TC Electronic BH250 Compact Bass Head

Introducing a new compact bass head from TC Electronic with Toneprint technology. The TC Electronic BC250 is small, simple, and powerful with 250w of power that you can fit into the pocket of your bass case! Hook the BH250 up to a speaker cab or run directly through the PA with the DI output.

The BH250 allows you to load TC Toneprints which give you extra versatility. Select tones from TC’s website including chorus, flanger, vibrato, octaver, compression and overdrive effects. That means you can dial in your favourite tones without the need for a complicated front panel interface. 

Here’s what TC Electronic say about the BH250

Our 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 digests 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 our website or via our 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.

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, portable solution.

You can hook up BH250 to any cabinet, or combination of cabinets (min. 4 ohm load). We recommend using BH250 with our range of BC cabinets or our top range of bass cabinets – the RS series.

BH250 Main 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

TonePrints® for BH250

5 Things To Know About BH250TonePrint 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 the TC Electronic 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.

BH250 Tech Specs

Input

• 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; 3150Hz @ 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 600Ohm
• 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