I certainly don't need a 3 channel triple rec anymore.. but I just can't bring myself to part with it. The little 20W shitters are more than i paid for this thing in like 2002. 6 power tubes is a pain in the ass though. Oh well
It's not fit for metal style brutality, but for facemelting/headcrushing with my Bass VI I usually use a Si Brassmaster + an octave down. Add an LPB-1 on occasion for some extra volume and subtle bass/lowmids boost. But usually it's already too loud with just the two of them
Personally, I use a tube distortion, my active preamp and whatever flavor of distortion or fuzz/overdrive I'm feeling at the moment. Right now for heavy shit, I use the Beholder, but the version I have can't handle chords very well if you have the verb up too loud. I use a TGD as well a The Elements and I stack dirt like crazy. I get so much feedback sometimes that's it's impossible not to have slamming riffs.
"I do not have the ability to think rationally 90% of the time and I also change my mind at the drop of a hat".