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Fender G-DEC 30 Guitar Digital Entertainment Center Guitar Combo Amplifier (30 Watts, 1x10 in.)

Easy recall of guitar tones. Special effects. 70 patterns. Internal synthesizer with MIDI interface.

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An upgraded version of Fender's top-selling, award-winning Guitar Digital Entertainment Center (G-DEC), the revolutionary amplification system that makes your own practice sessions sound like a full band!

The upgraded features make the G-DEC 30 a fine rehearsal or recording tool for the more discriminating guitarist; these include all-new backing tracks and presets in addition to the ones included with the original G-DEC, a "Composition Mode" that lets individual measures be combined into entire songs, a phrase sampler with overdub capability, and rear-panel speaker and line outputs. Optional four-button footswitch controls program selection and stop/start functions. Fun and sophisticated!

Features:
Easy recall of guitar tones from Heavy Metal to Jazz to Punk to Country

Special effects like Reverb and Echo plus fun, creative sound effects!

70 patterns including drum beats, bass lines, and other instruments providing musical backing

Individual measures can be extracted from onboard patterns for use in Composition Mode

Internal synthesizer with MIDI interface allows playing with MIDI song files via computer. -Every general MIDI instrument from Piano to Percussion is inside.

MIDI song files can be loaded from computer and stored onboard.

Easy-to-use automatic guitar tuner

CD or MP3 devices can be hooked up with the G-DEC for "play along" capability

Internal 28 second Phrase Sampler can sample the incoming guitar signal to create loops, or song snippets from CD/MP3 may be captured for careful study.

Phrase Sampler can do "sound on sound" overdubs

Future software upgrades can be loaded via MIDI

Optional footswitch allows start-stop of backing tracks and phrase samples, program selection, or tuner select

Left and Right line outputs have speaker-emulated response for stage or recording use; may be selected for All or Synth & Aux Only

External Speaker Output is selectable for All or Guitar & Phrase Only

Technical Info

Model Name: G-DEC 30

Model Number: 235-0500-000 120V

Series: G-DEC

Type: Solid State

Output: 30 watts into 8 ohms

Ohms: 8 ohms

Speakers: 1 x 10 in. Fender Special Design Speaker

Channels: One Channel, with Extra "Teacher Input" on Rear Panel

Controls:
Analog Controls: Volume, Guitar Tone, Backing Volume

Digital Controls: Data Wheel, Drum Menu Button, Start/Stop Button, Tuner Button, Phrase Play Button, Phrase Record Button, Phrase Overdub Button, Aux Menu Button, Utility Menu Button, FX Menu Button, Amp Menu Button, Save Button, Exit Button

Covering: Black Textured Vinyl with Silver Grille Cloth

Weight: 21 lbs. (9.5 kg)

Dimensions:
Height: 15.75 in. (40 cm)
Width: 17 in. (43.2 cm)
Depth: 8.25 in. (21 cm)

Footswitch: Uses Optional 4-Button Footswitch for Mode Select, Start/Stop of Backing Tracks and Phrase Samples, Program Select, Tuner Slect (Not Included)

Introduced: 7/2006

Notice: Product Prices, Features And Specifications Are Subject To Change Without Notice
Amped-up version of the original G-DEC with 30 watts, 10" speaker, and 70 new backing tracks and presets! Phrase sampler with overdubbing. New Composition Mode lets you build songs from measure-long patterns. Line out. Fun!
06/30 New lower price, New, saves you $60.00, now $299.99.

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Fender G-DEC 30 Guitar Digital Entertainment Center Guitar Combo Amplifier (30 Watts, 1x10 in.) Reviews

37 People rated this product :
           8 out of 10
           9 out of 10
"The Swiss Army Knife Guitar Amp"
Feature:
This is the Swiss Army Knife of guitar amps. Along with the features listed above there are also 50 factory preset backing track each with drumtrack, bassline and even some accompaniment. There are also 50 user programmable memory slots for your own compositions. This amp has a MIDI I/O for true robust composition using a sequencer and a computer.

Quality:
What can I say, it's a Fender. When I think Fender I think "Icon", "Legend" and "Quintessential". The quaility, the fit and finish of this this amp lives up to all I think Fender to be. It has the classic look of a Fender product and deversity of its features makes it a pleasure to play through.

Value:
Factor in the cost of an amp, drum machine, rythm machine, the different amp models and digital effect purchsed sepparately versus the $370.00 street price of this item. If you do the math you'll recognize the value

Desirability:
Oh it's sexy alright. What all it does is pretty amazing!

Sound:
With it's 17 amplifier models and 29 digital effects you can sculpt your sound to be warm like a vintage Tweed or have the high end crunch of British electronics. You have all of the popular effects like distortion, delay, chorus, phase shift, flanger, etc, each with customizable variables.

Ease of Use:
I would have given it a 10 except that the instructions are sparse and the user interface is not very intuitive. There is a bit of a learning curve you'll have to overcome. Once you do get it though it's pretty easy.

Support:
I haven't had need for any repairs or upgrades but Fender has a lot of material online to help you along. Almost anything you need in terms of product support is available through their web site. This product also comes with a five year limited warrantee.

Overall:
This is a great practice amp. You could drive a small hall with it but it is just a 30 watt amp. I use it for practice, rehersals, compsition and jusyt plain shredding with all of it's effects

Submitted: 02/17/2008
Style of Music: Blue, Rock, Classic Rock, Jazz Fusion
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           7 out of 10
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"Needs better documentation"
Feature:
All in one unit, as far as hardware. I plan to get the pedal as soon as I get past a few downloading issues.

Quality:
I was quite satisfied with the GDEC15, and more so with the 30.

Value:
I think it's a pretty good value.

Desirability:
Good practical addition.

Sound:
It's ok so far, although I'm still getting used to it. A lot better than the GDEC15, which I owned previously

Ease of Use:
I get great sounds, and the interface (human to amp), is easy enough once you get used to it. The manual leaves a whole lot to be desired, though. In fact, there are a lot of things you just have to figure out. It would be nice if Fender included some hints and recommendations. I fought for a week trying to get a Yamaha USB/MIDI cable to work, only to discover on the web that it's not recommended.

Support:
I have not dealt with the company, but read other reviews that gave them high marks.

Overall:
I plan to keep it for quite some time, unless something remarkably better comes along.

Submitted: 05/14/2007
Style of Music: country, bluegrass, blues
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