SteveXFR

2H if I'm not mistaken.

Stuff the Turkey - Alien Sex Fiend

Range Rover beach - Taylor Hawkins

Definitely sounds left handed. That's clearly not a right handed tone, the sine waves are reversed.

A little bit ugly - Mighty mighty bosstones

Jesus Built My Hotrod - Ministry

Cheers Chris. The bass was better than expected and packaged to survive anything. Top man.

Has there ever been a major rock band who has released an album 30 years in to their career that's been considered their best work?

My second Stingray shaped instrument has just arrived, a Sterling Ra34. I didn't go looking for one to match my Ray35 but it looks great (I think it does) and it's in great condition

It's an extremely well played and well produced album but I personally found it disappointing

I was so excited for Californication when it was released. The only other RHCP albums I had were Mothers Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik so I expected more of the same. I was so disappointed when I got home from Woolworths and listened to it. I think it was about two years before I gave it a second listen and I was just as disappointed. It only ever got played after that when there was a young lady in my car who might not enjoy Slayer.

RHCP haven't made anything good since Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Everything since then has been a bit bland

My Terror goes from clean straight to wet fart and then on to various degrees of shart. I have to run it clean and use a preamp pedal for gain.

Which Orange amp do you use? If I crank the gain on my Terror bass it sounds wooly and unpleasant but I'm thinking there's something wrong with it.

Not only that, some rehearsal rooms do block booking discounts.

Is it not possible to book the same time and day every week or every fortnight?

I play quite a lot in drop C#. It's a really common tuning in metal. I use a set of 45-110 strings and they seem fine to me.all the way down to C standard.

A nice bit of Tool this afternoon and my favourite album, Aenema

I'm looking around Frome/Warminster area. Zoom is OK but I'd rather actually get out

I want to get out and play with other musicians and learn a bit more about jamming and improvisation so I want to find local jam sessions but I don't have a clue where to look. Any tips on how to find them?

So it's ok until you use black paint then it'll never be quite as good again?

I did mean in parallel. I just remembered, the Terror 500 head has a 2ohm / 4ohm switc on the back. Try switching it to 2ohm and I'm guessing that'll stop it overheating

Have you got your cabs connected in series? That would put the total impedance too low and cause the head to over heat and cut out. If that's the problem, the same will happen with almost any head. My Terror 500 with a 4x10 and 1x15 is deafeningly loud and until a recent power supply short circuit, it would play at extreme volumes for as long as I could keep playing.

It has now got a more powerful thermostatic fan and a load of extra heat sinks but the vent is right next to the fan so it could just recirculate its own hot air.

I've been looking at all valve amps and noticed that the Orange AD200B head is only 200W. The last gig I went to before the world ended was PigsX7 and I remember their bassist had one of them and it was fooking loud. They're also very expensive but maybe 200W is all I need. That gig was at a pretty big venue and the band were so loud that up front I could only hear the guitarist who was right in front of me