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No fair! I apply to 3/5th of the settings

Most seem to sound great and are quality instruments. I will not buy a bass that has a penis for top horn.

A small mixer is best. Everything you need in the mixer, headphones or monitor (powered desktop speaker for instance) out.

A flying V should give ample airtime, although a curly cord would be ... amusing.

Elacin ER15 fitted ones for me. Why spend any money at all on gear and none to hear it for as long as you can? The toiletpaper idea has to be one of the worst I've heard, who are you kidding?

Indeed neither are blues or rock. Can't think of anything better than 'guitar-pop',or the almighty 'contemporary'.

My influences are good for metal! Really though: Frank Bello, Newsted, Burton, Les Claypool, Dan Lilker, Robert Trujillo...

My 3 basses are neatly displayed on the wall above the tele, using diagonal mounts. MTD 5 / EB SR5 / Dean cabbie (yellow hollowbody with checkered sides). My wife insisted! ... let me rummage about, see if I have a picture... [IMG]http://imageshack.us/scaled/medium/254/20120308162144.jpg[/IMG] Yep! Bad picture using the panorama feature of my previous phone \○/

InstaGAS >.< [quote]the PRODIGY is THE tube Bass Amplifier for the new millenium.[/quote] There's a new millenium already? Sometimes the boys from Marketing need a kick in the junction for mindless wordgushing.

Thank you! After a day of GTA V this was truely refreshing.

I'm not very familiar with rackable preamps. Alembic has some popular ones I think, and line6 has a rack pod pro maybe? There must be plenty made for studio use etc. The Jules Monique gets rave reviews but is not a rack unit I think. There are also the thirty-odd pedal preamps that would do the trick, and probably cheaper so you could mix&match a couple. The sale/trade section on here are a great place to start looking. Can check evilbay, but I have found some good prices by typing the unit name of choice in to google and selecting 'shopping'. People who actually know about preamps should be along shortly

Running two classD power sections it will not be the lightest but also none too heavy I imagine.

I was pointed out this by Rythmguitar who plays Engl: http://www.englamps.de/index.php?id=38&tx_ddfproducts_pi1[uid]=123&iPhoneBypass=1 It looks like a very well featured amp with some unique options! -2 separate preamps AND 2 separate power amps for you to mix & match. Plug in 2 basses with each their own path. All the bells and whistles you could wish for in a gigging setup. However I have yet to find a video of it that doesn't sound rather underwhelming.... where is Friedland when you need him? edit: pitcher

SWR 750X through a modern 4x12. Any tone I want, delivered tight and fast.

Besides all excellent options mentioned, have a look at the Verellen meatsmoke. Ben Verellen is usually happy to customize as desired.

Smoke on the Water. Followed closely by Running with the Devil, hit the road jack and Obituary's Slowly We Rot.

Thurely!

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1377530405' post='2188514'] I'd probably define Metal in the general sense as any music in the vein of Hard Rock, Grunge, Glam, NuMetal, Metalcore etc. So bands from Nirvana & Pearl Jam through to Slipknot & Wolfmother. Anything that has 2 or more guitars with a decent amount of dirt on them all. [/quote] That's a sweeping generalisation, completely discarding rock as a genre. Replying to OP: by the description given on wikipedia: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music "generally short-to-medium length songs, written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), as well as the common employment of repeated choruses, melodic tunes, and catchy hooks" Yes, most metal fits the Pop Music tag. What a shame so many people grab this opportunity to knock a genre that can be so challenging and diverse. I get the feeling many of the haters couln't play a convincing metal gig to save their life. Ah well, I'm probably too protective of my trade

I could really use that body! As backboard for my actual size Glamdring Original copy serial 84461293/100000000!

Decent headphones do help, the sennheiser HD25-1 and beyerdynamic dt770 pro 80 ohms are recommended for bass practice also. Powered studio monitors are great at home! I bought myself a pair of Argons for Christmas last year and they perform well above expectation. Edit: speling nod gud

Wish him all the best, even though he declined my order for a humbucker last year.

The taper not making it to the nut shouldn't affect your tone negatively. In fact there are string manufacturers that specialise in strings that taper off between bridge and nut. It facilitates a super low action setup! So it's a feature, not a flaw.

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1376849231' post='2179944'] Forgot to show my yellow bass [/quote] That is my yellow bass! (Or quite possibly one just like it)

Lighter fuel works on nearly anything. If an overnight soak seems to lack results, induce heat.