Hartke 3500a?

[lukeward2004]

Im not sure actually - I would assume you could just run off the SS side of the preamp, but ive never so much as had a peep of trouble with my 3500 so I cant comment.

Mine has been incredibly reliable!

[Guest subaudio]

Hi Luke, I'm seriously looking at getting one of these and as I have never owned any gear with valves I'm not sure what to expect, and I wanted to be aware of workarounds if a problem occurred at an unfortunate time (as they tend to), so good news about reliability.

[lonestar]

[quote name='subaudio' post='14095' date='Jun 8 2007, 11:38 AM']Sorry if this is a really dumb question but, as the Harke has a valve in the preamp, if this blew at a gig would it still be possible to use the amp in solid state mode ?[/quote]

This has happened to me at a rehearsal on my HA5500 which I believe is very similar. It has a separate valve and solid state input control knob.
It still worked perfectly just using the ss preamp but just sounded slightly less "chunky" and was fine until i replaced the valve, which was easy enough.
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[lonestar]

[quote name='subaudio' post='14137' date='Jun 8 2007, 12:45 PM']Hi Luke, I'm seriously looking at getting one of these and as I have never owned any gear with valves I'm not sure what to expect, and I wanted to be aware of workarounds if a problem occurred at an unfortunate time (as they tend to), so good news about reliability.[/quote]


go for it they're great amps for the money!

[Guest subaudio]

[quote name='lonestar' post='14145' date='Jun 8 2007, 12:52 PM']This has happened to me at a rehearsal on my HA5500 which I believe is very similar. It has a separate valve and solid state input control knob.
It still worked perfectly just using the ss preamp but just sounded slightly less "chunky" and was fine until i replaced the valve, which was easy enough.
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Hi Lonestar

Thanks very much for that mate, good to know.

Marti