Keep effects presets and change amp without locking

It works but it leaves your names screwed up if the original rig had a name that hints at the amp. Then you end up with a Mars profile with a Vox stack. I much prefer locking.

I typically only use the swapping stacks on rigs that I’ve already programmed to be song specific. I’ll name them the song and part (for example: Amazed Verse). So typically I’m in performance mode when swapping stacks so I don’t accidentally screw up an amp rig that’s in browser pool. I find the lock function gets me in trouble sometimes. I’ll want to change something and then it changes it for everything and then it’s a lot of work when I finally decide I don’t want to use the same reverb on all my patches or something.

Another thing I’ve done is save stomp and fx presets under song names. Then I can just browse rigs and then add those two groups of fx rather quickly to whichever rig I like for that song.

.....I love that “(for example Amazed Verse)” .....oh you mean that amazing song, amazing band, oh and you’re the guitarist #access to giants ✌️