Your Mark Bass favourite settings

[Grand Wazoo]

I was referring to your's in particular. If you like your sound, you like your sound, I just think you may be over processing your sound a bit with your settings. I can't tell you if it negatively effects your tone at all, but I do know that there is a lot of power in those filters and the Markbass guys in the past have said that a little goes a long way.

Great piece of info, I appreciate your suggestion, which is exactly what I need to run a larger variety of settings, as I've said I've only had it less than a month and I have been using a Trace Elliot for over 17 years non stop with a graphic 12 band eq. It seems once you get used to those its difficult to adjust to rotary controls again.

Thanks
Fran

[DanGouge]

Sometimes I turn up the VPF filter a bit with my sterling to get a scoopy-tone for slapping etc, otherwise, I usually keep it pretty flat.

[oli@bass]

About those VLE & VPF filters: I was very reluctant to use those at the beginning. Simply because I never liked those push button pre-shape filters. To me, they were generally there to sound "spectacular" in a showroom setting. But the MarkBass incarnation of that idea is different, not only because the filters are variable, but they are also voiced very musically. Now, I love them because unlike standard equalizers, they work in musical terms like "more vintage sounding", "less nasal sounding".

I might be tempted to swap my F-1 for the new F-500 with variable EQ, because that is the perfect solution: Using the special filters to shape the sound an then have a semi-parametric EQ to adjust for room acoustics, especially bass resonances on stages.

[recover82]

This is an interesting setting, very little gain but quite a lot of master volume, near flat eq, can you please tell me how did you set the 3 band EQ on the bass and which pickup combination did you use? Thanks

The room had a lot of impact on why I rolled back the gain and boosted the master.
As far as pickups, I used the second position on my HH with just a small boost on the bass. Mids and Highs were flat.

[DTG]

Everything is flat on mine I dont use the VLE or VPF other than with one bass I use the VLE.

yup me too....keep it flat if i need yo adjust the sound i do it from the bass and leave the amp alone

[devo-lutionstuf]

I just bought my Little Mark II today... and I play it on a 2EQ ray and 410 markbass cab
I play fairly flat (except for sometimes increasing the mids and cutting the high) and sometimes use both filters a bitt. The VLE I find to be very useful when searching for a dry "funky sound" and the VPF is nice when slapping...

I do fear one thing. As the VPF clearly cuts your mids, while it reduce your mix cutting ability when slapping? I haven't used the amp with a whole band, so that question remains unresolved...

[five7]

I am using an f1 though, basically it looks like this.

[Ostinato]

"Your Mark Bass favourite settings"

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[Rick Auricchio]

Wazoo, you're neglecting the huge influence of the speaker cabinet. A pair of aggressive Eden D112XLT cabs sounds totally different from, say, a pair of Ampeg SVT-12HE cabs. The amp settings would be quite different to achieve the same resulting tone. (And, in some cases, the cabs are so different that no amount of knob-turning will make them sound identical.)

And isn't the original question a bit like asking "How much salt, pepper, and garlic do you use when cooking?" It depends on what you're cooking, and the tastes of those dining.

One man's tone is another man's noise.

[five7]

Rick, very well put!