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My Markbass 121P farts out @ certain freqs

Discussion in 'Amps and Cabs [BG]' started by syciprider, Dec 7, 2007.

  1. Dec 7, 2007 #1
    syciprider

    syciprider Inactive

    May 27, 2005
    Inland Empire
    Set up

    Bongo with flats, conservative lo, high mid and high tone settings. Lo mids cranked. Bedroom at 9 PM playing levels > Pigtronix EP-1 Envelope Phaser set to slow sweep and medium resonance > MB Mini CDM 121P set to a bit of midscoop and conservative lo, hi and VLE/VPF levels.

    When the phaser is on, the cab starts giving off a rattling sound when I play 2nd octave notes percussively.
    It only does this with my Bongo and not my Stingray.

    Anyone else have any experience with their MBs rattling at low volumes?
     
  2. Dec 7, 2007 #2
    greenboy

    greenboy

    Dec 18, 2000
    remote mountain cabin Montana
    greenboy designs: fEARful, bassic, dually, crazy88 etc
    Why I like resonant/sweeping effects on the high side of a crossover or in front of some compression. When set for a fairly wide or low sweep with some resonance, they tend to make some pretty big low-band peaks, enough to interact with cab hardware or midbass humps in cab tuning, or to go into overexcursion, or cause port chuffing.
     
  3. Dec 7, 2007 #3
    syciprider

    syciprider Inactive

    May 27, 2005
    Inland Empire
    Sounds like a reasonable explanation.
     
  4. Dec 7, 2007 #4
    amos

    amos

    Oct 23, 2003
    SE Portland Oregon
    +1 again, sounds reasonable. You gotta expect a little bit of this when using certain FX with bass guitar. If it really bothers you get an extension cab?
     
  5. Dec 7, 2007 #5
    syciprider

    syciprider Inactive

    May 27, 2005
    Inland Empire
    I don't understand how an extension cab will help if the rattling is caused by the interaction of the phaser with the cab's design?