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Will_i_am « Power unbeatable ... »
Published on 01/10/11 at 14:18Characteristics, according to the documentation Markbass:
- Pre-amplifier transistor and analog amplification.
- 300W into 8 ohms, 500W into 4 Ohms.
- Input Active / Passive.
- Set Input Gain and Master for powerful sound output.
- Equalization: Bass, Low Mid, High Mid, High.
- Filter ELVs (which cuts the treble and gradually makes its vintage and deaf), and FFT filter (which cuts gradually mediums, making the sound more modern and more aggressive)
- XLR pre or post-EQ with adjustable output level.
- Effects loop, tuner output.
- Jack & Speakon output.
- Weight 2.9kg (!!!!!!)
UTILIZATION
Configuration very easy to use. The knobs are very nice to handle, very precise, progressive and responsive.
The manual is simple, concise.
Readily obtained a good sound, but it depends on your bass. The Markbass amp offers a rendering of the sound of the instrument very loyal. The sound is absolutely not colored (even if the filters VLE and VPF are here for, in case ...). After that it depends on the quality of your bass.
I use this head with a cabinet sub Markbass 104HF 4Ohm, allowing me to draw 500W of the head.
Being able to send the signal in XLR, but especially pre POST EQ is just awesome. The sound engineer will love to work on your sound with YOUR EQ.
SOUNDS
Can get just about anything with this amp. The sound is always clean, precise and always well defined. Do not drool and still pierces through the mix of the group.
It fails possibly a little more heat to sound, but for that, much to turn to Mark Little Tube, R500, or any other Markbass head with pre-amplification is provided by lamps.
I play a Musicman Stingray 5, the sound is made to perfection. If the bass is exceptionally clear and audible, through the quality of the lower course, and strings (to DR Hi-Beams) but also by the precision and finesse of the amp, which is not often the case among other brands (Ampeg or Hartke, for example ...)
Rather than invest in a Little Mark Tube pre-amp I use a SansAmp Bass Driver DI to compensate for the lack of warmth of the sound (which in essence is mostly a matter of taste ...).
VLE and VPF filters provide a more sound, for the work and customize it beyond what is permitted by the equalization or a possible pre-amp.
After you have to love the sounds rather modern. If you like the roundness and character of the Ampeg, I do not guarantee that you'll like Markbass ... But it must try ...
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for a year now, and I have always been fully satisfied, it is in rehearsal, in concert and in studio.
The strength of this model is its Quality / Price / Weight / Power halluciant.
Failure could be lack of warmth of the sound, but it's more a matter of taste than a real defect.
I tried head Ampeg (SVT III and B2R), Ashdown (ABM evo III), Hartke, Eden, Peavey sometimes worth much more than this Little Mark III, and frankly the competition far behind compared to Markbass ( to be low share Genz-Benz and TC level electronic power to weight ratio, and again ...)
Configuration LM III + 104HF seems to me to be an excellent solution to a single speaker for all types of rooms. 500W for a total of 33kg ...
With experience I will ever be the choice without hesitation (or maybe I took a Mark Little Tube ...) and I highly recommend this amp head, which has nothing, but then nothing head amp input range, as its price might suggest ...
- Pre-amplifier transistor and analog amplification.
- 300W into 8 ohms, 500W into 4 Ohms.
- Input Active / Passive.
- Set Input Gain and Master for powerful sound output.
- Equalization: Bass, Low Mid, High Mid, High.
- Filter ELVs (which cuts the treble and gradually makes its vintage and deaf), and FFT filter (which cuts gradually mediums, making the sound more modern and more aggressive)
- XLR pre or post-EQ with adjustable output level.
- Effects loop, tuner output.
- Jack & Speakon output.
- Weight 2.9kg (!!!!!!)
UTILIZATION
Configuration very easy to use. The knobs are very nice to handle, very precise, progressive and responsive.
The manual is simple, concise.
Readily obtained a good sound, but it depends on your bass. The Markbass amp offers a rendering of the sound of the instrument very loyal. The sound is absolutely not colored (even if the filters VLE and VPF are here for, in case ...). After that it depends on the quality of your bass.
I use this head with a cabinet sub Markbass 104HF 4Ohm, allowing me to draw 500W of the head.
Being able to send the signal in XLR, but especially pre POST EQ is just awesome. The sound engineer will love to work on your sound with YOUR EQ.
SOUNDS
Can get just about anything with this amp. The sound is always clean, precise and always well defined. Do not drool and still pierces through the mix of the group.
It fails possibly a little more heat to sound, but for that, much to turn to Mark Little Tube, R500, or any other Markbass head with pre-amplification is provided by lamps.
I play a Musicman Stingray 5, the sound is made to perfection. If the bass is exceptionally clear and audible, through the quality of the lower course, and strings (to DR Hi-Beams) but also by the precision and finesse of the amp, which is not often the case among other brands (Ampeg or Hartke, for example ...)
Rather than invest in a Little Mark Tube pre-amp I use a SansAmp Bass Driver DI to compensate for the lack of warmth of the sound (which in essence is mostly a matter of taste ...).
VLE and VPF filters provide a more sound, for the work and customize it beyond what is permitted by the equalization or a possible pre-amp.
After you have to love the sounds rather modern. If you like the roundness and character of the Ampeg, I do not guarantee that you'll like Markbass ... But it must try ...
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for a year now, and I have always been fully satisfied, it is in rehearsal, in concert and in studio.
The strength of this model is its Quality / Price / Weight / Power halluciant.
Failure could be lack of warmth of the sound, but it's more a matter of taste than a real defect.
I tried head Ampeg (SVT III and B2R), Ashdown (ABM evo III), Hartke, Eden, Peavey sometimes worth much more than this Little Mark III, and frankly the competition far behind compared to Markbass ( to be low share Genz-Benz and TC level electronic power to weight ratio, and again ...)
Configuration LM III + 104HF seems to me to be an excellent solution to a single speaker for all types of rooms. 500W for a total of 33kg ...
With experience I will ever be the choice without hesitation (or maybe I took a Mark Little Tube ...) and I highly recommend this amp head, which has nothing, but then nothing head amp input range, as its price might suggest ...