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  1. la bam
    After a day noodling at home with this amp, I'm completely blown away by just how good it is! The sounds are amazing. I must say though, I've had to do so drastic eq change to get the lovely warm sounds I was after. Firstly, I've set the gain a 12 o'clock as on some models you get intentional break up the further you turn the dial. Then, I usually always use my bass (yamaha bb424x) in the both pick ups on and tone full on. For this ive had to roll a lot of the tone off, probably so its a quarter on. Then eq on the amp wise I've got bass at 11 oclock. Mids at 7 o'clock (which really surprised me) and high at 1 oclock. If you have the miss high, or tone full on on the bass, you get that echo like heftless mark bass tone. Hence I've eq'd it out. The eq now works great across all the amp modules, and sounds amazing through my abm 2x10 (which again I didn't think would work We'll, but sounds great). That's the set up for home solo sound. We'll have to see how the settings change in a band scenario.
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    I'm not sure if any one can change the title, but after a days playing with the new amp head, I'm going to keep the 2x10. So, just the 115 combo for sale. £295 is a very fair price for that.
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    Every start up band should have one! £200-£300 for what was a pro rig 20 years ago is amazing value! My first bass rig (not a trace) 20 years ago cost me £200 and was terrible!! New bands should be snapping these up. Perhaps in another 10 years they'll hit 'classic status and prices will rocket again. I've always found trace like ashdown. On their own not an inspiring sound. But with a band a great sound that just fits nice. Me personally, my heavy lifting days are gone, but my markbass evo has a good trace emulator, so it's always there if I need it.
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    I've finally bitten the bullet and bought a mark bass evo 1. Due to a back injury I'm having to sell my ashdown abm rig, so was looking for something a lot lighter and easier to carry. The side handle / arms out knuckle scraping on doorways days are hopefully a thing of the past! There isn't that much info out there on these, but after about an hour in the shop I'd made my mind up. A few first impressions: 1) it looks way cooler than I thought. 2) it's larger than I thought. It's more like a HI FI separate size. Much bigger than a lm3. 3) markbass eq takes a bit of getting used to. Set everything at 12 and your in trouble. Set everything at 6pm and slowly tweak from there and you'll soon get a great sound. 4) if you run this through a mb cab, you'll get a mb sound. I ran it through a few cabs of different makes, and the mb cabs really were colouring it. 5) the amp simulators are fantastic. Some of the high end bright ones were phenomenol. 6) it's really loud. 7) it's really easy to use. I'm intending to match this with a barefaced super compact (do they do a 4 ohm version?) as I really like the weight and size of the barefaced and hear they match well with the markbass amps. Gonna have a play and see what settings I can dial in to my tastes.
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    Photo now added.
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    [url="http://"]http://[/url] The cab combo is the bottom one. The ext cab and bass guitar are not included.
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    [color=#000000][font=Arial][size=3]Love this rig to bits - cant explain how good it is. The 1x15 combo gives a great sound. Nice and rich. The 2x10 ext cab adds great clarity to the mids. The amp is 575w at 4ohm and around 300 at 8ohm. It has a valve pre amp for the lovely warm sound and grind when needed. The EQ section is the best ive ever come across. The high mids are superb. The volume section is phenomenol. REAL watts, not class D little watts! It also has ashdowns signature sub harmonic button if needed which really adds a roundness to the sound when used sparsely. The VU meter allows you to accurately set the correct input levels too. Also has a pre shape or flat button as well as a switchable eq section. More buttons and options include di post/pre, fx sends, ext cabs and the rest. More power and oomph than youll ever need. Everything is in very very good condition. Comes with wheels for ease of movement, and ashdown cover. These are birch ply cabs, so build rock solid but much easier to lift than youd ever imagine. You can also obviously just use this as the combo, or add the extension cab for the full rig effect. Absolute bargain at £375 for this. This isnt the cheaper mag range - this is the pro ABM range and a steal at this price. [/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Arial][size=3]Only selling due to a prolapsed disc in my back, which means im looking for something lighter and smaller.[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Arial][size=3]bass guitar in pic is not included.[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Arial][size=3]Pick up Chorley Lancashire[/size][/font][/color]
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    [quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1501265007' post='3343740'] It was demo-ed at the recent SW Bass Bash by Mojoke [/quote] How did that go?
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    Has anyone else tried one of these yet? Im very tempted. There seems to be no YouTube videos apart from the g a k and markbass one out there, which surprised me.
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    When I first started I thought I'd need to replicate the bass sound for each song. The reality is you definitely dont. Just have a great tone that works with your band, and perhaps a brighter or distorted patch for the odd song and you'll do fine. The band sound is much more important than replicating each song.
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    That stack looks great!
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    There's a visualizer in mydmx by adj. The software is free, but not sure if you need the dongle to activate the visualizer part.
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    [quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1499341356' post='3330835'] I think the OP was more asking why singers want to do songs if the original is so far out of their range. [/quote] Exactly!! Twenty million songs to choose from, and they choose ones they can't sing!
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    [quote name='essexbasscat' timestamp='1499278203' post='3330513'] To the OP. Try learning to sing yourself, you will soon have the answer [/quote] In which case I'd then choose a set from the thousands of songs that were in my range, sound great in that key, and not 25 that werent (hopefully people can see this is just a light hearted thread - of course I get the key change necessity and can do it easily). although I stand by the opinion not every song sounds good when changed.
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    [quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1499241298' post='3330144'] If you cant transpose to suit a singers range, you arent really a musician, are you? [/quote] Id say im enough of a musician to use my ears to realise that a lot of songs don't work or simply lose effect when you raise or drop the key, regardless of how good the singer then sings them.
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    That's a fair point.
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    * Yes, I'm being tongue in cheek. Just drives me mad when considering all the songs in the world, they choose ones they can't sing! To be fair though (on a serious note), a lot of riffs etc don't always have the same effect when the key is changed too. Some really energetic songs can sound drab. It's not always just a case of move the shape up or down the neck and everything will be ok.
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    I've found that just turning the bass down to 10/11 o'clock and boosting the high miss, then turning the volume up gives a more dynamic bass sound. It's the opposite to what I'd have thought would give me the sound I wanted - but it sounds great.
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    Ok, this may be slightly pedantic, but why cant a lot of singers sing simple songs in the key they were made famous in? I get it if its anything ridiculously difficult and high or low, but why cant they sing simple basic stuff that doesnt really go up or down an octave in the original key? Surely any singer can cover one or two octaves of A-G# ? ....and as a cheeky dig, why do they choose covers to do then want to change the key!! Why can't they just pick ones in a key they can do!!
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    I really, really hope it's not just suitable for bedroom practice or tiny venues.
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    I used to think a better bass and amp would give me the great tone i was after. Truth is - it doesnt. A bigger understanding of eq did more for my sound than anything and cost £0.
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    I get gas for certain pedals now and again. I get round it by having a zoom b3. The unit shows the pedal concerned in digital form as it would be, and give a decent representation of it. So I give that a blast for a few days, and eventually 99% of the time I'm glad I didn't spend the money on the actual physical pedal!
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    In the opinion of the audience - yes. It's upto the individual sound guy to decide whether to let the bands be responsible for their sound, or do what he can to mitigate such (albeit rare) events. Some couldn't care less and will say "cr4p in = cr4p out", and others will go to the opposite extreme.
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    I agree that if you use different effects and patches everyone would want that replicating - hence a micd amp or di after effects. But, I can also see from the sound man's angle - what if the post effect di sound he gets is absolutely terrible? Mushy, messy, incoherent etc - then he's be getting the blame and there wouldn't be much he could do about it. It's be easier taking a mix of either 2 di's or a di and a mic'd up one.
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    I've been doing a fair bit of work similar to this. I've found having the input high (measurable on my ashdown vu meter), then (the important bit) have I put the high mids up (which is never thought of doing). Then I dial in my valve drive until it starts to take effect. The high mids give it a lovely grind valve sound, which may help from a starting point of view.
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