Help me decide! pf500 vs. ha5500 vs. mb500

If you like your hartke rig, save your money. GAS is a terrible thing. Just save for something else later on, and focus on playing right now.

 

I'd get a VT pedal...then you can keep your Hartke sound, AND have the Ampeg sound.

 

I don't know $250 for an MB500 is a mighty sweet deal.

 

I was gonna say to keep your LH500 and get a some sort of tone shaping pedal like the VT Bass. But B string is right, $250 for an MB500 would be too good a deal for me to pass up.

 

imho it makes it much less desirable - the Mb2-500 had plenty of issues and were scrapped not long into their life span and replaced with the MB500 - which by most accounts seem to be much better

the comment made earlier about getting a VT pedal wasn't just to suggest a tone shaping pedal - I believe the member who posted that was suggesting it would be a cheaper way of having access to the Ampeg tone without purchasing another head - the Hartke pedals are good, but not 'Ampegy' (like a VT or the PF head you are considering)

 

I am not sure where you get your info? The original model was MB2 as the original MB series combo has a life of it's own. The new MB series became quite popular so the (2) was dropped. The first head out did have troubles for some and were addressed by G-K with updates or replacements. The last rev was A07 which became the MB500 when it was decided to change the model name. If that means you could get a A07 cheap, GREAT! But the MB2-500 was NOT scrapped.

 

my bad - I thought I had read on here that the first few version had hiccups, which were addressed - and resulted in a refined version 're-named' MB500

by scapped I meant the name was 'scrapped'

so you say an Mb2-500 is just as desirable as an MB500?

 

Rev A07 yes!