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Thunderfunk vs. Hartke ?!?!!!!!

watspan

watspan

Nov 25, 2002
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#1
yes, kind of a satire on all the t-funk vs. (fill in the blanks) threads lately, but last night I took my hartke 5000 to our rehearsal space to use w/ my ampeg pr1528he cab. I sold another pr1528he and an 1832he recently so this is my last bi-amp cab left and to take full advantage of the ha5000's capabilities I brought it along. I've been using nothing but AMP- and TFB-420's run full range w/ this cab for a year now. maybe it's a case of "what's old sounds new again" but that hartke sounded awesome! used the tube-pre and blended the bi-amp about 60-40 towards the 15 over the 2x8's and wow! punch city, clean, solid lows--real nice! admittedly, I'd never used this combo in a band setting--only solo at home, where it sounded nice, but kind of brittle at times or at best "uninspiring" tone-wise. maybe sitting in the mix makes all the difference or maybe my ears were just hearing differntly last night.

My Hartke, I think I'll keep her.;)
 
#3
i sold my hartke 5000. I found the tube preamp to be useless for me. I tried several tubes too. Man, i wanted it to sound like the tone in my head, but it was never there.

plug and play with both the wt300, AMP bh420, and GB440 that replaced it.

A case of to each his/her own.

(<------ member #5 of the "hartke-non-bashers" club of talkbass)
 
#5
don't get me wrong--I prefer the t-funk/AMP and they're my #1 and aren't going anywhere--I'm just saying the hartke tone and punch in the band mix wasn't that bad--in fact it was good! I've never bashed hartke and have been happy w/ the ha5000--just kind of surprised it held up as well as it did next to a t-funk! different, indeed, but still good!
 
#9
Some folks love the hartke heads...
I have been seeing alot of other companies amps being compared to the Thunderfunk latley on TB.. From the epifani and markbass and now hartke..

I think that says alot for the Thunderfunk.. I think the Thunderfunk holds a very high Hurdle that all others try to reach in one way or another..

And TF does it in a pretty light package too... I have no idea how TF makes an analog amp with traditional power supply for speed and fatness with the super fast and tight/ clear preamp and get it to be about 15 pounds...

I used my TF on a gig the other night with PA support of course.. It was a 6500 seat auditorium in DFW... the TF was perfect for stage through 3 aggy cabs.. my larger rig was in the truck coming up from austin so I used my Thunderfunk..the TF cut the gig with no problem at all..
FOH LOVED the DI out too!!!!!!..
I would love a 1000 watt 2ohm steady TF.... someday
 

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