TC Electronic RH450

With decades of cutting edge amp designsignal processing development, no other company could bring you this much power, flexibilitytone within a bass amp system.

At TC Electronic, bass gear is developed for bass players by bass players. We have accumulated yearsyears of liverecording experience – hard-earned experience we´ve harvested out there on the roadin studios. After countless hours of playing, tweaking, listening – well, living bass, we truly understand your needsdesires when it comes to gigs, rehearsalsstudio work. We’re proud to bring you RH450 - the bass innovation that will define Bass Amp 2.0.

Playing any instrument on its own can be a little dull, but everyone needs time to practice, which is why RH450 has rehearsal inputs. This rear panel-mounted feature allows you to plug in your iPod, phone, computer MP3 player via the supplied mini-jack to RCA cable adapter for easy practicingplaying along with recorded music. The headphone amp is a high quality model taken straight from TC Electronic’s Studio Konnekt 48 includes a speaker filter on the bass signal.

Every bass player needs a tuner, but virtually no other amp offers anything other than a ‘tuner out’ feature… until now. Simply push the Mute button to get a full-resolution tuner ‘light ring’ to help you tune your instrument quicklyaccurately. You can also use the RC4 for easy remote access to this functionality.

You might not use presets, but only because you’ve never had the chance! Anyone who’s used different basses on stage knows that a few user memories on your amp would be welcome. With RH450 you can easily switch between, for example, your 4-5-string basses,your RickenbackerFender Jazz. Just plug in the bassuse the ‘car radio’ style Store & Recall controls to easily switch between presets for your chosen model. There are three bass user memories, remote control accessvisual indicators for Mutethe Tuner.

Straightforward controls like you know them from traditional amps. Voiced to give you plenty of tweaking options to nail the perfect tone. Chances are that this is all you’re ever gonna need. However, if you’re not fully satisfied with the default frequency areas, fear not - we’ve given you the option to change the focus of each of the tone controls.

The nerdy term for this feature is semi-parametric bands, but let’s just refer to it as “hidden parameters”“the magnifying glass”. It allows you to pinpoint a frequency you either want to removeboost for each tone control then store the settings.

Most transistor designs have tried to replicate the tube sound using one small pre-amp tube, but they generally fail as they don’t take into account the crucial characteristics of the full pre-amppower amp sections – both of which are essential to the sound. TubeTone™ emulates all characteristics to deliver the full tube sound.

Most bass players know that integrated compressors generally don’t sound that good. A regular compressor tends to be dominated by the lower string, but RH450’s SpectraComp technology allows virtually ‘per string’ multi-band compression that evens out the compression across all strings.

Digital Recording output

Integrated DI box

Portability

Power Handling

The 450w high power output level of RH450 is accomplished by using Class D amplifier technology in combination with TC Electronic’s Active Power Management™. APM effectively means that the amp behaves very much like a tube amp when getting close to maximum performance by optimizing the power impact, contrary to the hard-clipping tendencies of transistor ampsmost other Class D amps.