After the great reaction to the Little Mark Vintage Head, Markbass designed the Mark Vintage Pre. The Mark Vintage Pre delivers a massively wide palette of tone options, from modern sounds to vintage ones to fit pretty much any genre you’re going for. But this pedal is more than just a preamp. You get a tube preamp, a 4-band EQ, two switchable EQ filters, two different types of drive with level and blend controls, a headphone practice amp with an AUX-in and headphone out, and a switchable effects loop which can also be used as a tuner output.
4-band EQ/3-way Switch Like the Little Mark Vintage head, the Makr Vintage Pre's 4-band EQ section has 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 setting with scooped Mids, and enhanced Low and High, and an OLD option with scooped High to get an old, vintage-style tone.
Two Types of Distortion/Blend Control The Mark Vintage Pre offers two types of distortion (selectable via foot switch). The amount of drive tone, ranging from crunchy overdrive to aggressive distortion, is controlled by the Drive pot. The Blend control allows you to mix the Drive tone with the Clean signal of the tube preamp. Adding a bit of distortion during a studio recording gives a 'gorgeous' bass sound cutting in the mix.
Boost The Boost switch allows you to boost your signal level to +6dB and instantly get more headroom whenever you need it.
Real D.I. box The Balanced D.I. Out is a real D.I. box with transformer. It is optimized to deliver pure, full, rich sound on all freque