The bass was set at 3...out of 10 lol. The bass sounded fine and balanced when straight strumming, but when my plam would even graze the strings, it would distort with this terrible noise which i am positive was coming from the speakers themselves. The volume of the amp was set at about 4 (which was still screamin loud). Anyways, I probably wont get to try it again for another week or so, but i'll will try turning the bass down to 2, as silly as it sounds :p