Aguilar Tone Hammer 500 V2

Designed for the discerning bassists, the Tone Hammer series offers a lightweight yet powerful solution inspired by the soulful warmth of tube amplifiers. It's rich and harmonic preamps offers a round, full-bodied character, making every note resonate with depth. It also features a classic 3-band EQ set with bass, treble and fully sweepable midrange controls. The Drive control adds distortion and even more tube-like grit and punch to your sound. Equipped with the Aguilar Cabinet Suite, universal mains, and expanded connectivity options, the Tone Hammer series meets the performance needs of bassists, ensuring a flawless blend between live, studio, and at-home settings.

The Tone Hammer Sound
Inspired by the soulful warmth of classic tube designs, the Tone Hammer series is warm, harmonically rich, and has just the right amount of character to inspire your playing.

3-Band EQ w/ Drive
Simple and intuitively designed, its 3-band EQ beautifully sculpts your tone and with its fully sweepable midrange, you can further fine tune your sound. It's unique Drive control utilizes a proprietary circuit which adds subtle distortion and midrange punch to the sound.

Aguilar Cabinet Suite
With our software suite, players have the ability to load any of our in-house designed SL / DB cabinet IR’s or load their own custom IR files for cabinet emulation options via XLR or headphone out.  

Dual XLR’s and Expanded Connectivity
With dual XLR’s users can freely shape their tone and apply cabinet IR’s for their monitor mix, while simultaneously using the additional XLR to send a pre-eq’d signal to the front of house mix. Now you can keep your engineer happy and your monitor world inspired! These amps also feature Aux In and Headphone out options for silent practice as well as mix control for fine tuning your listening experience. 

Universal Mains
The Tone Hammer Series features universal mains for worry-free voltage changes when traveling internationally and the ability to support a 2.67 ohm load for expanded cabinet pairings. 

SPECIFICATIONS

Power Output: 500 watts
Preamp Section: Solid State
Power Section: Class D
Transformer: Switching mode power supply (SMPS)

EQ Section:

• Bass: +/- 17 dB @ 40 Hz

• Mid Level: +/- 16 dB

• Mid Frequency: 180 Hz – 1 kHz

• Treble: +/- 14 dB @ 4 kHz

Drive Control: Fully adjustable, featuring Aguilar’s proprietary AGS (adaptive gain shaping) circuit
Effects Loop: Series operation. Adds 6 dB of additional gain, making it useful for a broad range of effects units.
Inputs: One 1/4″ input jack, compatible with all active and passive basses
Speaker Outputs: One Neutrik Speakon speaker outputs
Balanced Output: XLR balanced output with pre/post EQ and ground lift switch
Tuner output
Cooling: Two high-quality whisper fans with thermal speed control