Al Krow

Marcus Limited 800 = 500W at 8 ohms. That's going to pair very well with some excellent 8 ohm cabs! Particularly those that soak up watts fearlessly

@jazzyvee great post thanks. I was in the queue behind you for that Dubster 2 last year In addition to the two uses you mentioned, I suspect it could also work well for synth bass.

They'd be better off buying ACG, Ashdown, Barefaced, Chowny, Laney, Marshall or Shuker (which other Brit brands am I missing?) if they had any sense!

Yup bad news for us UK bassists! But great news for American, Japanese and European tourists and the UK tourist industry

Just looking at your band pass chart - is that the actual one for the 'Millerizer'? It seems to be inverted to what I would be expecting from a VPF mid scoop type filter i.e. I would be expecting a cut between 5 kHz and 12 kHz (and therefore a relative boost of the lows and the highs).

Yup - that's very much my conclusion too! I think we're in agreement that the new Marcus Limited range has finally nailed it on the EQ centre-point front and I look forward to buying Fretmeister's new amp off him when he's getting his next 'must have now' toy 😂

Good stuff - I look forward to getting your thoughts on it once you've had a chance to put it through its paces. For me, it's always nice to have something a bit tonally varied - it just seems to keep everything from going stale. I find that particularly with my Yammy and Ibby basses. I think you're going to get some of that tonal variety / keeping things fresh with your M900 and MB heads. Enjoy!

Haha! Is that a BF SC you have by any chance? If so, that would be far too BC clone if you've got both the same amp and cab as me and are now thinking about going MBass - I previously had the LM3 😁 So you going to push the button on the Marcus Limited or going to hold off for the GK Legacy?

@3below and @Raggy - not wanting to go off piste on a FS thread, but am really interested to know whether your BF Dubsters are: - the v1 or v2? - what else you pair yours with? - whether you're getting any low end boominess on your sets and if so how you have dealt with that? If you've got any clips uploaded of the Dubster being used, that would be fantastic - couldn't find anything much at all on YouTube!

Thanks dB, that makes good sense and I'll try to get with the jargon! 😁 So I guess I'm not into 'clanky' drive tones which is at the core of this pedal, but much more into meaty growl. Although having said that, I am a huge fan of Geddy!!

The new Marcus Limited range seems to have dealt with ALL the EQ shortcomings that were gripes for me with the old LM3. The LM3 had the bass EQ centre set too low at 40Hz, a massive 'hole' between high-mid centre EQ and treble EQ, and with the treble EQ being centred at a less than useful 10kHz. The EQ centre points and semi-para mids look like just the ticket on this new model - so I think it's going to be their best D class head yet. It should give you a bit more of that Markbass warmth to contrast with the clean tone of your DG M900 and I suspect you're going to love it Btw - if you're wanting that top end zing for slap, do your cabs have a tweeter?

I'll let others with more expertise than me to revert on how band pass filters work...but in relation to your Q: Comments on the net suggest that the 'Old School' and 'Millerizer' controls are just a relabelling of the previous Markbass 'VLE' and 'VPF' filters found on the LM3 . That would obviously make good commercial sense for MBass to be recycling existing tech! VLE = was a treble roll-off and the VPF a mid-scoop - which is the classic setting for slap bass. So if they have swapped the Millerizer for a Semi Para mid EQ, that should give you a fair bit more control and you'll still be able to mid scoop to your heart's content

Cheers Dosi. Agreed the DG pedals are more inherently mid-scooped and fizzy and this pedal doesn't have that baked in in the same way. The fizz I'm referring to, is there where the drive is fully engaged and the high pushed above 2pm e.g. can be heard between 3.20 to 3.35 on your review (and elsewhere). That's the particular tone I'm not a fan of, for my style of playing, but others may be. This pedal can obviously do a fair bit otherwise, but the 'core drive tone' is essentially a fizzy one, would you agree? I can therefore understand your preference for setting this to light overdrive. Btw - I thought your by-passed tone was really good

@Dosi Y'Anarchy - hey thanks for pulling that together and sharing with us! It's a really useful format review - you get a really good sense of what the pedal is capable of.

Looks interesting. Anyone going? Couple of cool offerings from Boss already announced (SY-1 and RC-10R pedals), both of which I suspect I'm going to end up getting! Been a long time since I've bought any Boss kit and it really does feel like they have upped their game recently. If you spot anything that's of interest to us BC'ers please do share them on this thread.

Yeah fair do's. But my simple view is that life's too short - if you're not loving it and in fact it's become a chore, is it worth the grief? In my books bass, bandmates and indeed Basschat are all supposed to be fun and when they cease to be, move on. As Chris profoundly said, there's always golf... 😄

Having recently got a Fearless 112 cab which seems to be able to eat low end for breakfast(!) I thought I'd give the Mastotron as a pure sub generator a spin. Set all the other dials to 'off' / clean and switched the 'Subs' from my usual 2 to 3. Well I'm a convert: this clean sub setting justifies the entry price for the Mastotron by itself! Combine with my Mesa M6 amp's 'pull deep' on bass EQ and WOW - that's one BIG low end!! DOD Meatbox eat your heart out - this set up is actually gonna be 'usable' without recourse to PA sub woofers!

Yay! We may have differed over the years on our view on gear, although I suspect we've ended up a lot closer on that score, than either of us would care to admit - lol! But on this point I'm 110% with you, Chris. For me that feeling of being most 'alive' is when I'm playing bass to an appreciative audience with great band mates. ... and it certainly beats golf 😂

Haha - well this one is going to be your fault Woody (together with my 3 Ibby basses - lol!) That and the fact that Source Audio have taken forever to get their C4 pedal out the door and are going to want us to part with £75 more than this Boss pedal for the privelege, so maybe you've actually saved me some cash for once? Well at least that's how I am going to rationalise it! 😂

Where I'm landing is as follows, the SY-1: is an update of their current SYB-5, but has gone from 11 to 121 available sounds, better tracking and poly capability; seems closer to the SY-300 in terms of available sounds but doesn't have the tweakability or presets of the SY-300. However, importantly, it's just one third of the price and size of the SY-300, both of which are major plusses; has the immediacy and easy work-flow of being able to adjust in 'real time' via six pedal knobs rather than needing to deep menu dive via a PC editor; the flip side, and the only major negative for me, is a lack of presets for being able to switch quickly between your favourite 3 or 4 settings which would have been very welcome for live use; sounds good and tracks well, certainly on normal guitar. Overall - this packs in a great deal and seems to deliver a lot of what we could be asking for when it comes to synth, other than presets. For me, the new Source Audio C4 seems much more akin to the FI in terms of needing to deep menu dive via a PC editor and I'm not yet convinced about the C4's tracking from the short clips I've seen so far - hopefully the final version will prove me wrong and be very good at tracking as that is such a key feature for live use. Whilst the SY-1 doesn't have presets, it's accessibility via its six knobs provides a welcome break from having to menu dive on yet another of my pedals - HX Stomp, FI and two existing SA pedals are plenty on that score! Would love to hear a few more bass focused reviews to see if it tracks equally well on bass. If it does, I'm in!