diff --git a/src/RemSound.App/MainForm.cs b/src/RemSound.App/MainForm.cs
index 5ca974c..c89c733 100644
--- a/src/RemSound.App/MainForm.cs
+++ b/src/RemSound.App/MainForm.cs
@@ -3268,8 +3268,23 @@ public sealed class MainForm : Form
 
     private PeerShaping GetOrCreateShaping(string? key)
     {
-        if (key is null) return new PeerShaping();
+        if (key is null) return NormalizeBands(new PeerShaping());
         if (!peerShaping.TryGetValue(key, out var s)) { s = new PeerShaping(); peerShaping[key] = s; }
+        return NormalizeBands(s);
+    }
+
+    // Grow the band-gain arrays to the current band counts (e.g. a profile saved when the advanced EQ
+    // had 10 bands, now 12) so the new bands can be read and stored. New slots are 0 dB (flat).
+    private static PeerShaping NormalizeBands(PeerShaping s)
+    {
+        if (s.SimpleBandsDb.Length < PeerEqBands.Simple.Length)
+        {
+            var a = s.SimpleBandsDb; Array.Resize(ref a, PeerEqBands.Simple.Length); s.SimpleBandsDb = a;
+        }
+        if (s.AdvancedBandsDb.Length < PeerEqBands.Advanced.Length)
+        {
+            var a = s.AdvancedBandsDb; Array.Resize(ref a, PeerEqBands.Advanced.Length); s.AdvancedBandsDb = a;
+        }
         return s;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/RemSound.Core/PeerShaping.cs b/src/RemSound.Core/PeerShaping.cs
index 0595e15..ad0efc5 100644
--- a/src/RemSound.Core/PeerShaping.cs
+++ b/src/RemSound.Core/PeerShaping.cs
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ public sealed class PeerShaping
     /// (bass, mids, treble). Kept independently of the advanced bands.</summary>
     public float[] SimpleBandsDb { get; set; } = new float[3];
 
-    /// <summary>Gains in dB (-12..+12) for the 10 advanced graphic-EQ bands, in the order of
+    /// <summary>Gains in dB (-12..+12) for the 12 advanced graphic-EQ bands, in the order of
     /// <see cref="PeerEqBands.Advanced"/>. Kept independently of the simple bands.</summary>
-    public float[] AdvancedBandsDb { get; set; } = new float[10];
+    public float[] AdvancedBandsDb { get; set; } = new float[12];
 }
 
 /// <summary>The fixed EQ band layouts. The user sets each band's GAIN; the centre frequencies are
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ public static class PeerEqBands
         ("Treble", 8000.0),
     ];
 
-    /// <summary>10-band graphic EQ on ISO octave centres (all peaking).</summary>
+    /// <summary>12-band graphic EQ — octave centres low down, finer through the presence region
+    /// (2/3/4/6/8 kHz) so there's a band between 4 and 8 kHz. All peaking.</summary>
     public static readonly (string Label, double Freq)[] Advanced =
     [
         ("31 Hz", 31.0),
@@ -62,7 +63,9 @@ public static class PeerEqBands
         ("500 Hz", 500.0),
         ("1 kHz", 1000.0),
         ("2 kHz", 2000.0),
+        ("3 kHz", 3000.0),
         ("4 kHz", 4000.0),
+        ("6 kHz", 6000.0),
         ("8 kHz", 8000.0),
         ("16 kHz", 16000.0),
     ];