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For working bassists tired of hauling heavy gear, the Trickfish Bullhead Mini Combo is the perfect grab-and-go solution. It allows you to easily carry your rig in one hand without sacrificing headroom or tone whether in the practice room or on stage. When navigating tight load-ins or small club stages, portability is often just as critical as your tone.

At the heart of the Bullhead Mini is a highly flexible yet musical preamp section. True to the Trickfish philosophy, this circuit is not designed to heavily color the natural voice of your instrument. Instead, it provides a tasteful enhancement of your core tone. The straightforward 4-band EQ, complete with carefully selected frequency centers, allows you to quickly tailor your sound to fit the room, ensuring your bass sits perfectly in the mix. You get studio-grade clarity and precise frequency control right on stage, allowing your instrument's true acoustic properties to shine through. This preamp's EQ is one of those rare designs that always sounds good, no matter how you set it up. It's more a question of which flavor of great tone you want to use with this preamp.

Despite its compact footprint, the power section delivers 500 watts of clean power directly into a custom-tuned 12-inch Lavoce speaker. This configuration provides a tight, punchy low end and articulate mids that project easily through a band context. It has the necessary headroom to keep up with a heavy-handed drummer, making it a viable primary rig for most club dates and bar gigs.

The Bullhead Mini is equipped with all the essential routing options for modern gigging. It features a transparent DI output with pre/post EQ routing, ensuring the sound engineer gets a clear feed of your instrument. It also includes a parallel effects loop for easily integrating your pedalboard, a mute switch, an auxiliary input for learning tracks, and a headphone output for quiet practice sessions at home. The sturdy enclosure features a durable vinyl finish and a vintage grille cloth to make sure it looks as good as it sounds.

If you are searching for an ultra-portable combo amplifier that sounds excellent with any bass, has a comprehensive feature set, and delivers serious stage volume, consider the Trickfish Bullhead Mini. It is a practical, professional-grade tool designed specifically to make the working musician's life easier, proving that great tone doesn't have to break your back.

From Trickfish

The Bullhead Mini 500C provides players with a quick grab-and-go solution that doesn’t compromise on tone, performance, or features. Weighing only 23.5 lbs., it raises the bar for portability, tone, and a robust, professional-grade feature set for working musicians.

At the heart of the Bullhead Mini 500C is the acclaimed Bullhead Mini 500 amplifier, featuring the acclaimed Mike Pope designed low-noise preamplifier and fixed 4 band EQ, delivering 250W (or 500W with the addition of an extension cabinet) into a 12-inch Lavoce driver and tweeter, which is controlled with an intuitive three-way switching system to adjust high-end response. Other features include selectable input sensitivity, auxiliary input, headphone output, pre and post balanced DI output, EFX loop, mute switch, and a Neutrik SpeakON combo connector for an extension cabinet.

The Bullhead Mini 500C is equally ideal for electric and upright bass players aiming for a rich, powerful, and balanced tone from their instrument. Featuring an updated vintage grille cloth and tough sharkskin vinyl Tolex, the Bullhead Mini 500C provides both a classic look and the durability to withstand life on the road.

This combo ships promptly and directly from Trickfish.