NAD Markbass Blackline LM 250

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I played it at band practice today. There's a bit of a learning curve. I'm loving the low end, but some of the time its walking the line between solid and murky. I gotta feel it out a bit more. This amp seems to love the "both pickups" setting on my PJ. It's got enough mids to fill in the scoop and the pick attack sounds really nice.

And I'm a bit surprised that the volume knob doesn't really make the amp much louder in the second half of its rotation. I just makes it more compressed. I'm not particularly concerned. It seems loud enough for most shows even at 125 watts into 8 ohms.
 
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J-Mags said:
I played it at band practice today. There's a bit of a learning curve. I'm loving the low end, but some of the time its walking the line between solid and murky. I gotta feel it out a bit more. This amp seems to love the "both pickups" setting on my PJ. It's got enough mids to fill in the scoop and the pick attack sounds really nice.

And I'm a bit surprised that the volume knob doesn't really make the amp much louder in the second half of its rotation. I just makes it more compressed. I'm not particularly concerned. It seems loud enough for most shows even at 125 watts into 8 ohms.
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If you want that amp to speak, you need a 2nd cabinet.
 
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Yea, run dat puppy at 4 ohms and it'll give you lots of volume. I never really ran into compression with mine, but I was always using it with a 4 ohm 410 cab and getting all the juice out of it.

If you're using the VLE a bit, don't be afraid to boost the upper mids (I really like that this amp has a 4 band EQ, and not a 3 band) a bit to help replace some the note clarity/definition that starts to happen as the overall freq response curve is narrowed with the Vintage Loudspeaker Emulator.
 
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musicman556 said:
Yea, run dat puppy at 4 ohms and it'll give you lots of volume. I never really ran into compression with mine, but I was always using it with a 4 ohm 410 cab and getting all the juice out of it.

If you're using the VLE a bit, don't be afraid to boost the upper mids (I really like that this amp has a 4 band EQ, and not a 3 band) a bit to help replace some the note clarity/definition that starts to happen as the overall freq response curve is narrowed with the Vintage Loudspeaker Emulator.
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It sounds like the VLE already bumps upper mids as it reduces highs. But yes, I bump the upper mids a bit more. But I've also found that slightly scooped isn't harmful in this band, due to the middiness of everything else in this band.
 
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My apologies. It has been awhile since I sold the amp so I may be misremembering the exact details. I just remember it tended to get a little muddy when I used more than just a little bit of VLE.

But also, that was filtered through a an also-muddy USA Ampeg SVT 410HLF, haha! I believe your GK cab is probably the exact opposite of muddy! :)
 
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I took my LM 250 to a punk rock gig at a venue that has notoriously weird onstage acoustics. I'm very satisfied.

I was playing my Fernandes PJ. The only effect I was using was a small amount of compression. I set the gain and volume around noon, the lows and low-mids at about 11:00, the high-mids and highs at noon, and the character knobs at 9:00. It sounded amazing.

I haven't owned the greatest bass amps in the past, so I've never really had an amp that has that kind of authority in the lows. I felt like it was really projecting a lot of low end that fit in well with the mix. It gets a little grindy when you turn the volume past noon, and noonish is the sweet spot. Volume-wise, it felt and sounded pretty strong through an 8ohm 2x12 cabinet. It was loud, but not incredibly so, and it sounded really strong in all frequencies. This was in a room with weird acoustics through a DI to FOH. There wasn't really a ton of headroom to get even louder if I needed to but I didn't feel like I was lacking any volume for this show.

But the main thing is how the lows sounded and how the whole thing projected. I got better low end, and I felt that people were listening to me more.
 
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