TC Electronic Classic 450 Bass Amp Head

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Classic450 delivers 450W output power via Class D amplifier technology in combination with our Active Power Management. This ensures maximum power impact and that Classic450 behaves like a tube amp at full blast.

Classic450's input section caters for both active and passive basses, while its fully transformer-balanced linedriver output, featuring a pre/post tone control switch, delivers a perfect reproduction of Classic450's tone for both recording and live use, so it's an ideal amp both on the road and in the studio.

Vintage Tone Control

These four straight forward Vintage tone controls are carefully designed to grab your bass sound where it makes a difference. With great inspiration from a range of classic bass amp designs, the Vintage Tone control section is all you an wish for in simplicity and great sound.

TubeTone

Most transistor designs have tried to replicate the tube sound using one small pre-amp tube, but they generally fail as they don't take into account the crucial characteristics of the full pre-amp and power amp sections - both of which are essential to the sound. TubeTone emulates every characteristic to deliver the full tube sound.

Spectra Comp

Most bass players know that integrated compressors generally don't sound that good. A regular compressor tends to be dominated by the lower string, but Classic450's SpectraComp technology allows virtually 'per string' compression that evens out the compression across all strings.

Wide range instrument input

Classic450 accepts any bass with any pickup system. The gain range on Classic450's input stage is wide enough to cover both Active and Passive pickup instruments.

Integrated Linedriver

Quality can vary wildly with built-in linedrivers, but Classic450's linedriver is transformer balanced and galvanically isolated from the rest of the amp, which means no ground loops or hum. And don't worry about long cable runs - Classic450 will draw at least 100m of cable with no drop in audio quality. The line driver output features a pre/post switch that allows you to select where the audio tap is placed; before or after the pre-amp section.

Classic 450 Tech Specs

• Power: 450 Watt (800+W peak)
• Weight: 4 kg / 8.8 pounds
• Dimensions: 275 x 290 x 66mm
• Balanced ?DI? output: Galvanic isolated transformer-balanced (pre/post pre-amp)
• Tone controls: Four vintage tone controls
• Compression: SpectraComp multi-band compression
• Drive: TubeTone full amp simulation