What’s the smallest, most powerful bass amp in the world? The Mark Studio 2! This exciting software gives you 6 Markbass heads, 9 Markbass cabinets and a rich pedalboard to complete your rig and unleash your creativity.

The Mark Studio 2 plugin has been designed to faithfully simulate the sound of Markbass amplification in any DAW application or live situation.

No matter what kind of bass you use, the Mark Studio 2 plugin will always give you a very musical array of bass sound choices. It's an indispensable tool to anyone who records on a computer and wants to improve the sound of the bass either during or after recording.



Paolo Costa, bass player

Mark Studio 2 Product Manager

Key Features

Six top-class Markbass amp models: TA501, R500, Classic 300, TTE500, Little Mark Tube and MoMark

Nine Markbass cabinets: STD 151HR (rear-ported 1x15"), STD 152HR (rear-ported 2x15"), STD 104HR (rear-ported 1x15"), STD 104HF (front-ported 4x10"), STD 106HF (front-ported 6x10"), Classic 108 (sealed 8x10"), Traveler 121H (front-ported 1x12"), New York 804 (front-ported 4x") and New York 122 (front-ported 2x12")

Full pedalboard including: octave, envelope filter, bass chorus, distortion and compressor

Choice of 6 microphones, plus a preset combination of 2 front microphones

Faithful reproduction of every characteristic and nuance of Markbass amps and cabinets

Ultra-flexible signal path makes it easy to balance the Direct (plugin) input, Line Out (amp direct Out) and Mic Output levels

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Each mic/cabinet combination has been recorded in a high-end studio by the best Italian sound engineers

More than one microphone can be used simultaneously: main (woofer), tweeter and, where applicable, rear bass reflex (port).

Ultra Bass frequency control for extra-deep sound with one mouse click

tons of factory presets designed by top engineers and Markbass artists

Full MIDI support

Very low CPU usage

No additional latency

Any parameter can be automated in the plugin version

The popular TA501 amp head helps to smooth out your sound with a high-quality onboard tube compressor, featuring a JJ Electronics ECC81 tube. Tone-wise, your sound is warmed up by the tube even when the compressor is off. It also includes foot-switchable mute-to-tune, an EQ bypass, ground lift to eliminate hum, exclusive Markbass' VLE (Vintage Loudspeaker Emulator) and VPF (Variable Pre-shape Filter) filters, and high-quality Neutrik Speakon Combo out jacks for use with 1/4" or Speakon speaker cables.

Classic 300 300W Tube Bass Head

The Markbass Classic 300 bass amp's heart beats with the power of JJ Electronics tubes--2 ECC83 preamp tubes, 2 ECC99 tubes, and 6 KT88 power tubes--which give you the warmth and fullness of the great old amps that are now aging or retired. A massive 300W of tube-driven power will handle just about any venue imaginable.

But times have changed, and this bass head comes with a brain: an onboard microprocessor re-biases your tubes every time you start up the Markbass Classic amp.

R500 500W Bass Head

The Markbass R500 is a bass amplifier head that will have you rocking out old-school, rocking hard, creating your own alternative rock, or shredding up the stage stealing the spotlight from your guitarists! The 500W analog R500 amp (at 4 ohms; 300W at 8 ohms) features a tube preamp that will break up just the way you want it to, and a newly designed limiter that produces glorious distortion instead of cramping your style. The simple 4-band EQ gives you all you need to access a wide range of sounds for any genre. As far as controls, the Gain knob is for the amount of tube overdrive, whereas the Master knob is for your volume.

Little Mark Tube 500W solid state/tube Head

The Little Mark Tube gives the warmth and richness of a tube preamp, or the clean attack of a solid state preamp… or a mix of both! Additional features include solid-state/tube mix control, four bands of equalization, VLE and VPF filters, line out level control, pre-post EQ switch for the XLR out (on rear panel), and mute control (push-pull on the master knob).

TTE 500 500W tube Head

"Modern Vintage" may seem to be an oxymoron, but it sums up the unique new TTE 500 well. Current technology is brought together with classic tone concepts in a head that looks and sounds vintage—but features some special adaptations of the innovations that put the Markbass on the map! The classic sound comes from an old-style tube preamp, a tube compressor, a simple 3-band passive EQ section, a "Colour" filter (a tube adaptation of the famous Markbass VLE control), and an innovative Tube Technology Emulator power amp.

MoMark with T1M-HE preamp, EQ7G tone control and MVVL-HE master control

The awesome high-end components and gold-plated circuits of the T1M-HE tube preamp module give it an exceptional sound fidelity. Its tube glorifies the harmonics, reproducing every detail of the instrument's tone with exceptional definition, offering tube warmth without distortion. This module also features a handy mute switch.

The stylish Eq7G module features seven bands of graphic equalization, set at 40 Hz, 80 Hz, 250 Hz, 400 Hz, 1 kHz, 2 kHz, and 4 kHz. Illuminated by yellow LEDs, this graphic EQ allows you to "see" your tone shaping on any dark stage!

This high-end MoMark module features master volume control, the trademark Markbass VLE and VPF filters, and Line Out level control. Gold-plated circuitry and the highest level of components make the MVVL-HE the master module of choice for discriminating "audiophile" bassists. This module completes the "high end" set of MoMark modules, along with the T1MHE and S1M-HE preamp modules and the EQ44S-HE EQ module.

Apple System Compatibility

Mark Studio 2 is available as AudioUnit, VST plugins, RTAS (ProTools 8 and 9) and AAX64 (ProTools 10 and 11), as well as a standalone application.

Both 32bit and 64bit are natively supported.

You can authorize Mark Studio 2 on up to three computers that you own and one USB stick with a simple one-click software procedure (no hardware key needed).

Apple System Requirements

Macintosh® Intel Core Duo ® 1.6GHz with 2Gb of RAM, 1280x800 video.

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion are supported.



Windows System Compatibility

Mark Studio 2 is available as VST, RTAS (ProTools 8 and 9) and AAX64 (ProTools 10 and 11) plugins, as well as a standalone application.

32bit and 64bit are natively supported.

You can authorize Mark Studio 2 on up to three computers that you own and one USB stick with a simple one-click software procedure (no hardware key needed).

Windows System Requirements

Pentium® iV 2GHz / Athlon™XP 2GHz with 2Gb of RAM, 1280x800 video.

Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 are supported.