Playing guitar through a bass amp?

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aen wrote:it's the only way to fly. All guitar amps sound like little baby toys after pushing an 8x10 bass cab. Or, better yet, and 8x10 and a 1x15.
I think I would break my roommates if I was pushing an 8x10 and a 1x15
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Kind of like when I lived with three other dudes and had a 2x15 and a 2x10+1x18... it RULED
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I wanna find one of those 2x10+1x18 Peavey cabs. I bet those things kill everything.
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It almost killed my car, the one time I dropped it trying to unload it by myself. Thing weighed about 200 pounds EASY if not more
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aen wrote:it's the only way to fly. All guitar amps sound like little baby toys after pushing an 8x10 bass cab. Or, better yet, and 8x10 and a 1x15.
Amen.
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trace wrote:I've never had a guitar amp and I play guitar primarily. Bass amps are loud, clean, can easily be used for bass or synths, and seem to be able to get more loud for your $ than guitar amps.
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Sunn Concert Bass into Peavey 2x15 is my "guitar" rig and I also use a Peavey TNT 130 with 1x15 when I wanna combo... I like shit to be heavy and Bass Amps deliver, plus I can switch to Baritone or Bass and I know what it's gonna sound like with pedals...
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My friend is debating selling me his Traynor cab with 4x10s and a 12 inside (like the size of an 810) and then maybe I'd buy a 115 and use those with either my bass head or guitar hear and sell my 412....

Fuck that would be hella tight....
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That sounds unpleasantly heavy to lug around.
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4x10s a 12 and a 15 would sound GREAT on guitar...

My Concert Bass stays clean for ever and is hella loud which is what I want so the pedals can shine...
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rfurtkamp wrote:That sounds unpleasantly heavy to lug around.
It's got two wheels on the back and handles. I don't think it could possibly be worse than the ungodly heavy 410 I have now. It's little, unimpressive looking, awkward and heavy. Fuck I hate that fucking cab..... You know what? 2014 is the year I really pimp it up, cab wise.....
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So uh this just popped up, not quite, but almost locally...
http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell ... Z559136153
I read some reviews and a lot of them mention that it's amazing for both bass and guitar
Horribly tempted
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Yea, good handles and decent casters help a ton. Just don't book somewhere in a basement or an upstairs. ;)
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