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TC Electronic RH450, RS210, RS212 Review Thread

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sixway said:
Are you using the rackmount receiver, or the battery powered stomp box size? Would like to try one someday, and am always looking to keep my gear on the small, easily portable side... but I hear the stomp-box size eats batteries.

Thx...
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The plus is in between. It is larger than the stompbox, but not rack mounted.
 
#64
Well, I played the RH450 through some Schroeders today with pretty great results. The Schroeders were a little more dry, yet still punchy compared to the RS210+RS212... the tone was excellent.

My Rob Allen Mouse got a nice workout today too. Turns out I had to turn down the gain at the trimmer, and once I did that, it was fretless heaven. The RH450 with flat EQ, no TubeTone, no compression was perfect for the tone of this bass.
 
#65
loend68 said:
... My initial impression was that I could hear really well so I must be too loud (my guitar player was complaining about not being able to hear himself), so I got off stage (wireless) and found that I actually had to turn the bass up in the mix.
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That is very interesting. We have a Bose PA that stacks speakers in columns that I LOVE playing through because I can hear myself so well without overpowering the mix in the audience. That is very VERY interesting.

loend68 said:
My only gripe so far is that it's a little too gritty for some parts where my bass is on it's own in a song. It still sounds great, but I want more piano like tone. Right now I'm going to say that it's just because I haven't spent any time tweaking the eq/tube/comp.
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I am used to an extremely clean tone through my current rig (Demeter+Accugroove). Please do keep us posted on if you find a way to tweak out a cleaner tone.

AJ Brown said:
My Rob Allen Mouse got a nice workout today too. Turns out I had to turn down the gain at the trimmer, and once I did that, it was fretless heaven. The RH450 with flat EQ, no TubeTone, no compression was perfect for the tone of this bass.
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Hm. Maybe that's what loend68 needs to do to remove grit from his tone.
 
#71
Played a modern jazz gig this weekend with the RH450. Turned off the Tube Tone and found that I needed to turn off most of the compression too. I was using a Bergantino HT322 speaker. Ran it completely flat except for a slight bass bump (I am using a passive Nordy). WOW !!!!!! Sounded great, and got lots of compliments from musicians in the audience. I used the rig with the complimentary foot pedal. It's well designed, durable and useful. The turner on the foot pedal is real nice as it gives you "dots" showing how flat or sharp you are.
 
#72
jdwinva said:
Played a modern jazz gig this weekend with the RH450. Turned off the Tube Tone and found that I needed to turn off most of the compression too. I was using a Bergantino HT322 speaker. Ran it completely flat except for a slight bass bump (I am using a passive Nordy). WOW !!!!!! Sounded great, and got lots of compliments from musicians in the audience. I used the rig with the complimentary foot pedal. It's well designed, durable and useful. The turner on the foot pedal is real nice as it gives you "dots" showing how flat or sharp you are.
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Funny you mention this. At first the flat settings sounded 'off' to me as I originally set it up in my office... a very boomy room with hard floors and high ceilings. In our practice room, the amp sound GREAT with flat settings. I too have dialed down the TubeTone a little.
 
#73
More updates….

Two more gigs this past weekend in very different situations. The 90’s grungy kinda throw together gig I mentioned before, put me on a stage with the amp about 7’ behind me. What I found is that much past 5’ in front of it I was having trouble hearing it. This may have had to do with the fact that past that point I was getting hit with a lot of the guitar players rig. He was using a 1x12 Boogie .50 Cal, but it’s pretty loud and he has a thinner Ibanez tone that may have stepped on the frequencies that ‘cut’ for me to hear. Anyway, a step or two back from the front of the stage brought it all back.
The second night I played an original show on a fairly cramped stage. I loved the fact that this thing doesn’t take up any room! I tucked it back in by the drums and I was all set. The show was with some old Boston bands from the early 90’s that still do a show once or twice a year. Totally old school guys. As I was placing the 2x10’s on the stage one of them asked me ‘Is that thing going to be loud enough?’ I said don’t you worry. It went off great and really cut through the mix.

I’m looking forward to some tweaking the next couple of nights at rehearsal. I want to try the flat setting and see what happens. I did all my initial tweaking by myself and want to try it on the fly. I try not to tweak too much at shows, I think it looks unprofessional to be constantly running back to your amp.

Over all I’m very happy with this amp though I still think I should have picked the 2x10/2x12 combination of cabs for a little more low end thump.
 
#74
I put a sound clip on my myspace (link in my sig)

My guitard and drummer were over to my house and we were coming up with a 3 piece arrangement for Frankenstien, by Edgar Winter...no keyboards.

I just put 3 mics on the drums, miced the guitar and ran the DI from the RH450.

It's a little rough, but shows the "plug-and-play" ability of this amp.

I ran it pre-EQ--no compression or EQ in the mix.
Jazz bass with both pickups & tone wide open.

Its the last song on my myspace player (RH450 DEMO)

This was first take live with no dubs. Got a little "bleed" from the drum mics, but not much.
 
#75
John Wentzien said:
I put a sound clip on my myspace (link in my sig)

My guitard and drummer were over to my house and we were coming up with a 3 piece arrangement for Frankenstien, by Edgar Winter...no keyboards.

I just put 3 mics on the drums, miced the guitar and ran the DI from the RH450.

It's a little rough, but shows the "plug-and-play" ability of this amp.

I ran it pre-EQ--no compression or EQ in the mix.
Jazz bass with both pickups & tone wide open.

Its the last song on my myspace player (RH450 DEMO)

This was first take live with no dubs. Got a little "bleed" from the drum mics, but not much.
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Wow... the clips sounds great John!
 
#77
John Wentzien said:
I put a sound clip on my myspace (link in my sig)

My guitard and drummer were over to my house and we were coming up with a 3 piece arrangement for Frankenstien, by Edgar Winter...no keyboards.

I just put 3 mics on the drums, miced the guitar and ran the DI from the RH450.

It's a little rough, but shows the "plug-and-play" ability of this amp.

I ran it pre-EQ--no compression or EQ in the mix.
Jazz bass with both pickups & tone wide open.

Its the last song on my myspace player (RH450 DEMO)

This was first take live with no dubs. Got a little "bleed" from the drum mics, but not much.
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Wow! I REALLY liked that clip, John. I think I know the answer but I thought I'd ask anyway... which bass were you playing on the RH450 audio clip?

That was really great.
 
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