bass in guitar amp.

[yellowchuck]

If you plug a bass into a guitar amp is it bad could it ruin the amp?

(I'm kinda noob to these things)

[Vulconizer]

Nah, shouldn't hurt your amp at all. I wouldn't turn the gain all the way up and put the bass knob on 10 though. Your speaker(s) would be hating life after that. lol

[Rax Jaggr]

I agree. The amp shouldn't know any different (a signal is a signal), but be careful not to blow the speaker.

[yellowchuck]

ha ok just making sure.

[Jamie Garner]

I run bass into a guitar amp all the time. If you have a guitar amp with two inputs on a channel, like old fenders and marshalls, you can run the bass in the left input, the run a guitar cable out of the other jack to a d.i. Mic the amp and you can blend the amp and d.i. signal with killer results. The amp has grit and drive, while the direct track is nice and full. You might need to flip phase on one track, or use a sample delay to focus the blend, but it's worth the effort.
If your amp doesn't have two jacks, use a stereo stomp box as a line splitter- most send identical signal thru both outs when the effect is off

[johnn]

I've been told: If the speaker cabinet has an open back it the speaker cones may flex beyond their strength, with the low notes. The solution is to lie the speaker's back on the floor. I guess that wouldn't be too good for spring reverbs. I lost a couple of vintage 12" Jensens by letting a bassman use it one night. I wish I hadn't.

[jastacey]

The guitar amp is really not and issue ... it just makes the electricial signal louder ... it's the speakers that are the issue .... most guitar speakers are voiced differantly and they can't take the punnishing excursions that a bass will make them do ...not to mention the huge amounts of current going through the voice coil ...

[akdmx]

i have played a few gigs on a peavy 4x12 guitar cab. guitar cabinets work great, its beyond me why the driver size norm for guitars is 12, while basses are stuck with 10's. if i remember correctly les claypool did a lot of work on guitar cabinets

[jastacey]

Here's my two cents worth .... the current trend is a 4x10 cabinet ... they come in two versions sealed and tuned port ... it's said that the 4x10 speakers have a faster response than a twelve inch speaker and the 4x10's will move more air than a 2x15 " set-up .... my current thinking is high quality sound ( a 4x10 ported cabinet with a 1x15" cabinet ) using speakers designed from the ground up, for the bass guitar ... I'd be willing to bet a few $$$ that if you use that peavey 4x12 guitar cabinet with a medium powered bass amp ( 350 -400 watts @ 4 Ohms ) those speakers won't be long for this world ( Peavey did make a really good bass guitar 4x12 cabinet it's the 412 TVX and if you can find it , you've got a good cabinet ) I believe Marshall still makes a 4x12 Bass Guitar cabinet, .... all in all ,....it's about the sound that one wants other people to hear.

[ratmandtotti]

Many pro bass players run their bass signal through both guitar and bass amps. Dug Pinnick from King's X is a master at that. Listen to the song Dogman. His tone is so low yet a little distorted. In the band there's only one guitarist so it really backs up the one lonely guitar.