The TC Electronic BH500 Bass Guitar Amp Head's feature set leaves little to be desired with its superb tone-shaping tools such as TubeTone, SpectraComp and bass tuned tone controls.
The 3 user memories of the TC Electronic BH500 let you change tone at any given time while the integrated tuner allows you to tune up silently before you rock.
A conventional compressor is often dominated by the lower string, but with SpectraComp, which is taken directly from the original RH450, you get 'per string' multi-band compression that evens out the compression across all strings.
The TubeTone effect of the TC Electronic BH500 was originally introduced on RH450. Most transistor designs try to replicate tube sound using one small preamp tube, but why not take the crucial characteristics of a full preamp and power amp into account? Both are essential to the sound when you want that classic tube warmth as well as when you go for a full-on overdriven rock sound with a massive punch.
EQ is always a bass essential, so TC have equipped BH500 with a great sounding, 4-band EQ which is perfect for shaping your fundamental tone. Further, with two contour filters you can scoop the mid-frequencies, which creates an amazing low-end punch on demand.
The tweeter control is usually located on the rear side of the cabinet, but on the BH500 you can simply adjust the tweeter level right from the front panel. The sound also gets modified slightly with filters giving you a much more intelligent control over the high frequencies that are critical for giving your sound that razor-sharp edge.
For rehearsing or jamming along you can connect your portable music player to the AUX input. If you don’t want to disturb the neighbors, plug in your headphones and the drivers will be muted automatically. Finally, you can send a signal to a sound-engineer via the balanced XLR output or to an audio interface.
TC Electronic BH500 main features include:
- Power rating 500w (1000w Peak)
- Speaker output: Neutrik Speakon
- Balanced output Balanced XLR, Pre/Post Pre-amp
- 3 memory locations storing all front panel controls except Mute & Master Level
- Spectra Comp: 3 band Spectral Compression
- Bass EQ Center Freq: 100Hz (Gain: +15/-24dB)
- Low Mid EQ Center Freq: 335Hz (Gain: +15/-24dB)
- High Mid EQ Center Freq: 900Hz (Gain: +15/-24dB)
- Treble EQ Center Freq: 1600Hz @ Gain: -24 to 0dB; 4000Hz @ Gain 0 to +15dB
- Rehearsal input RCA, Left/Right input
- Dimensions 462 x 135 x 380 mm / 18.7” x 5.4” x 15.0”
- Weight: 13 kg / 29 pounds
- Finish: Tolex covered
TC Electronic BH500 Bass Guitar Amp Head (code 79813)
Bass Guitar Amplifier Head, 500 Watts, Built-In Compressor, Tube Tone, 4-Band EQ
£365.00 (inc vat)