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.

It came with all I need to become a guitar God!

It is going to take a while to master all the options.

One word..."Awesome!"

Yes

No problems what so ever.

Very Sexy!

Hobbyist

Rock

Been playing for about 15 years, mostly Jazz & Blues

Jazz, Blues, Classical.. etc

40 years

Anything

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.

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.

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.

The product is well made. It comes with a 5 year warranty. FYI, Line 6 gear only has a 1 year warranty.

I got a great deal on mine from ZZounds, and it was worth every penny.

I haven't had to contact customer service.

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.

home musician

Been playing guitar for over 50 years. Play guitar and bass.

Rock, Blues, Jazz

Beginner, and use a Fender Stratocaster, and Crafter Acoustic. Age 72 and playing 2 years

Country, and old time music

WOW! I have to admit, I was stunned, awesome sound overall between the modeling and patches and backing tracks!

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!

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!

Very well constructed, solid to the core!

For what you get for the money hands down solid value!

Great group of folks!

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Active Musician

Classic rock, Blues and more!

21 yrs, playing electric and acoustic guitar

Blues, jazz and other...

Been playing guitar for 25 years, just playing at home.

Classic rock, blues, rock, some metal.

Drums 10 years Guitar 3 years - jam with friends

classic rock and blues

jam at home

In my head....Im better than Jimi Hendrix.

Student

rock, blues, Christian

home guitar god

blues, rock n' roll.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Extremely good value. Can't be beat at this time.

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.

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.

Hobbyist

Rock & Blues

Amatuer who has been playing at home about a year

Mostly rock