Any info on this particular Hartke 3500?

[mouthmw]

Never saw this version before. Is it earlier version? I'm only familiar with the black cased version with big Hartke lettering centered.
Like this:



I take it it's the rack version? Any difference?

[will33]

All the older versions look like the one in the top pic and that one looks amazingly clean. And yeah, they were standard 2U rackmounts.

[funkyebk]

Above poster is correct. The older models were all rack-mounts like that. I had one around 92-93, it was a decent amp, but the fan ran ALL THE TIME and sounded like a C-130 taking off.

[monkeyking]

Exactly like the one sitting in my rack for at least a decade or so. Paid for itself a thousand times over and is still the trusted backup. Nothing but raves from me.

[will33]

I had one for a few months and gigged others in backline as well. The one I had didn't last that long but I can't call it the amps fault at all.....I got it for next to nothing and it already looked like it had survived a volcanic event followed by a nuclear holocaust followed by an unsupervised 6 year old. Stellar studio tone it does not have but ample eq and power it does. Use the tube pre and don't turn the compressor up much if at all. Results in a more pleasant tone and takes the edge off.

[BurningSkies]

That's not the first version but a second version from the mid to late 90's. The very first of them have the word MOSFET in the upper left corner too.

[will33]

^

He's right.