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- Page 1 24.june.2008 owner’s manual sTuDIo Pre ~ sTuDIo Pre 500...
- Page 3 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. The end result is a product that combines outstanding sound quality with intuitive features, attractive design and extreme reliability—all in one impossibly lightweight unit.
- Page 4 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 profes- sional 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 5: 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... -
Page 6: Clean Channel
Markbass gear is 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 produces 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. - Page 7 If any one of these frequency ranges is neglected or poorly represented by your amp, you are not hearing an accurate representation of the sound that your bass is generating. Since the STUDIO PRE has been designed to give you clear, detailed and musical sound at all frequencies, when the amp is set “flat”—with all EQ knobs at 12 o’clock—you should hear a very true mirror of the sound of your bass.
- Page 8 The STUDIO PRE AMP CHANNEL features two bands of EQ: The LOW EQ control (14) is set to a center frequency of 100 Hz. This means that it either boosts or cuts the volume of the frequencies around 100 Hz, to a maximum of 16 decibels.
- Page 9 3.2 sTUDIO PRe ReAR PANel 28 29 AmP CHANNel OUT This balanced XLR (26) output allows you to send the AMP CHANNEL directly to a mixing console (either in recording or live situations) or soundcard (with XLR inputs) without the need of a DI box. Simply connect a standard XLR cable from this output to the soundboard/mixing console, or a snake connected to the board/console, or a soundcard XLR input.
- Page 10 The STUDIO PRE’s optional footswitch has two on/off switches. One bypasses the AMP CHANNEL, removing any distortion you have added to your signal, as well as any equalization and filtering dialed on this channel. The other switches the PURE PARAMETRIC FILTER in the CLEAN CHANNEL on and off. Red LED (6) on the front panel illuminate when the footswitch (PPF) is activated.
- Page 11 4. sTUDIO PRe TeCHNICAl DeTAIls OTHeR INPUT impedance: 500 Kohms, max. voltage: 10Vpp HEIGHT 2 rack units (3.36 in. / 86 mm) WIDTH 14.21 in. / 36.8 cm (19 in. / 48.3 cm with rack ears) CleAN CHANNel DEPTH 11.89 in. / 30.2 cm...
- Page 12 5. sTUDIO PRe sCHemATICs Input Send Parametric Equalizer Line Out Clean (XLR) Return Foot Send Clean Gain Tuner Freq Level Low Mid High (Jack) Send Return (Jack) (Jack) Mix Out Balanced (XLR) Compressor Mix Out Unbalanced (Jack) Footswitch CLEAN/AMP Send Mix...
- Page 13 6. sTUDIO PRe fIlTeR AND eQ gRAPHs 20.00 dB 20.00 dB 10.00 dB 10.00 dB 0.00 dB 0.00 dB -10.00 dB -10.00 dB -20.00 dB -20.00 dB 10.00 Hz 100.00 Hz 1.00 kHz 10.00 kHz 100.00 kHz 10.00 Hz 100.00 Hz 1.00 kHz...
- Page 14 Markbass gear is 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 produces 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.
- Page 15 If any one of these frequency ranges is neglected or poorly represented by your amp, you are not hearing an accurate representation of the sound that your bass is generating. Since the STUDIO PRE has been designed to give you clear, detailed and musical sound at all frequencies, when the amp is set “flat”—with all EQ knobs at 12 o’clock—you should hear a very true mirror of the sound of your bass.
- Page 16 The STUDIO PRE AMP CHANNEL features two bands of EQ: The LOW EQ control (14) is set to a center frequency of 100 Hz. This means that it either boosts or cuts the volume of the frequencies around 100 Hz, to a maximum of 16 decibels.
- Page 17 The STUDIO PRE 500 can be connected to a speaker cabinets using either 1⁄4” speaker cables (do not use instrument cables) or speakon speaker cables. When using two cabinets, simply connect the second cabinet to the first cabinet. The high-quality Neutrik SPEAKON COMBO jack (26) is designed to accept either of these connection types. The STUDIO PRE 500 delivers 300W of power into an 8 ohm cabinet, or 500W into a 4 ohm cabinet (or two 8 ohm cabinets).
- Page 18 The STUDIO PRE’s optional footswitch has two on/off switches. One bypasses the AMP CHANNEL, removing any distortion you have added to your signal, as well as any equalization and filtering dialed on this channel. The other switches the PURE PARAMETRIC FILTER in the CLEAN CHANNEL on and off. Red LED (6) on the front panel illuminate when the footswitch (PPF) is activated.
- Page 19 8 sTUDIO PRe 500 TeCHNICAl DeTAIls OTHeR INPUT impedance: 500 Kohms, max. voltage: 10Vpp HEIGHT 2 rack units (3.36 in. / 86 mm) WIDTH 14.21 in. / 36.8 cm (19 in. / 48.3 cm with rack ears) CleAN CHANNel DEPTH 11.89 in.
- Page 20 9. sTUDIO PRe 500 sCHemATICs Input Send Parametric Equalizer Line Out Clean (XLR) Return Foot Send Clean Gain Tuner Freq Level Low Mid High (Jack) Mix Out Balanced (XLR) Send Return (Jack) (Jack) Compressor Mix Out Unbalanced (Jack) MIX (out sum)
- Page 21 10. sTUDIO PRe 500 fIlTeR AND eQ gRAPHs 20.00 dB 20.00 dB 10.00 dB 10.00 dB 0.00 dB 0.00 dB -10.00 dB -10.00 dB -20.00 dB -20.00 dB 10.00 Hz 100.00 Hz 1.00 kHz 10.00 kHz 100.00 kHz 10.00 Hz 100.00 Hz...
- Page 24 Product specifications 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...