I play live with my new Stingray 5 and Hartke HA2500 with VX410 speakers. Is there something fundamentally wrong with this setup that might make it sound like ****?
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Stingray + Hartke = pfffft
- Thread starter DoppelgangerJon
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Ouch. Start from the basics. Check yer cables. All of them. Including the one from head to cabinet. Then check yer batteries on everything
The 2500 is a strange agent with some nasty bumps (to my ears) in the low and upper mids. First off, forget the onboard compressor as it hinders more than helps. Use the high & low filters to approximate the desired tone, then activate the GEQ. Note: the sliders centered do not create a flat tonal profile. IIRC, I had to drag more than one slider to the basement to knock-out the "nasalness". I do remember this: the resulting slider profile resembled a "seagull in flight banking to starboard".
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Riis
I could see there being some challenges with that pairing.
There's a whole lot of midrange happening in that combination, which would only be accentuated by that particular cabinet. If the sound you're hearing is nasally, "brittle" and clacky it would not surprise me.
I would start by rolling off the High contour and disengaging the graphic EQ altogether. I would also use very little if any of the solid state Pre and run your Tube pre high (at least 6 or 7) to try and warm things up a bit.
And be sure you're running into the Active input jack cause Stingrays can put out a lot of signal.
There's a whole lot of midrange happening in that combination, which would only be accentuated by that particular cabinet. If the sound you're hearing is nasally, "brittle" and clacky it would not surprise me.
I would start by rolling off the High contour and disengaging the graphic EQ altogether. I would also use very little if any of the solid state Pre and run your Tube pre high (at least 6 or 7) to try and warm things up a bit.
And be sure you're running into the Active input jack cause Stingrays can put out a lot of signal.
Sounding like <insert undesirable substance here> isn't very descriptive. Can you be more specific about what there is to the sound that you dislike?
This might just be one of the most descriptive phrases relating to graphic equalization I have come across.
Unless it's a cable that has an electrostatic shield, that shield was not removed from the hot conductor, and it has been allowed to come into contact with the hot tab of the plug. I've seen it on several cables, including one that wasn't cheap (and could not be dismantled - I just tossed it in the trash).
Starboard for the seagull...we are viewing it from the ass-end which is really not a good place to be. If you live at the beach, you probably know that already.
Riis
Assuming all gear is working probably, it's not the gear's fault. OP is most likely doing something wrong processing wise or playing wise.
SR5 is a great bass. HA2500+VX cabinet not so much IMO, IME. I sold off my early Hartke stuff. Didn't like it at all. Go to a GC or other music store and try your SR5 with some other rigs like Markbass. Mesa or Ampeg and see how they compare.
