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Markbass 1000 Watt Tube Bass Preamp Head LITTLE-MARK-VINTAGE-1000

$1,399.99

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Following the astounding success of the 500W version, this 1000W high-power head is created for those who need the highly appreciated features and lot of tone options of the LITTLE MARK VINTAGE but also like to have a massive supply of power, no matter how big is the stage and the volume you play! This one is part of the Gold Series, a state of the art lineup offering superior quality, recognizable by its catching new look marking a new era at Markbass, starting from gold plated circuits, to the highly selected components, to some of the most requested features! Tube Preamp The Little Mark Vintage 1000 features a Tube Preamp, to get rich and warm tone full of harmonics. 1000W MPT (Mark Proprietary Technology) Power Amp This ultrahigh-power head gets amplified by a powerful 1000W MPT power amp, delivering a large supply of power and serious headroom with amazing definition and dynamics. About all the bass amps on the market use the same power amp from different manufacturers, which are not specificically designed for bass. At Markbass, Marco De Virgiliis invested a lot on R&D to create a proprietary power amp technology, specifically designed to respect and glorify the tone of your instrument. Limiter Control This control offers a modern reaction when you set it all the way up, or put it down to zero to create that old generation behavior with its typical distortion you get when the Limiter effect is really low, and of course you can also get everything in between. New EQ setting / ?????3-WAY Switch The 4 Bands EQ of the Little Mark Vintage 1000 have a new setting on frequencies center, all tuned to offer a pretty balanced tone that easily cuts in the mix, plus a 3-WAY switch with three useful EQ preset options to get very quickly a real FLAT setting, a CUT one with scooped Mids and enhanced Low and High and an OLD one with scooped High to get an old vintage style tone. Real DI box The BALANCED DI OUT with transformer is optimized to give
  • Inputs
  • Input: impedance 500 kohm, max. Voltage 9 vpp
  • Effect return: impedance 33 kohm, max. Voltage 10 vpp
  • Controls
  • Gain: -46 db to +23 db range
  • Master volume
  • Di level
  • Limiter (from 0 to max)
  • Ground lift (switch on rear panel)
  • Pre/post eq (switch on rear panel)
  • 3-way switch (flat/cut/old)
  • Equalization
  • Low: center frequency: 68 hz; level: ±16 db
  • Low mid: center frequency: 400 hz, level: ±16 db
  • High mid: center frequency: 2200 hz, level: ±16 db
  • High: center frequency: 10 khz, level: ±16 db
  • Outputs
  • Line out / di: balanced xlr, 600 ohm transformer output - maximum voltage 12 vpp
  • Effect send: unbalanced, max. Voltage 20 vpp (pre-eq)
  • Tuner out: unbalanced, max. Voltage 2 vpp
  • Speaker out: speakon combo
  • Other
  • Weight: 6.61 lbs / 3 kg
  • Width: 10.87 in. / 27.6 cm
  • Depth: 9.84 in. / 25 cm
  • Height: 3.27 in. / 8.3 cm
  • Output power: 1000w rms @ 4 ohms / 600w rms @ 8 ohms