Very good unit when you consider the price. I would buy again without question.
Model Year: 2006
Price: $150.00
Where Obtained: ebay sale
Great overall for the money. Has a good clean sound with plenty of range. Should meet any needs. Able to operate from practice level up to large venue. Very solid.
Sound is good. Has a lowered bass feature that seems to play well with standard EADG tuning. also bright and deep functions for clean highs and lows. Sound seems to hold up well through complete volume range levels.
Very straight forward controls. Very little adjustments needed for clean sound. Has a shape feature that allows quick adjustment and a stomp pedal for its two main on/off settings (ultrabass and shape)
Well made, seems tough enough. Carpet like covering and corner protectors. Metal front plate, plastic knobs, metal jacks. Cooling fan. Speakon jack.
This unit is great for a back up if you're used to playing higher end units or as you intro out of bass combos
Model Year: 2006
Price: $250.00 (new)
Where Obtained: guitar center [VA]
First off I'm basing this review on price paid for unit 250 if it were 750 I would fell a bit different.
the features are exellent it has a bright, deep, shape, and ultra bass features that really are practical to use
It's not an ampeg, but sure as H%$# isn't a rogue
Simply as a head unit gets
What one would expect for the money. but so far I've had no problems to mention
The main purpose of this amp is to have a solid state back up for when the power gets funky and my Mesa Boogie M-Pulse 600 acts funky. I have heard positive things about the Behringer bass gear but honestly never paid it any attention I mean after all my Mesa will never fail me right!? Anyway it earned my purchasing money Through features, and value. I probably would have gone another direction if I were looking for a full time bass head but the BX4500H has so far earned my respect. I put it through its paces on full shows and it did not let me down. It's nice to know when called upon to get me through a tight situation I won't feel like I've compromised my band, audience or tone by using it.
Model Year: 2005
Price: $199.00 (new)
Where Obtained: Guitar Center
This single channel 450 watt into 4 ohms solid state head made my jaw hit the floor. It has plenty of power and really let my Mesa Boogie Power house cabinets sing. Behringer has done a 1st rate job of bring some respectability to the somewhat dismal low end bass market. I believe it's based off of the Ashdown Mag 300 bass head being very similar in layout and control placing EQ knobs in between the standard Bass, Middle and Treble controls of 140 Hz and 1.5 Khz respectively. A feature I 1st noticed on the Ashdown's. Preset "Deep" and "Bright" pushbutton switches allow you to and a little more flavor to your sound.
The unit also comes with an "Ultrabass" sub harmonic processor and a "Shape" filter both control by a included footswitch that really makes this unit a top notch bang for the buck purchase. Throw in a "Tuner out, Send/Return, Line Out with 1/4 inch and Speakon Outputs" and you have a versatile low end monster on your hands.
I play in a wedding band, open mike band, blues band, and original rock band which means I'm often called to use different basses and styles. I use a '77 Musicman Stingray, (my favorite) Fender P-bass special edition, Yamaha BBN-5, Ibanez ErgoDyne EDA-905 and a few other fun objects of art LOL. I waited a while to write this review because I wanted to road test this piece.
I got a little hiss at high volumes but a tweak on the horns attenuator took care of that. The bottoms were fat and full and the amp is fairly transparent to my basses. Simple controls made the necessary tweaks quick and painless. The Bx4500H handled all I threw at it very well and even made my neighbor complain that he couldn't hear his TV across the driveway. Did I mention I was running a Mesa Boogie Powerhouse 4x10 and 1x15 stack in my drive way on my wireless system? Brickhouse with the master volume set at about 4 did him in. Like I said my jaw hit the floor and what this amp put out.
Like I said earlier, Simple controls made the necessary tweaks quick and painless. The Bx4500H handled all I threw at it. This is basically a plug, play and listen unit. It is very intuitive in it's lay out and design but I do have a slight complaint and I did go to the manual on this one. It seems the "Gain" control is after the input signal in the processing chain. They write if you turn the gain completely counter clockwise the VU Meter will show only the input signal. Then it states to "use the Gain to set the input signal into the mid region" of the VU meter. This is right where my signal is with the gain fully counter clockwise. There is a "Limiter" but it appears to be on the output stages so I really have to trust my ears and be wary of distortion and overdriving the input gain stages.
This is the true question isn't it? I haven't had it long enough to say but the price made me willing to take a chance. It seems build solid enough but I think the knobs turn too easily. They should have a bit more resistance to them. I wouldn't count on them being where I left them after moving the amp from one location to another. I'll have to rate it as average until I've spent more time with it and as more players start to user it and we can compare notes.
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