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Official Markbass Club Pt. 2

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Finally got a LMII, my wonderful wife got it for me for Christmas! May I have a number and the secret decoder ring now?
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Interesting thing that happened with my CMD 121P tonight. I put new batteries to my Ibanez SRX, the pickups are humbuckers and already powerful. Anyway, I've have my setup as default for months and didn't check the blinking blue light so it the sound was very much over-saturated the first set, workable but close to Jack Bruce and Cream....

Good to know when switching batteries in active basses.

Otherwise, one guy in there saw my CMD 121P and thought that if that was enough for the venue (bar.) One hour later they told me to take down the volume.
 
Interesting thing that happened with my CMD 121P tonight. I put new batteries to my Ibanez SRX, the pickups are humbuckers and already powerful. Anyway, I've have my setup as default for months and didn't check the blinking blue light so it the sound was very much over-saturated the first set, workable but close to Jack Bruce and Cream....

Good to know when switching batteries in active basses.

Otherwise, one guy in there saw my CMD 121P and thought that if that was enough for the venue (bar.) One hour later they told me to take down the volume.

I have the same setup. Ibby SRX 505, and I will be getting the 121P in a couple months. I currently have a Behringer combo with an aluminum speaker. What sort of settings do you use on your amp and bass?
 
I have the same setup. Ibby SRX 505, and I will be getting the 121P in a couple months. I currently have a Behringer combo with an aluminum speaker. What sort of settings do you use on your amp and bass?

It seems I need to tinker the EQ for each venue where I play, same with the bass, it depends on the band, the song and so forth. Best is to try with your ears. The SRX has very powerful humbuckers, that's for sure, for metal rock I would think it's very good (don't play that myself) so I need to sometimes boost the EQ for either hi or low-end depending on the song, I seldom move the balance towards either pickup, keeping it in the middle.

Anyway, there are so many combinations so you need to look at all kinds of possibilities and how it really sounds.

Note also that the CMD 121P or any MarkBass really plays the sound of the bass, you hear what the original bass sound is and should be. So in the case of SRX models you get a somewhat more metallic/rock centric sound, it's very modern but might not work in a blues setting. Even if I played blues songs last night at the big, but I'm a big Miles Davis fan :-).
 
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