Using Bass Amps for Guitar

[D.o.S.]

SS you won't sacrifice 'tone' sa long as you're not looking for tube-type breakup, which frankly, not everyone on earth wants.

Heresy!

[dubkitty]

in the classic 1969-71 era the Rolling Stones used SVTs as guitar amps to get that wonderful crunchy tone.

[FancyMike]

in the classic 1969-71 era the Rolling Stones used SVTs as guitar amps to get that wonderful crunchy tone.

Holy shit how loud do you have to turn up an SVT with a guitar to be anything other than super clean?

Also bass amps are cool as guitar amps. Guitar amps are also cool as bass amps. Solid state amps are cool. Tube amps are cool too.

[coldbrightsunlight]

I like my bass amp for guitar (ashdown little bastard), but I'm not too fond of my cab with it, too much harsh high end, I need to get a more guitar/baritone voiced cab for dem lowz+having a smaller cab for jamming on bass (4x10 is kind of a ballache), maybe even just getting rid of my guitar amp and using the bass amp full time for everything if it sounds good.

[fever606]

back in the day, i played bass - and occasionally guitar - through a peavey century ss head and ampeg 8x10. it was pretty much perfect.

[kbit]

I only own a 15" bass combo & I'm fairly happy with it. It can sound a bit dull but it might be because of the whole ported cab thing. Nothing a Fuck OD don't fix, clipping or not.

[snipelfritz]

I vote bass head through guitar cab (12" speaker[s]).

[Achtane]

Bass head through bass cab or guitar head through bass cab.
Going bass head - guitar cab always sketches me out.

[dubkitty]

>Holy shit how loud do you have to turn up an SVT with a guitar to be anything other than super clean?

as loud as necessary

my bassist in the early 80s played an SVT...i played my Strat through it once at rehearsal and it was AMAZING.

[snipelfritz]

back in the day, i played bass - and occasionally guitar - through a peavey century ss head and ampeg 8x10. it was pretty much perfect.

Isn't that basically Jesse F. Keeler's set up? Except pushed to an insane point.

And I know he would bypass the pots on his bass so it was getting maximum output.

[the_carl]

Up until a couple months ago I played almost exclusively through solid state bass amps & bass cabs with my strat and never felt that the sound was all that lacking. Old ass Roland, Peavey, and newer Ampeg stuff. I tend not to like a very bright sound, though, so there's that.

[zRobertez]

I used an Acoustic B200 for a few years when I started going from bass to guitar. It was plenty loud and had a lot of depth and low end (best part) but not too much. Definitely controllable. I would recommend something with a tweeter or horn or whatever (EDIT: apparently everyone else doesn't like them), because whenever I turned that off, it sounded like a lifeless mush. Also, any dirt pedals I used sounded awful through it. Except a Boss BD-2. That sounded wonderful. Everything else I had didn't jive too well, although at the time it was just muff variants and a DS-1.

[Big Mon]

Man, a guitar going through a board full of fuzz into a SS 100wt Bass combo sounded great! It actually liked single-coils. I could only imagine how Guitar>Great Wall/Megalith, or some other such fuzz>Bass Amp would sound. Probably thunderous and ballsy.

I like a good SS guitar amp, too. 70's Silvertone or Harmony heads cranked up give your tone a delightful crackle. I'd imagine either of those sounding fantastic through a Bass Cab

[Toonster]

Playing stoner riffs on a guitar tuned to c on my Mesa Bass 400+ is so massive, it is ridiculous

[metalmariachi]

lets see:
Bassman
Marshal (tweed Bassman really)
Thunderbolt
Bassmate
Bassmaster
V4/VT22 actually a V4-B with reverb
VT-40 = B25
not an entirely new idea.

MM