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Post subject: Tone knob on my Gdec? Is it worthless?
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:14 pm
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So, this mysterious tone knob on the amp, can it be programmed to actually do something? What does it do? One reviewer on youtube said you could use the knob and program it. I see nothing about that anywhere? I just got this thing, and am wondering how much it's really worth. Fun, very time consuming.. So far the new is wearing off after only a couple of days. It has some cool features, but... its sure lacking in some also. Anyone know about eh tone knob??
Don't get me wrong I want to enjoy the amp, but so far it's feeling like the recent price drop was for a reason.
Thanks in advance.. Any Fender reps in here?


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Post subject: Re: Tone knob on my Gdec? Is it worthless?
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 5:10 am
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You can adjust the tone of the individual amp models. That tone knob you are talking about adjusts the overall tone coming out of the amp itself.

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Post subject: Re: Tone knob on my Gdec? Is it worthless?
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:33 pm
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banditt11 wrote:
You can adjust the tone of the individual amp models. That tone knob you are talking about adjusts the overall tone coming out of the amp itself.


hhmmm, Well I couldn't tell it did much. I will retry, with that in mind. Thank you very much for clarifying. It is not programmable as was said on the youtube review I take it? Thanks again for the answer. :wink:


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Post subject: Re: Tone knob on my Gdec? Is it worthless?
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:21 pm
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banditt11 wrote:
You can adjust the tone of the individual amp models. That tone knob you are talking about adjusts the overall tone coming out of the amp itself.

Well, still can't hear any difference at all..lol oh well..


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Post subject: Re: Tone knob on my Gdec? Is it worthless?
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:09 pm
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Hi crowhaven2000,

The Tone knob on the front panel of the amp is somewhat subtle. But, as banditt11 was mentioning, the primary tone controls will be the ones inside the 'Amp' settings menu for the amp channel itself. Please let me know if I can assist further.

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Post subject: Re: Tone knob on my Gdec? Is it worthless?
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 3:36 am
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It also bears pointing out that relatively subtle tone shaping can be totally inaudible if the listener is substantially off-axis from the speaker.

I have badly fooled myself many times over the decades with this. :oops:

The tone control does work, but it's a playback fine-tuner for the primary digital tone shaping in the preset itself.


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Post subject: Re: Tone knob on my Gdec? Is it worthless?
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:19 am
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Hi Bezmotivnik,

I hear what you are saying. The tone control on the Fender G-DEC 3 amps front panel is intended as a fast fine-tuning type of tone control. Please let me know if I can assist with anything else.

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Post subject: Re: Tone knob on my Gdec? Is it worthless?
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:13 am
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crowhaven2000 wrote:
So, this mysterious tone knob on the amp, can it be programmed to actually do something? What does it do? One reviewer on youtube said you could use the knob and program it. I see nothing about that anywhere? I just got this thing, and am wondering how much it's really worth. Fun, very time consuming.. So far the new is wearing off after only a couple of days. It has some cool features, but... its sure lacking in some also. Anyone know about eh tone knob??
Don't get me wrong I want to enjoy the amp, but so far it's feeling like the recent price drop was for a reason.
Thanks in advance.. Any Fender reps in here?

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I'm probably going to end up selling mine and getting a multi-effects processor instead. Live and learn as they say.


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