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Thanks for the advice! I will be able to swap out my express coz I bought it from gear4music in the UK, and you can return stuff within 30 days. This will hopefully give me my perfect set up, although it's a bit overkill for me strumming a few chords....!

ok, so I have sorted the digital distortion issue. In the tone editor, I have enabled volume control and turned the Max Position down to 65% - This now works great in Logic for me. I had to aggregate my USB A to D (an Audient iD14) with the Amplifi USB using Audio MIDI setup, then select the correct inputs into each track, but that worked fine. The more I read, I think the FBV Shortboard can switch banks can it? and it can turn stomp mod and delay on / off can it? If so, I guess my perfect amp is AMPLIFI and the Shortboard? Even though I only play chords...!! Can anyone clarify if there's an easy way to swap banks without the shortboard, or indeed if you can 100% swap banks with the shortboard? ...or what the FBV 3 offers over the Shortboard? Thanks a lot!

So I've just bought an Amplifi 150 and FBV express MkII... I'm a singer / rhythm guitarist and the amp sounds great to me. So, I'm just working out a few things and I wonder if you good, good people will give me clarity on a few things... 1. I understand that you can only access four tones from the amp, but it has 25 banks. Is it right that you can't select a bank, but have to edit a tone from an existing bank then save it to bank 1 to play it? Is there an easier way to swap banks? 2. I understand that the FBV express can only select the four tones which take a while to switch, long enough for this not to be useful during a song, so I can't use the stomp switches to say, switch the distortion on off. This right? I've sort of got round this by assigning the drive of a distortion to the way pedal so I can control it that way (that's all I want), but I'd really want to just turn the stomp on/off. I know that the shortboard does this and other things, but I just want a bit more distortion sometimes... 3. When recording with the Amplify, obviously you can record with a mic, or headphone (if you don't need the speaker playing), there's no line out, but you can record with the USB. So we record as much live as we can, and I'll need the speaker on while doing this obviously (or out though headphones into mixer then back through everyone's headphones). So for clarity, would you record through the USB and 'aggregate' the USB device into Pro Tools (we use Macs)? The problem I have is that when I record into Garageband (this is me trying it out first...) there is digital distortion on the recording from the USB. Has anyone else had this problem and know a fix? I've tried different tones and the same thing happens...?? The amp sounds great, but when recording through USB, there's a digital intermittent crackle, not much, but enough for the audio to be useless. That's it. So the Amplify is *ALMOST* the perfect amp for me. Line 6... 1) Switch Banks Easily 2) Give the FBV Express a mode to control the stomp boxes rather than tones 3) Line out... Hopefully someone will help me sort the digital crackle. I'm up to date with all software. I'm keeping it because, the alternative for me is to get a nice Vox with a stomp pedal which I'd have to record through a mic anyway, and so I will only have one sound really from this. Oh, and it looks beautiful as well.