What happens if you play a bass guitar through a regular guitar amp?

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Sorry, it's just that everyone else is starting threads on this topic and I wanted to fit in.

― Dan (Heh) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Can we just start a new forum called "I love trying to play bass through guitar amps?"

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Let's start one called "it's okay to play bass through guitar amps." That way we'll encourage young bass players to get street smart at the school of hard knocks.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

"Bass through guitar amp - C/D?"

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

I really did do my best to be nice to that guy. Initially.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

But dood, this amp MELTS FACES.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.theraider.net/films/raiders/gallery/makingof/mo_80.jpg

― Dan (Front Row Of My Last Gig) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

i'm imagining you playing the intro riff to mountain song by jane's addiction while their faces melt.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

The speakers will be unhappy.
VERY unhappy.

The amp itself will have noproblems, well, until you damage the voice coil and it shorts...

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

i thought i'd revive one of these for my own silly question: i have a danelectro cheap 'metal' pedal that has an octave doubler, and i was thinking about getting an MXR blue box that doubles the sound TWO octaves down: why aren't these as bad an idea to put through a regular amp as an actual bass guitar signal?

― tom west (thomp), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

(or a whammy pedal for that matter?)

― AaronK (AaronK), Sunday, 24 September 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

Well, if you use them rarely at below-power-amp-clipping volumes, you're safe for the most part.
However, there have been tales of the Blue Box destroying bass speakers when bassists use it.
It's such an unnatural signal, all square waves and random intermodulation, and speakers are really designed with sine waves in mind(and I mean the idea of a coil and cone, not a specific model).
The dano's less volatile and the sub-octave's not able to get very strong.

keep the bass low(is) and you'll be saf(ish).

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Sunday, 24 September 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

poor guitar amp

get one job. i feel for these kids

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 25 September 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

what? i have no memory of posting that, and don't believe that i did.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Well, the userip doesn't match, so I don't think you did.

Want me to delete it?

― John Justen,a ninja slapboxing fajitas out of J. Casablancas dental dam. (johnju, Monday, 25 September 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

haha, no i don't care

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

Is what i said correct, John?
I paraphrased you, mike, and relayed believable stories.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Was this issue ever resolved?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

heh

― John Justen, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

Please to send guess papers on this matter.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

it's spreading

http://messageboard.tapeop.com/viewtopic.php?t=47819

― electricsound, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 08:14 (eighteen years ago)

heh

― John Justen, Thursday, 6 September 2007 07:04 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1154/1320747357_40ac68c8bf_b.jpg

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 6 September 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.drummerworld.com/pics/drum16/terribozzio.jpg

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 10 September 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

THAT IS UNNECCESARY.

― John Justen, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 07:50 (eighteen years ago)

Those SOLID GOLD RECORDS on the wall suggest otherwise.

― n/a, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

It's a montage- the scream in the picture above is terror at the rapidly approaching enormous drumkit.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

The same thing happens when you put a raccoon in the microwave.

― morningsaystoidleon, Friday, 28 September 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/obadiahheaven.jpg

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago)

I do not understand, but I endorse this picture nonetheless.

― John Justen, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago)

is that jerry oconnel?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/sherm_lollar_autograph.jpg

― Michael Dudikoff presents Action Adventure Theatre, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

Here's hoping the New Year will bring a solution to this age old problem.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 24 December 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago)

baby jesus will show us the way to properly face melt without incident

― John Justen, Monday, 24 December 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago)

What happens when you play a toy piano through a guitar amp? Will it somehow sound in tune?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago)

I'm here to report that teh thunderstick can be played through a blackface champ at practice volume with no ill effects. I'm as surprised as anyone.

― rogermexico., Friday, 28 December 2007 01:48 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

Hai doods, I need some help with my man-face-melting amp, not that I'm going to listen to anything you say. Ahh, great days.

Seriously though. I've got a Fender Jaguar baritone, that I've tuned in E, so I'm playing bass on it mostly, but I'm planning on running it through some sort of budget bi-amp system, into whatever bass amp I've got around and my £17 H|H 100W 2x12 guitar combo (doesn't melt faces but has nice reverb and it glows green for heaven's sake). I was imagining all sorts of ABY boxes with high- and low- pass filters (I could feasibly build one of these but I never understood that area of maths and my soldering is abysmal), when it occured to me that I could just use my SansAmp BDDI as a splitter, sending the parallel (untreated) output to the guitar amp, and running this through an EQ to lose the bottom end. I can have all sorts of twin effects loops fun then as well, maybe.
But is the -12dB (or thereabouts) I can get from a 7-band pedal like the Boss (or more likely Behringer, I won't be using it as a stompbox per se so I don't have to worry about the switch falling apart) going to be enough to get rid of the bottom end?

And y'know, any other thoughts you might have.

― Bocken Social Scene, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 10:58 (seventeen years ago)

http://services.windowsmedia.com/artistpic/P01520K3L15.jpg
Danny went home and killed himself last night...

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 17:31 (seventeen years ago)

Just to say, the Behringer Bass Equalizer works pretty well. Give it a go.

― S-, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 05:28 (seventeen years ago)

this is on the first page of results when you google "regular guitar"

― roxymuzak, Friday, 22 February 2008 18:51 (seventeen years ago)

why were you googling "regular guitar"?

― n/a, Friday, 22 February 2008 20:23 (seventeen years ago)

to make fun of pleasant plains

― roxymuzak, Friday, 22 February 2008 20:41 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

If you don't crank the volume too much, bass through a Fender Vibro-champ is wonderful to record.

― augustgarage, Saturday, 8 March 2008 23:25 (seventeen years ago)

I could just use my SansAmp BDDI as a splitter, sending the parallel (untreated) output to the guitar amp, and running this through an EQ to lose the bottom end. I can have all sorts of twin effects loops fun then as well

This is what I'm doing, scored a Behringer bass eq off ebay for a tenner, and the whole thing works pretty well.

― Bocken Social Scene, Sunday, 9 March 2008 14:39 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

http://photos-e.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-snc1/v263/116/117/588567291/n588567291_1062028_5120.jpg

― roxymuzak, Saturday, 21 June 2008 23:02 (seventeen years ago)

Playing bass through a regular guitar amp shrinks your clothes?

― snoball, Sunday, 22 June 2008 09:42 (seventeen years ago)

I resent that accusation roxymuzak, as you can clearly tell the unit in question is an Ohm Pukka Model GC60 bass amp

― Just got offed, Sunday, 22 June 2008 09:47 (seventeen years ago)

oh that's not the unit in question

― n/a, Sunday, 22 June 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)

^^^^^

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 22 June 2008 16:32 (seventeen years ago)

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