Pulled the trigger on the Hartke TX600

Nice. How does it sound?

 

I thought they weren't coming out until June?

But anyway, that thing reminds me of a Sparkomatic car radio.

 

Sure looks like a TC 450/750 to me!
Fishheadjoe

 

Not sure how I feel about the EQ...looks a bit limited. JMHO

 

I wonder if it uses a "tone stack", if so, it's odd that it has the frequencies labeled and the "shape" term vs a +/- label is weird too. I love my LH1000 except the tone stack.

 

I thought so as well - I placed a preorder with Sweetwater for one of these a month ago with that same assumption.

I will admit that I don't dig the looks. Why they chose a color scheme that clashes with every single cabinet they make is up in the air to me, but all said, at this price point I'm willing to give it a go.

 

Maybe matching color scheme cabs are in the works?

 

I'd love to see an 8x6x9 with these:

 

Haven't heard back from the OP. I would guess "pulled the trigger" meaning he didn't get it yet. I'm very interested on how it will sound. I've never owned a large Hartke but a small combo. It sounded pretty darn good, reminiscent of old GK's. I'm very curious how this one sounds. It's a pretty sweet price too from what I read. For 600 watts. Also clever that they went between 500 and 800 watts, found their own sweet spot.
I hope we get an update on the tone once he gets it. As far as looks, meh doesn't bother me either way.

 

Well I went to Youtube and found a Hartke performance at NAMM 2016. I tried to listen to the amp but frankly Wooten never stayed on one note long enough for me to hear what it sounded like. But I can tell you what I heard it sounded awesome. And I don't want to start a fight but it was a 210 and 115.

I wish some TB'er would go to these shows and do a real bass performance, play a song or something other than the usual 15 minute wank job. Anyway here's how the stuff looks:

 

This is odd. There's only one Speakon but appears to be a 1/4" input. What the heck? It does say it goes down to 4 ohm so it's meant to use both plugs?

 

Same deal on my PF-800. You could I suppose do that, but daisy chaining from cab to cab would be what I'd do.

 

Ugh, that's awful. The hybrid jacks should really be totally standard by now, IMO.

 

I agree. Makes me wonder what goes through designers' minds when they do this kind of stuff. LOL. A $1.00 more at the design stage and there would have been two combo Speakon plugs. But I can see where they would make this error. Have you ever had the pleasure of working with engineers? LOL They have different thought processes than us mere humans....

You can tell there certainly was the room to make two combo Speakon connections. Maybe a bean counter came in and ordered the change to save 50¢.........

I had a Hartke kickback many years ago. Man it kicked butt for the time. I loved the tone-- it cut through a thickness of two guitarists, singers, keyboards, and drums. It was so easy to schlep around and the tone was excellent. Never forgot that sound. I'm a GK guy now but I've always kept an eye open for Hartke stuff....

 

I actually contacted their customer support asking if they planned to do a class D version of the HA series heads. Their response was basically, "Buy a TX600. You'll love it."

From what I understand, the TX600 is LH-series preamp, which I don't really dig. I'd much prefer the HA series.

Oh well.

 

Intrigued. Like the sound of my LH500 but it's getting a little heavy to haul around.

 

Hartke posted a new demo but it's so short.

 

Has anyone got their hands on one of these yet?

 

Larry Hartke's Facebook page has them in stock at the Bass Lounge in NYC.

I already bought an Ampeg PF500, but I may get one of these as well...