Fender Mustang Micro vs NUX Mighty Plug which is the best for bass?

#3
I have the NUX, and this is how I see it.

PROS:
- good battery life (I haven't discharged it fully, but I consistently get 4-5 hours of playtime)
- lot of sound choices - several bass amp and cabinet models guarantee that you'll find something to your liking.
- inbuilt effects - you can choose between modulations, reverb, delay and distortions
(You need a phone app to access these)
- 7 programmable presets accessible with a push of a button
- you can play the music from your phone - the Mighty Plug shows as bluetooth speaker/headphones.
- output is more than strong enough to drive lower impedance phones.
- It sounds good with simple in-ear headphones, you don't necessarily need to use over-ear headphones.

CONS
- there is no master volume pot. I know it sounds like a big deal, but it's not actually that bad. There is a 3rd party android app called Mightier Amp that has a master volume slider so that sort of compensates for missing physical pot
- My first unit broke - guitar plug started losing contact so I had to be careful of the position and angle. No problem, I got a replacement which works now.
- it supposedly works as a USB interface, but I couldn't make it work with Windows 10. (I admit I didn't spend a lot of time trying it)

Would I buy it again? Yes, definitely. It is invaluable tool for practicing and learning new material.
 
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I tried both for a few months and I ended keeping the Fender device. It might not be as versatile as the NUX but it sounds better to my ears. It is also less complicated, no need for an app and so on.
For me, a major selling point of the Fender and kind of a deal breaker with the NUX was the latency of the bluetooth audio interface. This is the one you use when you stream audio from your smartphone, ipad or any other bt device to the device (for example, to play along a backing track or a video). It seems that Fender is paying for better audio codecs than NUX. The NUX has major latency issues. You notice it for example when playing along a youtube video. The audio is way out of sync. Same problem when using a visual metronome. The visual cues were always out of sync with the audio clicks of the metronome app I use.
All in all, while both are quite good for practice, the Fender sounds better, it is simpler and doesn't have latency problems for streaming audio, all of which more than justify the few extra bucks it costs.
 
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Resurrecting this old thread to say that I've been using the Fender Mustang Micro for a few months now and my only regret is that if you have a passive bass (without any preamp), the volume won't be that great. With my Fender Jazz Vintera 70 (passive) I've to keep the volume to the max (consuming more battery!) and the overall volume is barely acceptable. With my Yamaha TRBX (active), I can keep the volume to 60% and still have plenty of space to increase it (but you won't put it to 100% because it would be too loud).
 
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