TC Electronic BH250 Bass Amplifier Head (250 Watts)

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Don't let its small size fool you -- the TC Electronic BH250 head gives you access to a nearly limitless number of effects via its built-in TonePrint system.

TC Electronic's new BH250 is the only bass head that offers virtually endless musical and tonal inspiration via the revolutionary TonePrint concept in a package small enough to fit in your gig bag pocket.

With this compact, low-end wonder you get a massive 250 watts of power and a tone to die for, but it also adds ultimate versatility via the unique TonePrint feature and a built-in bass tuner that works on anything from 4 to 6 strings.

The TonePrint concept allows you to load signature bass effects in seconds: Chorus, Flanger, Vibrato, Sub'n' Up Octaver, SpectraComp or Bass Drive. You can choose from an ever-expanding list of signature artist TonePrints created by bass masters like Nathan East (Eric Clapton, Fourplay, Toto), Charles Cave (White Lies), Michael Shuman (Queens of the Stoneage), Gail Ann Dorsey (Lenny Kravitz, David Bowie, Seal), Mark King (Level 42), Roscoe Beck (Leonard Cohen, Robben Ford) and many more, all available for free on TC Electronic's website or via their TonePrint App for iPhone and Android. No doubt, playing with bass effects is loads of fun and can be an everlasting source of inspiration, triggering totally different ideas for new grooves and bass lines.

The BH250 is so compact that it will fit in the pocket of your gig bag, and at just 4 lbs., the weight is hardly going to be noticeable. Whether you need a bass head at a rehearsal spaces, at home for practicing, for gigging at small to medium-sized venues or all of the above, BH250 is the perfect, read more portable solution.

You can hook up BH250 to any cabinet, or combination of cabinets (min. 4 ohm load). TC Electronic recommends using BH250 with their range of BC cabinets or top range of bass cabinets - the RS series.

TonePrints for BH250

TonePrint is a flexible effect slot that lets you decide exactly which effect the amp should use at any given time. BH250 comes loaded with our legendary SCF Chorus as default, but you can download numerous new bass effects from our website, replacing the chorus with other effects such as Octaver, Compressor, Overdrive, Distortion, Flanger and Vibrato.

To make the deal even sweeter, we had some of the best bass players in the world tailor their own personal effect tones for you to grab, and best of all these Bass TonePrints are completely free of charge.

To load new types of effects or the artist-made Bass TonePrints, simply hook up your amp to a computer via the included USB cable. Or even cooler: beam them directly from your smartphone straight into BH250 using the mindblowing TonePrint App for iOS and Android. Quite simply, it is an ever-expanding effects joyride, as new TonePrints will be added constantly in the future. This is merely the beginning.

Please note: BH250 and BG250 share the same TonePrints, so you can load any BG250 TonePrint into BH250 - and vice versa.

Features:

- Portable - 4 lbs. / 1,8 kg
- Inspirational - TonePrint Signature Bass Effects
- TonePrint Artists - Signature Effects Created by Some of the Best Bass Players Around
- TonePrint Effect Types - Chorus, Flanger, Vibrato, Octaver, SpectraComp & BassDrive
- Built-in Bass Tuner - Tunes Any Bass with 4, 5 or 6 Strings in Seconds
- Intelligently Contoured Tone Controls - Cut and Boost at Different Frequencies, Tailored Specifically for Bass (Bass Cut: 80Hz, Bass Boost: 100Hz, Mid Cut: 500Hz, Mid Boost: 800Hz, Treble Cut: 1800Hz, Treble Boost: 3150Hz)
- Dimensions - 8.7" x 2.5 x 9.1" / 220 mm x 63 mm x 231 mm
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- Input connector: 1/4" jack
- Input impedance: 500 kOhm / 100pF
- Gain range: -96 to 36dB
- Tone control Bass: 80Hz @ Gain: -24 to 0dB; 100Hz @ Gain 0 to +15dB
- Mid: 500Hz @ Gain: -24 to 0dB; 800Hz @ Gain 0 to +15dB & 0 to -12 dB
- Treble / Tweeter Tone: Center Freq.: 1800Hz @ Gain: -24 to 0dB; 5000Hz @ Gain 0 to +15dB
- Tone Print: 0 to 10 embedded parameters for TonePrints
- Tuner: Bass Tuner, always on
- Tuning range: B0 (30.87Hz) to G4 (392.00Hz)
- Mute: Mutes speaker out, Phones out and Balanced out
- Master Level / Headphones Output: Studio quality headphone amp
- HP Out Impedance: 40 to 600 Ohm
- Mains supply: 100 - 240V~ 50/60Hz (70W @ 1/8 of Max. Output)
- Power module rating: 250w (500w instantaneous Peak @ min. Load)
- Speaker output: Neutrik Speakon
- Balanced output: Balanced XLR, Pre/Post Pre-amp
- Bal. Out Max.: +2dBu
- Bal. Out Optimal Load Impedance: 600 Ohm
- Rehearsal input: 1/8" jack input, fits to iPod
- Humidity: Max. 90 % non-condensing
- Dimensions: 220 x 63 x 231 mm / 8.7" x 2.5" x 9.1"
- Weight: 1.8kg / 4 pounds
- Finish: Brushed and anodized aluminum front plate/ Metal chassis

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Web: https://www.tcelectronic.com/service.html

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars. (3 ratings)
Submitted November 29, 2014 by Ralph E in Boise, ID

"Wow! Exactly as awesome as I was hoping"

Overall: 5 out of 5 stars
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This thing is as awesome as you think. I haven't received my new cab yet so I can't report on real "power", but I'm using the DI through my Mackie recording PA/mixer with Mackie monitors, and I have to say I have never heard a DI sound so clear and clean and true. I have seen some really bad DI's in my time, with distorted waveforms, lots of noise, weak anemic sound, etc. etc. Not this one. It sounds like my PA is a "cab" and it really records a usable, great sound. I also got the Switch-3 footswitch and I thought I would comment on how that works, since the instruction manual and other descriptions are pretty vague: Button #3 is Mute, period. Button #1 is for Effect #1, Button #2 is for Effect #2. If you have Effect #1 selected when you upload a new one, it overwrites Effect #1 and only changes Button #1. Button #2 is still the same Effect #2 you had before -- it doesn't "roll down" the effects you are uploading, which is great. So the official description is a little incorrect -- it doesn't remember the "last two" that you uploaded -- you can uploaded a bunch of different #1's without disturbing what you had in #2. Nice! The other neat thing is the way Button #1 and #2 work. Took me a while to figure it out, but it works like this: If both effects are off, you can turn on #1 or #2 by pressing the button (duh). But if you press, say, #1, then #2, it intelligently switches from Effect #1 to Effect #2. If you then press #1 again, it switches BACK to Effect #1. read more In order to turn OFF all effects, you must press the button AGAIN that you had turned on. So if you had Effect #2 turned on, pressing Button #2 again will turn all effects off. This is nice because it makes it real easy to switch between two effects (press 1 then 2 then 1 then 2, etc) or between one effect and no effects (press 1 then 1 then 1 then 1, etc) And yes the TonePrint stuff is really, really amazing, their library of effects has pretty much everything that you could want and apparently you can even design your own. "Beaming" from my smartphone really is freaking space-age magic!!!! The TonePrint stuff really separates this from any other amp in its class. There is nothing else in its class -- everything else is just an amp. Hope this helps!

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