Is the Fender G-DEC junior a good amp for a begginer?it will be an upgrade from my frontman 15r?

Question

Is the Fender G-DEC junior a good amp for a begginer?it will be an upgrade from my frontman 15r?

Answer 1

Yeah def.! Great learning and practicing tools in the G dec. I wish i had it when i was younger...i wish i had one now!

Answer 2

It is definitely an upgrade for a frontman. To be honest all the small Fender amps suck pretty bad unless you like to play clean. Their distortion or master gain does not perform very well.

I've been playing guitar for 40 yrs, and have been a professional musician and played with members of Santana and a few other good bands. So I do know a little about the subject.

For a practice amp, the best one in a tight money range is this one:

http://www.guitarcenter.com/Line-6-Spide...

I was looking for a good practice amp last year and tried all the smaller amps that Guitar Center had in their store.

I tried the Fenders, Crates, Rolands even the Marshall small amp. I think there were a couple more I tried, but the Line 6 amps had the best distortion and variations of it.

It also has built in phase/flange, echo/delay, reverb and tremolo. And you can combine two effects plus gains. There are four programmable channels with a factory preset that you can edit to your taste and save.

It's only drawback is that you have to change the channels by pushing a button on the amp  because there is no foot switch,  but other than that it's the best small amp I found..

So I bought one.

Some of the features of the Fender look like they are kinda cool, though. Like the rhythm tracks and stuff. but they might suck, who knows.

If you have a chance to try them out at a music store, I'd recommend just doing what I did and playing every amp in the store within your price range and pick the one that sounds the way you like the best.

Don't worry about the brand and go by sound and features that you need. I think that there are multi-effects pedals that also have rhythm tracks,  I think there'a a few Digitech pedals that do that. So you might be able to buy a cheaper amp  plus an effects pedal for around the same as the Fender.

But I'd check out the Line 6 amps for sure.

The Marshall practice amps sound pretty good, too, but don't have a lot of the effects that the other amps had.