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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!!

I started up an 80s band some time ago. We are still "forming" finding the right songs and so forth but it's feeling good. So I wanted an 80s bass and having sold off three basses at the end of last year I was feeling good and came across an Ibanez Musician from 1980, fully original. Struck a deal and it was delivered yesterday by the owner and used last night at band practice. First impressions: chunkier neck than I'm used to but not unmanageable. Weight is ok and a decent strap. Lots of knobs! These are a bit excessive I think: vol vol tone, three way pup selector, active/ passive switch, bass, mid, treble... So for ease of use it's both pups on full then using the active to find the sound. I played through an Ampeg head and Trace cab with the EQ relatively flat. This bass cuts through the mix! Gorgeous consistency all over the neck in terms of tone and volume, lovely for high fills, really nice sound for finger pops that I can't seem to get with other basses. So far I'm chuffed. Terrible photo, but I've been too busy playing it to just admire it.

No but I keep seeing them in one of the Denmark Street shops and I really want one. Unfortunately they don't do them left handed which is odd considering the originals came in left handed and Aria are usually pretty good to us.

I ordered mine on Mew Year's Day. Everywhere was saying it's out of stock for weeks yet, DV247 said it's in their main warehouse... Who knows when it will arrive. Really looking forward to Boss sounds and touch screen editing.

Ooops! Well, to be fair I'm left handed so... 🤪

Sorry if this is not an option but one thing I do when getting fingertip pain is to switch to playing with a pick. Luckily I have free reign over my tone, fills, etc. so if the attack and note choice is different, as long as the fundamentals of the bassline are there it's ok. It made me improve my pick playing to a point where I will play almost anything with a pick if I need to.

Get some gigs for my new 80s band Risky Business. Ideally first gig before end of March. Get some fresh material in for The Desert Penguins, ideally for the second half of the set. It's a really solid set list but i'd love it if we could shake it up and make picking those end of night songs a bit tougher than just going through the same ones all the time.