EQ Lh1000/500 for upper mids

[blmeier7]

So I have had a couple of gigs now with my Hartke Lh500. The amp sounds great for the tight thick low end with that authoritative punch I was looking for. This works great for about 90% of our songs. But this amp seems tough to get the upper mid aggressive tones similar to a GK amp.

My EQ is set: bass 3, mids 8.5, treble 3. Have any of you Lh1000/500 owners found a good setting to get aggressive upper mids without getting clanky?

 

[Sparky Mark]

You can find several threads here that confirm that with the mids on full and the low and hi backed off the sound is relatively flat. By increasing the low and hi from this flat position you get an increasingly mid scooped tone. I found that I had to use an EQ pedal (i.e. a Boss GE7B) in front of my LH1000 to get the flexibility of sounds I wanted. In the end I sold it as I realised I just don't get on with passive tone stacks.

 

[FunkHead]

I have the LH1000 and have never felt a lack of mids. To get rid of clank I just roll back the tone on my Bass. It could be that my basses are more mid-focused or my Cabs are, or both. Strings also move the mids around.

In the end though, your LH500 will never sound like your GK. I like the Hartke sound a lot but there's a reason we have so many choices.

It seems like every amp company has their own baked-in sound. So you can change the tone a bit, but it always sounds like a variation of itself.

One thing cool to try is to plug into a pre-amp and then plug the Pre into the effects return on your LH500. That opens up an entire new sound spectrum.