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Another recommendation for ShirtySomething. Great to deal with, and the owner's a bass player as well.

Initial thoughts were straight to the Rumble 500 or the Ampeg BA210. If you look at Thomann, you'll see that Hartke do a similar combo, the HD500. If you look through the second hand market, either here or on eBay/Gumtree and the like, you could possibly find either the Fender or the Ampeg for a more reasonable price, or something like an Ashdown Rootmaster 420, or something else from a higher price range (GK, MarkBass, etc.). You can also look at different types of amps, like a combo, or a head & cab on the second hand market. Though very much like basses, you need to really try some out before you commit to buy anything, so I would recommend that you go and visit some of your local (and not so local) music shops, and try out whatever amps they have in stock. Talk to them and see what kind of thing they can get their hands on for you to try out. If you know the shop, take your bass with you too. Most important of all, use your ears.

It all depends on the amount of sweep you want with your sound. The MXR Phase 90 is good, but has a limited sweep (IMO), where the EHX Small Stone has quite a wide sweep pattern. For my money, it would be a Small Stone every time. Especially the "big box" Small Stone, not the Nano, because they look ace. Unfortunately, I've just sold my last "big box" Small Stone, so I'm feeling a tad nostalgic about them. The Small Clone (again, the "big box" version) is a superb Chorus too. Just sold one of those as well. The Red Witch Phaser and the MoogerFooger Phaser are both supposed to be great too, but I've never tried either.

There's also that company in America that makes guitars from recycled skateboards.

Instead of looking for an "App that can do that", sit down, switch off the electronics, pick up your bass and play. Remember all the scales you've painstakingly learned and practised, remember all the other tips & tricks you've learned, and... play. Play for 5 minutes, play for 5 hours... just play. Yes, it can be frustrating, but it is also rewarding. That's the whole reason why we play, the whole reason why we gather here to talk about playing bass. The easy way is simply to PLAY.

Does the Terror head have an effects loop? Plug your Helix into the Effects Return, you're bypassing the pre-amp completely and using the Helix as the pre-amp. Always thought that the 4 cable method was a real faff, where 1 cable will do the job. I have a HD500X, and do this on my amp and with the amp in the rehearsal room, sounds good to me.

I cheat and plug in to the Effects Return on an amp, bypassing the need to buy an FRFR (which will invariably be cheap & low end and therefore not much good for bass).

Wear ear plugs. Buy a Rickenbacker (they only get more expensive!).

Theoretically, the ABM500 will "only" be pushing 300-350w into an 8 ohm cab, and the full 500w into a 4 Ohm load (potentially 2x 8 Ohm cabs), where a valve amp will push all it's power into either. So the ABM into 1x 8 Ohm cab will be pretty much the same as the BTA200 (which is theoretically pushing 300w) into 1 or 2 cabs. You would potentially notice a difference between the two if you were running 2x cabs on both amps.

Agreed

Why break the habit of a lifetime?

Nowt as queer as folk

Jeff moves manically anyway, usually swearing a lot. Interesting news. Matamp are highly underrated IMO.

Maybe use a lighter pick for a softer "attack"?

Gumtree Local Facebook Music Groups Local connections Good old Ad's in Music Shop notice boards The latter is being killed off by social media, but it's still worth taking a bit of time to peruse the ad's in the local music shop(s). Even with social media, it still takes time and a fair deal of luck to find the "right" band / "right" people. Still worth doing though. Good luck!

Don't they do a replica of the Ovation Breadwinner? That would be cool as a bass IMO.

I know, all of the elements are there, but I still don't "get" them, they leave me somewhat cold. To be fair, I didn't say I "liked" the songwriting, but I appreciated it. Subtle difference, but difference nonetheless. I appreciate the skill that it takes to write and play songs that move around, switches time signatures & tempo, but I still don't get them. Hey ho.

I appreciate the musicianship and the songwriting, but no matter how much I try, I just don't 'get' Tool.

I was at the show that became Black Sabbath's 'Reunion' live album.

Keep rocking, keep looking for a band. Hang in there.