When it’s the two best selling brands…..

Merci pour l’essai sobre et efficace, très bien réalisé

What's also funny is the Ashdown is just sitting there in the background but wasn't used

That's **people**.

True, EXCELLENT VIDEO AND AUDIO QUALITY!!!!

I could... turn down the snare drum... lol

@@rrmin36 Have you done your demo yet?

verdade , Hartke surpreendeu . Aguilar tb .

Why no GK??

É incrível a qualidade da Hartke em todos os estilos e timbres, e Mark Bass não esperava menos, é top também. Agora o que me surpreendeu de verdade foi a Eden, de coração que timbre. Me arrisco a dizer que até colocou Aguilar no bolso rs, claro não estou mencionando qualidade de matérias primas.

Yeah clarity and completely lack of lows. Also now I can say that Markbass is definitelly no high-end cab. I is muddy and also lack of low end (I played on it even yesterday) :( I'm very interested in the Proamp it is some magical not known thing but sounds the most universal.

@@Marcink126 ever think its really convenient that the, probably, hardest to find bit of gear sounds the best

@@TacticalHyena I'm completely aware that there is no the best product. Most is the matter of taste. For some songs Hartke would simply fit the best. In my music journey I'm still looking for the most universal gear. Perfect situation would be to use giant studio monitors or simly front speakers on the stage and in ear monitors and just dial IR in some good effect :)

Team Hartke for me I have the 410 and 115 with the 1000 watt head and it sounds amazing 😎👈🏽

@@coolwhittedsbassguitarnation yes bu with 115 it has complete sound. But i dont pllan to carry two giant cabs :)

My friend you just stated what I've been saying for some time now. It's the same with bass guitars. Isn't it great that we can pick and choose what we like. Life is good.

@@danielgore861 it is until you check the price on some of those heads and cabs. I'm playing bass for 30 years, I was with a band for 15 years and few studio albums, went through numerous amps in my life, either owning one or borrowing, and though anecdotal as it is, you can get literally everything to the point you like the sound of it, but you can't get back the money you overpaid on something. Eden sounds the best to me in this comparison, but I can easily get the same sound out of most of those heads, and the Hartke LX1000 is 60-70% cheaper than the EDEN WT-800, is it worth 60-70% more, and the answer is simple; No, and it is not even the most expensive head in this shootout. From the round up here, I would pick the Hartke in a heartbeat, and that head would serve me from home practice to playing stadiums and would cost me around 600 USD. Forgot to mention, my head for multiple years now is the Ampeg SVT-7PRO.

@@kurosumomo i understand what you are saying. I'm a long time player also. I've never looked at the amps and cabinets as I've lost money. I figured the money would be spent in something else anyway. 😆 🤣 I own 3 Roscoe LG5's and will pick up a custom made Roscoe next month. Shoot you live then you die. I think getting what I like is part of living. Anyway you be blessed my friend. Thanks for the reply 👍

I had an LH500 paired with a Tech 21 VT pedal and it really shined through my Eden XLT 4x10 and Ampeg Classic 1x15. I got the LH500 uses for $200 and ran it for about a year before I decided to put a new 12ax7 tube and man it came to life. There was a clarity and warmth that wasn't there before.

Fairly recently I got a chance to use an Ampeg 810 cabinet with my SVT 4 Pro head, and believe it or not it running into my own 2 Hartke XL cabs ran circles around the 810, which I couldn't quite believe... Hartke cabs have a unique high end dynamic that other cabs cannot match. Matter of taste of course...

I haven't run a hartke rig at the level they're showing here, but even their combo amps are phenomenal, I'm currently running a little fender rumble 40w and while it's a great little practice amp I really miss my old hartke

Random Question, when these heads have DI’s can these DI’s be connected directly to a recording interface? Is it a straight connection outside of of a DI , is there a need for a load box or no? I might get one of these heads but I don’t know if I’ll record with a cab, maybe just the head . Zero experience with DI Any help? Thanks

@@cd0u50c9 I’ve only played through their cabs at shops but I’ve been continually impressed by my HD150, for a huge speaker it has really good high end. By far my favorite thing about it though is that it makes basses sound like themselves. I plug my stingray in it sounds like a stingray. I plug my Thumb in it sounds like a thumb, it just stays out of its own way really well. They don’t break the bank either.

@@cd0u50c9 That’s opposed to, say my rumble 40, which perpetually tries to make my Warwick sound like a jazz bass :|

+1 on the Traveller. I've gigged with a Little Mark 3 and a 4ohm Traveller 102p for about 7 years now. Nothing beats being able to carry everything in one trip!

Agreed 100%

I agree totally; just a little concerned about the quality since Edens are now manufactured in China. But as far as tone, the Eden was pure butter!

@@jellyfish3333 I have an old eden WT300 from 94 and the tone is great with my 75 p-bass

Agreed. Those two, and the orange, surprised me as my favorites

I think the Hardke speakers have a bit to do with their sound.Willing to bet it'd sound different with another cab.

The MarkBass rigs are really light. I replaced my backbreaking Trace Elliot 4x10 with a MarkBass CMD 102 2x10 combo, plus a 2x10 extension cabinet. And it's incredible how light and powerful they are. In fact I only really need the combo due to the power.

was gonna say the something @@Slydeil

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Wattage has very little to do with clarity. What you need is less gain going into the preamp and a stronger power amp

I have the same cabs but with the LX1000 from the video, and I LOVE it! Super clear, but the only downside is it doesn't handle below a low B very well. Has issues with it sounding like it was gonna explode with my old metal band playing in A

Wow! I was going to say the same. I'm surprised! I have a Crush 50 watt (not a high-end class of the brand, but the tone is quite good). Cheers!

I'm with you: The Orange Terror was my clear favorite of the bunch.

Woah. I thought it was weakest. Thin and lifeless. Mark bass here.

Yes the Orange led the pack IMO.I took the demo with eyes closed and would've sworn it was a tube head.

@@kevmac1230 it has a tube preamp

Dude, that was my exact rig for Four decades, then I got an old beat-up Eden410XLT and I noticed my P-bass was now knocking the dust outa the rafters. Hartkes are great although you can burn the voice coils w an SVT head. And on GK, forget the backline series and Hartke transporter, all lightweight junk.

Yours have the full aluminum speakers in it? If so, how do they compare with the new style ones?

I have never heard of these lasting more than a year. Complete garbage if you ask me. I saw them spit sparks out before.😂🍻

@@trossk I'll put it this way - they don't make 'em like they used to.

@@niteshades_promise Spot on during the present cost-cutting, bean-counter engineering era.

The Hartke was so punchy, but in smoothness I really liked the Proamp. I really don't like the Paul Jones stuff, and the Orange sucked.

@@funkingitup1805 yeah that Orange sucks. But the solidstate 4 stroke sounds great.

Hated the Orange. To me it was tied for worst with the Paul Jones stuff. I liked the Hartke and Eden best. Proamp was interesting for soft fingerstyle. Markbass was very good, but had very tough competition.

@@funkingitup1805 The orange isnt made to be glassy modern clean, it has a muted sound because its trying to give a 70s vibe, not ultra modern glassy-clean sound.

The Bergantino cab in one of their other videos was the best in that shootout to me.

Those hydrive cabs lend themselves VERY well to overdriven tones imo.

I agree , The Eden just sounds more rich overall. Very good range with dynamic ability and no break ups at all.

i play in a band w/ a bunch of tonechasers and a studio engineer, i can tell you as a tone ho i heard a local bassist playing an orange terror amp like this on a gig and was floored at how good it sounded.