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Hartke Hydrive 112C Owner's Manual

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  • Page 1 112C 115C 210C Hartke Hartke...
  • Page 2 Caution: To reduce the hazard of electrical shock, do not remove cover or back. No user serviceable parts inside. Please refer all servic- ing to qualified personnel. WARNING: To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not expose this unit to rain or moisture. The lightning flash with an arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated "dangerous voltage"...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Introduction ............. . . 2 Hartke 112C 115C and 210C Combo Bass Amplifier Features ... . . 4 - 5 Guided Tour - Front Panel .

  • Page 4: Introduction

    The Hydrive series is new line up of 250-watt bass combo amplifiers featuring Hartke’s Hydrive hybrid cone bass transducers. This manual covers three models, the 112C featuring a 300 watt, 12-inch Hydrive speaker, the 115C with a 300, watt 15-inch Hydrive speaker and the 210C with two, 150 watt, 10-inch Hydrive speakers.
  • Page 5 Hartke and Samson products in the future. Also, be sure to check out our website (www.hartke.com) for complete information about our full product line.

  • Page 6: Hartke 112C 115C And 210C Combo Bass Amplifier Features

    Here are some of their main features: • The 112C delivers 250 Watts of power to its specially designed, 12-inch Hydrive bass driver, while the 115C delivers 250 Watts to its specially designed, 15-inch Hydrive bass driver and the 210C provides 250 Watts of power to the dual 10-inch Hydrive bass drivers.
  • Page 7 • The Hydrive combos are beautifully appointed in tough black vinyl with chrome corners and matching steel grills, giving them a powerful appearance, and sound, on stage. • Hartke extended three-year warranty. Hartke 112C, 115C and 210C Combo Bass Amplifier Features...

  • Page 8: Guided Tour - Front Panel

    Guided Tour - Front Panel 1. Input (1/4-inch Jack) - Connect your bass guitar to this standard 1/4" unbalanced jack. This Hydrive Combo Input has been designed to handle the signals from just about any bass with either passive pickups or with hotter pickups if your bass has active electronics (that is, if it has a battery).
  • Page 9 Guided Tour - Front Panel 8. BrIte (control knob) – This knob set the amount of high frequency tone control used to drive the harmonics in the Bass Attack Overdrive. The control is active when the Bass Attack Overdrive switch is ON. 9.

  • Page 10: Guided Tour - Rear Panel

    Guided Tour - Rear Panel A. AC POWER (inlet) - Use the supplied grounded AC power cord to connect your Hydrive Combos amplifier to mains power. This cord comes supplied with the appropriate plug for your geographic area. CAUTION: Do not use an adapter to defeat the third grounding pin on this plug or severe electric shock may result! B.

  • Page 11: Setting Up And Using Your Hartke Hydrive Combo Bass Amplifier

    Setting Up and Using Your Hartke Hydrive Combo Bass Amplifier Setting up your Hartke Hydrive Combo Bass Amplifier is a simple procedure which takes only a few minutes: 1. Remove all packing materials (save them in case of need for future service) and decide where the amplifier is to be physically placed.
  • Page 12 The result will be a decreased dynamic range but an overall leveling of signal throughout the full pitch range of your instrument. In the 112C, 115C and 210C, the Compression LED will be off when no compression is being applied, will go on...

  • Page 13: Setting Up And Using Your Hartke Hydrive Combo Bass Amplifier

    Setting Up and Using Your Hartke Hydrive Combo Bass Amplifier 12. If you need to connect the Hydrive Combo to a PA system or a recording mixing console, connect a cable between the rear-panel Direct Out and a Line-level input on the mixer. (See E on page 8 in this manual for more information on the use of the Hydrive Combo Direct Out).

  • Page 14: The Effect Of The Shape Control

    The Effect of the Shape Control The Hydrive's unique Shape control enables the sound of your bass instrument to be enhanced at the touch of a button. When the front panel Shape switch is pressed in, a special equalization curve is activated that is designed to improve the sound of most electric bass instruments.

  • Page 15: Using The Bass Attack Overdrive

    Using the Bass Attack Overdrive The Hydrive combos feature Hartke’s Bass Attack Overdrive circuit allowing you to add a little tube type overdrive, some edgy dirt or all out fuzz. The Bass Attack Overdrive operates with three controls; the first is Harmonics, which is used to set the amount of overdrive.

  • Page 16: Using Equalization

    The 112C, 115C and 210Coffer standard Bass and Treble controls, plus seven bands of graphic equalization. This extended, dual stage equalization circuit allows you to tailor the mid-band with precise control and then boost and cut the bottom and top.
  • Page 17 In many instances, the best way to deal with equalization is to think in terms of which frequency areas you need to attenuate, as opposed to which ones you need to boost. Be aware that boosting a frequency area also has the effect of boosting the overall signal; specifically, too much Low EQ boost can actually cause overload distortion or even harm the connected speaker.

  • Page 18: Hydrive Combo Sample Settings

    To get you started, try some of the samples settings below. Remember, 112C, 115C and 210C use different speaker systems, plus different basses are made of different wood and have different pick-ups, so the sound will vary a little bit on each individual set-up.

  • Page 19: Hydrive Combo Sample Settings

    Hydrive Combo Sample Settings...

  • Page 20: Hydrive Combo Setting Template

    Hydrive Combo Setting Template...

  • Page 21: Hydrive Combo Setting Template

    Hydrive Combo Setting Template...

  • Page 22: Specifications

    Treble (8 kHz) Graphic (80 Hz, 160 Hz, 315 Hz, 630 Hz, 1.25kHz, 2.5kHz and 5kHz) Fuse type Fuse rating US & Japan UK & European weight 112C 115C 115C Dimensions 112C 115C 210C Specifications are subject to change without notice.
  • Page 24 Hartke Hartke 45 Gilpin Avenue Hauppauge, New York 11788-8816 Phone: 1-800-3-SAMSON (1-800-372-6766) Fax: 631-784-2201 www.hartke.com...

This manual is also suitable for:

Hydrive 210cHydrive 115c

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