Sold. Markbass TTE 500, Italian made, Markbass gigbag £450

[karlfer]

Superb condition, recently serviced by Gee, going back to the smaller PUMA, IF I can sell this in time.

3.5 years old, these were sold at £799 (unlike the current Indonesian ones at around £600). The Markbass gig bag for this was £80, daft price!.
This is a very powerful head, but remarkably light at 6kgs.

[url="http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Mark_Bass_TTE_500_800.html"]http://www.bassdirec...TE_500_800.html[/url]

Collection from Wigan/meet up preferred.

Sorry, no trades unless you have an immaculate PUMA 900.
Extra £20 for insured UK courier. Feedback at bottom of post,
thanks for looking.

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Edited April 19, 2016 by karlfer

[karlfer]

Hmm, absolutely no interest at all, that's a first

Anybody lurking in the dark waiting for reduction, ain't gonna happen

[yorks5stringer]

Great Amps, have a bump on me.....

[bassgurumonster]

People are lurking mate. Let em wait.

Edited April 13, 2016 by bassgurumonster

[franzbassist]

Fab amps, and Karl is a great guy to deal with too

[karlfer]

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1460550005' post='3026688']
Great Amps, have a bump on me.....
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[quote name='bassgurumonster' timestamp='1460568293' post='3026923']
People are lurking mate. Let em wait.
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[quote name='walbassist' timestamp='1460614034' post='3027187']
Fab amps, and Karl is a great guy to deal with too
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Many thanks guys, really kind.
Not going to bust a gut, as pointed out it's a great amp.
Just like the car cassette size, I never learn.
Daft thing is, I rarely used my back up rig, sold it last weekend and now I'm missing it.

[bassgurumonster]

Up yer meds Karl. Youll get it right one day........😊

[karlfer]

[quote name='bassgurumonster' timestamp='1460628353' post='3027334']
Up yer meds Karl. Youll get it right one day........
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Yeah, but what about the day after Mike?

[krispn]

Ridiculous price for this unit. It's a lightweight gem which sounds as good as it looks.

Don't let the minimal controls fool you it's a great giggable head. I use mine with a 212 for pub gigs and it's never let me down. Built in comp and you can push the front end while maintaining overall volume.

I have a 2nd bigger rig for showing off but when I need to grab and go rushing in from work and out to the gig it's the TTE every time.

Keep it Karl it's good to mix up the live sound and I'd imagine the Puma compliments this well in terms of different soinds

[karlfer]

Thanks Gavin, it is a decent price against the £880 it would have cost new (with gigbag).

For those not familiar, couple of links, one having a lot of knowledgable folks, including 2 of the big names from here.
A phrase something like "Markbass's hidden gem" is used.
Quite a few folk liking them more than their LM11/111, and some very favourable comparisons to "proper" Ampegs.

It looks quite big yet only weighs 6kgs.

[url="https://www.talkbass.com/threads/markbass-tte-500.739953/"]Markbass TTE 500 | TalkBass.com[/url]

[url="http://www.markbass.it/upload_area/fckeditor/TTE%20500%20Gold%20AWARD.pdf"]TTE 500 Gold AWARD.pdf[/url]

Cheers,
Karl.

Edited April 16, 2016 by karlfer

[krispn]

I'm gigging mine tonight in Edinburgh if anyone wants to hear one in the wild 😀

Some good info in those links Karl. I read all that stuff too.....after I got mine 😀

[yorks5stringer]

It's weird that something that is not 'small form factor' weighs so little!

[karlfer]

[quote name='krispn' timestamp='1460820588' post='3029089']
I'm gigging mine tonight in Edinburgh if anyone wants to hear one in the wild

Some good info in those links Karl. I read all that stuff too.....after I got mine
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Thanks for that. Hope you had a good 'un last night Gavin

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It's weird that something that is not 'small form factor' weighs so little!
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Yes it is weird. but that never really harmed popularity of the Orange Bass Terror, which is just a bit smaller and a bit lighter (possibly because it's got less pre valves and slightly less features than the TTE).

[laranjo]

trades?

[karlfer]

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trades?
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I've had a lot of trade offers.
The only one I will take would be an immaculate TecAmp PUMA 900.
Cheers,
Karl.