GDEC Owners' Club

Once again, surprised no one had done this one already.....

Here's mine (to the left of its big brother.....):

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+1 GDEC 15 Standard

My main amp is a 100 watt VOX Valvetronix that I like very much ...especially the Tweed and Dumble distortion. It is big and heavy. I sometimes want/need a smaller amp but circumstances don't allow for another amp. BUT, I rediscovered my G-Dec. I've programmed many of my own sounds into it and although I still want another amp (small,Tube)I'm happy with the G-Dec. I play both a Baja telecasterand a Sheraton II through the amps and am happy with the sounds that I get.

I have a GDEC 30 and feel that it is one of the most underrated amplifiers out there. Get past the crappy presets and you have an amazingly versatile, toneful bedroom amplifier. I installed a $30 Weber Signature Ceramic 10S in mine and it sounds absolutely dead on for all Tweed and Blackface models.

Considering that the GDECs have the same cyber engine as the XD amps, I think the GDEC 30 is a way better choice for a home amp than the Super Champ XD -- way more tweakable, plus the backing tracks, looper, etc.

I just bought my son a G-DEC 30 for his birthday. Great little amp.

Take the Tweed1 preset that is matched with the 12 bar blues backing track, change the reverb to 63 Spring between 3-4 and add a modest amount of mono delay:

Instant 1950's rockabilly tone.

Add compression on the Low setting to substantially increase the punch of any setting you come up with.

Get past the crappy presets

+1

I'm surprised this amp series seems to get so little attention. Not only is it (I have one of the original 15 models; got it from Fender a week or so before the official release) and my oft-repeated statement to music store employees and other players is:

"This is the single best guitar practice tool released by any company, ever".

Some players buy it so they can get a sort of budget Cyber-XXXX, Line 6, Vox Valvetronix or whatever with a small footprint, either for practice or recording. And it works fine for that - except most of those users never venture beyond the 4 or 5 settings/styles they're comfortable with.

I try to get every student to buy one, or its big brother, the 30. And NOT for single-style noodling.

The primary use I've found that is the most beneficial to ALL players, regardless of style, is using the GDec primarily for playing along with patches that are TOTALLY outside your own comfort zone. Country guys should tweak the stock tone settings to what they normally use (and also try using the stock tones...or just "dumb them down" slightly so they effects are not overkill) and play along with the metal stuff...or punk...or blues...NOT the Trainbilly patch, with is a no-brainer...and gets the player stuck in a HUGE rut.

Metal players should use the surf patches - or country - or the "Take 5" jazzy patch. Keef riffers - dig into the Surf Dawg patch, or some metal, or one of Greg Koch's add-on patches.

The entire idea behind this is *intentionally* being a fish-out-of-water and playing in unfamiliar territory. Some of my students have amazed me by coming back and showing me all kinds of tricked-out hybrids using this method.

It seriously opens you up to a myriad of styles you'd otherwise NEVER play,making you a far more versatile guitarist. And then on a gig, if someone requests something out of left field, you have a decent chance of pulling it off if you at least know the hooks and changes.

The coolest part is you never have to become another guitar player, losing your personal style in the process (assuming you have one and are not simply a player copying his hero's licks and nothing else). Even with the tonal changes and totally foreign style, for example, if I use the GDec with one of my B-Benders I still sound exactly like me; and the biggest, most rewarding challenge is sounding like yourself when playing a foreign style - yet NOT sounding out of place!

I use it with 6-string, lap steel, and pedal steel (which is really insane, but fun).

Seriously - if your playing is in a rut quit buying or downloading tab of more of the same thing you always play, get one of these little monsters, and jump off the ship in the middle of the ocean with no life preserver.

I've been playing 40+ years, am an admitted tube amp snob - but my desert album amp, if I thought long enough about it, would be the GDec. There's enough varied stuff in their (plus the ability to completely change the amp settings - clean, dirty, effects overload, dry as a bone etc) to keep me occupied for years.

Would I gig with it? Heck, no. But it's the only amp that's ALWAYS set up in my studio at home. It's he "go-to" tool when I'm getting bored with my own playing.

I'm actually going to sell my GDec 15 - just so I can get the 30, which has more programmability - but not to program my regular stuff; I'll program complete songs totally outside my "normal" style intentionally.

In a nutshell - buy one.

A few years ago when they first hit the market, I arranged for Long & McQuade to move a few of them through my instructional business. Every student who bought one showed improvement in tuning, timing, rhythm, and greater interest in tone, recording, and best of all, practice.

Highly recommended.

Peace, Mike.

Great posts, guys! It's wonderful to find more folks spreading the word on these often overlooked amps.

Silverface, when you get the 30, try dropping in a $30 Weber Signature Ceramic 10S and you will be in heaven.

guess I´ll join this here club :-)
i actually got me the standard 15 watt version when it first came out a bunch of years ago.
still play it to this day.
a great amp that has some serious monster tone.
plus I love the possibility of combining a lot of effects: like playin one of the blackface models while adding a bit of compression and still having the opportunity to have reverb on as well as having some serious slapback echo goin´.....

I just got mine used for a song (Fender GDEC 15 off EBay for $89 plus shipping). Me and the wife both played on it for over two hours each. I bought the thing to practice with. The different presets force you to work on several areas at the same time.

G-Dec 3 30 through a 400 watt powered PA speaker with a 12 inch and tweeter. It will cut you off at the knees! I'm loving this amp!! The foot switch is great too, if only for the way it acts like a tuner!!!

The G-DEC is helping me as a beginner. It is simple to use and comes with the Fender Fuse software that is easy to use as well as some other bundled software (Ableton Live Lite and AmpliTube Fender LE) for real musicians that will take me a long while in order to benefit from. The presets in the amp, computer USB interface (for the Fuse software) and the SD card interface are all great features. Great value IMHO.

I'm about to get another powered PA speaker to take advantage of the stereo out.

Gdec Junior here. luv it, espcially the Jazz setting (sounds like a polytone). Upgraded the speaker to Jensen Vintage 8" ceramic. Sounds much better and can get really loud, in the blackface and tweed settings (I don't go near the crunchier stuff). Played in a pretty loud blues jam at a small club with amplified harp, drums, bass and other guitar. Held up really well. They thought it was a Pro Junior! Also they're nice and quiet (no buzzing). I can't stand ambient noise, especially for home use. The vintage styling is cool, similar to a vinyl covered tweed Champ. Got rid of the Gdec badge to add to the vintage look. Nice weight and size too...I have back problems and can't believe some of the beasts I used to lug around (not fun to carry a 60 lb amp to your car at 2 am after a gig).
Swang on,

Picked the G Dec 3 15 up yesterday. Was waiting and waiting for the Mustang 1 to be in stock, but they are just not to be found around here. So I waiting for the Mustang 11, but the more I thought about it and all, decided to spring for the G Dec. All the reviews giving it raves as an amp that has proven itself to lend to a beginners learning curve sold me.

Hard decision though, so many amps of all kinds in that price range.

After doing a gig with the GDEC 3 I went all tube, boutique pedal board, etc. For our next show in SC I'm going to use the GDEC 3 and foot controller as the brain. We have 11 songs and I will have 11 presets, one for each song. I'm using he stereo out of the GDEC 3 to go into my 1970's Musicman 212HD 130 watt amp. It actually sounds really good and really LOUD! No pedal dancing for me. I do have the guitar going into a volume pedal, Barber Small Fry and Jetter Red2. I use the Small Fry to kick up the volume and distortion for my bird chirps on Free Bird. I use the first gain on the Jetter as a clean boost and the second as a bigger boost with distortion. So far so good!

I had the original G-DEC 30, sold it and got the Line 6 JM-4, sold it and got the G-Dec 3 Thirty.

I love that amp! The band sounds so nice and since I live out in the middle of no where I can't just get together with friends and jam, the G-Dec comes in handy. I know there was some initial issues with the FUSE software, but all were resolved by the time I got my G-Dec 3. It is very cool the way it works.

I bought the regular G-Dec 3 Thirty, but uploaded the Blues presets on it. Freakin' awesome! I didn't really want the gobs of metal presets anyway. I haven't had time, but I'd like to try to create or tweak presets to match the tube amps I own and see how close I can get. I know there is one YouTube video of a tube amp vs the G-Dec 3 Thirty and it was pretty convincing.

That is my video. I have seen guys on the forums say they might sound close on a computer speaker but no way they were close in real life. I'm here to tell you they were so damn close I didn't buy the 69 Twin.

Anyone use the ULT 4 footswitch with the G Dec 3? Is it worth getting ?

For live work it's a must have. The tuner function alone us worth the cash.

For live work it's a must have. The tuner function alone us worth the cash.


Saterday I 've bought my self a g-dec fiftheen ;-)

Greetz
Clavan

I just picked up a near mint GDEC Junior off Ebay for $89.I bought it mostly to use the backing tracks for my bedroom jams.


Ed

Well fellas, I am in the club. My gorgeous wife ordered me the Blues edition today. Once it arrives I will post pics. I am so psyched to play this little amp! It is going to be a great tool to record and practice with!
ADK

Here is the pic of mine! I love this amp!
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G-center has clearance g-dec 30 for $199.00

Hi
I cannot find the Fender G-Dec Fifteen club

Is there a G-Dec 15 threath... ?

Regards
Clavan

I have had the GDEC 3 30 for about a year now and use it primarily for practicing and recording with backing tracks. I've tried all the "models" and settled on the Blues version as a starting point. I've gradually replaced most of the standard presets with my own tweaks aimed at the backing tracks I use. Only problems I've encountered has been volume (when just practicing - Too low, wish it supported a CAB like the Mustang) and I run out of preset storage if I use too many wav loops. It's a bit of a pain having to use FUSE or the switches to load and play the backing tracks. Overall I think this is a great little amp and I use it a lot.

I'm interested if anyone else has swapped speakers and what results they've had? Also anyone know about the internal hard drive. I'm thinking it must be a SD or cell phone type chip if it is limited to 256MB.

Anyway it gets my recommendation as a great little amp. I think the FUSE software really adds to it as well.

GDEC 3 30 Country Version
Lovin' It!
Learning new things all of the time!

Bump to the top... Just got my 3 - Thirty and tried it out last night. I'm stoked. Ordered the footswitch off Amazon this morning. Awesome that it has a 35 sec looper. They are blowing them out for $150. Add the F/S for $50 and you're set.

Are the basic tones in the GDECs the same as in the Mustang units?

No Idea.

I just heard the G-Dec series has been cancelled. Any one else able to verify that ? My 3-15 is a keeper.

Based on the blow out pricing I would suspect that it is so.

If it is the bean counters must be in a tizz, Fender seemed to have sunk a lot of coin in the latest incarnation, with in store demos( is my t-shirt a collectors item?)
and that whole series of books from Hal Lenoard with the SD cards...
Too bad as the new ones sounded pretty good.

I am not too excited by having a G-dec anymore. I can't seem to ever get a normal sounding amp, like I could with a stock analogue one with normal knobs for tone settings. Fiddling with menus is not very user friendly for me. :?:
The presets and backing tracks are either too short a loop, and/or are not anything I can relate to. I've even changed then out from stock to the Country download, but find very few that would fit anything I might want to play. Also they are often in a key that I don't want either.
The programs that come with it like Ableton, are too complicated for my old brain and never used. Audacity is my speed.
Lastly, the dramatic price drop is a warning to me. I once had a VG Strat and it's prices plummeted, sounding its death knell before if fizzled out and left me with an unsellable item.
Even if I accept that this G-dec isn't for me, I'll never recoup my loss if I sell, and that is sad. :sad:

Just played mine last night, jamming over a track. Love the ability to have backing tracks and looping. I haven't even gotten into dialing in tones. Just a few tweaks to what's there and it sounds fine. Amazing amount of functionality for the money.

It's not even like you have to like the supplied loops. Just put whatever you want on an SD card.

I have been going back and forth on buying a G-Dec 15 since I first saw them online for $99. Last weekend I went into GC to play a Modern Player Thinline Tele and saw they had some there. Had the box in my hand but decided not to.

Then today I woke up and decided I was going to buy one. Drove up there, got the last one they had still in the box, and here I am...

The DVD that came with it must be damaged or something, I can watch videos but any time I try to load anything onto my iMac I just get error messages. I already had FUSE loaded on my computer from a Mustang I that I bought a while back (and then sold). I fired that up, updated everything, and downloaded all the manuals from Fender so I should be good to go.

I haven't spent too much time playing with it but so far it's what I expected. I like the backing track feature, trying to decide if I want to load the blues version files or just leave it as is.

I'm not blown away by the tone but that's not why I bought it. I figured for the money it would be nice to have something that interfaces with my computer. Time will tell if I use it or not, but I think it will make a nice practice amp.

Anyone have a problem with your GDEC like this:

Turned the amp on, the Fender logo appears, then goes to the first preset/track as always.

But this time the amp fails to work at all:

-no tracks play, although they are present in the amp
-no amplification of guitar
-tuner does not work.

Suggestions (apart from sellng it), comments, fixes?

thanks
G

Anyone have a problem with your GDEC like this:

Turned the amp on, the Fender logo appears, then goes to the first preset/track as always.

But this time the amp fails to work at all:

-no tracks play, although they are present in the amp
-no amplification of guitar
-tuner does not work.

Suggestions (apart from sellng it), comments, fixes?

thanks
G

I'd do a reset. If that doesn't solve the problem, head over to the Fender Gdec forum and see if you can get help there. Good luck

I picked one up for $125 from the recent Hello Music sale. It sounds like the prices below $150 are making these hard to find.

I'm enjoying playing it and think the tones and backing tracks are pretty good. I don't care for most of the metal tracks or tones, so I'm wanting to convert to all blues and country. Screwing around with FUSE and the SD card, however, is nowhere near as much fun as playing.

I have a number of playalong CD's...Clapton, Allman Bros, Hendrix, Steely Dan, that I'd like to copy to the SD. I can attach my laptop from the headphone out to the Aux In and it works fine, but I'd like to get the tracks on the SD so I don't need the computer unless I want it.

I have not had a chance to crank it up, so I don't know how loud it gets. It's plenty loud enough for home. I'm sure the 30 watt GDEC will NOT keep up with my 30 watt Genz Benz Black Pearl.

I just bought one of these (through Amazon). $179.

The band in a box feature is really cool, but after playing with it for an hour or so, I must say that the sound quality is TERRIBLE. I don't know if I got a dud or what? It sounds boxy and distorts too easily.

I also get an unnecessary amount of feedback. I'll try to mess around with it more, later tonight.

- CRJ

That's not right.

Just spent another hour with it. Gotta admit-- it's pretty darn fun. I think some of the channels are a lot fuzzier than others.

bringing this back up, I have a 15 model and as a beginning player I can tell you this thing is awesome.
Having so many different sounds saves me from spending more.
I also like the fact that it is also an input for garageband. I record my playing in garageband so I can go back and see my progress.
With the fuse sofware I can play the backing tracks thru my computer and change up with a click of the mouse.
I dont own any pedals so being able to add them in is teaching me what each one can do.

this amp can be so much fun that I practice twice as much as I would without it.

Hi, Guys:

My instructor has an older model. On his, the round 3-button has one that says, "Drums" -- and he's able to play tracks that are just drums, or (if I remember correctly) drums and bass. (Separate from the song backing tracks).

Anybody know how to access this feature on the newer G-Decs? Mine doesn't have a "drum" button.

Hi, Guys:

My instructor has an older model. On his, the round 3-button has one that says, "Drums" -- and he's able to play tracks that are just drums, or (if I remember correctly) drums and bass. (Separate from the song backing tracks).

Anybody know how to access this feature on the newer G-Decs? Mine doesn't have a "drum" button.

If you don't get your answer here, there's a Gdec forum on Fender's site you can go to.

Forgive me for the story. But I hope it helps someone in the end.

I just started playing Guitar in December of 2011. The first Amp I bought was when I bought my electric Guitar. It was a Mustang I because it was inexpensive.

I played it through it for about a month, learning chords etc. But didn't understand all the sounds, and knobs. I hooked it up to fuse, and downloaded song sounds, but I honestly was extremely new to the guitar world, and didn't understand that it was a modeling amp, and modeled other amps. I only looked at the patches as different settings of the mustang amp, not that it was modeling different amps with different effects pedals, etc. I was lost with it. It didn't help that after I hooked it up to Fuse, I tried to replace the sounds I hated (the metal sounds) with sounds I preferred, but then when I would dial in metal 2000 it wouldn't be metal anymore.

This drove me nuts as well, and I sold the amp on craigslist. Losing $30 in the end, but I got to use it for like two months so I figure it was worth it.

I bought a Mustang III (For $275) my rationale here is that it has the LCD screen can name all the different settings, so I can load it up with sounds I like and just name it by the song titles, etc.

But usually, I just wanted to dial in a nice clean sound and practice. Mostly in the bedroom before I went to sleep at night. This is where I start to hate the Mustang III for two reasons. One, I never dialed it over about 1.5 on the master volume, and Two, the decay fizz. It's so noticeable with cleans, It drove me crazy. Here is also where I finally start to understand what amp modeling is, that this is 'recreating' other amps, and also where my knowledge of audio starts especially guitar audio starts to get better I finally understand that the mustang is just mimicking other famous amps, but it's not really a guitar amp of its own. I learn guitar amps are part of the sound equation rather than just amplifying the signal from the guitar which is what I was thinking originally. I also, playing deeper with Fender Fuse, start to learn about pedals and stuff.

I enjoy learning all this, but there are so many dials, it's sometimes nearly impossible for me to just dial up a sound and just play and practice.

I decide to sell my Mustang III. (It's only about 2 months old) I put it on Craigslist for $200 but get no bites, in the end, I take it to Guitar Center in Memphis and trade it in (For only a $125 credit so I took a big hit on this one) on an Egnater Tweaker.

With the Egnater Tweaker I've finally been happy with my learning guitar. I just turn it on, dial up a couple of dials, and find a good sound, and practice. I no longer am hooking up to the computer (And I'm an IT guy, so it's not like those were confusing things) to figure out how to dial up a sound I like. And since May of 2012, I really start learning how to play the guitar, rather than playing with settings and computers, and fx boxes, etc.

So when you're learning guitar, I think a nice simple amp that lets you get playing is essential, otherwise you're losing your practice time trying to figure out all kinds of models and stuff rather than learning how to play.

Fast forward to February of 2013. I still have the tweaker, and still love the sounds and simplicity of using it. But I've read a lot of books about guitar and pedals, etc. (I'm a big reader, and I'm a nerd, so when I get into something I always read a book about it) I buy a couple of pedals to play with my tweaker, nothing huge. A couple of things that showed up on craigslist that were priced right.

But here's where my story becomes relevant to this forum. Rhythm, I'm having a lot of problems with. I know most of my chord shapes, both open, and barred. I can switch them well. I know the letters on the bottom two strings, (mainly for knowing which chord I'm playing, but not really the 2,3, and 4 strings (though I can work them out if I have to). I just can't play music in time with anything. I don't play with anyone else. Just at home in my bedroom alone. I can practice licks, but sometimes they don't even sound right because I don't play in time, and they sound cold.

I can't really play with my iPhone or anything because the tweaker is much louder than it is, plus I usually don't try to go fiddling through and picking up a song to practice against anyway.

So last week I see a GDec 3 30 on craigslist in my city. Listed at $100. I read up about it. It's another computer amp, and I'm gunshy on those because with the mustangs I tended to always be fiddling with the computer rather than playing. But it has the ipod input and stuff that the mustangs had, plus all this backing track stuff, etc.

So I talk him down to $80 and buy it. I figure for $80 even if I hate it, so what. Plus I can have one amp in the living room and keep this one in my bedroom.

I've been playing it for a couple of days or so. I LOVE IT. Sure It's a new amp. And it doesn't sound or feel as nice as my tweaker. But the way I'm using it, I just dial up a preset and hit start on the band, and I can play, and I kind of have to keep time, and usually the amp dialed in with the band sounds okay.

I haven't even hooked it to a computer, or tried to find a different amp sound with a different band at all. (The things that I didn't like when I tried the two mustangs). I don't use the LCD to try to change amp settings at all. The only thing I'm using it for is dialing in a preset and then soloing, or playing second rhythm parts over a band backing track. Which is precisely what I need practice with right now.

Now that I understand modeling, I might try to hook it up to the computer someday and dial in my own sounds with my own backing tracks. But at least now I understand what that is.

So in conclusion and in my opinion, the mustangs are not a good beginner amp. They are way too confusing for a beginner, maybe if they use it the way I'm currently using a gdec it's alright, but the mustang has a lot of knobs, (that I think encourage more tweaking) The Gdec has three knobs. Band Volume and Guitar Volume and Tone. At That's it. If you want to mess with tonestacks or fx settings you gotta go deep into the LCD, which tends to mean it doesn't get changed and you can just play with the sounds you've got. Those are there if you need them I guess, but a beginner is not easy to start punching buttons on the LCD to change a sound as they are with spinning the mod dial or tonestack dials and ending up with sounds that are horrible.


I know the mustangs sell well, but this is a much better beginner amp line than the mustangs. IMHO of course.

In 2008, I bought a new 15-watt G-DEC. After getting familiar with it, in just a few months I purchased a new 30-watt G-DEC30, since I was so impressed with my first version. Then, in the fall of 2011, I bought the latest, the G-DEC3 Thirty, blues version. While I have other all-tube and hybrid amps, the G-DECs are in a class by themselves because of their backing tracks and great variety of tonal options. I use the G-DEC3 Thirty on its own, but I have the G-DEC and G-DEC30 wired together with a MIDI cable so the backing tracks come through both amps. Also, I use an AB/Y pedal so I can switch the G-DEC30's sound either through a single 12" speaker or a 2-12 cabinet, since it has the extension speaker option. I have downloaded backing tracks from the Internet to the G-DEC30 for further variety, although the amps come with a large number of tracks. I tend to play the bluesy and rockabilly tracks mainly, as that's what I like, and these amps allow a player to alter the tracks so that things are kept interesting. These amps have kept me interested in playing and playing more, and that isn't a bad thing.

Forgive me for the story. But I hope it helps someone in the end.

I just started playing Guitar in December of 2011....

I know the mustangs sell well, but this is a much better beginner amp line than the mustangs. IMHO of course.

I was in same boat.
I started to play (learn) in December of 2011....
I bought a very used (abused) Squier Tele with a cheap 10w amp for $80....by Spring, I was buying used Gdec15 with bad dials for super cheap.....i'd fix it and resell for a $20-30 profit.
Then I bought the Mustang3.
I loved it and loved the tones and features and the 100w....but it was too much and I still couldnt play a song worth a dang......sold it (small profit) and kept up the gaget hunting and flipping for a few more months....fortunately, I learned a lot of theory when I wasnt able to actually play.

Then I got more serious.....i learned the blues scale and then I bought a scxd and a me-50...... a great rig....i started jamming with some friends and my playing improved ...but I missed the old gdec backing tracks....i craved a 3-30.

When I picked it up last fall for $150 with all software and footpedal I was thrilled.....my playing improved......dramatically.... I loaded it with the blues patch and now I made videos to monitor my progress (i love the line out)

I still can't play all that well, but I know a lot more than I did and some day my hands will catch up to my brain and it will be awesome.

I have a G-dec3 15 and it has been good for me. I also have a new but version 1 mustang lll. The mustang just plain sounds better than the g-dec, but the g-dec is a lot of fun to jam along to. You can do the same thing with just about any solid state amp by plugging some kind of mp3 player or jump drive into the amp.

Just gave my son the G-dec after rebuilding his old Yamaha Pacifica. The only amp he had was a Fender Bullit he bought in the early 90's.

Hoping the g-dec3 gets him playing some more.

Hey, thats awesome.
I find that the jam tracks really helped me with my timing and chord changes.... I saw immediate improvement.

I agree about the mustang's tones, they do seem fuller, or mature, maybe it was that 12" celestion maybe it is just better technology.

Good luck to your son I am hopeful my kids catch the music bug too!!!

My G-dec jr. (Ebay purchase) arrived today. I've just finished my first solo jam. Wow! This little amp is great! I should have bought one years ago. I almost bought a G-dec 30 two years ago but chose a Super Champ XD instead. I love my SCXD, and I'm sure I'll love the G-dec too. I know it's going to help me get better - fast! Plus, I'll have a lot of fun while I'm learning. I chose the Jr. because it meets my needs. If I had one of the others, I'd probably take up too much time trying to tweak the presets and not enough time playing. Still can't figure out why they stopped making these, but now I've got mine...

I bought a G-DEC 15 from a friend because I was tired of having other players stop and lose patience when I screw up. (When I should have practiced, and practiced, etc.)

I know this failed Fender amp series is terribly limited, but as a 'practice accompanist' it works for me.

As a rhythm player I know I need to hit the chords correctly and cleanly, and on time. Well, this amp lets me play difficult chord changes (for me) over and over and over and over... And nobody says JS if I miss.

I know. I have drum machines and pedals, and other modeling amps, but the G-DEC just puts it all together for forced discipline.

It's a rudimentary robot repeat drone, but it's working for me.

I notice there is not another G-DEC owners thread here, and that's probably because of distain for the series, but is there anyone else out there that is enjoying this tool?

[QUOTE=kingfish;5001504

the G-DEC just puts it all together for forced discipline.

It's a rudimentary robot repeat drone, but it's working for me.

I notice there is not another G-DEC owners thread here, and that's probably because of distain for the series, but is there anyone else out there that is enjoying this tool?[/QUOTE]


That's pretty much how I feel. My G-DEC is helping me to become a better player. It never was intended to be a gigging amp, but rather a learning and practice tool. Besides, I'm having a lot of fun with mine. :smile: