TC Electronic BG250 Club

[StrangerDanger]

Originally Posted by J03YW

i love the amp and all... but where are my highs?

Really? How much do you want? You can have some of mine.

[soulman969]

Originally Posted by J03YW

i love the amp and all... but where are my highs?

If you read through some of the previous posts you'll see where a few of us have asked the same thing. The crossover for the tweeter is set quite high so there's a good chance your bass may not producing a lot of output in that range.

I'd say it's just part of the design of the EQ module in the amp. The tweeter is not producing any output until there are frequencies in it's range to produce. Below that it's silent.

To make certain that it's working normally I'll pass along what their support staff suggested to me. Plug an MP3 player, IPod, or you computer into the auxiliary input, dime the treble and play some recorded music. If the tweeter is working normally you'll hear the output.

[McGryff]

Originally Posted by soulman969

To make certain that it's working normally I'll pass along what their support staff suggested to me. Plug an MP3 player, IPod, or you computer into the auxiliary input, dime the treble and play some recorded music. If the tweeter is working normally you'll hear the output.

Play Barber's Adagio... there's plenty-o-highs in that!

[Ralph124C41]

Originally Posted by soulman969

I'll be curious to hear what they have to say Ralph. Please post their response if you would. It's the same signal that would be sent to a mixing board or direct to a powered sub.

I've been running a line direct to a powered cabinet or bass amp as a personal bass monitor for a drummer for years and we've never blown an amp up yet.

Support guy emailed me and said that he would definitely not advise using the XLR direct into the input of the second BG250. He didn't say why. He suggested either an ABY box or using the XLR cable but then sending it to a DI box and THEN sending it to the second BG250

My second BG250 should arrive today and I will try a few things

[kbakerde]

Hey, I just jumped onto the BG250 bandwagon today. So they must be prepping for an upgrade, cause both Musicians Friend and Guitar Center have them discounted to $324.51 (list $399). AND at Guitar Center, you can use the Holiday 15 deal to get another $50 off.

I got my year end bonus, and just walked out of the store with my brand new BG250 for $274.51!!

Can I get a number?? I will update with a pic over the weekend.

[Ralph124C41]

Originally Posted by kbakerde

Hey, I just jumped onto the BG250 bandwagon today. So they must be prepping for an upgrade, cause both Musicians Friend and Guitar Center have them discounted to $324.51 (list $399). AND at Guitar Center, you can use the Holiday 15 deal to get another $50 off.

I got my year end bonus, and just walked out of the store with my brand new BG250 for $274.51!!

Can I get a number?? I will update with a pic over the weekend.

good for you. Delaware has no sales tax. I had to pay about $22 or so here in New York state. btw, mine came thru UPS about a hour ago. It's still in the box. Will test it tomorrow.

How do you plan to connect the two together?

[McGryff]

Originally Posted by Ralph124C41

good for you. Delaware has no sales tax. I had to pay about $22 or so here in New York state. btw, mine came thru UPS about a hour ago. It's still in the box. Will test it tomorrow.

How do you plan to connect the two together?

I got mine for the $324 price, plus NYS tax. Still a pretty good deal for this amp!

I gigged with it last night. I ran through the house, but it was great onstage. I had gain at 5, and I don't think I had the master past about 4. Great tone, too! I ran an FDeck HPF-Pre v.2 between my P-Bass and the amp and that tightened up the sound nicely but left some low end girth. I had mids just past noon & highs down a little under noon. Tubedrive was around 3-4, and I had the Spectracomp at about 3 or so. Damn fine amp!

[stepswork4me]

I just got this in my email for those that aren't aware....

BG250 Nominated for a 2012 TEC Award


To a music Industry manufacturer, a TEC Award nomination is equivalent to an Oscar nomination to an actor, or a Grammy nomination to a musician.

The TEC Awards are handed out every year at the NAMM Show in Anaheim, and we will be there with our fingers crossed, hoping to add another TEC Award to the collection - this time for our BG250 Bass Combo.

The TEC Awards are given for 'Outstanding Technical Achievement'. Whether BG250 was chosen as a candidate because of the innovative TonePrint concept, or the the combination of low weight and high power is unknown, but regardless, we are proud to have been nominated. Wish us luck!

[soulman969]

Originally Posted by Ralph124C41

Support guy emailed me and said that he would definitely not advise using the XLR direct into the input of the second BG250. He didn't say why. He suggested either an ABY box or using the XLR cable but then sending it to a DI box and THEN sending it to the second BG250

My second BG250 should arrive today and I will try a few things

Funny that he wouldn't give his reasons. I've not done it with this amp obviously but I have done it in the past running from the balanced out of a Carvin Pro Bass head into a second amp as a monitor for the drummer. Worked just fine then.

Maybe the signal output isn't high enough to run direct. I know using a DI box in the chain will work and have done that before as well so if that's what TCE suggests best follow that advice or use the A/B/Y approach.

Let is know how it works out Ralph.

[soulman969]

Originally Posted by kbakerde

Hey, I just jumped onto the BG250 bandwagon today. So they must be prepping for an upgrade, cause both Musicians Friend and Guitar Center have them discounted to $324.51 (list $399). AND at Guitar Center, you can use the Holiday 15 deal to get another $50 off.

I got my year end bonus, and just walked out of the store with my brand new BG250 for $274.51!!

Can I get a number?? I will update with a pic over the weekend.

Hell of a deal. Buy two, LOL.

[Ralph124C41]

Originally Posted by soulman969

Funny that he wouldn't give his reasons. I've not done it with this amp obviously but I have done it in the past running from the balanced out of a Carvin Pro Bass head into a second amp as a monitor for the drummer. Worked just fine then.

Maybe the signal output isn't high enough to run direct. I know using a DI box in the chain will work and have done that before as well so if that's what TCE suggests best follow that advice or use the A/B/Y approach.

Let is know how it works out Ralph.

he said "directly coupling them this way could damage either or both amps."

however, I got the second BG250 yesterday and I just connected them thru a simple Y adapter into the output of a very old DOD 10-band EQ pedal ... and they seem to work perfectly.

I've only played them at apartment-friendly volume but there is no hum or anything and the volume seems very good (actually very loud) I really like the sound of the two 15s plus the fact I can run the SpectraComp on one unit and something else on the other; right now it's the Classic Chorus that came as the defunct setting but the two together sound very, very good, very warm with the chorus.

I know this is not an ideal setup and I have yet to test them at full volume. I made sure that both amps were plugged into the same power strip which was plugged by itself into a socket.

[stepswork4me]

[quote=Ralph124C41;13580786]I've only played them at apartment-friendly volume but there is no hum or anything and the volume seems very good (actually very loud) I really like the sound of the two 15s plus the fact I can run the SpectraComp on one unit and something else on the other; right now it's the Classic Chorus that came as the defunct setting but the two together sound very, very good, very warm with the chorus.

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I'm running mine with Spectracomp on one with the tubetone at about 10 and the Creaturebaby Chorus on the other. Both are EQ'ed identically. Sounds good at higher volumes.

[McGryff]

Originally Posted by stepswork4me

I'm running mine with Spectracomp on one with the tubetone at about 10 and the Creaturebaby Chorus on the other. Both are EQ'ed identically. Sounds good at higher volumes.

Tubetone at 10:00 or at 10 as in dimed?

[stepswork4me]

Originally Posted by McGryff

Tubetone at 10:00 or at 10 as in dimed?

Dimed.

[McGryff]

Originally Posted by stepswork4me

Dimed.

That's got to give you some serious grind!

[stepswork4me]

Originally Posted by McGryff

That's got to give you some serious grind!

Yes Sir but not so nasty that it's really distorted.

[McGryff]

Originally Posted by stepswork4me

Yes Sir but not so nasty that it's really distorted.

+1. It's a very good drive emulator... from the little bit I've messed with cranking it, it gives you more grind/distortion the harder you dig into the strings. If that's the case (and I'm not positive that it is), then it's a very well designed effect indeed!

[datsaxguy]

Just jumped on the sale bandwagon and waiting on the truck. Merry Christmas to me.

Do they have a Octave tone print?

[StrangerDanger]

Originally Posted by datsaxguy

Just jumped on the sale bandwagon and waiting on the truck. Merry Christmas to me.

Do they have a Octave tone print?

Many octave toneprints to be had.

[stepswork4me]

Originally Posted by datsaxguy

Just jumped on the sale bandwagon and waiting on the truck. Merry Christmas to me.

Do they have a Octave tone print?

Several. Go to the TCE site, click on the toneprint link, then click on the bg250 link to see what's available.