Sparky Mark

Good choice. Two NY121P and a LM3 is a brilliant and flexible set up. Sounds way bigger than it looks.

I used to own 90's made 410XL and 115XL. Back then the hartke cabs were made in the USA which I guess was the main reason for the higher prices. Had mine for 15 years through house moves, storage in the garage for baby breaks and always worked like new. I have a real soft spot for those cabs but don't miss the weight!

Played two gigs last weekend with a Spector USA Coda Deluxe with Aguilar 60s pups and OBP2 pre. Absolutely stunning bass a bit more than your budget but if you are looking for a super Jazz it should be on the shortlist.

The 1000W power amp board is effectively a step and repeat of the Big Bang/LM3 500W unit. I think it's a shame that it has such a radical colour scheme, as a LM1000 in standard Markbass livery would be a logical upgrade of the LM800.

Edward bought my synth pedal recently. Very smooth transaction with great communication throughout. Thanks Edward.

Also consider the USA made Spector Coda Deluxe.

Over the past couple of years I have owned and gigged every combination of the Markbass 121 combos and cabinets. I.e., CMD121H with TRV121H, CMD121H with NY121P, CMD121P with CMD121H and finally CMD121P with NY121P. Whilst they all sound great IMO, I have actually settled on using my LM3 with either one or two NY121P cabs because this cab has a tweeter level control and does have a bigger sound than the CMD121P (perhaps because of the slightly larger internal volume over the CMD121P combo). The TRV121H cab is a great cab but is almost as large as two NY121P which together go louder with more control IME than a single TRV121H. Just like the CMD121P hits the combo sweet spot in the Markbass range, the NY121P does it for me in their cabinets. Assuming you are happy with your tone then my preference would be to have one NY121P at home and two NY121P at the studio and carry a LM3 between the two.

Jake bought my Ibanez SR3000 prestige bass and I delivered it to him today. Genuine guy who will hopefully get involved with the basschat community along with his very enthusiastic best mate Otis. Thanks Jake.

I got a fretted kala u-bass simply for acoustic jam sessions in my local. Fantastic pseudo double bass sound through a peavey micro bass combo and once the strings were bedded in (stretched out?) sufficiently, staying in tune wasn't an issue. You do need to have accurate and consistent fretting pressure or intonation will suffer.

One of the worst places to position a valve amplifier is on top of a bass cabinet that is going to vibrate the relatively fragile elements within the valves. Once you are confident that you have isolated and replaced any faulty valves it would be a good idea to place some shock absorbant material beneath the amp or even better place the amp somewhere other than on top of the cabinet.