Sparky Mark

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.