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Does anyone else find the tuner doesn't recognise anything lower than E? Really annoying when I have to play in drop D quite a lot, or tune my 5 string bass.

I had an RM500 for a long time and loved it. I only went for an ABM600 because I got an offer I couldn't refuse. I loved the RM500 for its ease of use, being able to bypass the EQ when using a modelling pedal, and it just generally being small and light enough to transport easily in a laptop bag. If there was one criticism from me it would be that the onboard drive and compressor are things I'd not use much at all but I still had a few gigs going straight into the amp and using the onboard effects with no issue.

Keep up, Jack! 😂

I'm partial to a pointy headstock. As much as I like the idea of something pointy all over I've not really played a type of music that suits it.

I do a bit of BV in my bands and I've experimented with some of these pedals. They are really, really useful! I really liked the Boss VE-20 for some of its effects: harmoniser, megaphone effect, reverb... It did the lot. The problem for me came when the soundman just doesn't want to know: "woah woah woah it sounds like you've already got reverb and compression on your mic, No no no can't do that". I know, most musos would say the sound guy should just deal with what they're given, but I guess he had been bitten far too many times by weird kit turning up and misbehaving on stage. It made me really reticent to keep using it live, even though it added a great effect for certain songs and generally gave me more confidence in my BV. So, if you go down this route of vocal effects pedals be prepared to tweak it so you can remove certain effects and give the sound guy the signal they want to make you sound good, or just bypass it and accept there isn't time or willingness on the part of the sound guy. If you are the sound guy, however, make sure you know the kit.

Some great advice on this thread. I'm now building my patches with a divider sending half the signal to a bass amp and the other half through a guitar amp and blending them. The more I use it to build patches the better it's getting. There's still some oddities, like there's one patch where no matter what I do I can't switch the overdrive on and off using a pedal assign... So I just don't use that anymore and rebuilt the patch elsewhere.

Boss need to get the UI from Headrush, it's so much more intuitive. The bass presets are pretty shocking too, they need to recreate all the bass presets off the GT-10B for the modern pedals, they were largely excellent and usable.

This is a great photo 👍👍👍

I am left handed with my wedding ring on my left hand, it just doesn't bother me at all. The guitarists are both right handed and they take off their rings because they find it interfering.

So after a few weeks this is where I am... Got a great preset where I split the signal and gave half going through the fat bass amp and the other half going through the tweed guitar amp. Still finding it generally fiddly, here's some observations... The bass overdrives sound too fizzy for me and lack warmth, need to investigate more. Sometimes I tinker around adding and removing effects and then the pedal switching stops working... E.g I add the wah pedal but somehow it just doesn't work! Quite frustrating. Still need to change the mode so I can use the individual buttons to switch different effects in and out. Using the effects loop is great for my synth pedal. Used this to DI for my last gig, no amp and in-ears. Good sound out the PA sub but again the fizzy overdrive just got annoying after a while. No idea if anyone else noticed but it bothered me a lot

Love the pairing with the compact, lightweight cab!

I genuinely feel a bit sorry for these kind of people. They're desperate to show off their "knowledge" and be seen as some kind of authority, but he's just shouting into a void. If you liked your tone and amp, effects choices then it's perfect. Because it's artistic expression, not precision engineering.