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Hartke
Hartke VXL Bass Attack Preamp Pedal
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Hartke VXL Bass Attack Preamp Pedal

Hartke VXL Bass Attack Preamp and Bass Guitar Direct Box delivers Hartke’s Exclusive Shape Circuitry in an all-new professional pedal!
The VXL Bass Attack is built into an all steel chassis with two stomp-proof switches and LED status indicators. It features Hartke’s Variable Notch Shape Circuit with adjustable frequency, a three-band EQ with bass tuned center frequencies, a variable harmonic control circuit that emulates the warmth of a tube driver. Other features include Mix and Output level controls, On/Off and Shape In/Out switching for switching sounds during a performance, Pre/Post direct out with a balanced gold plated XLR output, and the Bass Attack will operate on either 9-volt battery, optional AC Adapter, or phantom power through the XLR. What took Hartke so long to design a bass pedal? Well, these things take time if you want to do it right!

Hartke VXL Bass Attack Features
  • VX tone shaping pre-amp/direct box
  • Famous Hartke shape circuitry
  • 3-band bass, treble and bright control
  • Harmonic control for tube drive emulation
  • Gold plated XLR direct output
  • Selectable pre, post or parallel 1/4-inch in and out
  • Rugged extruded aluminum stomp-box style construction
The Hartke Bass Attack Pedal is a tone-shaping pre-amp that doubles as a direct box, featuring the famous Hartke Shape Circuitry. The two-button style stomp box has a three band EQ for adjustments of Bass, Treble, and Bright controls, plus a Harmonic control that emulates the warmth and drive of a tube so well that you’ll never want to turn it off. The Hartke Bass Attack Pedal gives you the ability to finally get the sound you want, and everything in between.

 
 
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9 people rated this item
Cuz Sound from Cleveland, Ms
pedelucas@hotmail.com
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Subject:Poor
Quality: Poor
Features: Poor
Sound: Poor
Playability and Feel: Poor
Tone: Poor
Finish: alright
Action: Poor
Date submitted: 3-24-09
Do you own this product?: Not any more
 
Jim from Hawaii
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Subject:Great Pedal
Quality: I've had the pedal for several years now. Great reliable pedal; I gig every week with it. Only complaint is the knobs, they are plastic and the top part that is glued on fell off of almost all the knobs and had to reglue. Also hard to read the knob setting because the black dot is way too small. I would suggest Hartke change to black metal knobs with white dots.
Features: The tweakability is awesome, you can almost any tone you would want from this. The placement of the knobs don't make sense in relation to the switches.
Sound: The tone is very tube-like, I only use tube guitar amps and this pedal warms things up just like real tubes.
Playability and Feel: N/A that's why I gave it a 1 rating above.
Tone: As I said, you can get whatever tone you like out of this. Just add some flatwounds to your bass and you've got a smooth Bass sound.
Finish: Finish is nice, still looks like the day I bought it. With the humidity here in Hawaii, that's saying something.
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Date submitted: 6/24/2009
Do you own this product?: Yes, for over 2 years
 
Christopher Cassisi from Sunnyvale, CA USA
chris_cassisi@yahoo.com
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Subject:you want control...YOU GOT CONTROL!!!
Quality: I am a big guy and have messed up pedals in the past do to putting to much weight on them. This thing is impossible to crush. This pedal shows absolute no trace of bending or craking due to pressure. I feel this product is very reliable and made extremly well.
Features: I love how it has a seperate on/off switch and shape switch. Very versatile and very easy to figure out. Also the recessed knobs and led lights are really nice. And the amount of knobs add alot of fine tunning options.
Sound: I got the exact tone I was searching for with this pedal. Super clean sounds and it doesnt effect the natural tone of my bass at all when bypassed.
Playability and Feel: This thing just felt super solid when I picked it up. The small curve where the switches are mounted add a very nice and natural feel when using it.
Tone: Whatever I want. I can play anything from jazz to grindcore with this pedal. Wether I am in drop A tunning or standard the tonal options I have with this are a dream come true. Helps with makeing low tunning audible at high volume.
Finish: Looks as cool as it sounds
Action: great feel
Date submitted: 6/11/2009
Do you own this product?: yes
 
Robert R. Davenport from Gunnison, CO USA
musicmanrrd@gmail.com
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Subject:Very Versatile Pedal
Quality: High quality components.Solid construction.
Features: I like all of the capabilities and flexibility of this box. There is one thing I would change though. The arrangement of the tone and volume knobs is a little annoying. They should be placed directly in front of the foot switch that operates them and they're not. That's only a minor nit though.
Sound: There are a lot of different and usable sounds available.
Playability and Feel: The change of sound you can get at the push of a switch is better than channel switching the amp. Great for intros, solo's and ending's.
Tone: Variety of tones that cover all genre's. Rock, jazz, country, funk, you name it!
Finish: Sharp looking unit!
Action: N/A
Date submitted: 4-28-09
Do you own this product?: Yes
 
pagano from Fresno, Ca.
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Subject:great tone shaper!
Quality: seems to be built very tough. heard reports of the nobs falling off on older models, but i couldnt even pull them off on mine
Features: great eq and the tube emulator adds a lot of depth
Sound: tone is great, lots of options
Playability and Feel: tracks well.
Tone: tone is great. only one problem. i have this pedal at the end of my signal chain, and when i tried to go straight to the board with the XLR out to my friends mixer, i started picking up a radio station somehow. used the instrument out and went to the board, no radio station. not sure whats up with that
Finish: decent.
Action: decent.
Date submitted: 02-17-2009
Do you own this product?: yes
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