All user reviews of 3/5 for the Hartke HA3500

Well I say now, I think is going to spot among all the others!

What is there in faade:
Pramp tube (type not Dfine) / transistor
"Compressor"
10-band equalization dbrayable
treble boost / bass
volume
on / off button (r I get out of agreements)

UTILIZATION

So as I say prcdemment, my opinion is going to spot among all the praise that have been done on CETYS amp

"In search of his lost" should be an autobiographical book title on my experience with this amp. The sound "tube", well ... or it sounds like a transistor that would sound "tube" so it's not too bad, but a transistor to high-end t would like to replace or maybe even better given the context and the price range, and the sound would certainly have been much more heat / potato / round / beaut ...

pchu transistor sound and sounds actually quite clear what fills the shortcomings of the "lamp" and the sound rquilibrer

The "Compressor" ... No comments, if you want a compressor / limiter, go buy one.

The qualisation is effective, but beware: to find "sound" must look as + /-15dB are effective but still too many if you do not master perfectly frequencies. Good point though.

Boosts the treble / bass I was not convinced more than that, much less for the equalizer, they can quickly tarnish the sound that you will find pulling his own hair. qualizer disabled by the cons, it allows not to take the cabbage and dig her quickly.

In conclusion, it is much more complicated to find "The Son" that what we may think at first, indeed, all the finesse of this amp is not based on the various buffs and nicks "tubes" but rather on the quality of the equalizer. Equalizer that goes up the note, moreover, because the rest is not terrible ...

SOUNDS

Useless to try to jazz with this amp, his character is too punchy. As you can see, slap and rock / mtal will be more his cup of tea to have a condition that will go with the cabinet. I recommend using a widely pramp as the SansAmp bassdriver to make it sound better and make him spit out whatever he has in the stomach.

Without pramp is more complicated. I have since my jou beginners above, instead of finally diffrent bass lines that evolve in line my level parallelism. To beginners, I played on an old rotten Vantange It sounded nice, although even. after there was an Ibanez Ergodyne 605, the AC started to deteriorate, it was already more difficult to fawns and even after the n, warwick streamer lx with 5c, it was even bother, it sounded acute has burst the eardrums and because of that I think I change the head. I got to the point of wanting to exploded on the floor so the sound does not suit me ...

The sound will depend greatly on your bass. I would say that for a balanced sound nothing worth a precision bass humbucker type or a good music man.

OVERALL OPINION

I used a few years she has accompanied my evolution but shows its limits quickly (well soon, everything is relative, 3/4ans anyway)

The RSID big plus in the price / power and in the late equalizer trs.

Much less is this lamp mulant transistor sound (this is only my opinion) and then the compressor a little rotten and completely useless to use.
However despite the criticism j'afflige this head, I do not forget that even if she did more convinced after a few years, this does not always the case and the choice State again when I bought it I would do without hsit. Nanmoins think it will take a change one day.

See below, lamp 12AX7WA solvtek original brand

UTILIZATION

See below

SOUNDS

I play on stingray 5, I have a dbx compressor in the effects loop, and a Hartke vx115 tp410 and behind, in the style funk rock metal at the start pretty disappointed, no fishing, and I changed the lamp for a 12AX7 mesaboogie, it will immediately better, it's hot round, it sounds ....

OVERALL OPINION

Used last year in rehearsed and together, the power is sufficient.
What I like the versatility in sound, power.
What I like about it: the original lamp, the compressor is not one that does.
I played on Ashdown, peavey, marshall, ampeg ... it is a good entry level.
With experience, I would do not have that choice, I orient myself to a preamp / compressor / eq / amp separate, but this amp is all the same good group to start