hartke bass attack.... keep it ?

[poomwah]

or take it back. Mary Ann got me one for christmas. According to reviews, its capable of reproducing ampeg svt type overdrive all the way to fuzz. I want a fuzz pedal, I thought of taking this back, and buying a used fuzz pedal and a tuner. Should I just keep this and use it as a fuzz pedal/DI box? It also has a tone shaper circuit that I imagine could be used like a foot switchable EQ.

so, hartke bass attack..... OR used fuzz pedal and tuner

[Crescent Seven]

Have you tried it yet?

 

If so, how does it make you feel?

 

Like, when you pluck a note, do you get gas pains in your lower abdomen, or does it make your wiener tingle? When you're clicking it on and off, does it make you angry, or aroused?

 

The answers you seek are within your own loins, I'm afraid.

C7

[t3ch]

 

Have you tried it yet? If so, how does it make you feel ? Like, when you pluck a note, do you get gas pains in your lower abdomen, or does it make your wiener tingle? When you're clicking it on and off, does it make you angry, or aroused? The answers you seek are within your own loins, I'm afraid. C7

 

 

As amusing as it is accurate.

[SB900LE]

I have that Hartke VXL Bass Attack thing, and I like it and use it almost all the time. Now, I'm not an effects buff, although I do have other effects pedals, but have sorta settled onto the Hartke, basically for sound enhancement with just a bit o'drive.

 

But the Hartke is a nice pedal for some EQ and Shaping, IMO, and I really like what it does for my sound, esp. for just $70 new. I've been using as a DI half the time (chuch gig, going thru the board), and have had no trouble there; seems to be very low-noise.

 

But it's not a fuzz pedal; and not even a heavy drive IMO. And I wouldn't say the overdrive sound is akin to an SVT. Now I have recently been playing around with a Sansamp bass DI pedal (borrowed), and I'd say that the Sansamp provides more of the Ampeg kind of drive.

 

I meant to post a recommendation for the Hartke Bass Attack back when RickNBacker was asking about effects a few weeks ago.

 

 

*I recommend you keep it and try it, but again, it's not a fuzz pedal at all*

 

 

[fretless]

just another tool in the tool box , can't have enough of those

[poomwah]

just another tool in the tool box , can't have enough of those

 

agreed, more tools the better, but the budget keeps me from getting more tools, and this would be another 80 bucks toward other tools

 

I've messed with it a little, and maybe I'm not using it right, but I'm not overly impressed with it. When I had one before, I played it through my old rig, with my old bass and loved the way it sounded. But with the basses I have now, and the rig I have now, I don't think the hartke is improving my sound any, at least not to my ears, just making it different. not in a good or bad way. The guy that sold it to me recommended it as the best way to get an ampeg growl without getting an ampeg. But like SB900LE metioned, it doesn't actually give you that sound.

[Crescent Seven]

I have sort of a disaffection towards gear that's intended as, or at least sold as, a way to sound like another piece of gear.

 

There are approximations of the tone of the SVT available, but none of them can give you the characteristics that really make an SVT sound the way it does, especially anything solid-state.

 

I guess if you take it for what it is, and not what it's supposed to be, you'll enjoy it more. That's what it was with the BDDI for me; I wasn't trying to get an overdriven tube sound out of the thing when I bought it, so when I set it to the recommended setting for "SVT", and it didn't sound anything like an SVT, I wasn't disappointed.

C7

[poomwah]

I have sort of a disaffection towards gear that's intended as, or at least sold as, a way to sound like another piece of gear. There are approximations of the tone of the SVT available, but none of them can give you the characteristics that really make an SVT sound the way it does, especially anything solid-state. I guess if you take it for what it is, and not what it's supposed to be, you'll enjoy it more. That's what it was with the BDDI for me; I wasn't trying to get an overdriven tube sound out of the thing when I bought it, so when I set it to the recommended setting for "SVT", and it didn't sound anything like an SVT, I wasn't disappointed. C7

 

so a bass floor pod probably isn't a good idea either

[Death Hands]

so a bass floor pod probably isn't a good idea either

 

It is, but I think of it as a recording tool first, effects deal second.

[fretless]

I had a '75 SVT and it never gave up overdrive or serious grind it was a big fat warm tube sound with tons of headroom , my V4Bh gave a tone I always thought the SVT was supposed to be , lots of grind , my 50 watt Marshall even more so . Odd isn't it . C7 is right , so is a overdrive what you are in need of ?

[Cpt. Spliff]

Poomwah surely has the best of wives. Has he ever bought anything for himself ?

 

I have the "shape" on my Hartke Kickback 120 combo. It has never sent me to 7th heaven and I much prefer to go through my SansAmp, but as C7 so accurately describes it, it's up to the loins.

[poomwah]

 

I had a '75 SVT and it never gave up overdrive or serious grind it was a big fat warm tube sound with tons of headroom , my V4Bh gave a tone I always thought the SVT was supposed to be , lots of grind , my 50 watt Marshall even more so . Odd isn't it . C7 is right , so is a overdrive what you are in need of ?

 

 

honestly, the problem is, I don't know what I'm in need of :[ I am not happy with my sound, and although I have my ears trained to picking out notes and melody's and runs, etc. but I'm still having trouble picking out which effects are used on which songs. I just know that fuzz seems to be one of the more popular effects. so I'm hoping that will help :

[fretless]

 

honestly, the problem is, I don't know what I'm in need of :[ I am not happy with my sound, and although I have my ears trained to picking out notes and melody's and runs, etc. but I'm still having trouble picking out which effects are used on which songs. I just know that fuzz seems to be one of the more popular effects. so I'm hoping that will help :

 

 

sometimes it's too damn tough to tell what's used on a song I love to try to guess though , Some players like to use a rack full of effects , like Claypool hitting a boomerang , reverse in realtime delays and {censored} blended with a rack full of {censored} , may be hard to figure out some sounds . If you have a super clean tone than a overdrive is a good 1st effect , than you have 2 sounds , clean and dirty , go from there , chorus , delay , phaser , autofilter etc.etc.