uk_lefty

There are some intros and endings we simplify or remove entirely because they might rely on a piano riff or something studio trickery but none of the shenanigans you mention in the op. That does seem quite odd and energy that could be spent on learning whole new songs.

Good luck 🤞

I see your point, but while I'm far from an expert in such things, I doubt anything in that price bracket is built in the US using parts built in the US. So "cheap but decent" just won't be a thing for US consumers any more. Will those of us in Europe face rising costs from Harley Benton to make up for the hole in their finances from losing US trade...? Who knows. I don't think anybody wins in this, sadly.

Now upgraded with the Retrovibe Stinger preamp and a Nordstrand pickup. I also had a new nut fitted because the old one was worn to bits. I've currently got flats on this but I'm thinking to go for some tapewounds to get a bit more brightness out of the sound and still keep the fretboard intact. I've learned that this was factory made as a lined fretless. The board is really thick, feels like ebony or a cheaper version of ebony with a weird name... Either way it feels gorgeous and can draw out a lot of richness in the sound. The back of the neck feels really good too. I'm still experimenting with the preamp but I should get there soon. Too many new things going on at once and I need to properly sit down with this working on the right songs to get it where I want it.

Well, well, well!!! Took it to band practice last night. My word this thing LOVES a distortion pedal and being played with a pick! Who'd have thought it?!?! The rehearsal room had a lovely Trace Elliot head and 4x10 last night and the combination was pretty glorious.

I think the splash of grey in my beard gets me slightly less disrespectful treatment on Denmark Street than I had twenty years ago.... Go in, get ignored, ask a question, get treated like rubbish, some bloke walks in to buy cheap strings and says he produces for random persons 1, 2, 3 and the staff may as well have wafted him with palm leaves and fed him grapes while carrying him around in a sedan chair.

It's a lovely little amp but my office is becoming overcrowded so it will go up for sale at some point.

Still got it but I was using it as a manual pedalboard really, if that makes sense?

I now think I know what I want... Either, set up a "memory" e.g. U0-01 with my base sound and then U0-02 and U0-03 with the variations on that like chorus or drive... OR set up a User memory with all three buttons engaging different effects. Positives and negatives to each but this is the kind of thing I was struggling to understand how to get working. I've just been through the guitar patches now with my electric guitar and they're fantastic. Some really usable ones, even when the more weird effects are involved. I'm disappointed Boss has put absolutely zero effort into the Bass presets because the GT-10B from years and years ago had fantastic, usable bass presets and loads of them! If Boss brought those back as downloadable patches for the GX I'd be first in line.

@Al Krow thanks for your info. I've spent a lot of time today with the unit and going into the manual in depth and despite some blunders I'm now getting there. I think the Headrush MX5 was a lot more intuitive to get started, but the Boss is less intuitive because there are so many possibilities for configuration and that makes it so much more powerful... Plus the Boss effects are better! I'd still like to have it a bit more intuitive and better graphics on the screen but that's a trade off for other features I guess, can't have it all.

My GX-10 arrived yesterday and I've had a tinker today... So far I'm underwhelmed to be fair. I sold a Headrush MX5 to get this and I'm not wanting to knee jerk but the Headrush was so easy to use straight away, the Boss is a little less intuitive. So far I've gone through the presets and none of them are up to much. That's sometimes to be expected but the old Boss GT-10B had bags of great presets so its disappointing they haven't been carried forward. Trying to create my own patches, I can't work out how to do this without having to over-write a preset. The manuals don't go into this but I read somewhere that the initialize function gives a blank canvas for you... It wasn't so blank and it still seems I'm overwriting a patch. Oh well, will keep playing. One thing I want to do is use the EQ blocks to create a "thumpinator" substitute, has anyone done this? I really want to get a good punchy bass sound. I am struggling with the parallel processing. I can get it to give me either both channels mixed or a select between Channel 1 and 2 but never Channel 1 with the option to mix in Channel 2 if that makes sense? I need to figure out more about how to use the limited number of foot buttons to change sounds live. I'm feeling this is either a limitation or I need to build patches next to each other that allows me to do different things... I'm going to keep experimenting and I'm sure I'll get there, slowly but surely.

Now we have the singer in place we are refining the early set list, chucking out some of the male vocal songs and putting on ice some others. It's great having a confident singer who knows their range and just gets what the band is all about. She's given us all homework and we will have some cracking songs for the next rehearsal. The only thing we are struggling with is song structures and fade-out endings, but more practice will get us there. Feeling really good about this band, just eager to get gig-ready!!