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Post subject: Going from the standard black G-DEC presets to the country
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 5:11 pm
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I have a lot of presets I have created in my original G-DEC 3 THIRTY that I don't want to lose when I switch over to the country version. Is there a way I could preserve them and use them with the country presets?


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Post subject: Re: Going from the standard black G-DEC presets to the count
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 5:43 pm
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Hi GretschBear,
You could either save them to the computer...Documents/Fender/Fuse/Presets ..see this
http://www.fender.com/en-CA/support/art ... drive-mode

Or save them to a properly formatted SD Card via the Utility function on the GDec ..see this download http://www.fender.com/en-CA/support/art ... er-g-dec-3
Once you've switched over to the Country version, simply overwrite any presets you don't like with your saved presets.
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Post subject: Re: Going from the standard black G-DEC presets to the count
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:24 pm
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I'm an old guy and not real computer saavy. Would I save my unique presets to the Country SD card? If so, how do I get them from one SD card to another?

I apologize if these are stupid questions, but I really don't want to lose my unique presets. I really love my G-DEC.


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Post subject: Re: Going from the standard black G-DEC presets to the count
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:19 am
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GretschBear wrote:
I'm an old guy and not real computer saavy. Would I save my unique presets to the Country SD card? If so, how do I get them from one SD card to another?

I apologize if these are stupid questions, but I really don't want to lose my unique presets. I really love my G-DEC.

I know what you mean...I'm an old guy too, and no, these are not stupid questions...good ones, actually 8)
Here's my method, and I warn you that I'm a bit OCD in this!
I save my presets to my GDec 3-30, a SD Card, and my computer in the Documents/Fender etc section, as well as in a separate file on my computer called Fender/GDec/presets. (I know, so many places...it's the OCD!) All of my custom presets have custom names, so they wouldn't be easily overwritten by other presets...being an old guy, I tend to use my initials plus a brief descriptive, like trem, or WahStDel, etc.
But I digress....The crucial point is to back up your custom presets somewhere...a new, properly formatted blank SD card is perfect. You can format the card via the GDec utility functions. see this (it has a video..http://www.fender.com/en-CA/support/art ... patibility
Once you have a backup of your presets, you can transfer them to your computer if you have a SD card reader. If you don't, you can buy one at most any electronics store.
With a card reader, and the preset files on your computer, you can transfer them to any other medium that your computer supports....another SD card, a usb drive, portable hd, dvd....whatever. You can also easily rename them.
good luck....
Do you have anyone that you trust who can help you with the computer end of things?? I was fortunate when I was figuring out how they worked to have a brother who was an expert...whenever I'd gotten into a real mess, I'd invite him over to help and repay him with a bottle of scotch...the bigger the mess, the better the bottle, of course :D

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Post subject: Re: Going from the standard black G-DEC presets to the count
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:33 am
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AlexeiY wrote:
Do you have anyone that you trust who can help you with the computer end of things?? I was fortunate when I was figuring out how they worked to have a brother who was an expert...whenever I'd gotten into a real mess, I'd invite him over to help and repay him with a bottle of scotch...the bigger the mess, the better the bottle, of course :D


Don't mean to waste bandwidth here, but I should point out that I didn't have so many problems that I made my brother an alcoholic :) nor me a pauper :D

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Post subject: Re: Going from the standard black G-DEC presets to the count
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:43 pm
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I really thank you for your help but I'm still I'm not sure I understand how to get my presets from my old SD card to the new country SD card I have downloaded. I don't know anyone with that kind of computer knowledge.

Now I can plug my SD card into my computer and save the contents to a folder. My question is how do I transfer the presets from the folder to the new country SD card.

I did watch the video but I already knew how to do that much.


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Post subject: Re: Going from the standard black G-DEC presets to the count
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:51 pm
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The way I'd do it is to back up your presets onto a new SD card, change the GDec to the country version, then overwrite the country presets which are now on your GDec with the saved old presets. This is what I did when I replaced my GDec-3 15 with a GDec-3 30.
It doesn't look as if you can change the presets on the country version that you've downloaded onto a SD card. I looked at my downloaded G-Dec3_Country_FSR files and there's no separate preset folder.
There may be a better way, but that's my story, and I'm sticking to it 8)
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 6:03 pm
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I really am sorry for being so ignorant in computer usage but am I comprehending what you are saying is that if I want to play one of mo old presets, I would have to change SD cards?

I haven't loaded the country SD into my G-DEC yet because I'm so afraid of losing the presets I created and a couple of the standard presets that came on my original amp.

I believe I'm more confused now than when I started. I guess it is the old dog, new trick syndrome.


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Post subject: Re: Going from the standard black G-DEC presets to the count
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 6:40 pm
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Hmmmm...
I know that if you change your amp to a different model, all the bandtracks and presets will be overwritten with the new amp info.
So to preserve your old, modified presets, you have to back them up somewhere and then replace the new presets with your old ones.
One way to back up these presets is to format a SD card, and back them up to it via the utility backup function on the GDec (Utility...Export to SD...All presets).
Now, update your amp to the new version.
After updating, stick in the new SD card with your saved presets and using the utility function, import the ones that you like to the preset slot of interest....unfortunately this has to be done one at a time.
Once the presets on the amp have been overwritten, you don't need to have the SD card in the amplifier anymore.
sorry for the confusion....I know what I mean, but can't always explain it :oops:
Alex
edit....Out of curiousity, why are you changing the amp to the country version? My original amp was the country version, but when I traded it for a GDec-3- 30, I got the original version and then modified and replaced the presets to ones of my liking. The only 2 differences between the content of the models are the presets (which it sounds like you don't want) and the backing tracks. There is some overlap in backing tracks between the various models (see the listing performance notes in the support/downloads section of the GDec amps) and I think that you can download the individual backing tracks from the Fuse website.

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Post subject: Re: Going from the standard black G-DEC presets to the count
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 6:48 pm
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Thank you so much. I now get it. You've been a tremendous help and I really appreciate your time and effort to help this dummy understand. Sometimes I think I let this stuff intimidate me more than it should. Thanks again for all of your help.


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Post subject: Re: Going from the standard black G-DEC presets to the count
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 6:52 pm
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You're welcome...I edited my reply,,,check it out!
I know about the intimidation...don't you hate it when you want to change something on your computer and it says 'are you really sure?'
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Post subject: Re: Going from the standard black G-DEC presets to the count
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:23 pm
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AlexeiY wrote:
Hmmmm...
I know that if you change your amp to a different model, all the bandtracks and presets will be overwritten with the new amp info.
So to preserve your old, modified presets, you have to back them up somewhere and then replace the new presets with your old ones.
One way to back up these presets is to format a SD card, and back them up to it via the utility backup function on the GDec (Utility...Export to SD...All presets).
Now, update your amp to the new version.
After updating, stick in the new SD card with your saved presets and using the utility function, import the ones that you like to the preset slot of interest....unfortunately this has to be done one at a time.
Once the presets on the amp have been overwritten, you don't need to have the SD card in the amplifier anymore.
sorry for the confusion....I know what I mean, but can't always explain it :oops:
Alex
edit....Out of curiousity, why are you changing the amp to the country version? My original amp was the country version, but when I traded it for a GDec-3- 30, I got the original version and then modified and replaced the presets to ones of my liking. The only 2 differences between the content of the models are the presets (which it sounds like you don't want) and the backing tracks. There is some overlap in backing tracks between the various models (see the listing performance notes in the support/downloads section of the GDec amps) and I think that you can download the individual backing tracks from the Fuse website.

I thought there would be some different country presets that I could use along with my own. Plus I figured I'd have more choice in country backing tracks

The metal and grunge and punk and garage band with all of the distortion I just hate and never use.


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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:41 pm
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GretschBear wrote:
AlexeiY wrote:
Hmmmm...
I know that if you change your amp to a different model, all the bandtracks and presets will be overwritten with the new amp info.
So to preserve your old, modified presets, you have to back them up somewhere and then replace the new presets with your old ones.
One way to back up these presets is to format a SD card, and back them up to it via the utility backup function on the GDec (Utility...Export to SD...All presets).
Now, update your amp to the new version.
After updating, stick in the new SD card with your saved presets and using the utility function, import the ones that you like to the preset slot of interest....unfortunately this has to be done one at a time.
Once the presets on the amp have been overwritten, you don't need to have the SD card in the amplifier anymore.
sorry for the confusion....I know what I mean, but can't always explain it :oops:
Alex
edit....Out of curiousity, why are you changing the amp to the country version? My original amp was the country version, but when I traded it for a GDec-3- 30, I got the original version and then modified and replaced the presets to ones of my liking. The only 2 differences between the content of the models are the presets (which it sounds like you don't want) and the backing tracks. There is some overlap in backing tracks between the various models (see the listing performance notes in the support/downloads section of the GDec amps) and I think that you can download the individual backing tracks from the Fuse website.

I thought there would be some different country presets that I could use along with my own. Plus I figured I'd have more choice in country backing tracks

The metal and grunge and punk and garage band with all of the distortion I just hate and never use.

+1 on the metal and punk stuff. I do like a bit of distortion (Neil Young) every now and then, but only use it when I want my guests to leave, or my dog to howl :wink:
Like you, I really like the GDec amp...it's made picking up the guitar and playing it after a long lay off (work and raising a family) a real joy.

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Post subject: Re: Going from the standard black G-DEC presets to the count
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:56 pm
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AlexeiY, thanks very much for jumping in here. It sounds like you are up and running GretschBear. But if we can be of any assistance, please send an email or give a call and we will be happy to assist as well.

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