Hartke VS Series Owner's Manual

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3The 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 4ohm speaker system.• Internal, 2-way bass speaker system including four custom design 10-inchlow frequency drivers, plus 1-inch high frequency compression driver.• Our unique Transient Attack® circuitry which ensures that every nuance ofyour bass performance is reproduced faithfully.• Two Pre-Amp input knobs, allowing custom blending of tube and solid statesounds.• Ten bands of high-quality graphic equalization, allowing you to create abroad range of tonal colors for your bass instrument. A dedicated in/outbutton allows you to preset an equalization curve.• Two fully adjustable contour knobs (high pass and low pass), which providefurther 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 bassguitars.• Protection relay circuitry that protects connected speakers from dangerousoverloading and also prevents “thumps” when powering on or off.• Effect loop send and return jacks that allow you to connect to professionaloutboard effects processors.• An effect Balance knob which enables you to adjust the relative amount ofSend (“dry”) versus Return (“wet”) effect signal being routed to the speakeroutputs.• Electronically balanced direct output that provides a means of routing signalto professional mixing consoles in both live performance and recordingenvironments. 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 derivedeither 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 ofthe compression circuitry in response to your playing.• Rugged construction makes the VX3500 eminently road-worthy.Features