I’m playing guitar through my bass amp

[glxtreme]

Hi, just wanted to know if I’m not alone here... I love playing bass, but I also enjoy playing guitar and I found that my pedalboard with a couple of guitar preamps and my Tone hammer 350 with a 2x10 and 1x12 sound great! Thank you for sharing other experiences!

 

[two fingers]

I've done it before. My old SWR SuperRedhead made for a fantastic acoustic guitar amp. Lots of vintage (particularly Fender) amps were used for both.

My Ashdown LB30 has been used as a guitar head in a pinch. It actually sounded pretty freaking great!

 

[rmayer]

Way back in the distant past (the 60s) my rhythm guitarist was playing through an Ampeg B-15 fliptop amp. It sounded great. I should have bought that amp from him.

 

[el jeffe bass]

When I need an acoustic guitar amp/personal PA I plug a SM58 and my Advanced Jumbo into a small format mixer and plug that into a Rumble 100. Add a bit of reverb and I’m good to go. Bass amps can be ok acoustic amps.

 

[jeff7bass]

Fender Bassman 115 were popular with guitar players backs in the day. I let a friend use my old GK 400B (before the 400RB) and he never sounded better.

 

[HelpImaRock]

Guitars sound like unmitigated zebra puke through my Markbass/GK rig. However, the Fender Musicmaster Bass amp is a fantastic guitar amp.

 

[bobyoung53]

I prefer to use tube guitar amps with guitar. Tube bass amps sound good too but are usually too loud.

 

[Ken Morgan]

.pretty much any tweed, Brownface, cream faced, or blackfaced Bassman are killer guitar amps. SuperBassman was pretty much a Twin Amp with a bass channel, no verb or Trem.

 

[Ken Morgan]

.pretty much any tweed, Brownface, cream faced, or blackfaced Bassman are killer guitar amps.

 

[pie_man_25]

At the end of the day, before the signal hits the speaker the components are pretty darn similar for making a good sounding amp for either instrument. Not identical and there are plenty of devils in the details, but pretty similar.

 

[Seashore]

My main bass head is an old 100W Traynor tube guitar amp. I've played and recorded guitar through it a bunch, it has an amazing clean tone and can be good for heavy stuff in the right mix situation. Sounds great on its own. The drawback is, it doesn't have flexible enough EQ to work for what I need in a live band mix, but that's not a flaw in the amp, just a matter of me needing the right tool for the job.

 

[ThinCrappyTone]

I really like how the Ampeg pf-20t sounds with guitar. But much prefer it paired with guitar cabs.

 

[bobyoung53]

I really like how the Ampeg pf-20t sounds with guitar. But much prefer it paired with guitar cabs.

I've always like Ampeg tube guitar amps, I used to play with a guy who used V4's, loud as heck but sounded great, very thick tone.

 

[bobyoung53]

.pretty much any tweed, Brownface, cream faced, or blackfaced Bassman are killer guitar amps. SuperBassman was pretty much a Twin Amp with a bass channel, no verb or Trem.

Except the Super Bassman puts out 300 watts and Twins put out either 85 or 100 watts.

 

[lermgalieu]

I’ve done it but I am more of an acoustic player. Plus my son has multiple guitar amps I can pilfer as needed

 

[Stevorebob]

I can play guitar. I have some nice guitars and guitar amps. They’re pretty little things. But I touch them only seldomly, and so my guitar skills have atrophied. I just pick a bass when I’m inspired to make music. Besides, those guitar strings and frets are oh so very tiny — so hard to fit my fingers.

 

[mexicanyella]

I made the happy discovery that my teal-stripe-era Peavey TKO115 combo sounds great with a guitar when you crank it. At lower volumes it can do an okay clean sound but as you turn it up (in this case, pre and post gain settings of 7 or above) a few interesting things start to happen:

Some combination of DDT speaker limiting kicking in and/or power supply maxing out starts to give the dynamic feel of the amp a more bouncy, compressed quality without actually farting out. Even at 75-80 SS watts it feels like you are MOVING SOME AIR; it suggests the WHOMP of a turned up guitar amp without being that loud.

While it’s doing that, it stays pretty clean. You get a little snarl when you dig in but complex chords sound clean and detailed. But it sustains like you’d expect a more-distorted amp to sustain.

The Scorpion 15 speaker in that enclosure never gets farty or ragged but it does sound better as it gets pushed harder by guitar frequencies.

The active EQ has a lot of potential stupid sounds too...bit of a learning curve there.

It’s no fun to carry, and it’s barely adequate as a backup bass amp at that power level...but I love that thing for guitar. Awesome twang machine.

 

[Smooth_bass88]

Nope, I do not play guitar. To me a guitar feels like a small toy.

 

[libanass]

86% of bassists can play the guitar

86% of guitarists CANNOT play the bass!

Then they say bass is easier LOL

 

[libanass]

And yes, I do play guitar on my bass amps sometimes, it sounds different, and actually quite good, especially on my electro-acoustic guitar

But I never, ever play bass on my guitar amp! It can damage it and it sounds like crap!