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Hi there, I've been through three Bassman 500 amps within a couple of months , all with the same problem. Was looking at getting something to give me that Svt grit with half the weight. Tried the heads with multiple cabs and still pop. Sent the first one back to fender same thing. They claimed first off that the wrong type of fuse was installed, then when it happened again they said it could be the voltage in the area, as they are based on 230 volts rather than 240 and that could be behind it. After the third head I just wanted my money back. Really disappointed, when it worked it sounded great. Was hoping the problem would go away. I think that there is a whole batch issue that fender have on that particular consignment or the design cannot cope with 240 volts and has a bad design in that area. Real shame....

The terror bass, packs a lot of volume giving its price and can see the appeal. However I have to agree that it's not really a metal amp. Given my years of mixing metal bands, at a moderate level they sound bassy yet gravelly, the eq and drive are more of a vintage vibe. The key to any good metal tone is solid low end clear high mids with an element of drive and grind to make those riff muscley and to sit well with the guitars. There are a few great heads out there for you. Ampeg offer the portiflex series and the svt 7 first being ss and second hybrid with a valve pre. You can crank the both and get the classic svt grind refine the attack with onboard compressors and cut through the the mix with the ultra hi and ultra low switches offering you 40hz and 3khz boost respectively. TC offer the RH series nice clean heads with great compressor tube tone and tweeter tone on top of that they offer a fully sweepable parametric eq. You can Achieve similar results as ampeg. Hartke LH series is great for clean headroom, though they've just released a new bass attack pedal which would be a great paring to bring the metal grind to the equation and still in your budget. Or just run a sansamp through most amps to get a tasty blend. 😊

I own this bass too. I originally had flats put on it for that big woolly humbucker lovelyness Like you said it has a high output, lowering the pickup does even it out however its a powerful beast. The way i got a clearer zingy tone on it was firstly plug it into your active input or activate the active switch on the amp, stopping it from overdriving your signal. Secondly stick some naturally bright strings like Rotosound swing bass stainless steals. There zingy and gritty then try eqing your amp to find the edge. If not, then Put something in front of the amp like a sansamp to dial that zing in. All those things worked great for me, hope that this was helpful.

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