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Post subject: Bye Bye GDEC
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 8:03 pm
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I am dissapointed that Fender has discontinued GDEC amps.

I started with the first GDEC 15 and then upgraded to the GDEC 30 then Fender made it go away. I then upgraded to the NEW GDEC 3 30 now Fender has made it go away.

It's a wonder that the Strat and Teli are still around given this here today then gone away
mentality.

I considered the Line 6 Jamm prior to getting on this train but as a life long Fender guy
I chose Fender. Hmm wonder what I wound have done if I could have do it all over again.
I think the next time Fender comes out with something new and exciting I'll just wait a :evil: few years to make sure it isn't the flavor of the month.

Sorry Just POed.
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Post subject: Re: Bye Bye GDEC
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 10:55 pm
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It's much worse than just dropping the line. The horrible support and the glitchy software were almost as bad as the pathetic naming, using the GDEC 30 on two totally different amps, it was like a bad joke. The Mustang line has the fuse software and they have improved it, if you have used both you see some improvements in the Mustang software that never happened for GDECers. But it's still glitchy, and too difficult to share presets, or review them. After you take time to download some, typically you will be disappointed in most of them. "my first try" seems to be a common comment! Digitech not only lets you download presets in bulk, but you can click on the preset file on your computer and whamo it's loaded. Not so easy for Gdecers.


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Post subject: Re: Bye Bye GDEC
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 11:16 pm
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I agree with your comments. I'm POed at Fender, I think that no one at Fender really cares about the musicians that try to support Fender products as they do not support their products and they run away from them after we have all invested in them, SHAME ON YOU FENDER


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Post subject: Re: Bye Bye GDEC
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 4:56 am
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I was disappointed they didn't stick with it for a while and at least continue to improve the fuse upgrades.

Not sure what happened there, but I assume sales were not up to expectation and / or they felt the mustangs were their future in modeling amps. Or who knows ... I really liked the line outs on this, you don't see this feature all the time on the smaller practice amps.

I am waiting for Namm show to see what is coming out this year, but I am leaning toward a Mustang 3 V2 for practice. I still have my Gdec, but would like to have something that sounds better , and the Mustang v2 might be it. 12 inch speaker, and v2 sounded better to me than v1 (it was in the store,so who knows, but still ... ) and maybe at the Namm show Jan 23rd, Fender will be real releasing something new ?

But I understand the disappointment , the GDec did come and go quickly, and not to mention I bought it when it first came out, and I paid a lot for it !


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Post subject: Re: Bye Bye GDEC
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 6:43 pm
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and to make matters worse...my G DEC 3 - 30 is now dead with the blue screen of death...... Guitar Center sent it to the local Fender service center, but from my look around the internet...its dead.... Well it was fun while it lasted..just 18 months.


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Post subject: Re: Bye Bye GDEC
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 6:50 am
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Fender will still honor the 5-year warranty, so you should be in good shape! Don't get discouraged. Still love my G-DEC3 Thirty.


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Post subject: Re: Bye Bye GDEC
Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 12:56 pm
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My G-Dec Jr is beyond the 5 years now I believe (Or is it just past 4) I need to check.

But no issues, and I like using it--I don't have all the bells & whistles on that model.

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Post subject: Re: Bye Bye GDEC
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 4:03 pm
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Good news! After several weeks at the local Fender service/repair center, they called me to say they have fixed the problem and its ready for pick-up. The 5 year warrenty covers all costs. Whew Who!


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Post subject: Re: Bye Bye GDEC
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:01 am
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It's kinda sad to see these amps go by the way-side. I have two: a 3-30 Blues and a 3-30 Metal. I got the metal one for $99 of eBay several months ago. It's problem is that you have to use headphones. I knew there was an issue when I bought it but since I'm the 2nd owner, the warranty most likely doesn't count.

No doubt for now, anyhow, these amps probably aren't worth much more than $200-$300. My Blues amp works flawlessly and all things considered, I will consider myself fortunate. Eventually I will get that Metal amp working again.

BTW: I have read here somewhere that there is a type of insulation I can stuff into toe speaker cavity to get a more "full" sound out of the amp. True or False?


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Post subject: Re: Bye Bye GDEC
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 3:56 pm
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Polyfil night help. See the topic "Made myself a special Blues Edition fifteen"

I think this is the right url:

http://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=86322


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Post subject: Re: Bye Bye GDEC
Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 2:26 pm
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bclarke675 wrote:
Fender will still honor the 5-year warranty

Are there still parts to do this with?

I realized after taking my Fifteen out of careful storage last night that the "soft" buttons are now hard and prone to sticking, and I can't imagine there are any replacement control panels left to swap out.

I've run into this before with FMIC warranty -- "Sorry, we can't get parts." :roll:


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Post subject: NEVER BUY DIGITAL MUSIC GEAR
Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 3:08 pm
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mcarol wrote:
It's much worse than just dropping the line. The horrible support and the glitchy software... Digitech not only lets you download presets in bulk, but you can click on the preset file on your computer and whamo it's loaded. Not so easy for Gdecers.

DigiTech is nobody to praise. They have unremediated screwups in their firmware, know about it, yet have no intention of fixing them because the RP series is near the end of its marketing cycle and so it's not worth it. I bought an RP500 solely for the Whammy/Harmonizer effects and the firmware for them turns out as known to be screwed up so they don't work right. DigiTech doesn't care. They haven't updated their buggy firmware on an existing model for nearly five years.

I just bought a new Zoom MS-60B on sale, and it's a nifty unit, but after all the marketing hype about firmware updates and expanded features, they have officially abandoned the firmware at v1.0 because they have a new unit coming out and it would be bad marketing to improve a unit someone's already paid for. Anyway, it's only for bassists, and they aren't as important a slice of market share. :evil:

Every piece of digital music hardware I have ever bought was an unsupported ripoff.

What angers me about the G-DEC 3 is the amount of lying and jacking-around I got about the bugs in the FUSE forum here. They couldn't just say, "I'm sorry, but FMIC is $300,000,000 in debt and we can't waste money on supporting discontinued models." Instead, they denied the bugs and put me through incredible levels of abusive tail-chasing trying to fix "my" problems that were 100% in their software. Last night, just for kicks, I freshly downloaded a new version of FUSE, installed it for G-DEC on a new box and the identical bugs from Day One still were there even without the amp ever being hooked up.

Yet people haven't learned their lesson and are still buying the new models. :roll:

I believe digital is the future, but it's in VST and stand-alone software running off a computer, not in some ephemeral, self-contained mess that's going to be abandoned by the manufacturer before it's ever fully functional.


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