Different brand Heads with Cabs

[PhatMasterFunk]

Hi, I've been considering getting a eden WTB 700 with a Hartke Hydrive 4x10. The specs are

[url="http://www.eden-electronics.com/products/amps/indiv/wtb700.aspx"]http://www.eden-electronics.com/products/a...div/wtb700.aspx[/url]

[url="http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/75521"]http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/75521[/url]

I tried a hartke amp and cab in a shop with a Warwick LX, it sounded really sweet. Sharp tones from slaps and heavy low end as I play a five string. I felt it was the metal / paper cones so I thought about using them with Eden who have the controls I like. I would be very grateful for any advice on the whole thing.

[Mog]

The head is 700 watts @ 2 ohms. You'd need 4 of those cabs to get the full whack.

[Colledge]

[quote name='Mog' post='997530' date='Oct 22 2010, 09:04 PM']The head is 700 watts @ 2 ohms. You'd need 4 of those cabs to get the full whack.[/quote]

but one perk of at 8 ohm 4x10 is that it is relatively easy to rewire it to 2 ohms. just put all of the cones in parralel (assuming they use 8 ohm drivers as apose to the possible 32 ohms)

[JMT3781]

Just make sure the cab can take that many watts

[alexclaber]

Hmmm... Very difficult to give impartial advice without it sounding biased! However I shall try.

One thing to bear in mind is that although that Hartke cab is rated at 1000W thermally, it's excursion limited power handling is far lower, which has two results - firstly that you can't push the cab anywhere hear as hard as the 'specs' would suggest, and secondly that as you get up to gig levels the tone will diverge from the tone at shop SPL - which I why I continue to say that trying a bass cab in a shop doesn't really tell you much about the performance. I can get a great tone through my hi-fi but I wouldn't want to gig with it! Also a lot of the tone from a bass can come from the amp - some amps have really distinctive tone curves (a combination of frequency response, distortion, dynamic response etc) - so I wouldn't recommend choosing an amp based on it having the knobs you like, I'd go for one that has the tone you like and knobs that do what you need (i.e. twisting them gets the tone you want!)