G-DEc - Love or Hate???

almost all the reviews i've read have been positive but i have no clue :?

That is supposed to be a decent sounding amp. Maybe you just need to find the right combination to get the sound you like. However, if you don't like the interface you may never take the time to get the right sound.

Was this a gift from someone who would not mind you trading it in? Basically any amp with a CD input will let you feed in backing tracks etc.

nils: the G-dec has a build in MIDI computer to feed them MIDI backings, so you can change tempo and stuff like that. Pretty nifty, but nothing a basic pc with a MIDI program can't do.

nils: the G-dec has a build in MIDI computer to feed them MIDI backings, so you can change tempo and stuff like that. Pretty nifty, but nothing a basic pc with a MIDI program can't do.
I noticed that after I opened my mouth (keyboard) :oops: and went and read more about it. Sounds pretty neat.

I guess the "I hate the way it sounds" part is pretty vague. What I dislike about the sounds are the same things I dislike about my Line 6. That digital sound. The emptiness. This is particularly evident on anything with distortion, and regarless of which guitar I plug in. It just sounds fake. Don't know quite how to put it.

Perhaps I'm holding the sound standard too high? Perhaps. This is a practice amp. A toy, so to speak.

I also have a GDec and was recently reading up on it to look into getting rid of some of the messy sounds. Check out the GDEC Posse thread at the Fender Forum pages

http://www.fenderforum.com/forum.html

http://www.fenderforum.com/forum.html?db=&topic_number=473865

Cheers

Mick

I have a G-DEC and I really like it...the only issue I HAD with it was that I had trouble getting a nice clean sound with an acoustic. I just played with the settings until I found the sound I wanted and saved it. Now its great IMO

Here is a little improv I did to the one of the presets on the G-DEC.

Improv to one of the Blues settings on the GDEC

edit: Also, please forgive the playing. I first picked up a guitar one year ago in July...so bear with me. :lol:

I have a Peavey Classic at home but use a GDEC during my lessons - My instructor plays the backing track or drum sequence to help teach timing and rythm 8)

I like the GDEC's interface functions :)

BS

I like the interface too, by the way.

Yeah, that interface. I guess considering it really is a software product, it isn't too bad. I'm old. I like knobs. Funnny thing is, I am a software engineer. You'd think I was all about the tech interface.

Mushin, I checked out that forum as well as another. A lot of information. Thanks for the tip. It appears that I'm getting bit bu two things. It was marketed for kids, hence the really high distortion/gain and the noise gate is set low. I'll fiddle with these tonight and report back.

The thing I REALLY like about the G_Dec is for noobie amp users you can pick a certain sound say Think Pink and see what parametwers you need to get that sound rather than screwing around and getting nowhere near it.

OK, so I'm a bit late. Was out of town. I messed around with it again tonight, taking the advice to crank down the distortion. It made things better. Not great, but better. As such, being that it is a practice amp/toy and it is pretty fun to mess around with, I'm keeping it.

Time for an update. I got some new cables recently. Monsters. I am reporting that it made this amp even better. Apparently, the cheapos that I have been using was sending some crappy interference (or something) to the amp and it could not handle it well.