Features

The Hartke VX3500 bass amplifier offers all the newest concepts in bass ampli- fication. Here are some of its main features:

•Power to spare — The VX3500, a full 350 watts delivered to its internal 4 ohm speaker system.

•Internal, 2-way bass speaker system including four custom design 10-inch low frequency drivers, plus 1-inch high frequency compression driver.

•Our unique Transient Attack® circuitry which ensures that every nuance of your bass performance is reproduced faithfully.

•Two Pre-Amp input knobs, allowing custom blending of tube and solid state sounds.

•Ten bands of high-quality graphic equalization, allowing you to create a broad range of tonal colors for your bass instrument. A dedicated in/out button allows you to preset an equalization curve.

•Two fully adjustable contour knobs (high pass and low pass), which provide further control over shaping your bass sound.

•A built-in compressor which not only adds real “punch” to your bass sound, but also allows you to smooth out volume differences between notes.

•Two independent inputs that accommodate both passive and active bass guitars.

•Protection relay circuitry that protects connected speakers from dangerous overloading and also prevents “thumps” when powering on or off.

•Effect loop send and return jacks that allow you to connect to professional outboard effects processors.

•An effect Balance knob which enables you to adjust the relative amount of Send (“dry”) versus Return (“wet”) effect signal being routed to the speaker outputs.

•Electronically balanced direct output that provides a means of routing signal to professional mixing consoles in both live performance and recording environments. A ground loop switch helps prevent hum or buzz from enter- ing the signal, and a pre/post switch allows the direct signal to be derived either before or after the amp EQ section.

•LEDs that show you the settings of the graphic equalizer in low-light envi- ronments as well as a two-color LED that continuously shows the status of the compression circuitry in response to your playing.

•Rugged construction makes the VX3500 eminently road-worthy.

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