upto 300 cab impulse responses onto the MG-300 itself via USB. I doubt there would be much difference because all amp modelling softwares/sims use impulse response/convolution reverb to capture and replicate the real thing
I'm using the headrush 108. I'm in studio direct mode. A lot of vids have the global eq barely up on bass,mid and treble. Is this correct as I've been running the nux with all eq to about halfway.Quite boomy. Is that my problem?
Hi Pedal Guy, sorry for my english. I'm a little confused at this point here. So, when you use an combo-front amp (means physically connected to the nux-mg300 main output) and using the combo-front mode. That's mean preamp and/or cabinet simulation will be automatically deactivated?, or I has to do it manually on the effect block chain? because I've tried, and of course the sound is different depending of what configuration I use, but I don't know what will be the proper one. Greetings.
I'm sorry to bother you. I bought the Nux mg300, can I ask you something? I have a Vox AC 30, I tried disabling the NUX amplifier to use only the effects and plugging it into the input of the amplifier and it does not sound very good. Then plug it in for the return, activate the amplifier of the NUX and deactivate the screen and it sounded much better, what do you say, does it go that way? The question is whether or not I have to leave the amplifier of the NUX activated, thanks! Ahh when I did this I put it in the mode so that it comes out from behind the amp, thanks !!!
I have a fender mustang 2 modeler amp that has no fx loop but offers a bypass mode where only master volume works. Am I better of in monitor mode of nux mg 300 plus bypass mode or should I transfer to combo front instead? The thing is the nux mg 300 is a nice all around tool where you can make your full preset including amp and cab and plug it in any tool like frfr speaker or headphone or laptop that's why I wanted to make ky amp as flat as possible.
Studio direct is the best setting for active monitors I have discovered. Output to one active speaker then link any number of speakers in series. Far better amp and speaker configuration and sound than my Boss ME-70. The Boss however is considerably faster and easier going from one preset to the next which lends itself better to live performance. For studio application and just plain sit down enjoyment, the NU-X wins.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:31 🎛️ *The NuX MG 300's Mode switch allows versatile use with either a combo or stack amp, through the front end or effects return, enhancing its flexibility.* 01:40 🎚️ *Studio Direct mode enables using MG 300 as an audio interface or straight to a mixer, with amp, cab, and effects active.* 03:23 🎸 *Switching to Combo Front mode turns off the cab, providing a cleaner and focused signal when plugged into the front of a combo amp.* 05:04 🔄 *Combo Rear mode, when connected through the effects return, reactivates the cab and allows further adjustments for a tailored sound.* 06:01 🎛️ *The Mode switch proves to be a powerful feature, facilitating the integration of external gear with the NuX MG 300, offering versatility beyond its built-in amps and cabinets.* Made with HARPA AI
