Hartke

Look at that little Hartke HyDrive 5210 Bass Combo. You wouldn't think that little guy would have enough power to scare a caffeine-addicted mouse, let alone power an additional cabinet, but it does. Also: scaring a caffeine addicted mouse -- not as easy as you'd think. First you've got to get the mouse addicted to caffeine.  

The Hartke HyDrive 5410 combines the HyDrive 4x10 cabinet with an LH500 bass amp for a quarter ton of wattage. That's literally enough power to physically blow away any acoustic punk rockers crooning in the background with the air the speakers push out.  

Irekani Chavez of Tarima Son shows us his Hartke AC75 amp, which is packed with inputs and ways to effect your signal.  

Part two of Owen O'Malley's Hartke Hydrive 112C walkthru explores the on-board Bass Attack overdrive, which is a bass overdrive the uses the same basic distortion circuit as Hartke's popular Bass Attack effects pedal.  

The Hartke Hydrive series implements the inventive concept of combining aluminum and paper cones. Owen O'Malley lends his slapping thumbs to demo this amp and see if hybrid cones really are the future or just the next hybridization fad.  

Crash Romeo hail from New Jersey and play what they unapologetically call "Pop-Punk." The band's bassist, Steve Matthews, tells Gearwire what he uses and why.  

Kate Houle shows us her Carlo Robelli bass and Hartke Kickback 12, which she uses to lay down the groove for Before Dawn. It goes to show that you don't need a fridge to get people moving.  

For ages, the feud between paper and aluminum raged on with seemingly no end in sight. The great moderator, Hartke, has resolved such issues with the HyDrive Drivers, combining the punchy attack of aluminum with the warmth of paper.  

Hartke demos its KM200 Keyboard Monitor Amp, a 200-watt, four-channel amp that includes a built-in seven-band EQ and Hartke's signature aluminum woofer cone for added clarity....  

Hartke demos its AC150 Acoustic Ribbon Amplifier. The AC150's unusual speaker configuration includes four five-inch woofers and a 2x4-inch ribbon tweeter. The AC150 also features a five-band graphic EQ, 100 built-in effects,...