Marshall Bass Amps

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:05 pm

I've never seen a Marshall bass amp for sale in my area in my 30 years of playing.

If I ever did I'd probably buy it just because of that.

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:21 pm

Hey John-found the caps @ Mouser Electronics.

They're 2 650MFD x 350V.

lotta voltage in there;

jps · Post by **jps** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:02 pm

Now we know what Jared might look like!

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:42 pm

That pic would have been funnier if it had been Geordi La Forge, considering the history of the blackout bars...

Glad you found some, Jared

jps · Post by **jps** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:50 pm

What, a cross between Geordi and Worf?

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:37 pm

Capacitance is futile

gray · Post by **gray** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:43 pm

He'd be playing that black 8-stringer, wouldn't he?

henry5 · Post by **henry5** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:44 pm

I've had an old Superbass 100, a 2001, and a DBS 200. IMHO the Superbass sounded very good as long as you didn't put it through Marshall 4x12s(I HATE those cabs, they don't work for me at all), the 2001 sucked big time (sounded great in the shop and poor everywhere else), and the DBS was average; unfortunately nowhere near as good as my old Trace and about as good as the Ampeg SVP + poweramp combo I used prior to buying it (I didn't much like that either). Of the bunch, I'd choose the Superbass every time with a Ric.

heinpete · Post by **heinpete** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:03 am

My personal favorite top is the Marshall 3540 (lighter and versatile than the SVT-IV) together with an Ampeg 8-10 box. However the Ampeg B3-158 combo, one of the biggest combos is soundwise very close to it. The regular 4-12 stack boxes of Marshall I only like in the guitar version (of course for guitar), the bass versions never convinced me.

seyesbass · Post by **seyesbass** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:31 am

The Superbass is great for that filthy valve sound and its great for recording but onstage it needs help with projecting the bottom end. Thats harking back to the 70s when Squire would run the Marshall plus the Sunn amps for the bottom end.These days he still uses the Superbass along with his Ampeg.I think I will email Jim Marshall and tell him to get busy designing some rackmount bass heads to compete with the (Chinese) SVT range!..Shawn you were right thats the UMIST.(University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology...where the first computer was developed and where splitting the atom was developed so its all our fault)Mind you I wonder if they could develop an 8x10 that folds up into the size of a mobile phone?

henry5 · Post by **henry5** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:24 am

I used to use a Superbass through a 2x15 cab and never had any problem with bottom to be honest, but then I don't have a really bottom-endy sound on stage anyway; I tend to take a lot of the bottom off. Plus I'm not exactly playing huge venues. But even when I played the Marquee I only used a 150W amp through 2 4x10s and never got it past 3; I'm never loud on stage.

jim_morris · Post by **jim_morris** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:53 am

So did Marshall ever stop making bass amps for any amount of time? I was under the impression that they hadn't made any for a long time since nobody really talked about them and I never saw them in stores or catalogues. Seems like some of you guys have been using them all along though...?

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:56 am

I've been using an old one, the Major, for awhile. The Super Bass 100 and the newer JCM 800 Super Bass are somewhere...

Changed one of the JCM's to EL34's, now THAT's a dirty sound!

iamthebassman · Post by **iamthebassman** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:18 am

Here's mine, got it new 10 years ago, perfect studio bass amp, but I have also used it and an Ampeg Rocket Bass combo in a 2-amp live set-up which sounded amazing.

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:11 am

"I wonder if they could develop an 8x10 that folds up into the size of a mobile phone?"

Or at least small and light enough to throw in the trunk (boot).