Markbass Big Bang 500W Bass Amp Head Overview
The Markbass Big Bang 500 watt Bass Head, the smallest yet most powerful bass head ever. The Big Bang head by Markbass produces a warm and rich sound whilst thundering out 500-watts of pure power, this bass amp is even smaller than the little mark heads.The Markbass Big Bang features a new design of digital power amp which remarkably enough sound analog which will certainly please many bassist's, although this amp is tiny in bass amp size terms it's packed with extra features that customers have been asking for such as aux in, headphone out with level control, mute. But the main feature has to be the 500-watts of warm explosive sound! And of course it keeps the features that make Markbass amps so desirable; VLE and VPF filters with footswitch control, a simple and effective 4-band EQ, effects loop, and level control and pre-post EQ switch for the XLR DI output.
The amp weighs just 4.74 lbs/2.15kg
- INPUTS
- INPUT - impedance 500 Kohm, max. voltage 15 Vpp
- AUX IN
- EFFECT RETURN - impedance 33 Kohm, max. voltage 10 Vpp
- CONTROLS
- GAIN
- MASTER VOLUME
- LINE OUT LEVEL
- HEADPHONE LEVEL CONTROL
- GROUND LIFT - switch on rear panel
- PRE/POST EQ - switch on rear panel
- MUTE - footswitch
- EQUALIZATION
- LOW
- center frequency: 40 Hz; level: ±16 dB
- LOW MID
- center frequency: 360 Hz, level: ±16 dB
- HIGH MID
- center frequency: 800 Hz, level: ±16 dB
- HIGH
- center frequency: 10 kHz, level: ±16 dB
- FILTER SECTION (with footswitch)
- VPF (Variable Pre-shape Filter) center frequency 380 Hz (cut)
- VLE (Vintage Loudspeaker Emulator) frequency range 250 Hz-20 kHz (cut)
- OUTPUT
- LINE OUT
- balanced XLR, max. voltage 20 Vpp
- EFFECT SEND
- unbalanced, max. voltage 20 Vpp (pre-EQ)
- TUNER OUT
- unbalanced, max. voltage 2 Vpp
- SPEAKER OUT
- speakon/1/4" combo, 1/4"
- HEADPHONE OUT
- OTHER
- WEIGHT
- 4.74 lbs / 2.15 kg
- DEPTH
- 10.04 in. / 25.5 cm
- WIDTH
- 8.94 in. / 22.7 cm
- HEIGHT
- 2.56 in. / 6.5 cm
- OUTPUT POWER
- 300W RMS @ 8 ohm, 500W RMS @ 4 ohm