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Rating And Reviews: Fender G-DEC 3 Thirty Amp

Onboard mp3 and wav file storage and playback; stereo line outputs; a multi-function SD card slot for unlimited storage of presets. 100 preset FX.

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"AWESOME" submitted June 25, 2012

By John T in Omaha, NE
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Musical Background: Been playing for about 15 years, mostly Jazz & Blues
Music Style: Jazz, Blues, Classical.. etc
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Overall: Great little amp. Much better sound and ability that the Line 6 Spider Jam. The modeling of classic Fender amp's is superb. The effects are spot on. But it gets real groovy when you start downloading. I purchased the normal G Dec 30 but I wanted the Blues Special Edition... it's downloadable!!! Then I did some drum and bass tracks on garageband... they import to the G Dec without issue. Very cool indeed.
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"Once you purchase this amp, you will come to the conclusion it is the only amp you will ever possibly need." submitted February 16, 2011

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Musical Background: Hobbyist
Music Style: Rock
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Sound: As a beginner guitarist for the last 20+ years I believe the G-DEC with all of it's backing tracks and other features, my playing should improve considerably. I can safely say after only using it for about a month my playing has become easier listening for the other members of my household. Feature: It came with all I need to become a guitar God! Ease of Use: It is going to take a while to master all the options. Quality: One word..."Awesome!" Value: Yes Manufacturer Support: No problems what so ever. The Wow Factor: Very Sexy! Overall: I will love this amp forever.
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"My recent order" submitted August 20, 2012

By Mike Lagarde in Thibodaux, LA
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Musical Background: 40 years
Music Style: Anything
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Overall: I ordered a Fender G-Deck 3 - 30 amp Amplifier and a ULT -4 Fender foot switch that is an option for this amp. I ordered them on Tuesday and got them both on Friday of the same week. I am extremely satisfied with both the products and the quick service I received from zZounds! Thanks for a great job!
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"Fender G-Dec-3" submitted October 28, 2012

By Scoosh S in Lexington, SC
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Musical Background: Beginner, and use a Fender Stratocaster, and Crafter Acoustic. Age 72 and playing 2 years
Music Style: Country, and old time music
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Overall: Still learning how to use it correctly, but so far I love it. It will help this beginner learn how to play alone with songs, and how to find the cords that I need to know. Adding my own songs and playing from a SD card is super.
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"Fender GDEC 3 30W" submitted June 26, 2012

By Randy W in Lawton, OK
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Musical Background: home musician
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Sound: Overall, the sound quality of the amp is great. In my opinion, the clean tones are better than the distorted tones, but I like the veratility of changing the channel to one of the 99 or so presets. If you get bored with the presets, you can dial in your own tones, which is probably what most people will do. The amp is significantly expanded when you connect it to a computer and use the Fuse software. There is also a Fuse community online and you can sample a variety of presets created by other users. This amp can create a wide array of sounds, and is a great practice tool. Feature: There are several useful features to this amp. The most useful would have to be the backing tracks. I enjoy just "noodling" around over the top of them. I'm not really a great guitarist, but I enjoy playing, and I enjoy trying to pick out individual notes over the chord progressions etc. I think there is a lot of value in this feature, and I feel that I am getting to work on "ear training." I also like the convenience of the SD card, and I am looking forward to purchasing some of the Hal Leonard books that accompany the GDEC 3. I also enjoy the 2nd guitar input on the back of the amp. It gives me the ability to sit down with my son and use the same amp. It's a really great feature. Ease of Use: The amp is incredibly easy to use. If you are a beginning musician or have little experience with amps, you don't really have to do anything but "plug and play." You can simply scroll through the presets and play. If you are more advanced, you can tweak existing presets, create your own, add/remove effects, reverb, etc. The learning curve is very small. You can start off knowing very little and still be able to accomplish a lot. Again, this amp's capability is really expanded by using the Fuse software. Buy the footswitch that goes with the amp too. Quality: The product is well made. It comes with a 5 year warranty. FYI, Line 6 gear only has a 1 year warranty. Value: I got a great deal on mine from ZZounds, and it was worth every penny. Manufacturer Support: I haven't had to contact customer service. The Wow Factor: This amp has huge wow factor. When coupled with the Fuse software, all of the effects, amp models, backing tracks, different versions "blues, rock, country GDECs," and Hal Leonard books, SD card, etc. This amp is probably the very best practice amp that I have ever owned. Overall: I recently purchased the Fender GDEC 3 30W amp. The amp is very nice. It is versatile, and the accompanying Fender Fuse software is nice. I saw the amp advertised for less money on another site, and clicked the button indicating that I had found it cheaper elsewhere. I completed survey, and within 15 minutes or so, I received an email from ZZounds beating that price.
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"Great service!" submitted November 6, 2012

By Felipe D in El Paso TX, TX
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Musical Background: 21 yrs, playing electric and acoustic guitar
Music Style: Blues, jazz and other...
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Overall: It was a great service overall, I got the amp I was looking for, and zZounds even give me a discount because I saw the same amp at a lower price with some one else, thanks for your support guys!
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"Amazing amp!" submitted August 24, 2012

By Jon Larson in Maricopa, AZ
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Musical Background: Been playing guitar for 25 years, just playing at home.
Music Style: Classic rock, blues, rock, some metal.
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Overall: This amp is awesome. Any sound you can imagine, you can get it out of this thing. Plus, all the backing tracks make it so much more fun to play the guitar. Customer service was great as well. Thanks Fender, and Thanks zZounds!
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"Fender G-DEC 30" submitted September 23, 2012

By Keith R in McDonough, GA
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Musical Background: Drums 10 years Guitar 3 years - jam with friends
Music Style: classic rock and blues
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Overall: Great amp for the new player or intermediate. Has everything built in and works great for practice or jamming with friends. You can't go wrong with this amp and a great value for the price.
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"Fender G-Dec 30 Amp" submitted October 4, 2012

By mark H in Griffin, GA
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Overall: GREAT little amp. Liked it so much I got one for my son to. zZounds is the way to go here best price on time shipping not once but twice. Need a great little amp with all kinds of features this is it.
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"Fender G-DEC 3 Thirty Guitar Combo Amp " submitted February 1, 2012

By John U in West Haven, CT
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Musical Background: Been playing guitar for over 50 years. Play guitar and bass.
Music Style: Rock, Blues, Jazz
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Overall: An absolutely wonderful practice amp, also suitable for jamming and small gigs. A great value. I love it, and use it every day. You can find just about any sound you need with this little beauty. I highly recommend this for any level player. It's absolute FUN!!!
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"More than Decent" submitted September 23, 2012

By Francis Barko in Philadelphia, PA
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Musical Background: jam at home
Music Style: In my head....Im better than Jimi Hendrix.
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Overall: The price being so reasonable really makes this a great purchase, loads of features, online support and most importantly to me was the speed and care zZounds.com had with me and my order.
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"Fender G-Dec 3 Thirty" submitted March 20, 2012

By Richard Bailey in Gainesville, GA
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Musical Background: Student
Music Style: rock, blues, Christian
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Overall: I bought a blemished model for about $50 less than a new one. This was a great buy. The amp was delivered as scheduled and came with no blemishes that I could see. the G-Dec 3 is a great tool for me as I am just learning how to play. I recommend zZounds and the G-Dec amp to anyone (great product and a great company).
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"Get Amped up!" submitted June 17, 2011

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Musical Background: Active Musician
Music Style: Classic rock, Blues and more!
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Sound: WOW! I have to admit, I was stunned, awesome sound overall between the modeling and patches and backing tracks! Feature: The SD card is HUGE! I as able to download all the different versions from metal to country to blues to the original as a back up and program them into the amp...I also was able to use the SD cards to load my own MP3 backing tracks to jam with! The ability to tweak all the presets and save my own is never ending awesomeness! Ease of Use: Very little learning curve to use this device which is perfect! less time with my nose in the manual and more time with my fingers on the strings! Quality: Very well constructed, solid to the core! Value: For what you get for the money hands down solid value! Manufacturer Support: Great group of folks! The Wow Factor: N/A Overall: Given all the expansion capabilities I expect to use this amp for a long long time!
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"g-dec 3 thirty" submitted August 20, 2012

By ray w in sartell, MN
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Musical Background: home guitar god
Music Style: blues, rock n' roll.
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Overall: excellent product. worth the money. zZounds, very good company to deal with.
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"Fender GDEC 3-30 Excellent Value, Excellent features, Excellent Tone!" submitted November 5, 2010

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Musical Background: Hobbyist
Music Style: Rock & Blues
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Sound: I was not expecting to get the best tone out of this amp when I bought it for practice. But I am totally impressed with the rich tone I get out of this amp! It easily sounds as good as my Cyber Twin SE for clean Fender sounds (just won't go as loud as the bigger CT SE). Totally impressed and love this amp (all stock too). No need to be replacing the speaker as some folks do. Feature: For the price of this amp and the pure beautiful tone(s) it generates, it is one of the best buys in guitar amps in the world. The DSP feature set is much improved over the first generation modeling amps from Fender (including the older Cyber Twin SE amps). It has more convienent USB to computer PC interface (instead of MIDI) and software to control every aspect of the amps settings and sound. On top of all this, it has a flexible backing tracks player and also a Phrase looping recorder to help you practice. It is loaded with convienence features as a practice amp, but it is good enough to gig with too! Excellent value. It also has an SD memory card slot for you you store limitless presets and backing tracks and it is firmware updatable by the user. Ease of Use: For such a sophisticated full featured amp, it is easy to use and should take the average user no time to become familiar with the controls. The free FUSE software PC Interface is a pretty neat piece of work which helps you setup the amp configuration and sounds to your liking using a friendly graphical user interface that anyone can understand. Quality: Again for the price paid, this is a very well built amplifier. There is plastic used but the amp is sturdy and I cannot complain for the price and function and value you get with this amp. Value: Extremely good value. Can't be beat at this time. Manufacturer Support: There are GDEC-3-30 forums that have all the info you will want to know about these amps. Fender public relations rep is on the forums and takes requests and answers questions. There have been new software releases and firmware releases since I bought the amp all free for downloading and upgrading your amp when needed. This shows how commited Fender is supporting this new GDEC-3-30 amp. The Wow Factor: It's personal and subjective matter, but I think the amp looks pretty good. It's the technical features and the extremely remarkable good sound of this 30 watt solid state amp and speaker that surprises me. Overall: I am so pleased with this amp. It totally surprised and impressed me when I got it and heard how good it sounded. It is not a tinny bright cheap sounding amp! It puts out some serious good tone equal to all the other Fender amps. I just returned a big Cyber Twin SE amp after trying it out and hearing no real big improvement in tone other than the Cyber Twin SE can play way louder and make your ears bleed (and deaf!). I figured this GDEC-3-30 at one third the cost of the CT SE amp was good enough for my needs... so back went the big Cyber Twin SE amp with its older DSP engine. I recommend this amp highly for the best practice amp or small venue gigging amp! It can generate beautiful tone for sure.
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"Fender's amazing amp G-DEC 3 Thirty" submitted October 5, 2012

By Eric F in Council Bluffs, IA
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Musical Background: Amatuer who has been playing at home about a year
Music Style: Mostly rock
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Overall: This is one cool amp! I've just had it a few days. I haven't even gotten close to checking out all the features. I got the footswitch with it. I sounds great from natural clean sound to the nastiest distortion you can think of. Enough toys to keep me busy for years. The backing tracks are cool too. Could just listen to them for hours. Get on and have fun with it!! Five year warranty too!
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