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Why the negativity regarding Markbass?

#221
alaskaleftybass said:
Markbass? Do you love them or hate them? Some people here love them, and some people hate them. :whistle:
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I've had the MB121P and Jb151P ...I sold them. I disliked the midrange of the cabs and never found a rock or blues tone I liked...still using my GK Mb combos tho...I can make those sound like any ampeg or old acoustic I ever owned and they are soooooo reliable, + the limiter and boost work great. Want more grit? Just dial in more boost. + the best eq section ever devised IMO.
 
#222
I use older Italian cabs with my TH500 because they're light and I gig constantly. I've played through cabs that I think sound "better" but these are light and make my life so much easier.

I think rear ported cabs can be tricky to reign in depending on the stage, room, overall volume of the band, where your rig is and where you're standing, but these usually don't give me too much trouble.
 
#223
I played a friends Italian CMD121P MarkBass then ordered a new one on line from MF. It was advertised having a B&C speaker which was not true as MarkBass stopped putting them in their amps over 3 years ago. I got my new amp that I paid far more for than most 1-12 combo amps and discovered the speaker would fart out and distort at fairly low volumes. Eventually the only service center for MarkBass told me the speaker had been downgraded from the awesome B&C to the new MarkBass Yellow Line speaker which still had a yellow cone but no balls and I could not get a decent replacement speaker from them. I sold this piece of crap months later at a very huge financial loss and still feel guilty for selling it to someone else.
 
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ddezz said:
I played a friends Italian CMD121P MarkBass then ordered a new one on line from MF. It was advertised having a B&C speaker which was not true as MarkBass stopped putting them in their amps over 3 years ago. I got my new amp that I paid far more for than most 1-12 combo amps and discovered the speaker would fart out and distort at fairly low volumes. Eventually the only service center for MarkBass told me the speaker had been downgraded from the awesome B&C to the new MarkBass Yellow Line speaker which still had a yellow cone but no balls and I could not get a decent replacement speaker from them. I sold this piece of crap months later at a very huge financial loss and still feel guilty for selling it to someone else.
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This....They are nearly twice the cost of amps of comparable size/power, not sure why. IMO, they don't sound twice as good as the GK MB's or the Rumbles.
 
#233
I just found the perfect car to haul a Markbass Amp with...

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Marc valero said:
I took this photo about two weeks ago, a fellow from Argentina I hadn't seen before. He is playing with a local jazz group. He's excellent and the tone was like listening to a CD. I asked him about the bass and he said it was from France, couldn't catch the name. GK head and he had a Alessi reverb unit. He said he just got the Markbass cab. I wish the photo focus was a little sharper.
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I wonder what the top horn is made of. Must be awfully strong.
 
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