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Calling all Little Mark II owners.

#181
KJung said:
Remember that 'getting the clip light on' is not in the context of 'normal playing'. The 'optimum setting' for the pre gain control is to set it so that the clip light just barely comes on with the most aggressive playing on the lowest notes (like thwacking the B string with your thumb slap style).
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That's what I meant. I thought this had been explained earlier so I didn't repeat the whole spiel.
:)

While the Markbass input gain pot seems to be a 'log' pot (i.e., set so that you have to turn it up a little more than the typical linear pots used by many other manufacturers), it is not that different from most other amps. For example, the 'optimum' setting for the Thunderfunk with my playing style and moderately hot instruments is around 11 o'clock, For the LMII, that similar opimum setting (i.e., when the clip light comes on at the loudest/lowest wumps) is around 1 o'clock or so.

If you have a light touch, a 4 string bass, etc., it would not surprise me that you could not get the clip light to come on. This is actually a good thing, and a 1 or 2 o'clock input gain setting should work just fine.
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I do use a relatively light touch but it's by no means "Willis" light. I play aggressively light;). I have some basses with pretty hot outputs and to get the light to come on had my pre past 1 o'clock.

So far in most cases having the pre at 12 o'clock and the master between 11 and 12 o'clock has been all I've needed for even the loudest gig with the Nahas cabs.
 
#182
KJung said:
If you have a light touch, a 4 string bass, etc., it would not surprise me that you could not get the clip light to come on. This is actually a good thing, and a 1 or 2 o'clock input gain setting should work just fine.
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Okey dokey! Thanks for the reassurance Ken and Brad. I didn't put the amp through its britches yet, but at least now I know that I don't necessarily have to get that clip light to come on. This is the first true head that I've owned, so I never read about setting the gain to clip and rolling back until recently. Before that I ran pre/power (still do) and would just use my ear to figure out how to set the appropriate levels.
 
#183
Brad Johnson said:
That's what I meant. I thought this had been explained earlier so I didn't repeat the whole spiel.
:)



I do use a relatively light touch but it's by no means "Willis" light. I play aggressively light;). I have some basses with pretty hot outputs and to get the light to come on had my pre past 1 o'clock.

So far in most cases having the pre at 12 o'clock and the master between 11 and 12 o'clock has been all I've needed for even the loudest gig with the Nahas cabs.
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+1 I obviously realized that you knew all of this, but it seemed other posters were a little confused about the clip light and what it represented.:)
 
#193
The GC near Miami HAD one in stock up until today :) This is actually my second one. The first one went back to Japan with one of my customers. I got it on a friday and he took it with him on sunday. Not much playing time :confused: I'm looking forward to the new one arriving tomorrow. How do you guys think it will sound with my Aggy S210 4 Ohm??? Will it qualify as a Mini Rig of DOOM??? :ninja:
 
#195
Took my MTD 635 out last night (very early Ash w/Burl Maple top, gloss finish, Wenge neck/board). All of the best things about this bass came shining through, chords had great separation and definition, overall excellent sound. The output is a bit lower than my main basses so I bumped the pre control a bit, "problem" solved.

I think that's what I really like about this amp (and the other amps I use and like)... they let each bass sound like they do and only compliment that sound by making it as big as necessary.
 
#197
fretless_guy said:
Has anyone ever tried the LMII with an EA NL-210? I'm thinking about that combination and was hoping to find some information on it in here. Seems like every cabinet has been tried.
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Ken has (or can easily). I also will be... actually with a pair of 8's (Ken's got a single 4 which will also be very interesting).
 
#198
fretless_guy said:
Has anyone ever tried the LMII with an EA NL-210? I'm thinking about that combination and was hoping to find some information on it in here. Seems like every cabinet has been tried.
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Hello,

I briefly hooked the LMII up to my 4ohm NL-210, and it sounded very nice... not quite as deep as the iAmp, but warmer and punchier. I'm getting ready to hit the road for the weekend (not playing this time... vacation!), and on top of that TBer Vision has borrowed my LMII to gig test it.

However, I'll have it back sometime in the next 10 days, and will give it a much more serious go with the NL-210 4ohm. Then... it goes off to Vic for him to pound on for a bit, and he can see how it does powering the full stack of two 8ohm versions.

The simple answer is, this head is similar to the TF in that it seems to be voiced neutral enough to work quite will with many different cabs. The newest NL-210's have been revioced slighlty more to the midrange versus the deep bass to my ears, and that is actually a nice pairing with the LMII, which can really put out the whoopeee down low.

Please feel free to PM me next week as a reminder:)

Have a great weekend all... I'll be back online on Monday:bassist:
 

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