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Haha yeah! I guess it's curiosity as the Haz is said to be such a part of the sound! I find the Darkglass pre very aggressive though, don't use much of it but it does give me what I like!

Would you consider changing the darkglass pre to the clone Haz if you were happy with the Darkglass? I'm not into that super super grindy 80s spector sound but I do absolute love the tone of my LT5

Just to confuse you more. I just came back from a rehearsal and I think my Euro LT 5 is the best sounding bass I've ever had and the most fun to play!

I had a stingray body made by them. It's a good quality, light alder body. I sent them the status neck to make sure it was a perfect fit. I would use them again. I think the woodworking aspect and wood quality is great.

Thought I would update as currently using the Hartke gear for its first tour! Firstly, I'm not sure if this a first for me but I have voluntarily turned the amp down on stage, I think I'm running it at just below three on the dial. Huge amounts of volume and only using a single 4x10 HL cab. Playing from Concert Halls to club shows. Running with the tweeter off, bass at 3 , mid at 5 and treble at about 2 is giving me a very full,warm tone that really bites and gets aggressive when I dig in which is perfect as the set is pretty dynamic. Really love the high end the speakers deliver, it really just helps you sit in the mix and still hear the definition of your playing on stage. I'm running my Spector in the passive input with a very slight boost of treble and bass on the onboard preamp, just sounds like that little bit extra push really gets the amp working.

Just restrung my LT5 with Rotosounds and intonated and set up the bass and I love the bridge on these basses! Firstly no screws for adjusting the intonation! Instead I can use an Allan key, the saddles actually move when you adjust the intonation and it's the quickest and possibly first time ever I've managed to intonate a low B in tune! Then there's the sound of the bass with the Swing Bass Strings. Really brings the bass to life and it really sings! Also ended up getting a Hiscox case for it and it's pretty much a perfect fit for it, if anyone else is wondering about cases!

Can't be 100 percent but the bigger hartke logo makes me think its mid to late 90s but could be wrong!

I love the amps and cabs. Somehow wrangled an artist deal with them after being blown away by a Hartke rig at a festival. It has the sound that I love!

If you want to save your back the HL Cabs are amazing! Not the same tone or heavy 90s nostalgia as the XL series though!!

Awesome. If you ever want to sell the amp let me know haha. Be nice to add to my hartke collection!

I definitely get withdrawal if I don't play it for a day or two because I always want to play it. For me it's also a job but I also absolutely love playing it and apart from a few years where I fell out of love with it in my twenties (I got fed up with being a touring band musician and lost sigjg of why I loved the bass) I've been playing it since I was ten so it's been like a best friend and I find practicing like a sort of release in the same way people like going for a run or a walk!

After some advice regarding a hardcase for my Spector LT5. I need something that will survive being thrown into vans and going on planes and through airports. The obvious option would be the fitted Spector hardcase which I can get on an artist deal but I'm also considering a Hiscox hard case too. My main concern is the headstock really. In my fender C&G (?) Hardcase the neck doesn't lie flat in the groove and the angled headstock is taking all the weight of the bass which I fear is a bad thing! So wondering if anyone had experience of the Spector cases and that they are fitted so that the headstock isn't taking the weight and just general longevity of the cases? Same goes for the Hiscox. Obviously they don't fit the exact shape of the Spector but you can put inserts in? Any others I should consider?

Guitar and bass build will probably make them. They made me a stibgray body for a status neck a year or two ago!

Lighter fluid apparently. Not a joke. Haven't tried it myself but if yoi research enough you'll find people talking about it, I think they call it something else in the States... Naphtha? I've restored a good few Warwicks. Lots of careful sanding and wire wool and you can get them looking like new.

There was a whole thread about this on the Ernie ball forums. I did mine avfew years ago now, fingerboard and neck. Can't remember what I did to be honest but sugar soap was involved and I resealed the neck with a clear furniture wax and the bass has never been better.

Still going strong! Really enjoying the GK 800 at the moment and one of the V4 Ampeg captures. Found the GK800 broke up nicely and running a compressor before icontrolled the low end so the low b didn't break up more than the other strings. What I find strange (or maybe it's from listening on headphones at the moment) is that the Ampeg captures seem really, really bright. I downloaded some of the neural dsp presets with the aguilar captures and found those were all hyped with additional eq and compressors pushing the captures to break up. Sounds cool but again find them really, really bright. That being said I listened back to a gig that was recorded and the bass didn't sound bright at all, infact it sounded warm but my memory of the bass in my in ears was that it was bright! I'm looking forward to capturing my hartke rig in the new year as that is my favourite set up, live in hope they add a Hartke cab to the cabs as I find the the virtual mic positioning and options really useful in shaping the sound.

I love the styling of the older amps!

I think it's fine. I think for now I'm going to safely bundle up the excess cable from thr power supply and mount in on a heavy duty 1 gang extension on my board and perhaps by a spare power supply!