Seems to be something missing... Can't put our finger on it though....

The Little Mark 800 has been my only gigging amp for almost 10 years. I still get excited every time I turn it on, and vice versa. Perfect tone in any room, with any bass, in any band.

Markbass is always so musical ...love them.

Pete is an excellent guitarist. Absolutely outstanding. So much emotion and subtlety in his playing.

What we are actually witnessing here, is how much torture a Genzler cab can endure.

Great demo. To my ears, no matter what tweaking was done, the Aguilar has a very pleasant sounding bump in the low-mid range, whereas the others have a flatter response.

They all sound great. I would be happy with either

This is awesome and hilarious, thoroughly enjoyed. More Bass videos with Bass-friendly EQ settings would be great!

awesome love this shootout

Also be on the lookout for the new Rumble 800 head.

Pete talks more than a retired truck driver. He’s still one of my favorite guitarist at Andertons.

am i only one who watch only all about the bass on andertons?

For me, the DV Mark has by far the best tone and tonal options, but the GK amp was really close and is more than twice as loud. I'd have to play them to find a winner :)

I'm with Nathan it's all about the "TONE" also I'd never max the Vol nor gain controls so it's the "Little Mark" first for it's superior tonal range and The Gallien Krueger second for its compact unit and decent tone qualities. Thank you guys for this awesome review best one ever that i have checked out, i've "LIKED" this video & "subscribed" to Anderton's KZfaq cut years ago i look forward to doing business with you guys to pick up the Little Mark and the Gallien Krueger bass amps.

No, Pete, that's not how ears work. Loud noise is loud noise and it will damage your hearing unless you're wearing hearing protection.

2 best sounding amps here to my ears: @6:22 - Markbass LM @7:22 - Aguilar TH @8:37 - Markbass LM @8:55 - Aguilar TH @10:56 - Markbass LM @29:26 - Aguilar TH

The two amps that sounded the most musical when being driven loud were the Aguilar and the Mark Bass. The Aguilar had a good actual overdrive tone. The MarkBass was clean all the way up. And both had some nice tuneful tones across the board. It is a pity there was no Ashdown amp there. Would look forward to a sub £500 (or more realistically sub £600) shootout. Done in Top Gear style.

Um... isn’t that a 350W-rated cab you’re firing all those 800W heads through at full chat? That probably develop around 500W through 8 ohms? Burning smell, you say? Yeah, that’s not the heads ‘crapping out’...

Thank you for the Great video. If you do a similar video about tube amp, include one or two hybrid amp in it. That would be interesting comparison. I would like to see more quitar channel like content in all about the bass. Thanks you once again for great show. 🤙🙏

No Orange Terror Bass?!

love listening to the Andertons bass guys whatever the gear. Any chance of a bass playing tut from Nathan and/or Lee ?

It would love to hear the same comparative test using the Aguilar cab! :-)

Using a Darkglass 900 since two years, never got the volume past midway position (especially with a DG 4x10 cab), it's waaaaaay enough loud to blast my two guitarists at once.

Idea for you. I purchase a Hartke tx600. I read reviews that it was low volume, and then I saw a few people saying that we are just using it wrong. You need to up the gain on this amp, they said. Well, I got it and it appears low to me. I would love to see you guys put this 600 watt amp from Hartke against other 600 watters to either prove the masses wrong, or let everyone know that the rating on this amp is off.

why not do DI out of each amp to ensure there's no coloration to its sound by the cab and mic?

Nathan is on a another level Level 42 I didnt know Respect

Genzler drive - it looks like you were maxing the internal overdrive circuit rather than the overall clean volume. Also if something smells burnt you are probably damaging a cab...

I like rhat bass!

what happened to Lee??

Where is Lee V?

GK is a pleasant surprise. It'd be the one I'd look at...

You two music specialists (instrument and amp salesmen as well) should have used the clean channel of the Magellan. You used the distortion channel and complained about the distortion. No offense meant, lads. I use my Magellan together with a GenzBenz NeoX t 212" cab, a cab that was built by Jeff Genzlers old company. This thing goes ungodly loud, even on the clean channel, and has one of the best distortion channels with a verry tube like tone. GallienKrueger amps are loud, verry loud. They are because of the voicing that has a lot of high mids. This is why the old time RB 400 with 180 Watts @ 4 Ohm have been loud enough for anything. You just had to give them enough cone surface like two EVM 15L. OK, it seemed that you didn't have the time you needed to learn everything about the gain staging and the preamp (plus both channels and the two different voiced filters) to get all the goodnes out of the Magellan.

I agree with. Nathan.

What about DNA amplification? Best one was the aguilar then the genz. Some of those amps have too much watts for that speaker.

No Ampeg?

I'm surprised they don't stock Ampeg bass amps because they're THE sound. I love my Portaflex PF-500 head with 2x10 flip top cab.

I'm watching this from Denmark and it just feels right.

The test should be done with dual 4 x 10 cabs with ample ability to handle peak wattage. Pushing small cabinets tells me nothing except that the amp can push the cab to the edge of self destruction.

I feel like the Markbass and the GK have the most "baked-in" tone whereas all the others are very transparent. I think I like the Markbass!

The volumes - are they hitting an 8 ohm cab? Are they on a suitable input gain level? The Markbass amps are well known to have the rather odd design of hitting most of their max volume around 12/1 on the dial, tricking you into thinking they have lots more .. When they don't.

The first comment they made about the GK MB800 was a key decision point for me when replacing my previous amp head after 15yrs. With everything set at 12 it has a nice clean sound and then if our sound guy wants a little more warmth or bottom end in the room from my cab and not the PA then I just add a touch of the bass from 12 around to 2. The sad thing is that just after investing in the MB00 we all went in ear monitoring and with very low volume on stage so with everything now going through the desk and then back in to my ears through an IEM system it does not really matter what the bleeding hell your set up is at the front end someone is going to tinker with the input, squash it, change it on the desk and then pump it back out through an aux channel. I am sure they all do a job, but for me MB800 is super light, flexible and as they mentioned has the 2nd channel which I can have running hotter to get a bit more drive if it warrants it during the set and I can just switch it in and out as necessary.

Being a Mesa Subway 800 owner, it would've been nice to see how it compares to these amps.

GK pls. It has all the features i like: It's aggresive,

If I win the lottery, I'd get the GK, every time!!

Let's add some bass musicians to the Captain's mix. The Captain meets Marcus Miller.

“Are you drunk?” probably it’s after lunch, as Anderson’s like a liquid lunch!

still don't know which direction to go

Ought to be playing through a 4x10 cab or possibly a 2x12 cab

There really isn't a huge difference that I can hear. GK definitely has more high mids. The Markbass seems to be a little more focused in the lower mids and the Tone Hammer sounds a little more scooped to me...

I preferred the Markbass.

GK, MarkBass, Aquilar Least favorite was the DarkGlass

The GK was the only one of these that had its own immediately recognizable tone in comparison. All the others were VERY similar. Not to say it’s better, that’s a matter of taste, but it was just the only one which sounded different than the rest

It's watching an american QVC gear guide infomercial, but Aussy/British guitar players dabbling w 5 very different amp's tone goals... Still loved it, cheers fellas! Yeah the class D part doesn't define the tone tho mates.

Good vid thx , lavalier pointing down tho. 🤦🏻‍♂️

These guys didn't know shit about the MB800... it has two gain stages, and the second one can offer some drive if you push it enough.... It's a built-in feature, not a DIY thing

Where's the Fender Rumble?

No Fender Rumble??

They sound extremely similar. The Markbass and Genzler are very clear and true to the bass, as expected. The GK is very aggressive as expected. The DG is dark and pretty boring. The Aguilar had the low mid kick.

The Tone Hammer sounds the best , then the Markbass

No Trace Elliot? Used them for years.

I know The Fender Bassman Amp is very popular with Guitarist's. ....I'd like to hear one of you guys playing Bass Guitar through one....I've probably heard the sound before without knowing it....I just want to see it and hear it in isolation from outside a band environment....also I bet Pete's Farts are Musical....Jazz & Blues Fusion...with a little BROOOOWWWWN sound....sorry couldn't resist......

Danish Pete:"We should have 'the star plays the reasonably priced guitar'!" Nathan King, bassist for Frost*: "...great idea..."

That's the way to do it fast switching, tells me a lot

Aguilar for me please!

Pete is great...IN GUITAR VIDS!....Bass not so much..

Guys they are class D amps. The pre amp gain is there to adjust the proper input level to the power module not to adjust tone like it is in a class A or variant analog amp. The drive circuit (control) is where you push the circuitry of the preamp to get some crunch. This is the biggest gap in class D amp operation knowledge I encounter.

and on that bombshell it's time to end, thank you very much for watching and goodnight!

Shout out is better than shat out

They've probably burnt the tweeters :)

They all have basically the same components inside made by the same suppliers...Class D just sounds hollow to me..give me big transformers any day....

Here in the USA, Mark Bass has a choke hold on the repairs, only a few authorized repair shops, MB does not provide schematics for Combo amps. Repairs are EXPENSIVE!

Damn I wish they did the distortions, that’s pretty much what defines solid state bass amps. As they said, most of these class D amps have the same sort of clean sound, with a bit of differences here and there.

It's not the Little Mark Tube 800 it's the Little Mark III that you're playing.

Love this!!!!

the past tense of "shoot-out" is "shooted-out".... try shatting THAT out!

Aguilar and darkglass

The Wayne's World of bass head shootouts. £ucking hillarious!

RIP cab

yeeeaaahhhh........ is there a guitarist I could talk with?........

Nice comparison! A bit chaotic, but in the end very informative and entertaining! I'd go for the GK: Incredibly musical EQ that doesn't sound bad even when the high mids are boosted, lowest noise, and it has a great base sound and all the features to get any sound you want. And it sounds great when pushed hard! Second would be the Aguilar, also very musical, and it has something special about it. The Darkglass might be the best one for overdriven sounds, that's what they specialize in and do incredibly well. Also very flexible tone-wise. The Markbass is another very flexible little amp, but I think it's a bit overhyped. Never clicked with me at least. But considering the price, it's great. Finally, the Genzler was a bit of a disappointment for me. I expected it to be a lot more hi-fi. For my taste, it lacked a bit of character also.

I like the Aguilar the best.

These are all class D...which means that internally they will be almost identical. The amp modules are all bought in, probably from the same company. There will be some difference in the pre-amp setup, but is that really worth £3-500?? I don't think so. It's great that class D is bringing good quality, powerful, lightweight amps to musicians. The downside is that everything is a bit vanilla, lacking in personality.

I can walk into any of my local music stores and not see any of those amps. fml

comparing these amps my measureing their noise level is like testing a car by measuring their windshield wipers. The difference is in the preamps.

Definitely pushed the cab too hard, not a great demo for the heads when the cab is struggling a bit

"Extraordinary meets Average" show naaaaame. DANISH PETE DO IT.

Not a bad shootout. Next time it actually helps a lot to NAME the amp head you're referring or discussing, instead of saying 'this one' or 'that one'. A bit of fun crap talk is ok, but too much takes away from what you're trying to achieve.

Or...the Captain meets Tal Wilkenfeld.

After playing a microtubes 900 v2 for awhile thinking it might have been the amp for me however I have found it to be qukte sterile, I run it through an Avatar 4x10 with eminence speakers and am not sure if perhaps it's the cab. However, this shootout is kinda showing similar signs. Should I go for an Ashdown bass head or a rumble head? I just want a fat juicy bass tone that can get growly, takes pedals well, and can play anything from r&b to Metal (think system of a down) or should I just buy a second amp and have the microtubes just do the heavier stuff

They all sound the same to me, must be the eq he set

What happened to Nathan? Hope he's doing well, the guy could really play.

Am I the only person thinking the name of the spot should be 'Gig with a Reasonably Priced Rig'?

Bring back Lee for bass videos... Pete has got no idea about the bass...

The Aguilar sounded distinctly different/better than the other heads when you were playing with your fingers (I hate seeing bassists playing with a pick!).

Class AB amps ftw!

Nathan’s squirming at critique of the MarkBass wouldnt have anything to do with his brother being on Mark Bass’s payroll by any chance? If Pete wasn’t too drunk to maintain focus for more than six seconds this might have gotten more awkward than it already was.

I'm glad I play guitar and not bass because I would never be able to choose my amp! With the exception of the Aquila (the bottom one) they all sounded the same to me...

No Ashdown !

Gk all day

You two should know that Genzler is American made!!