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johnallg wrote:

marc61 wrote:PS - the Markbass head fits in my gig bag. Let's see an SVT do THAT!

Oh, I could get an SVT in a gig bag, but would the bag hold, that's the real question.

You might need this to hold it.

Yeah, you would need that bag, and a chiropractor that gives wholesale rates for repeat customers.

btw soundman at tonights gig loved that I brought the Markbass. Ran it through the clubs SVT bottom..sounded great

Ampeg won, at least for me
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Oy! My back!!!

Congrats, Gil.

Anyone seen this current pricing??!!

http://www.carvinguitars.com/products/s ... duct=BR810

Any good?

That's a really good price on that Carvin cab! I had tried a Carvin bass cab several years ago in one of their stores. I thought it sounded pretty good until I played the B string on one of their 5 string basses. They've revamped their cabs a couple of times since. Something about a company having to revamp the line over and over makes me cautious about buying their products.

I used to have an SVT rig that I carried up & down stairs. Would not own one again. They weigh in at 85 lbs and that is just for the head let alone another 85 lbs for the cab. I am using combos these days although I just got some new PA gear and each cab weighs well over 100 lbs due to the fact of the powered speakers...I just couldn't get a better sound out of the PA though. Go Figure. At least if I do a Bass gig, I won't have that much weight to lug around.

I gave up hauling the fridge around years ago . I loved the sound , but not the hassle . These days I'm very happy with the old school thump a GK with a single ported fifteen delivers . I normally just play mid sized rooms and the volumes needed are not excessive .

No desire whatsoever to go back to the fridge .

for me,although size and weight clearly favors markbass,the really big factor is i seem to have an inordinately hard time figuring out the tonal control options on the svt series in general-i tend to do a lot of knob twiddling and not have it translate into audible changes.my little ampeg sb12 with one vol,bass,and treble -no problem-just wish it was 300 watts instead of 30. markbass controls are very simply laid out,and when you change a setting on one knob,you immediately hear a tonal change,making it easier to get what you want from it. i would like to check out a markbass with the 2 preamps (tube/ss) to see what kind of tube sounds it can provide.

I know this is MB vs Ampeg, but I recently used a friend's LMK (which he swears by) in rehearsal using my '72 4001, A/B-ing it with my Ashdown ABM500. I couldn't get that big, clanging, grinding "dirty 1000lb grand piano" sound using the MB, whatever I did. It sounded nice, but that was the problem. I was hoping to get one to replace the Ashdown, but unless using a Sansamp in front works, the Ashdown won't be going anywhere soon. The LMK did sound great for my more modern basses though; I require a different tone from those. The owner of the MB preferred the sound of the MB/4001 combination, but I thought that (as someone here said about their Ampeg) the Ashdown captured more of what I hear acoustically from the Rick. It just sounded much bigger and more aggressive (which of course isn't what everyone is after).

I am not really going to haul my SVT anywhere, I don't really understand this fixation with "it is really heavy".
What's wrong with keeping it for rehearsals and recordings?

If you're not moving it, then you made the right choice.

henry5 wrote:I know this is MB vs Ampeg, but I recently used a friend's LMK (which he swears by) in rehearsal using my '72 4001, A/B-ing it with my Ashdown ABM500. I couldn't get that big, clanging, grinding "dirty 1000lb grand piano" sound using the MB, whatever I did. It sounded nice, but that was the problem. I was hoping to get one to replace the Ashdown, but unless using a Sansamp in front works, the Ashdown won't be going anywhere soon. The LMK did sound great for my more modern basses though; I require a different tone from those. The owner of the MB preferred the sound of the MB/4001 combination, but I thought that (as someone here said about their Ampeg) the Ashdown captured more of what I hear acoustically from the Rick. It just sounded much bigger and more aggressive (which of course isn't what everyone is after).

Thanks for this, Shaun. I played through an Ashdown once and really liked it, but it's been 7 or 8 years now. I remember more than one Ashdown vs. Ampeg thread here, but it seems like it's been years. These days it's all Markbass vs. Ampeg. I probably should find a dealer and give Ashdown another listen.

sloop_john_b wrote:If you're not moving it, then you made the right choice.

+1

The weight of your amp becomes much more important when you have to carry it up and down your basement stairs two or three times a week.

My Ampegs sound really nice, but I can't carry them by myself.

rickaddict wrote:

henry5 wrote:I know this is MB vs Ampeg, but I recently used a friend's LMK (which he swears by) in rehearsal using my '72 4001, A/B-ing it with my Ashdown ABM500. I couldn't get that big, clanging, grinding "dirty 1000lb grand piano" sound using the MB, whatever I did. It sounded nice, but that was the problem. I was hoping to get one to replace the Ashdown, but unless using a Sansamp in front works, the Ashdown won't be going anywhere soon. The LMK did sound great for my more modern basses though; I require a different tone from those. The owner of the MB preferred the sound of the MB/4001 combination, but I thought that (as someone here said about their Ampeg) the Ashdown captured more of what I hear acoustically from the Rick. It just sounded much bigger and more aggressive (which of course isn't what everyone is after).

Thanks for this, Shaun. I played through an Ashdown once and really liked it, but it's been 7 or 8 years now. I remember more than one Ashdown vs. Ampeg thread here, but it seems like it's been years. These days it's all Markbass vs. Ampeg. I probably should find a dealer and give Ashdown another listen.

They're certainly worth a listen Jeff, although the above might not be true for another player. I admit I do eq quite heavily whereas most people who use MB seem to keep the eq fairly flat; unfortunately that doesn't really work for me.