barkin

Well, that's a bit crap! Image seems to have shrunk when I attached it...

[url="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hartke-HA2500-Bass-Guitar-Amplifier-Head-10-Band-Graphic-EQ-HA-2500-/280652262707"]http://www.ebay.com/...0-/280652262707[/url] appears to show it the other way about to the image above ! So that's one (the blurry one above - sorry) showing in/pre, while the one on ebay is in/post.

So what's what on the unmarked ones is "suck it and see", I guess.

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1347626719' post='1803243']
just in case anyone was wondering about the unlabelled buttons on the back of the hartke heads

[...]

The lower button is a Pre/Post switch so you can choose to send your signal with or without EQ to a mixer. Pushing the switch in sends a post-EQ signal out.

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I think the pre/post is t'other way around - with the button pushed in, it's pre.

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1347307833' post='1799217']
AC30? still too much for a rehearsal room
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+1

As somebody else said recently elsewhere on this forum, an AC30 can kill small animals at 50 paces ! You simply don't need that sort of volume in a rehearsal room...not to mention the initial outlay and ongoing costs, which would be better spent elsewhere...IMO.

I also like to see a couple of comfy chairs, and a small desk to sit at and write stuff down.

P'raps I'm just getting old...

That's a pain

Have you tried the effects loop send/return? Might give a clue as to if it's the pre or power stage? Also, IIRC those sockets have some kind of switching arrangement - might be worth giving 'em a dose of switch cleaner and giving them the beans with a jack plug.

We use either local rehearsal rooms, or a village hall.

The Village Hall costs us a tenner for as long as we want it (provided it's not booked for anything else - we fit in around whatever else is going on, otherwise we'd have to pay the regular hire rates)
It's clean, has decent toilets and a usable kitchen should we want a brew.

Downside is that the acoustics aren't great, and we have to lug our own PA. For those reasons, we tend to go low volume and just use a small powered mixer and a wedge monitor for vocals.

The rehearsal rooms are £10/hour in 2 hour slots. For that, the standard offering is:

an adequate sized room with good acoustics, a half-decent PA with as many mics/stands as we need.
a "nothing special but perfectly usable" basic drum kit - drummer brings his own breakables.
a bass rig of some sort - they seem to have an assortment of Ashdown MAG & ABM, Laney, Hartke etc heads and cabs, but they seem to get swapped around a lot so it's pot luck as to what's in a particular room at the time.
a guitar amp of some sort - we usually ask for 2, and they always oblige. But why they feel the need to provide mahoosive 4x12 Marshall/Orange stacks in a small rehearsal room I don't know...

It's easy to get to for everybody, easy free parking, and perfectly usable gear so we don't need to hump loads of our own stuff around.

The toilets and rest areas aren't very appealing, and there's always heaps of junk lying around everywhere.

There's currently a couple of MIM P's for sale here, a MIM J, a Tanglewater Classic J, a Bass Collection, etc etc. All great basses within your budget or thereabouts.

Depends what you're after...

[quote name='daz' timestamp='1347136710' post='1797394']
Peavey is fine, no nonsense and solid. However if I had 300/400 to spend on an amp (and I did) I'd buy a Harke LH 500 (I also did, although this time last year it was priced at 250 !) (sorry the pound sign on my keyboard has disappeared ?)
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Thomann are selling 'em for less than that today! [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/hartke_lh500.htm"]http://www.thomann.d...artke_lh500.htm[/url]

The sound won't be to everybodys taste, but it's an awful lot of amp for the money IMO, and would still leave enough from a 400 quid budget to get a perfectly gigable cab to go with it.

As for Peavey gear - if it sounds good. go for it. Chances are, it'll outlive you...

Did you manage to crack this ? Just curious, in case my HA2500 misbehaves in the future...

[quote name='SimonH' timestamp='1346863837' post='1794205']
Hi - got a G-K 210T (2 x 10 cab) which has a pair of 150 watt, 8 ohm 10in cones in it that...

1) aren't original... can't remember what they're called but I think they were budget, and

2) are no longer of this earth after I re-wired them from 4 ohm total to 8 ohm, then blew them up. Doh.

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2 x 8 Ohm drivers in series = 16 Ohm
2 x 8 Ohm wired in parallel = 4 Ohm

How'd you manage to rewire for 8 Ohm ?

Just curious...

Another Hartke fan here - got a LH500 and an HA2500, and they're both great.

On a sidenote - I've just been cruising around Thomann's website, and see they're doing the LH500 for 236 quid. Seems like an awful lot of clean, warm and very loud tubey loveliness, for not a lot of money...

Sold one of these some years ago, and regretted it ever since. Great guitars.

Shame I'm not after a guitar - I'd've ripped your hand off.

The compact is almost exactly the same size as an Ashdown 2x10 that I've just sold.

The 'one in, one out' just happened to take place while she's in Italy for a few days...

[quote name='Oopsdabassist' timestamp='1346317664' post='1787739']
Anyone tell me if my Reidmar would power a compact sufficiently? looking at the BF website they were quoting a min of 250W at 8ohm and the reidmar only puts out 250 at 4 ohm
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I used my newly aquired Compact at a pub gig last weekend, with my Hartke HA2500 - 180W at 8Ohms.
(I'd loaned my LH500 to a mate with an amp emergency - his gig was bigger than mine...)

The volume and clarity of the Compact meant that the little HA wasn't being pushed anywhere near its max, and the end result sounded really rather nice.

[quote name='BRANCINI' timestamp='1346099350' post='1785336']
Thats how it was yonks ago when I worked on dial up CCTV kit, Old phones still work so I cant see it being any different now, Power, high ring voltage plus speech both ways on two very very long thin wires, Pretty clever cosidering it was designed at least 150 years ago.
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BT specs are pretty much all available online, as Suppliers Information Notes (SINs) at http://www1.btwebworld.com/sinet/

From memory, the relevant one is SIN351, which specifies 40-100V AC.

The only difference between now and as far back as I can remember, is that the ringing is no longer generated by the old electromechanical "ringing machines".

I'm sure Loz feels better for knowing that

I've got an older 100W Ashdown Five Fifteen and, like Loz says, mine wouldn't work for me in a band situation - but I guess that rather depends what sort of band it is.
It sounds OK at low-ish volume, but soon runs out of steam if I start cranking it. (That's fine though for what I want it for. I bought it cheap from here just as something to have kicking around the house for practicing with)

I did have a play with a 1x15 Hartke combo a while back - one of the "kickback" ones, possibly an A100 but I'm not 100% sure - which I thought was fantastic. Retained its punch at higher volume than my Ashdown...still not sure I'd want to gig with it though.

As far back as I can remember, ringing in the UK has always been 75V AC @25Hz

Whatever next?

'we don't sell Guiness Sir - the landlord doesn't like it. Pint of Drambuie?'

I took that to mean available in both 4 and 8 Ohm versions...or is it selectable via a switch on the cab ?

Valve emulation only, on the 2500. It's all solid state.

Can't help with the problem I'm afraid. I do have a HA2500, but it's always behaved itself.

Combo & cab are both now gone.

Cheers Ivan - small world, eh?

Just don't turn it up too loud - ya might get beer in the little Roland!

Bought a cab from Gareth,

Great comms from start to finish - kept me informed every step of the way, and it arrived when he said it would, all packed up nice n' snug, and in fantastic condition as described.

A thoroughly painless transaction - deal with confidence.

Cheers matey.

Cab on hold.

And replied.

2x10 cab still available, but the combo is now sold.