Up for sale is my Behringer BX4500H solid state amp. I bought this amp new about 3 or so years ago. It's been used on a handful of occasions. It's been to church a half-dozen times, and to one school talent show (for use by me, not beaten up on by the kids) Zero hard gigging situations. Works and looks just like it did the day I bought it.
This is a supremely good bang-for-the-buck amplifier. It's got a solid meat-and-potatoes home-tone and a lot of shaping possibilities with the included controls.
I'm only selling this because I don't want to keep hauling my
Ampeg 2x10 and Genz Benz 1x15 in and out of places. My back is telling me it's time to get a lightweight combo, and without the cabs, I don't need this amp.
This amp has a noticeable noise floor when you're not playing and you're in a silent room, but there is a fix for that (see below). Without that inexpensive fix, I wouldn't recommend this amp for a recording situation. With $4 in parts and a bit of soldering it should be dead quiet for recording.
Price: $135 shipped in the continental U.S.
Info:
Here's the
manufacturer info.
450W into a 4 ohm speaker load. I believe 300W into an 8 ohm load. 1 Speakon output. 2 1/4" speaker outs
Gain and master output controls
Great tone-shaping:
5 band EQ
Bright switch (extra treble boost)
deep switch (extra bass boost)
shape filter knob with on/off switch (mid-notch adjustable from 120 Hz to 1.2 kHz)
built in sub-octave effect with level knob and on/off switch
Tracks really well as long as your around low-A and above.
Post-EQ XLR DI
1/4" Line out
1/4" Effects/Tuner send
1/4" Effects Return
This amp doesn't include the footswitch, as it wasn't sold to me by the store I bought the amp from. If you want to get one, the footswitch will control on/off for the octave effect and shape filter. Nothing else.
Here are
bunches of zZounds reviews of the BX4500H.
Noise fix:
In one of the zZounds comments above, you can see this description of the fix for the slight noise in this amp. Look for the comment titled "Deck the halls with BAWLS OF POWER."
Quote:
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There is a design flaw in this head. There is a ground loop between the instrument in's and the foot switch. Behringer has "fixed" this problem by cutting a ground wire off the PCB so everything grounds through the chassis. Think single coil guitar pickup humm... What I did was de solder the foot switch jack and replace it with a Peavey output jack that is ISOLATED. (plastic coated) I then re connected the wire that they cut which allows the inputs to short when you remove the cord.
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I never attempted this because the noise was never loud enough to give me a problem. But it's a cheap fix with a replacement jack and a soldering iron.
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