SleepyOne

Did someone get an amp from the new batch where they corrected the switch and the clipping LED? Mine will arrive next week and i'm wondering if that will be ok or not. (I'm waiting for it since October.)

Found a new review. 

On talkbass someone wrote that, the BQ500's gain is really sensitive  (beside the active/passive switch is reversed). He says when it set to passive(which is active :)) he can barely can turn up the gain without clipping and with active setting(which is the passive in this case) it clips almost immediately.

Has someone similar experiences?

Currently  I also have a BB425 beside the BB435.

4 hours ago, Jack said:

Not entirely sure I follow you here. The BQ500 is 500W at 4R and so around 250W at 8R. The cabs are both 400W and both 8R.

 

So if you have one cab, the cab can take 400W and it'll get roughly 250W from the amp, so all should be well. This you've said and this I agree with, the bit I disagree with is the bit in bold. If you have two ofthe cabs, then they can still take 400W each, and the amp will be at 4R so it'll be putting out 500W of juice, shared between the two cabs they're only getting 250W each, so really it's no different to just having one cab...

 

Oh sry, my bad. You are right. The total resistance with 2 8Ohm cabs paralell will be 4Ohm which means the amp can output the 500W, but the two cab will share this power (50/50). so 250W/cab will happen. You can't fry it

Thx for the correction!

9 hours ago, Status09 said:

Hi mate, I was thinking of getting the BQ500 but not sure as to which cab would be suited power wise.

 

Would you recommend the K212 or 210? The amp  wouldn’t blow the cabinet would it? Sorry, not much of a tech head! 

Hi,

i don't have any experiences yet  Both K210 and K212 is a 400Watts cabinet. I have ordered it yesterday with a K212, i think it could handle better my 5 strings.

As someone mentioned earlier it's an 8Ohm cab (both of them), which means the amp unable to fry it  At 8 Ohms the cab delivers about half of it's wattage. If i would have two K212 (or any 8Ohm cabs though...) with the BQ500 then it would be possible. But only if you crank it up fully. But that level the cab should clip which you hear and then you should lower the volume/power of the amp.

On 08/10/2018 at 12:38, urbanx said:

I've just taken delivery of a BQ500. 

Tested it briefly in the garage (just to make sure everything's working) and it's chuffin' loud compared to my Hartke HA3500. 

Will keep you all updated to the finer nuances of sound quality after a rehearsal. In the garage it rattled everything 😛 The aux in sound wasn't great, although I'm putting a lot of that down to a 410 cab not being designed to play music from an iphone. The knobs on the front do not alter the aux-in sound, only the bass guitar. 

Could you write the update, i'm really interested in it? I'm about to buy this head with a K212 but can't find any decent review or opinion