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Its a box of tricks thats for sure.

The markbass evo i have for sale at the moment, has x2 separate channels, each of which can be set to 12 different models, and have their own eq and fx. AND if you want you can blend them. You can select which one to use by a little switch, or there is a foot switch available. Both channels can be run and selected for one bass, or you can also input 2 basses if needed.

The MTP I have in my mb evo is head and shoulders above any class d I have used. It is seriously loud. I think it's their own enhancement of class d.

As a bassist in a Queen tribute band - i have to say that that looks fantastic! Great bass! Glad it all worked out ok.

It's classic old guy talk without knowing it. Unfortunately I completely agree regarding with doing led Zeppelin over Ed Sheeran.....and the lack of bands and creativity..... BUT ...... Led Zeppelin is nearly 50 years old. That's the equivalent of walking into the music room in the 90s and saying you want to do Vera Lynn stuff. What did you want to learn when starting out? the current cool artists you see everyday and are part of youth culture....or some 40-50 year old music you're parents liked? I suspect those of us who love 70s and 80s grew up in the 70s and 80s and that why we love that and not music from the 20s and 30s. Weve got to move with the times.... I quit djing for a living for the very reason I'd got stuck loving older music and being bored of newet music. Doesn't make me right or wrong.....just older!

id agree for big gigs valves are pretty unimportant, as they can be replicated better than ever, and sit in the mix great. however, for small gigs, i can still to this day remember 2 bass sounds in a pub that blew me away - a fender bassman and an ampeg svt. such a warm sound. but that was because we were about 20 foot away from them and they werent using pa for everything etc.

id love an all valve amp, but cost and reliability on the road kind of put me off, and the fact you have to let them cool before moving wasnt a good idea for festivals etc. i do like the hybrids (i have an abm600), theyre not as rich as an all valve affair, but can do a good job and give everything you want - decent sound, fair weight and reliability. but for me, technology has moved on, and im currently creating my rig of tech 21 vt bass rack and power amp. the amount of realistic valve emulation you can get from this tiny 1u rack is unbelievable and very realistic. likewise the markbass evo i have also does a fantastic job and thats only 3kg ! id love something like an ampeg v4 etc but was put off by the fact the di doesnt send the valve sound to the desk when cranked, just clean, which kind of defeated the point. You could mic it up, but thats more hassle and risk of knocking the mic over in small spaces etc. At least with the vt i can send as much tube emulation as i want to the desk from di. what really put me off the heavy valve amps is the fact that everything goes to the desk anyway....then is replicated on a class D amp anyway in the PA (unless we use our big PA) so it seemed a bit pointless. the next thing though is almost back to the same dilemma - do i power the vt rack with an A/B amp or class D, or are there freely available cheap valve power amps available?

pure luck. i was just looking on ebay and it came up. cost me a fortune, buy it now, but gees, its worth it. Tech 21 should carry on making these. Add in a compressor like the flyrig and youve got one hell of a powerful rack.

Different amps and manufacturers work in different ways. Some will completely bypass the pre amp by plugging into the fx send and return, some will mix, some will bypass the preamp by using the ashdown method, and some, like markbass, can't be bypassed at all.

For some reason on this particular amp, if you plug your bass into sansamp then sansamp into the fx return them nothing will happen. If you plug in your sansamp to your fx in and out and bass into amp, you will get the sansamp working properly, but still get that ashdown colour. Only doing it the way I mentioned seems to bypass ashdowns preamp. It was Nancy Johnson on a previous thread who suggested it. That method is just for that particular amp though. Others may work differently.

If your using the abm600 that will still be ashdown coloured whether eq is on or not. To bypass the preamp section (and ashdown colour) plug the bass into the sansamp then the sansamp into the fx return on the rear, then put a dummy Jack (headphone type adaptor) into the bass input on the ashdown. That will then in theory replicate the sound going to the desk, rather than the coloured ashdown sound and sansamp combined.

hi - Im using the rack vtrm direct into a power amp, not a bass amp, so there should be no colouration etc. im coming up with some fantastic sounds. its a wonderful bit of kit.

afternoon all, im not sure if a thread like this already exists, or whether it should go under effects or amps and cabs as its available in both preamp rack form and pedal form. Just wondering what setting people use for their VT bass preamps/pedals? or indeed, RBI and RPM modules? I used mine for the first time last night. Didnt have much time to sound check, but used: DRIVE: 10 oclock. CHARACTER: 11 oclock. BLEND: 5 oclock. BASS: 4 oclock. MID: 12 oclock. HIGH 2 oclock. It gave quite a musical sound, but wasnt a thick powerful tone (or not on stage anyway). i couldnt quite get used to the volume - it seemed to really jump out of the mix if i turned up. it seemed to fit in well in the mix, but sounded clanky isolated. was playing through a v4 bass, vtrm, power amp into a sealed markbass 610.

If the courier company werent so greedy they'd see there is enough work for all the companies to deliver parcels, carefully and respectfully, and all make a good living. Instead they're all trying to take over the entire market, under cut each other and deliver in completely unrealistic timescales.

Just because we are playing as whole different range of gigs now with hired in backlines (8x10s etc) I just go straight to the desk through a vtrm rack. All the band kind of go 'sound in a box' direct to the desk, and we either take a signal from there to monitors or a power amp to the stage gear and adjust for monitoring only there. I take either the abm or evo just in case when we get there there is no on stage amp or monitoring is poor.

To be honest, apart from the italian guys video for markbass, and the samples, the other reviews/demos are rubbish. Even that one doesn't do it anywhere near justice. These are very difficult to get hold of now. Even most of the shops that say they have them don't. I don't want to sell it, but I've 3 amps and 1 of them has to go. The other in the mix is my ashdown evo iv abm600. To be honest I'd be more than happy which ever one I keep. Both fantastic amps in different ways.

Good luck with that. No courier will wait, and it's just another disguised tactic from the courier company to say you agreed it was in good condition when you signed for it, so if it's not you can't claim.

I lost faith in couriers earlier in the year when then cracked my SC3. What annoys me more is now they charge you to do a job - pick up and deliver a parcel in the same condition as it was picked up - a job any of us could do, but if they dont manage to do that job - either by non delivery or arriving damaged - you dont get anything back unless you have paid extra to insure it!! and then theres a million caviates to try and stop a pay out. In what other job are you allowed not to do what youve been paid for and then only allow rectification in the form of compensation by the client having to take out their own insurance policy against you not doing your job??!! drives me crazy.

With the lack of info out there on the EVO markbass really have done themselves a dis service. Theyve put so much work into it that its an amazing amp, but they never really mention its features in depth. For example, the 3 band eq is designed to react with the gain/drive control for each specific amp - ie with the ampegs adding in much more bass really brings in a lovely valve drive, yet with other models youll get a defined bottom end, and with others a smoother sound. Its not just pick a sound then add high. mid or low on top. If they would have really invested time in promoting this properly, im sure there would be forums and settings sharing out there. Ive played in in completely contrasting bands and environments and never ever had an issue getting perfectly in the mix.