I now have had this amp for a year and it has never let me down, great for rehersals and even small to medium gigs and the best part is it can handle pedals perfectly
Wow, this amp sounds great. I got an older type A70, all aluminum cone, it's just a great amp, it smoked a Laney combo twice its size. Volume 2 or 3 is enough for rehearsal. Now this HD75 sounds even better.
I have one just like this. I have to say of all the basses I have, it may be my favorite. It is super comfortable, sounds fantastic and the craftsmanship is over the top. So if you every have an opportunity to play one, give it a try. He's right, it's a hot rod.
just starting out keep in mind the Hartke is a seriously nice combo any model of the HD line are simply great for the money and if you can score a classic vibe series Squire your doing great. learn everything you can circle of 5ths to chords leave songs alone and concentrate on Bass theory. and remember think Bass when playing to many bass players are guitar players with a bass dont be a guitar player with a bass be a bassist with a bass. and rock on!
my current bass amp is an hd15 and it can keep up pretty good with my band without much need to turn it up too loud and now im upgrading my bass and i was wondering if this or the hd50 would be a good enough upgrade sound wise and also for gigs and stuff
I used one of these for around eight years in a five piece. I had a weird rig. I wanted to hear clean tone onstage, our sound guy wanted the bass through the PA (it has two bins) so he could mix FOH right, the drummer and lead players needed to feel the onstage bass, I didn't want boom. So I had a Hartke 2500 head on a 4x10 cab pointing back at the band, and that stood on an Auralex pad on the floor. On top of that at my ear height was the HD75, clear as a bell, which we miced into the PA. I really loved playing like that! Why spend fortunes on getting a nice bass tone then you can't hear it when you play live?
Hey! This was an awesome review! I purchased this Amp couple of days ago and loving it. But, I have a little concern. When I connect a Phone/MP3 player to the Amp through the Aux Input it treats the Amp as a Passive Speaker and starts playing even if I don't switch on the Amp. And when I do switch on the Amp (to play my Bass) the music from the Phone/MP3 player gets highly amplified and a bit distorted too. Am I doing this wrong? Please help me here.
@@darkmatter4132 No the amp has been pretty clear. I'm very impressed with it's performance. I was only referring to what happens when I use the Aux input.
I have this amp. It's pretty great, loud as hell, but the problem is whenever I play a low note and certain other notes, the amp itself shakes like hell and the speaker pushes out a lot of air, and sounds like ass. Has anyone else had this problem? Is this supposed to happen? If not, how can I fix it?
I think that is the problem with any amp that is only driving one speaker. The only situation I want to use such an amp with is just practice time or playing to CD's.
You can play a guitar through an bass amp, but you cant play bass through an guitar amp (this could damage the speakers if i remember corectly). The tone will just be darker on the bass amp.
