SteveXFR

I've owned a few Sterling Stingrays and played a Sire V7. I don't think it's a case of one being a better bass than the other, they're different basses which are intended to sound different. The Sire V7 is more comparable with the Sterling Ray34 in terms of quality although closer to the Ray 4 in terms of price. The Ray HH models do sound different to the Ray H even when you select just the one pickup. Personally I prefer the single pickup H models.

As much as I like my Ibanez, I find the tone straight out of the instrument really bland but it's s really great starting point to build on with effects.

A tuner would make the pedal too big to fit on a board with other pedals. To have a tuner as well, you'd need an extra foot switch and that needs to be a reasonable distance from the other switches or you'll stomp on the wrong one by accident and suddenly the audience gets sad because there's no bass which means they can't dance and then they get angry and start fighting and throwing furniture. So basically, no tuner for safety reasons.

Why does it have to be your only pedal? Surely you'll be needing a tuner and then you may as well get a nice overdrive and while your building a board, you best add a fuzz and why not put on a phaser, delay and chorus. I'd probably put an EHX POG on there as wel

I wouldn't want either to be honest. If you want a really decent preamp with a great DI and a really nice gritty overdrive, a huge range of tones then get yourself a Two Note Le Bass or the new Two Notes Revolt. You can pick up a used Le Bass for around £150

Woolworths. Since they stopped selling records and pick & mix, they're dead to me. What could be better than a shop where you can buy the latest Def Leopard single on cassette and a little bag of jelly beans and chocolate mice.

I didn't think of that. FF will be a bit of a speed test as well

I see you spotted my typographical error.

I'm trying to push myself with some more tricky covers on the 5 string and trying to find interesting metal songs originally played on a 5. Any suggestions?

Adele, her entire back catalogue. Every song seems to be about getting dumped. Not a single song about cooking a full English or having a booze fueled horizontal dancing session after a night out. Maybe there's a link there.

Last night I saw New Model Army in Bristol. Excellent performance. The bassist appears to have an unusual picking technique, I've not seen anyone else picking that close to the bridge.

Maxwell Murders by Rancid The greatest ever punk bass line

Commodore Business Machines. They were the future of electric computer technology. Dead to me now. Dead

I saw them in Bristol several years ago. That's kind of their thing. Loads of smoke and even less chords than Status Quo. I'm not sure they're really doom, it's more like experimental soundscape type stuff.

British Leyland are dead to me.

I've been using the songsterr android app for occasionally incorrect tabs but recently it's stopped scrolling the tab as it plays. Any ideas what I might have done wrong?

Fan frets do look weird but they do actually have a purpose. Super low tunings with decent string tension without resorting to excessively thick strings. I'm not sure they'll be much use outside of metal.

I've not tried one but the sound isn't right for me so even if they feel incredible, I still wouldn't want one. I'd rather a Dingwall Combustion which is considerably cheaper

Single cut Foderas. They are incredibly ugly and don't sound too special but at least they're incredibly expensive.

Lenny Kravitz has a terrible song with no bass and Kid Rock has a song with the guitar solo in the wrong key. Train are just terrible but once decided to re-record a Led Zeppelin album in full note for note. That did not need to be done.

That's quite a claim. I've heard Kid Rock, Lenny Kravitz and Train on planet rock

GCSE music lessons at school put me off learning more. It only covered jazz and classical. Anything else was "not real music". Our music teacher was very old and wouldn't even acknowledge anything modern.

My daughter keeps telling me I need to learn some Muse (not sure I need to) so I'm having a crack at Bliss. It's a cheeky little number, I'll get there

I am quite jealous. I've never seen them

We saw a Tool tribute band called Tool Shed. I was rather sceptical but a mates band was supporting so we went. Tool Shed are awesome, the bassist was absolutely dead on with tone and playing but the drummer was absolutely incredible. That dudes not normal. The guitarist and singers were awesome as well but for me it was all about the rhythm section. I'll definitely see them again.