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You don’t have to be a bass geek to know about Hartke’s reputation. The company’s amplification—renowned for its integration of aluminum into speaker design—has been pleasing the ears of many players and listeners for over 30 years. Weekend warriors all the way to low-end legends such as Jack Bruce and Victor Wooten have relied on the company’s wares to deliver tonal flexibility and robust power. Of late, Hartke’s designs have evolved to mesh their signature sound with more portable packages. The HD500 is one of their most recent. It’s a stout combo that pairs a 500-watt amp with proprietary speakers and tips the scales a tick under 35 pounds.

The HD500 houses a pair of 10" HyDrive speakers. Interestingly, it was the aforementioned Cream bassist who inspired Hartke’s HyDrive speaker technology. Mr. Bruce’s use of both the company’s aluminum- and paper-speaker cabinets onstage was what led Hartke to consider fusing the two materials into one driver. As a result, they were able to combine the warmth of traditional paper cones with the attack and clarity of aluminum. Furthering the contemporary speaker design is the use of neodymium magnets, which are intended to deliver significant weight reduction without sacrificing performance.

A 500-watt, class-D amplifier pushes the drivers and offers streamlined tone shaping on its control panel. The proprietary Shape section is seated to the left of the bass, mid, and treble controls. It consists of a pushbutton switch to activate the feature and a control knob to customize the effect of the Shape curve. This notch filter allows a player to cut 20 dB from a chosen frequency. It moves clockwise for the higher frequencies and counterclockwise for the lower ones.

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