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Harley Benton 210 cab: amp button switches tweeter on/off?


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Here's what I found on Thomann:

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You'll see the text says that the tweeter may be "closed" (as in switched on and off?) with the [b]Color switch[/b] on fitting amps (as in some Ibanez Promethean, Beta Aivin, Harley Benton or RedSub (White Horse) amps) .
I can't remember even having seen demands for a special cable or whatnot. Also, the amp manual says nothing about it other than that the [b]Color control knob[/b] adjusts the overall tone colour from vintage to modern.

I don't believe it, and think it's quite illogical, but am open to being corrected.

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bert

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It does seem like an odd description - unless they've got a bi-amp setup like the old GK amps, which I don't think they do. It could be that the colour button/control on the amps are some kind of lowpass filter like the Markbass VLE, and they've just chosen bizarre wording to express that, perhaps?

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There is no direct control of the tweeter from the amp, it's just another tone control. The cab has a variable attenuator though. It's just over enthusiastic marketing bs. I've owned one of the heads and currently the cab.

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Geoff

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Yeah, at this price point, I expect a simple and cheap lowpass filter, with a few dB/Octave.
But no-one would ever state that the tweeter can be closed with the EQ of the amp, so...
But yeah, it's probably just bizarrely worded. Google Translate even maybe.

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The amps have a Markbass style control that rolls off the high end at progressively lower frequencies as you turn it ccw. I believe that's what they're talking about.

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It is probably just poorly worded in that it implies a direct control where none exists. It is fair to say that if the Colour control is turned on and all the way anti-clockwise, I don't think the tweeter would be doing anything, pretty old school thump by that stage ;)

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