SteveXFR

Holy Mountain  - Sleep 

The Decline - NOFX

Planet's Collide - Crowbar

Heavy metal genius

It's worth bugger all, maybe even less but my daughter has an early 90's Peavey international. I was just curious as to whether that would be considered vintage. It's around 30 years old now. It's actually quite nice to play but pretty much worthless to anyone but my daughter.

What would define a bass as vintage? Is it purely age or is there more to it than that?

What amp are you using? I'm just thinking if you found both instruments underwhelming, it could be the amp that's the problem. 

IEAIAIO - System Of A Down 

Still Born - Eagulls

I'd tune the 5 string down as well. I assume you're playing metal and there will be lots of playing riffs off open string which gets really tricky if you're not in the right tuning. 

Playing something like Reign In Blood would probably be impossible if you aren't in the same tuning as the guitar or have 8 fingers 10 inches long

9 hours ago, neepheid said:

 

Is your amp a combo or head and cab?  Sounds like head + cab by what you write here, but I wanted to check anyway.

Head and cab

14 minutes ago, KingBollock said:

Are you having doubts about giving up the band you just left, or just in general?

A little of each.

I only have one bass and one amp but the amp is 600w with a 4x10 so maybe I should downsize although smaller cabs seem to be more expensive than big ones

Well I finished with the band with two gigs on consecutive nights, the first was brilliant, couldn't have been better. The second had terrible sound, we were the wrong support act so the audience weren't in to us and I got terrible hand cramp. Driving home I was glad I wouldn't have to do it again. 

I put all my gear up for sale and couldn't wait for it to go then I got enquiries and got doubts about giving up.

I'm confused 

Holywood Swinging - Kool And The Gang

3 hours ago, Nice Guy Rich said:

I used to rehearse at Soundlab in Loughton, Essex, I played through an Orange Terror bass head into an Ampeg 8x10, simply the best sound I have ever got.

That'll be the cab, the Terror isn't a great amp. Tons of power but a horrible preamp. I've met a few bassists who use them and just run an external preamp in to the effects return to bypass the Orange preamp. 

Just saw this video. I can't play this song with two hands and I've tried plenty of times. 

This is seriously impressive 

The place I used to use had a Trace Elliot V Type with TE 4x10 and 1x15. It sounded colossal. 

Orange OBC410 

4x10 speaker cabinet. Original eminence drivers. Tolex is a bit grubby in places and there's a couple little snags but no real tears.

Two Notes Le Bass dual channel value preamp in good condition - £150

Darkglass Vintage Microtubes overdrive in good condition - £150

Boss TU3 digital chromatic tuner pedal in good condition - £35

Harley Benton PowerPoint ISO 2 Pro with 6x 9v outputs and 2x switchable 9/12/18v outputs - £35

Ashdown ABM 600.

Really great condition. Everything works as it should. 

Ibanez SRMS805 in brown burst. All original. Everything works exactly as it should.  Really nice condition. 

Plays really nicely and sounds amazing.

Price now dropped to £550

1 hour ago, Supernaut said:

WTF is a casual racist? 

One level down from smart casual racism and a lot more relaxed than formal racism. 

4 hours ago, Supernaut said:

Mastodon went downhill after Crack The Skye. Nothing good since then. 

Crack the Sky was their peak but what they made after that was good as far as mainstream metal goes. I'd say they're still making better music than Metallica. 

Prehistoric Dog - Red Fang

I love some of the early Metallica stuff but Black onwards is all bad. On the odd occasion they wrote good music, they ruined it with dreadful production. I honestly don't understand why they're still huge when there's so many other bands making much better metal music. It's about time Mastadon or Baroness too their place as hard rock/metal giants

34 minutes ago, Jackroadkill said:

 

Oh, now you're talking....  Kyuss with Cliff would have been amazing.

Scott Reader from Kyuss did audition with Metallica. I think Scott was too good for Metallica as well.