Doesn't anyone here get tired of these obvious troll threads? Seems they're getting more common and since everyone has been stuck at home for the past year or so...
It's the new TB. Things here used to be so much better.
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It's the new TB. Things here used to be so much better.
True that.It's the new TB. Things here used to be so much better.
I’m in agreement with you as I found Hartke cabs to be on the warm side with a nice soft low end.
Sorry to add another cynical post on your thread, but while the amps may look like what is available to the general public, I wouldn’t be surprised I’d they are modified. But my experience with the hartke cabs are they have a nice warm sound to them.
I did notice they are not as efficient as other cabs, which as people try to wring every decibel out of their gear, might be the cause of speaker failure issues.
This ^^^^^^^
Very few artists get free gear as part of their endorsement deal, let alone being paid for it. Mike Portnoy, as a drummer's drummer, was no doubt helping Tama & Sabian sell a LOT of drums & cymbals in the early 2000s and even then spoke about getting free gear (and logistic help etc) but not getting paid for it.
There are quite a few TB members who are endorsing artists, and the quoted benefits are consistently mentioned as reasons why the deal works for them rather than getting anything for free or being paid.
Hartke is good gear. Every so often every known amp on TB gets a thrashing. Then the pendulum swings back and people are liking it again. Circle of life and all.
People who are or have been pro's have probably used Hartke at one time or another and wouldn't consider bashing the product. Silly thread.
People who are or have been pro's have probably used Hartke at one time or another and wouldn't consider bashing the product. Silly thread.
Hartke is good stuff. I've had a few Hartke cabs over the years and have a HyDrive 112 I use for small rooms. I like it a lot. A friend if mine has been using Hartke cabs and recently got one of the LH1000's. That thing kills! And top it off, Larry Hartke is a good guy. My experience has been that if you call the shop, he may darn well answer the phone! He did a couple of times that I called there.
One more thing, those Kickback Combos are really nice sounding.
Any brand of speakers will blow if your an idiot...
Hartke was never on my list, but I will say I was sorely tempted as in its day (someone help me with the model number) when 410's were THE THING, that one they made with the 5" tweeter in the center of the 4-10's was easily one of the best 410's I ever heard, then or now.
That combination was EVERYWHERE for a while. I had that same rig, too. Initially I got an 800rb into one Hartke 4x10. But I fairly quickly got a second cab. But I was definitely not fighting against the stream when I had that set up. That was a really common rig at the time.
I've owned 2 Hartke heads (still own one) and 5 cabs of 4 different Hartke models (all XL series) and all have been superb sounding and reliable to me. Those speakers have never blown up on me nor broken, and no, they don't sound metallic, they're not meant to (cone material is irrelevant in that sense, it just moves air, a common prejudice, we don't go around saying "normal" drivers sound "cardboardish", do we?). I've gone Peavey since (old heavy 410TVX and 115BXBW as my stack stays in the studio) and I'm not as happy with the tone as I used to be with a 410XL+115XL. Lots of brands pay people to use their gear, "big names" is subjective, more big names don't use Hartke than they do. Why a thread for this? Use what you like and get over other people using Hartke. It's bad practice to open a thread just to bash a brand. Only cabs I crave for these days would be a couple Ampeg 410HE just because I've grown to like sealed lately, not because I think it'd be any more quality than the Hartkes or Peaveys I've owned.
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Ampeg and Hartke are my favorite amps ... they have awesome tone ... many of those other amps lack personality
In the 1980s I did some time touring with an internationally known band. We were all given Ibanez instruments and Music Man amps for promotion. We were expected to use them in stadiums and tv and we did. I still have them.
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Dude, I’m a bass player and I barely know of Rex brown... he was in pantera decades ago and the least known member of that band to boot...also the OPs statement was made in talkbass, not outside so your point doesn’t make sense....also how is a guy who is less known by bass players than the other actually more popular to the outside non bass playing public. And I bet Wooten made way more players consider Hartke than Rex brown ever did..
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My apologies. If you barely know who he is, then that changes everything. And how could I forget that nothing outside of TB matters?
All good, we need better threads soon, I think we are all going a little batty, myself especially haMy apologies. If you barely know who he is, then that changes everything. And how could I forget that nothing outside of TB matters?
i had a 200 watt 15” combo amp i bought in 1999 or 2000 that i LOVED. I played it in high school and college bands and it was super reliable for how much it got knocked around.
i can’t say i’ve really considered another hartke head since then, but i wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them to someone on a budget who needed a total workhorse amp. i guess if i needed a micro sized head, i’d consider the lh1000. but if an aluminum coned 4x10 popped up, i would definitely be interested!
i can’t say i’ve really considered another hartke head since then, but i wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them to someone on a budget who needed a total workhorse amp. i guess if i needed a micro sized head, i’d consider the lh1000. but if an aluminum coned 4x10 popped up, i would definitely be interested!
