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You'll love it 😁

It will glitch if you want it to.

It tracks slightly better than a regular OC-2 and sounds close enough to my ear. There's a Polyphonic Octave for glitch free octaving, but it doesn't sound as sweet as the OC-2 style Octave.

Now you know how Gibson Les Paul owners feel

That's brilliant, thank you for the info!

I'm intrigued by 2x8" cabs. How would that cab compare to say a single 12" in your opinion?

The problem with a lot of early headless instruments, and some more recent and ill considered ones, is that you get that running out of neck feel you describe, that's because the neck just stops, and feels totally alien. I recall feeling exactly the same when I first tried a Hohner Jack too! Other manufacturers now, especially decent luthiers build a volute into the rear of the neck so the feel is indistinguishable from their headed options, like on my ACG >>

It does look cool, I love the guitars, but, I would be worried about how it balances on a strap. There is a lot of real estate between the top strap button and the end of the headstock...

No worries, sorry it wasn't good news, there is a tuner onboard though, which works as an excellent alternative to achieve drop tuning The rest of the unit sounds brilliant though, really really brilliant.

Yup, it's definitely fighting itself. I wonder if the Digitech DropTune pedal works any better?

OK, I'm not going to lie, the drop tune function wasn't great. My active basses and me hitting quite hard might not help, but it seems too laggy to be of any use to me. This is the only chink in the armour I have found so far...

I haven't had a play with that yet, but I will hopefully get some more time today and I'll let you know. I wasn't kidding about being time poor!

I absolutely love it!

I managed to steal a few moments for some playing this morning between meetings, and I'm very pleased. Size isn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be, not much bigger than 1/2 my pedalboard, so that worry has totally gone. Build quality, as with all Boss stuff I guess, is very solid and workmanlike. I only played around in manual mode so far, there's obviously a load of pre programmed stuff in there, but I wanted to see what this will be like in real life for me. The natural tone of the unit is lovely flat, I assume it's not doing much, if anything, but it sounds nice. The amp sims are good, a good range of options which all seem to be quite different. The myriad of effects all seem to be very useable, the range of some is limited a little compared to separates, by the limits of the physical controls, but there is plenty there and it's all useable. Everything I use for my regular tone is there, plus all the extras I use when nobody is looking, like Delays and Reverbs, the Slicer is well cool, and the Synths are really musical, and again, thanks to the limits to some of the settings, it's hard to find a Synth that's unusable, which in my experience is very easy with the likes of an EHX Microsynth. The regular Octaver is VERY OC-2-like, the Polyphonic has a similar vibe too, but tracks properly, which was cool as often the polyphonic ones sound a bit pants. The compressors all sounds different, which was a surprise, but lots to explore for someone that rarely gets on with compressors, unless it's in the studio with someone who knows how to operate an expensive one. The filters, autowah etcs, all very nice, and easier to set up than my MXR, plus there's 4 different core options, unlike the single one on that pedal. I was worried about the ability to stack drives, but as the core tone is so nice, I can achieve that by setting an amp sim to be overdriven and then use the drive section for more drive. Perfect. The different drives and distortions are cool too, will need a proper play to really dial those in. Of course, there is more you can do under the hood to make all the above more cleverer, but from just using the physical controls I can do everything I need and want to do. I'm impressed, very impressed. Does anyone want to buy some pedals?...

My ME 90B arrived today. No time to even unpack it yet, but soon, hopefully tomorrow...

Maybe (Warwick) RockBoard have something that might fit? https://shop.warwick.de/en/rockboard-by-warwick/bags-for-effects-pedals/21805/rockboard-professional-pedalboard-gig-bags?c=3083

I prefer the black too

I love that bass dude! I really wish they would reissue the Musicmaster bass. I don't understand why they haven't!?

Yes and No.... 😁

@Merton is using the new BIG Trace head with his Big twin, with good results. Might be worth looking at that?

I'm pretty sure that's a large contributor, however, it also can work with multiple other units, and means they don't have to worry about building Bluetooth into the circuit board. I need to order one of those too though, as I'm sure it'll come in handy!

I guess everyone's milages varies. I love the idea of a massive pedalboard covered in boutique gear, and I also love the idea of having the world available in something properly space age like a full fat HX or a Quad Cortex, but I feel that for me, right now, neither is ideal. I have a pretty big pedal board, with some darned nice bits and bobs on it, but, I find I often just pull it all out, unless I know I have a chunk of time to myself. I'm currently slimming down the amount of gear I have, basses included, and I think this Boss unit may well let me release some of my pedal pedals back into the wild too, apart from some of the special ones. Doing so will also likely pay for 3 of these Boss units too!

Have you been spying on me?