[NAMM] TC Electronic Blacksmith Bass Amp

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Blacksmith is designed to cover large clubs, major venues or full-scale stadiums, with 1600 watts of bass tone.

Blacksmith offers features such as integrated chromatic bass tuner, tone-shaping tools including 4 bands of EQ, SpectraComp ‘per string compression’, TubeTone ‘Tube pre- and power amp recreation’ and TweeterTone ‘intelligent HF control’ as well as the 3 user-defined memories.

Blacksmith is capable of handling cabinet combinations down to 2 ohms, so ultimately, four RS410 cabinets could be fired up simultaneously – that’s 16 × 10” or 8.7 square foot of speaker cones blasting air at the bass player standing in front of the rig.

Blacksmith Main Features:
• Power – 1600 watts (4500 watts peak).
• Presets – 3 user-defined presets.
• On-board chromatic tuner – Always active for instant pitch monitoring at any time.
• SpectraComp – Multi-band compression
• TubeTone – Emulation of both the tube preamp and tube power amp sections.
• 4-band EQ – Semi-parametric Bass, Lo-Mid, Hi-Mid and Treble.
• TweeterTone – Front panel tweeter level control for crisp and modern bass tones.
•  Transformer balanced Line Driver – Studio-grade DI for clean signals to PAs or DAWs.

Pricing & Availability

Available: March, 2011

US$3,599 MSRP / €2,350 List Price (excl. VAT)

Blacksmith online:
www.tcelectronic.com/Blacksmith