BehringerUltraBass BXD3000H 300-watt 2-Channel Bass Head

This bass head is awesome for the price i cant believe how clear it sounds all the way to dirty sound i bought it for my boy I love it and he does to its good For beginners and all the way up to the pros can use this beringer you did a great job for a good price

I like the foot switchable dual gain channel. This is the only amp I know of that allows you to footswitch between a clean gain channel and a distorted gain channe. After some tweaking of the tone on the dirty channel I was able to get even distortion across the full range of my bass. This is something that not all bass amp heads are capable of doing. I love the detailed EQ section that allows me to really tweak my tone...much better than the bass, lo mod, high mid and treble knobs you normally get on a bass amp. The amp comes with a sturdy footswitch for switching between gain channels and turning the ultrabass feature on or off. It comes with compression which worked as well as most other compression devices I have used.The features I thought were weak were the ultrabass and the FBQ switch. The ultrabass is simply an octaver but when turned up full gives only a hint of the lower register. But at least it works on the low E of my 4 string bass. If you want maximum octaver flexibility you should use an electroharmonix POG Octaver pedal ...the best octaver I have ever tried.The FBQ feature is useless on an electric bass. This feature lights up the frequencies on the EQ band that are feeding back so you can cut them. Feedback never happens on an electric bass although I can see it being useful on an amplified upright bass where you do get feedback.Overall a good sounding lightweight amp at 300 watts I assume into 4 ohms. Note...this amp has a bigger footprint than a lot of current lightweight amp heads, so beware if you are looking for something small enough to throw in your bass guitar gig bag pocket, like the TC Electronics BQ500.

First of all, let me say that the service by Amazon was incredible. I ordered the amp, and it was here within 48 hours, with no shipping charge. Can't beat that! As for the amp itself, it is an incredible buy. There is nothing on the market that can touch it in terms of features and price. It works well, sounds good, has lots of tone-modifying features, a clean and a dirty channel, and even an octave synthesizer. It is actually similar in features and look to their now-obsolete 180 amp model, but much lighter in weight. It is a joy to carry around. All that said, however, I think the 300-watt rating is exaggerated. That is a problem with PA amps, and has actually always been a problem with amps in general, that power output is exaggerated. That silliness has reached its peak now with PA amps being rated at thousands of watts when they probably don't put out much over 100 watts RMS. Behringer does not say 300 of what kind of watts, so it is probably not RMS; more likely some ethereal "peak power" or some other nonsense. The power seems very similar to the old 180 watt amp I mentioned above. We have a country band, so not some ear-splitting metal group, and I operate this amp at full bore - maximum output, and it is barely loud enough at rehearsal. I could never gig with it. My little G-K 2-pound 200-watt amp is louder. However, the Behringer has more features, and costs only half what the G-K did. So, bottom line is that the Behringer is a great little amp with lots of features normally found on only much more expensive heads, lightweight, and very convenient. For small venues or jazz groups or acoustic or similar type gigs it would probably suffice. However, for most bands more power will be required, and I would suggest moving up to the Behringer 450 watt unit, which probably is more realistically rated (I have one of those, too). It is actually only another $100, although it weighs a ton.I have to add a sad note to this review. The amp performed very well, albeit was not nearly as loud as it should have been for its rated power, for exactly two rehearsals. At the end of the second rehearsal it suddenly stopped working, and we smelled a burning electric smell. Turned out it not only self-destructed but it also burned out the voice coil in my speaker cabinet. You can draw whatever conclusions you may like about the amp; this is the only bad experience I have had with Behringer, and perhaps this was just a lemon. I did not give them another chance, however, and Amazon was super in the way they refunded my money immediately. One thing you learn if you play professionally or semi-professionally is that you never go to a gig without backup equipment. The old saying that anything that can go wrong, will, is often the case. So no matter what amp you choose to buy, make sure you have a backup plan, even if that means using the PA.