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#101
I did indeed add NL4s to my two 208s. Discussion in this thread from 2023 >>> Old thread
TL/DR -- there's room enough on the ABS plastic input panel to add a pair of NL4s and still retain the quarter-phones if you want to. To what's in that thread, I'd add: I temporarily removed the quarter-phone connectors and PCB to make it easier to lay out and drill the holes. (IIRC) And I took advantage of the opportunity to remove the TC logo badges while I had the cabs apart. (I think the full-sized badges look a bit visually overwhelming on those small cabs, especially when you have a pair of them, no matter how they're stacked up.)

There wouldn't be any room on the baffle board for any sort of tweeter, IMO.
 
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#103
InkCow said:
Seconded. I’d also argue that this cab wouldn’t really benefit from one, anyway.
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I like the option. I'm just not sure someone who claimed to have done it (can't find the thread) did it bar putting it in a port hole and slightly enlarging the other port to compensate.

I like the sound on the whole as it is, though, for basic bass
 
#104
I have a TC E Thrust 500BQ love it :)
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I have a chance to get a TC 1x15 - one of the BG combos with the dead head removed. Worth it? Selling a 4 ohm 1x15 would fund this and most/all of this cheap 1x15 and a BQ500 as a practice room rig. That would give me 200W into a 15 rather than the old combo I left there which is only 60W into a 15. Or I just get the BQ250 into the 4 ohm 1x15... That does cost me more, though!
 
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rtslinger said:
maybe keep the bam for smaller gigs, that is why I kept my ELF 200w works great for smaller rooms.
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Possibly. The BQ500 is twice as large and twice as heavy, but I only have the BAM as a backup for my PF500 since they are notoriously unreliable and I like having a safety net at gigs. I also sometimes just bring the BAM to rehearsal. It’s hard to complain about the PF500’s size/weight compared to amps past, but the convenience of the BAM already being in my gig bag makes it hard to justify the extra bulkiness.

For either use case, the BQ500 kind of renders the BAM irrelevant. But I’m getting it cheap enough that I can hold on to both and decide later.
 
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#110
Yeah the BQ is pretty compact but the BAM is nuts. I don’t have hundreds of hours on either year but mine seem to be ok and I like the tone. Takes some tweaking to get them flat but playing p-basses helps the mids lol.
 
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InkCow said:
Possibly. The BQ500 is twice as large and twice as heavy, but I only have the BAM as a backup for my PF500 since they are notoriously unreliable and I like having a safety net at gigs. I also sometimes just bring the BAM to rehearsal. It’s hard to complain about the PF500’s size/weight compared to amps past, but the convenience of the BAM already being in my gig bag makes it hard to justify the extra bulkiness.

For either use case, the BQ500 kind of renders the BAM irrelevant. But I’m getting it cheap enough that I can hold on to both and decide later.
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Twice as heavy is still light. I used a 60lb valve head at one point and it was only 100W. Mind you, I could also have used a 30lb 350W Trace Elliot that I had too.
 
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InkCow said:
For either use case, the BQ500 kind of renders the BAM irrelevant.
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As bignc says, the BAM is nuts, it's so small. I really had to resist GAS when I bought mine, because I soooo wanted the BQ500. But it is not what I need at the moment. I have to take everything I need for a gig on a motorbike, and need the BAM to fit in the small pocket on my gig bag. It is far more portable than the BQ500, which is already decently portable. Again, just nuts how small this thing is.

So if you're space and/or weight constrained, the BAM fits the bill. Similarly, if you need a second head, as backup for gigs, or to keep in the band's practice location, the BAM's affordability can't be beat.

Later, I will get a BQ500 😁. Likely will not give up the BAM though.
 
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-Asdfgh- said:
Twice as heavy is still light. I used a 60lb valve head at one point and it was only 100W. Mind you, I could also have used a 30lb 350W Trace Elliot that I had too.
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Indeed. Twice as heavy is still half the weight of my Ampeg PF500, which, again, by any measure is not heavy. I think back to young me hauling a Traynor YBA3 or Fender BXR400 around and it’s a little hard to complain about my “bulky” 12 lb. amp!
 
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InkCow said:
Indeed. Twice as heavy is still half the weight of my Ampeg PF500, which, again, by any measure is not heavy. I think back to young me hauling a Traynor YBA3 or Fender BXR400 around and it’s a little hard to complain about my “bulky” 12 lb. amp!
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I had a YBA-1A, 97 to 05. Sounded great. Heavy. I just got rid of my Warwick Profets. Four times the Watts, half the weight. I'm now using an Ashdown - same Watts, 1/4 of the weight again. So compared to the Traynor, 40 times better, Watts to kg. The Traynor did sound a bit better, though, but that's mostly obliterated by other instruments or the fact it might be mostly through the PA.

The TCs like the BQ250 or BAM are pretty damn cheap.
 
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CakeAT92 said:
As bignc says, the BAM is nuts, it's so small. I really had to resist GAS when I bought mine, because I soooo wanted the BQ500. But it is not what I need at the moment. I have to take everything I need for a gig on a motorbike, and need the BAM to fit in the small pocket on my gig bag. It is far more portable than the BQ500, which is already decently portable. Again, just nuts how small this thing is.

So if you're space and/or weight constrained, the BAM fits the bill. Similarly, if you need a second head, as backup for gigs, or to keep in the band's practice location, the BAM's affordability can't be beat.

Later, I will get a BQ500 😁. Likely will not give up the BAM though.
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Cab already at the location? I am into minimalism when possible and trying to picture this loadout on a bike! :)
 
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-Asdfgh- said:
I had a YBA-1A, 97 to 05. Sounded great. Heavy. I just got rid of my Warwick Profets. Four times the Watts, half the weight. I'm now using an Ashdown - same Watts, 1/4 of the weight again. So compared to the Traynor, 40 times better, Watts to kg. The Traynor did sound a bit better, though, but that's mostly obliterated by other instruments or the fact it might be mostly through the PA.

The TCs like the BQ250 or BAM are pretty damn cheap.
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I got my YBA3 very cheap in 1988 and, as a snot nosed punk, didn’t appreciate it (and didn’t really have the scratch to maintain it) and got rid of it cheap. I have some regrets.

However, the thought of a $65 (inflation adjusted from 2025 dollars to 1988 dollars), 500 watt amp that weighs 5 lb. seems really unfair to 16 year old me.
 
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InkCow said:
I got my YBA3 very cheap in 1988 and, as a snot nosed punk, didn’t appreciate it (and didn’t really have the scratch to maintain it) and got rid of it cheap. I have some regrets.

However, the thought of a $65 (inflation adjusted from 2025 dollars to 1988 dollars), 500 watt amp that weighs 5 lb. seems really unfair to 16 year old me.
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Kids today don't know lucky they are but will build no character/muscles as they won't have to carry 1000lbs up hill both ways to a gig. In the snow.
 
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