guitar through a bass amp?

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is it saif????

― johnny winter rules, Wednesday, 24 May 2006 06:02 (seventeen years ago) link

IMM has a meme!

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 06:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Should be safe - dodgy one is the other way round (bass through a guitar amp) which can blow the speaker or something equally expensive.

Dont quote me on any of that though!

― Andrew Munro, Wednesday, 24 May 2006 08:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha.

Sorry about my flip response - I'm so used to the other question by now that I didn't read yours properly. It's completely and totally safe, and actually sounds really great on clean tone/acoustic stuff.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.vintage-guitars.se/1967_Fender_Bassman_Amp_A25888.jpg

If it's good enough for the Reverend Willy G, it's good enough for you.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

IIRC, Hendrix used a Bassman for The Wind Cries Mary.

― Palomino (Palomino), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

some of the guys from QOTSA had a band before they formed queens. can't recall the name, but it was kinda stoner metalish and the guitars were played through a bass amp to make it sound muddier.

― cracker killer (crackerkiller), Sunday, 28 May 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

kyuss.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Sunday, 28 May 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Gesundheit.

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 28 May 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Mazletov?

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Sunday, 28 May 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm gone for a week and a half and the same shit is going on. the answer to every thread is either

a. guitarist is too loud
b. no, just buy a real bass amp

or some combination thereof.

i'd heard that hendrix use twins for WCM, but i cant recall that at all correctly. someone verify?

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 29 May 2006 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i wuz thinking of doing a bass thru a guitar amp. thoughts?

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Monday, 29 May 2006 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link

it works best if you turn the reverb up to 10

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Monday, 29 May 2006 04:24 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

gotz me a pvy tnt100 with 15" can she take it all?

(a: yes, even the low "b" don't rattle her woofer)

― not a joke about porn (aWESome), Saturday, 17 June 2006 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Dave Gilmour often runs his guitar through Alembic FB-2 bass preamps when on stage; uses a pair of '59 reissue Fender Bassman amps in studio. If I recall correctly, he started using them around 1977 - in my opinion has guitar sound hasn't really changed much since then.

― Dan Easley (Don Beasley), Monday, 26 June 2006 00:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The Alembic pre-amp is basically a hot-rodded Bassman design, so nothing weird there.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 26 June 2006 07:06 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

yea i got a 40 watt ashton guitar amp and about to buy a good bass guitar, is their any chance i can play the bass guitar through my guitar amp with it all being safe??

― Matt gtgtgtgt, Saturday, 15 July 2006 09:37 (seventeen years ago) link

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.

If you had been here for a while, you would understand my frustration. Nothing personal.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Saturday, 15 July 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

But it's still saif to play guitar thru bass amp.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 16 July 2006 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link

It's SAFE -- no one will die -- IT JUST DOESN'T SOUND GOOD.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Sunday, 16 July 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

IT JUST DOESN'T SOUND GOOD

So I shouldn't get this, then?

http://www.vintage-guitars.se/1967_Fender_Bassman_Amp_A25888.jpg

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 16 July 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Other than the Bassman and other amps which decend directly from its circuit in terms of design, how many bass amps are there that are notoriously good-sounding guitar amps?

I know of none.

― martin m. (mushrush), Sunday, 16 July 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

70s Ampeg, Sunn, Traynor? (The Traynor Bass Mate I assume is a Bassman-derived circuit, but then so is a classic Marshall...)

My impression is that any tube-driven bass amp would be a saif guitar amp for anyone who doesn't mind playing at gutwrenching volume given their bias toward headroom (and attendant wattage).

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 17 July 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link

the polytone minibrute series is highly underrated imho. 15in speaker, solidstate; technically a bass amp but can be used for guitar/bass/keyboard/vocal/instrument AND it actually sounds good for all of them. my guitar through is clean and crisp, not as bright as a jc120 but similar in that it just gives you your guitar's pure tone. so if you have really shitty pickups or something you might hear that more clearly ... but ive been happy with it when i had occasion to play one. jim hall uses one! you know he wouldn't fuck around

― hjzdk, Tuesday, 18 July 2006 08:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Guitar through tube bass head generally sounds good. Guitar through transistor bass head generally sounds shit. Guitar through bass cabinets almost always sounds lousy, regardless of the quality of the amplifier used. My head is swimming.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 08:33 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

hey guys.
i gather i can't play the bass i'm about to buy through my lil fender guitar amp either.

how cheap you reckon i can get a crappy bass and amp for, and where from?

cheers

― Claire-Elizabeth, Wednesday, 2 August 2006 10:28 (seventeen years ago) link

How crappy we talkin'?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Go on ebay and pick up a Danelectro Nifty 70 bass amp. Don't pay more than $80 for it. It's not a crappy amp, actually. It's a reasonable amp for cheap.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Corin from Sleater-Kinney plays through an Ampeg bass cabinet; I'm not sure about her head. Could be a Bassman head. But S-K famously lacks a bassist, which could be why.

I used to use a hundred-watt Fender bass combo as a practice-room "PA," and put amp-modeled guitar and vocals through it. As you might imagine, it could be muddy, but I doubt it damaged the cone given the levels involved.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

Actually, I play my '76 Electra through a Hartke 90-watt bass amp, and it sounds really nice. It can go from that muddy sound you were warning about to a nice surf-like bark. Believe you me, it works.

― Nedling, Monday, 4 September 2006 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link

if you play a guitar through a bass amp and dial the treble on the amp you can overdrive in this really ... horrible way. but it sounds kind of cool

― millenarian (millenarian), Monday, 4 September 2006 06:01 (seventeen years ago) link

three years pass...

can I play bass guitar through... a keyboard amp? I think I can, because the frequency response is good all over the spectrum, or whatever, but I want to make sure.

― Dan I., Tuesday, 13 October 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link

yep, should be fine - listen for distortion though, and if you hear any, turn down.

― FCK R VWLS (jjjusten), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link

just crank everything up all the way and hit that e chord, like in the beginning of back to the future. blow that shit up, yo!

― let the glory boy mr. henry have it on rye (jdchurchill), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link

four years pass...

re-amped 12 string acoustic through a bass amp. feels good

― doctrine the house (electricsound), Sunday, 8 June 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link

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