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Can't be 100 percent but the bigger hartke logo makes me think its mid to late 90s but could be wrong!

I love the amps and cabs. Somehow wrangled an artist deal with them after being blown away by a Hartke rig at a festival. It has the sound that I love!

If you want to save your back the HL Cabs are amazing! Not the same tone or heavy 90s nostalgia as the XL series though!!

Awesome. If you ever want to sell the amp let me know haha. Be nice to add to my hartke collection!

I definitely get withdrawal if I don't play it for a day or two because I always want to play it. For me it's also a job but I also absolutely love playing it and apart from a few years where I fell out of love with it in my twenties (I got fed up with being a touring band musician and lost sigjg of why I loved the bass) I've been playing it since I was ten so it's been like a best friend and I find practicing like a sort of release in the same way people like going for a run or a walk!

After some advice regarding a hardcase for my Spector LT5. I need something that will survive being thrown into vans and going on planes and through airports. The obvious option would be the fitted Spector hardcase which I can get on an artist deal but I'm also considering a Hiscox hard case too. My main concern is the headstock really. In my fender C&G (?) Hardcase the neck doesn't lie flat in the groove and the angled headstock is taking all the weight of the bass which I fear is a bad thing! So wondering if anyone had experience of the Spector cases and that they are fitted so that the headstock isn't taking the weight and just general longevity of the cases? Same goes for the Hiscox. Obviously they don't fit the exact shape of the Spector but you can put inserts in? Any others I should consider?

Guitar and bass build will probably make them. They made me a stibgray body for a status neck a year or two ago!

Lighter fluid apparently. Not a joke. Haven't tried it myself but if yoi research enough you'll find people talking about it, I think they call it something else in the States... Naphtha? I've restored a good few Warwicks. Lots of careful sanding and wire wool and you can get them looking like new.

There was a whole thread about this on the Ernie ball forums. I did mine avfew years ago now, fingerboard and neck. Can't remember what I did to be honest but sugar soap was involved and I resealed the neck with a clear furniture wax and the bass has never been better.

Still going strong! Really enjoying the GK 800 at the moment and one of the V4 Ampeg captures. Found the GK800 broke up nicely and running a compressor before icontrolled the low end so the low b didn't break up more than the other strings. What I find strange (or maybe it's from listening on headphones at the moment) is that the Ampeg captures seem really, really bright. I downloaded some of the neural dsp presets with the aguilar captures and found those were all hyped with additional eq and compressors pushing the captures to break up. Sounds cool but again find them really, really bright. That being said I listened back to a gig that was recorded and the bass didn't sound bright at all, infact it sounded warm but my memory of the bass in my in ears was that it was bright! I'm looking forward to capturing my hartke rig in the new year as that is my favourite set up, live in hope they add a Hartke cab to the cabs as I find the the virtual mic positioning and options really useful in shaping the sound.

I love the styling of the older amps!

I think it's fine. I think for now I'm going to safely bundle up the excess cable from thr power supply and mount in on a heavy duty 1 gang extension on my board and perhaps by a spare power supply!

Ah I would love a HA series amp too! Did another session again this weekend, again the amp and cab delivered. I had. Quad Cortex running into the front end of the amp so I could still use the LH eq section and it sounded bloody great, though it was prob overkill. Looking forward to having some time in the new year to actually do some Hartke captures for live use and to be able to set yo the Quad Cortex for live use with my Hartke rig.

I've tried the supply into a few other pedals and the wiggle is the same! The power jack goes into the QC and does the click in so I think its fine. The unit hasn't powered down yet anyway! It's one of those things you don't think about until after it happens! Worse comes to worse im sure its repairable. Went down a rabbit hole looking for a replacement power supply. The Cioks is nice but expensive and I only need power for the QC. Considering a Globtek power supply l.

Update, took the QC to it's first session. I was using my hartke rig as it was a live situation. Was really impressed how natural it sounded plugged directly into the LH1000. I've in the past always found putting preamps into the front of amps odd sounding, like super imposing one sound on top of another. Really quick to edit levels to balance things out and really enjoyed the tuner... which is probably the nerdiest thing I've ever said. Annoyingly towards the end of the session a videographer accidentally stood on the power input jack, luckily a quick kick from me in the back of his ankle and he moved his foot. I thought he had destroyed the input jack but thankfully it seems to still be working on powering up. There is a little wiggle room witht the power connected , is this normal on other peoples QC's? I've looked at my other pedals and they seem to also wiggle a bit when you move the power input jack so I'm thinking this is normal! Just a worry when you've spent a whole posh of cash on something like this! Firmly putting it on a pedal board from now on!

Just got the Quad Cortex and I'm blown away by the captures. Found some very nice aguilar, alembic and audio kitchen ones. Can't get over how real they feel! Looking forward doing some of my own captures of my hartke rig!

Yup, got my Quad Cortex yesterday. My first ever multifx for bass I've owned. Spent half an hour with it and just tried a handful or amps and effects but very impressed! This is going to make my life a whole lot easier and also I found it a cool creative tool to give me some inspiration! What impressed me the most was being able to easily use it without a computer or user interface. It seemed very sensibly laid out for somebody that usually uses analogue gear! What I am confused about is the gear that should be on it, I'm hoping an update will solve my query but I seem to have some things that aren't listed anywhere I'm the Neural list and some things are listed but i can't find on the unit! Looking forward to capturing my hartke rig at some point for live shows where I am using the full rig and able to give a cleaner, consistent representation to FOH. For now I have a lot of learning and reading to do to figure out the best way to use it live!

Just got back from a session at Rockfield studios. The first time I've used the amp for a session that's in a studio and not at my desk with a DI box and my interface. Absolutely love the recorded tone. Pure, clear, deep and warm but with just enough presence to cut through. Just had a D112 pointed at the edge of the cone. Sat at the desk and dropped out the DI to just hear the amp by itself. Couldn't be more happier. I think they've really nailed the lightweight 4x10 with the HL410!

Investigate the Hartke HL410 1000 watt cab. It's what I run with my LH1000. Well made, really very light and I think it sounds very good. Two sealed 2x10s essentially with a tweater, which I don't find the need to use. Ok, so it's not an 8ohm cab but I think running the amps in bridged mode gets you 750 Watts or around that (can't actually remember the exact figure). I run mine in bridged and on big festival stages I'm getting up to about 11 o'clock on the master volume.