funkydoug

Thanks all. It’s been an interesting read!

Hi, I've been curious about this for a while so thought I'd ask the collective BC brain ... why are Hartke cabs thought of as having 'edge', 'zing', 'cut-through' ? Thoughts: - They are at least part aluminium. Can't be that, visually shiny metal doesn't produce audibly shiny sound?? This is surely visual bias / marketing talk, no? - they have a different shape to 'regular' drivers. Does central part of the cone act as some kind of whizzer / HF dispersion device? - maybe they just sound the same as any other speaker, but people hear with their eyes? Any thoughts? Cheers, Doug

That’s my understanding. It is possible on the G3n, but not the G3. Enjoy it none the less, I am sure there are settings that will sound good for bass.

You can save a patch with the clean sound and then set the ctrl button to toggle various effects (such as your octave and drive) on/ off at the same time.

For me, the me90b brings closure to the pedal quest. I’ll keep it and will accept and learn to work around any compromises. I always thought I could imagine a better pedal board than the ones I had, whether that was separates or digital multis. Thats no longer true; I have a great respect for the work that is baked into this thing.

I really like them. They’re varied and can be punchy. The advanced drive is a really great, versatile dirt sound and is my favourite. I’ve often had the sense that what you’re describing comes from the clean blend, especially on a heavier drive pedals where the transient attack is more ‘distorted’ by definition. The me90b has a global blend which does that but it’s the same degree of clean blend for the whole unit.

Glad you’re enjoying it, I’d have felt a bit guilty if not 🤣

Yeah thats a fair comment. I'd also much prefer to be able to make changes like that on the unit itself but, its a minor grumble. Do it once and that's it. Bluetooth streaming - I like it, mainly because phones don't come with proper outputs these days and that's where my music is - but it could have been built in. Again, minor grumble. Once you've got the Bluetooth thingy though, it screws in place and is effectively bolted-on, if not built-in. I suspect that is a commercial decision on their part.

Yes. The final slot in each block can be changed to one of a pre-determined list of other effects. I put a chorus pedal on that block so that I can use the mod block for compression and the the compression block for octave, which is how I’ve set it up to use in manual mode. Writing that took me longer than actually doing it! Only caveat is that you need the Boss Bluetooth thingy to do it. But that is worth getting anyway so you can stream music from your phone or tablet to play along to, and I baked that into my buying decision.

Yes I think it comes with 9 banks of 4 presets which you call up / scroll through. You can add your own or download more if you connect to the web.