guitar through a bass amp?

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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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