FS: Musicman Audiophile HD500 - *WITHDRAWN* £350 Whitstable

[krispn]

If memory serves correct I recorded this album with this head and a Mesa walkabout 112 cab. The recording was certainly the di out of the amp and possibly the cab blended too. In fact all our stuff was recorded and played with this head/cab combo. I had little to do with things once it was recorded so don’t know what else was done post but I loved the head. Always delivered live and it was my only rig for a few years. 
 

https://tituspullo.bandcamp.com/album/regardless-of-how-it-appears

 

Edited March 11, 2023 by krispn

[dmccombe7]

26 minutes ago, krispn said:

If memory serves correct I recorded this album with this head and a Mesa walkabout 112 cab. The recording was certainly the di out of the amp and possibly the cab blended too. In fact all our stuff was recorded and played with this head/cab combo. I had little to do with things once it was recorded so don’t know what else was done post but I loved the head. Always delivered live and it was my only rig for a few years. 
 

https://tituspullo.bandcamp.com/album/regardless-of-how-it-appears

 

Good band. Enjoyed that.

 

[krispn]

12 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Good band. Enjoyed that.

 

Thanks pal. It was a fun band to be in. 

Edited March 11, 2023 by krispn

[Leftfret]

This is the Musicman branded MarkBass amp from a few years ago - can't recall which MB amp its based on - cosmetically very like the original Musicman amps. Very fair price for an MB amp with a valve pre. Sadly I would also suffer from serious domestic health issues if I bought another amp!!! 🙂

[krispn]

TA 501 I think

[Beedster]

5 hours ago, Leftfret said:

This is the Musicman branded MarkBass amp from a few years ago - can't recall which MB amp its based on - cosmetically very like the original Musicman amps. Very fair price for an MB amp with a valve pre. Sadly I would also suffer from serious domestic health issues if I bought another amp!!! 🙂

These amps predate Markbass, MdV partnered with EBMM in the mid-late 90s on these. You cab certainly see in them

some innovation later adopted by Markbass  in for example the vintage character circuitry, which is very nicely done 👍

[Beedster]

14 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Good band. Enjoyed that.

 

Agreed, good work 👍

[Leftfret]

15 hours ago, Beedster said:

These amps predate Markbass, MdV partnered with EBMM in the mid-late 90s on these. You cab certainly see in them

some innovation later adopted by Markbass  in for example the vintage character circuitry, which is very nicely done 👍

I stand corrected!! - Yes, I think its similar to the 501.

[Owen]

I played through one of these once. It should not still be on sale.

[Shaggy]

19 hours ago, Owen said:

I played through one of these once. It should not still be on sale.

 

Marked as “on hold”, bottom of p.1 - not sure that’s still the case?

[Undertone]

Not highly relevant I know but one of these was on eBay last week, asking £650 and the auction was ended after 2 days due to "the item no longer being available."

 

[Beedster]

12 hours ago, Undertone said:

Not highly relevant I know but one of these was on eBay last week, asking £650 and the auction was ended after 2 days due to "the item no longer being available."

 

 

 This is certainly a nice amp and probably worth a lot more than I'm selling it for, I got lucky and bought it from a studio owner local to me for £300 in an eBay auction and it's clearly had little use (I added £50 for the rack case and postage) 👍 

[Beedster]

13 hours ago, Shaggy said:

 

Marked as “on hold”, bottom of p.1 - not sure that’s still the case?

 

Buyer has gone a little cold Greg 🤔

[Beedster]

This is still available 👍

[Beedster]

... and having done a little more exploration, I imagine it would make a rather tasty recording amp, the tone even at low levels is glorious 

[MrDinsdale]

I wish mine worked, i tried it a couple of times at rehearsals. Great punchy warm tone from what I remember, might try and get it connected up soon. 

[MrDinsdale]

Very surprised its still here at that price!

[Beedster]

On 16/04/2023 at 15:40, MrDinsdale said:

Very surprised its still here at that price!

 

So am I mate

 

Need to move a bunch of gear ASAP folks, so happy to accept offers especially if you can collect 👍

[Beedster]

This rather lovely unit is still available 👍

[Calex]

I could be very interested and local as well 🤔

[Beedster]

As luck would have it, having taken this out today ahead of a visit from a prospective buyer, it seems to have developed a pre-amp fault so i'm going to need to get it looked at  

[dmccombe7]

Hopefully a simple fix for you. Sods law strikes again.

Dave

[Beedster]

7 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Hopefully a simple fix for you. Sods law strikes again.

Dave

 

Thanks Dave, it still sounds lovely but hard to get anything other than the yellow preamp LED to light and switching tube hasn't fixed it  

[Beedster]

If anyone want to take this off my hands for £150 on the understanding that at the very least it needs a new preamp tube but could be more, feel free to get in touch 👍

[Calex]

Have you thought about taking it to your local repair guy just up the road to you?

hopefully something not to expensive