For all you Markbass/DAW Fans

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Amp and cab modeling software accurately emulates Markbass amplification
Markbass has now turned its attention to the software market with the launch of a dynamic recording plugin, Markbass Studio 1, suitable for either PC or Mac.

The plugin is one of only a few on the market that accurately models bass amps and speaker cabinets, and is based on three Markbass amp heads and six Markbass cabinets. It incorporates six different microphone choices, plus control over compression, mic position, tweeter level, room ambience, and more. The amps featured are the all-tube Classic 300, the tube-preamp R 500, and the solid state (with tube compressor) TA 501. Cabinets modelled are the Standard 151HR (rear-ported 1x15”), Standard 152HR (rear-ported 2x15”), Standard 104HR (rear-ported 4x10”), Standard 104HF (front-ported 4x10”), Standard 106HF (front-ported 6x10”) and Classic 108 (sealed 8x10”).

Users can combine and adjust any combination of heads, cabinets and microphones, and store their settings in one of 64 user presets. They can also browse through 64 factory presets, which have been designed by project engineers as well as top Markbass artists. The plugin can be applied to a bass track either during or after recording, and a standalone version, which operates on its own without recording software, is also included.

The plugin gives users a wide array of sound choices for bass, providing a convenient, high-quality alternative to recording with bass amps and cabinets, and accessing some exciting, realistic sounds.

The plugin is useful not only to bassists, but also producers, engineers, songwriters, and anyone who uses hard disk recording software to create music.

The Mark Studio 1 plugin was designed in collaboration with Overloud Technologies and product manager Paolo Costa, a Markbass artist and one of the top session bassists in Italy. The DSP modelling was created at Studio Logic in Milan, using actual Markbass amps and cabinets in order to faithfully capture their sonic properties. The sessions were supervised by sound engineer Renato Cantele and sound designer Max Costa, both experts in computer science and sound. In order to create the most accurate and realistic emulations possible, they created the sound models by using non-linear convolution instead of standard DSP techniques, in order to more accurately clone the sound.

Six of the most popular microphones were used, including dynamic, condenser and ribbon mics. These were carefully evaluated, both individually and in combinations, as were their positions relative to the speakers.

Markbass Studio 1 is available immediately throughout the UK at a suggested price of £199.