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- Page 1 v. 22.june.2007 OWNER’S MANUAL R500...
- Page 2 OWNER'S MANUAL 1. INTRODUCTION Congratulations on purchasing one of the world’s best bass amplifiers! Markbass amps are built to the highest standards by a small team of skilled technicians in San Giovanni Teatino, Italy. We have spent many years researching not only the highest-quality technologies for bass amp design and construction, but also the practical needs of the working bassist.
- Page 3 1.1 A WORD FROM MARCO DE VIRGILIIS When I began to develop the Markbass concept in Italy several years ago I had one objective in mind: to produce a top-quality bass amp that would meet the needs of professional bass players everywhere. I wanted my amps to be compact and lightweight, yet able to handle the low frequencies that today’s four, five and six string passive and active basses are capable of producing.
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Page 4: Important Safety Instructions
MORE INFORMATION For warrantee and service information, please contact your local Markbass distributor (contact information available at www.markbass.it). For more technical information, please visit us at www.markbass.it and fill out the form on the Contact Us page. We hope you enjoy your amp and use it to make great music! “The Lightning Flash with arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the... - Page 5 3. R500 PRODUCT OVERVIEW The Markbass R500 is a high-quality bass amplifier with a tube preamp and an analog power amp, which delivers 500W of power into a 4 ohm cabinet, or 300W into an 8 ohm cabinet. 3.1 R500 FRONT PANEL INPUT The input jack can be used for both passive and active basses.
- Page 6 EQUALIZATION Markbass amps are designed to faithfully reproduce the natural sound of your bass. If you have a good instrument, very little equalization (EQ) if any should be required. Bass guitars produce a surprisingly wide range of frequencies from extremely low frequencies that are more felt than heard, to extremely high frequencies that pass through your cabinet’s tweeter and are barely audible to the human ear.
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Page 7: Speaker Out
3.2 R500 REAR PANEL PRE EQ POST EQ SPEAKER OUT The R500 can be connected to one or two speaker cabinets using either 1/4” speaker cables (do not use instrument cables) or speakon speaker cables. The two high-quality Neutrik SPEAKON COMBO jacks (15,16) are designed to accept either of these connection types. The minimum load is 4 ohms. If you connect two cabinets, the impedance of each cab must be 8 ohms or higher. -
Page 8: Tuner Out
TUNER OUT The TUNER OUT (18) is an unbalanced signal that can be sent to a tuner, allowing you to tune as you play without passing your signal through pedals, which can degrade the quality of your signal. You can also use this output to send your signal on to another amp, or any kind of recording unit that doesn’t require a balanced signal. EFFECT SEND AND RETURN If you use effect pedals or rack gear, you can route them through the SEND EFFECT (20) and RETURN EFFECT (19) jacks on the rear panel of the amp. - Page 9 100V; 120V; 230V; 240V MASTER VOLUME 50/60Hz (Voltage is factory preset according to region of sale and can be EQUALIZATION modified by authorized Markbass center frequency: 80 Hz; level: ±12 dB service technicians) MID LOW center frequency: 400 Hz; level: ±12 dB MID HIGH center frequency: 800 Hz;...
- Page 10 3.5 R500 BLOCK DIAGRAM Footswitch Line Return Mute Pre/Post Jumper Parallel Series Power Output Power Jumper LIMITER EQUALIZER Parallel Input Mute Send -20 dB Tuner...
- Page 11 3.6 R500 EQ GRAPHS MID LOW 1.000 Hz 10.00 Hz 100.00 Hz 1.000 kHz 10.00 kHz 100.0 kHz 1.000 MHz 1.000 Hz 10.00 Hz 100.00 Hz 1.000 kHz 10.00 kHz 100.0 kHz 1.000 MHz MID HIGH HIGH 1.000 Hz 10.00 Hz 100.00 Hz 1.000 kHz 10.00 kHz...
- Page 12 Product speci cations are subject to change without notice Italy - 66020 San Giovanni Teatino (Ch) - Via Aterno, 44 - Tel. +39 085 446 5705 - Fax +39 085 440 7399 - www.markbass.it - info@markbass.it...
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