Guitar Amps

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Q: Can you use a Fender bass with a guitar amp?
Can you use a Fender bass with a Randall 30 watt amp? What will happen?
Can you use an Ovation Acoustic-Electric guitar with a Fender 60 watt amp? What will happen?

Thanks

A: Playing bass through a guitar amp is bad. They are not designed the same, and you run the risk of blowing speakers. If you must, don’t crank it, keep it quiet and it should be ok. Not good, just ok.

Playing that acoustic through an amp… eh. An acoustic amp (an oxymoron if I ever heard one) is best, closely followed by a P.A. system. It’s not bad for your equipment, but look out for feedback. Standard electric guitar amps, I find, are a bit too trebley for acoustics.

Q: really old fender bass guitar amp sounds like speaker is blown. Speaker looks fine and fuse looks fine. ???
i acquired this amp used back in the early 90’s and it has worked fine until a few days ago. We were jamming and all of a sudden it just started sounding like crap. It sounds like when my friends bass amp’s fuse blew, but I checked it and it looks fine. any ideas?

A: Sounds like you may have damaged the voice coil in the speaker, take it out and find a place to get it checked out and the voice coil rewound, if that is the prob.. but it could be something else, but thats what it sounds like to me…

Q: Can a Fender Rumble 15 base amp be used with an electric guitar? Or just with a bass guitar?
I have a Fender squire electric guitar with a Fender Frontline 15g. Now I got a Fender Bass guitar. I know that I can’t use the Frontline for the bass guitar, but can I use a Fender Rumble for both the Bass guitar and a regular electric guitar?

A: You can play either guitar through either amp…..with limitations. If you play the bass guitar through the regular guitar amp, you must do it at VERY low volume or risk shredding your speaker. I’m talking about whisper volume here….practice levels only. The guitar can be played through a bass amp without doing any damage, but you won’t get the best tone. Each amp is optimized for it’s respective instrument. The bass amp has a beefy speaker which is made to reproduce lows. The regular guitar amp is designed for a higher frequency range……but there is overlap.

Q: Difference between bass amp and guitar amp?
Hi I’m picking up the bass guitar and i already own a regular guitar amp (Fender Deluxe 90 DSP) and was wondering if there will be a huge difference between just cranking up the bass on my regular amp or using an actual bass amp. Will there be a huge difference?

Thanks!

A: The difference is huge you must have a bass amp for a bass or it will sound horrible it will sound like a wannabe guitar which can affect your song a lot and plus the bass amp can go way louder with lower sounds without giving feedback.

Q: do i hav a bass guitar amp issue?
hey i hav a fender 15 watt bass amp and the standard cord and a standard jazz bass….. i got them all for christmas. so far everything works great, but when im not making contact with the strings the amp fuzzes…. is this normal, or should i buy a new cord? if so which one? i got everything in a fender bass guitar package……. thanks a lot and 10 points to the best answer!

A: You definitely don’t need to replace anything, since the buzz is perfectly normal and is actually a grounding issue. You know how the third prong on an electrical plug is supposed to be the ground and prevent electrical shock? Well, most amps buzz despite that and the reason your fingers on the strings eliminate the sound is that you are then part of the circuit and effectively serving as the ground. That’s why most musicians, when you see a band play live, keep a hand around the neck of the guitar or bass even between songs. In theory, a properly grounded electrical outlet would prevent the buzz, but you’ll still hear it in most recording studios that were designed for minimal interference.

This is getting kind of picky, but you could remove your pickguard and apply a sheet of copper to the back of it, then solder the ground wire from the cable input jack to the copper sheet. A lot of really high-end guitars and basses come with this grounding feature, but most instruments do not and most musicians just accept the buzz. If you want to look into it, the website stewmac.com has great information, as well as all the materials. Otherwise, you’ll just be one of millions of musicians whose instrument buzzes.

Enjoy your jazz bass!

Q: What bass guitar amp should i get?
So, I basically just want to play with my electric guitarist friend who plays with a 60 watt fender amp. I am going to get the Ibanez gsr200 bass guitar. What amp should I get to practice by myself, or with a friend? Whats the minimum wattage and/or price? Thanks.

A: I’m guessing you need something that’s easy to move around, has enough watts to compete with the guitarist, but can still handle some gig-use. Sound about right?

Well, I usually recommend Ampeg products – but that’s a personal decision. Some people are Ampeg guys, some are GK, or Trace Elliot… you really have to play/hear them for yourself. But I will say that Ampeg has always impressed me, and in 10 years of playing I wouldn’t trade my amp for any other brand.

So, I would try out the Ampeg BA115. It’s 100 watts, which will get you loud enough for practice/shows. I’m not a huge fan of 15″ speakers, but it still sounds great. My friend had this amp for years before moving up to an SVT classic head.

Check out RockGearReviews.com for some cool reviews/videos, too. Maybe you could review some of your gear there. Good luck!

Q: Can you use a Fender bass with a fender amp and a Boss guitar distortion pedal?
Will the pedal get wrecked?

A: Yes.

Pedal will not get wrecked.

If anything, you may end up with a very fuzzy, muddy tone. You will lose some of your lower end, which is why many bassists use them in parallel, ie think of Muse’s bassist.

The idea there is that instead of having bass -> pedal -> pedal -> amp, you have

bass -> splitter ->

splitter A out -> pedal -> mixer/signal combiner
splitter B out -> mixer/signal combiner

mixer/signal combiner -> amp

This way you can still have the tone of your distortion pedal but keep the clean low end that you would otherwise lose when using the distortion pedal.

Saul

Q: Can i play my guitar on my fender rumble bass amp?
i bought my 100 watt fender rumble a year ago and just got my brothers old guitar and was wondering if it was okay to play it on that amp?
i dont know why not

A: yup. but you’ll be missing a lot of the high end on the guitar. the rumble has a 15″ spkr as i recall. guitar amps usually have 10’s or 12’s. i wouldnt reccomend it frankly…unless youre hard up…

for what its worth, playing a bass thru a guitar amp is a definite NO NO…LOL you’d kill the amp…if ya cant afford a better amp, by a smaller guitar amp and mic it…..you’ll be FAR better off that playing thru a bass amp….GL

Q: fender bass amp… which one do i want?
I play bass and I’m debating between two excellent deals on Fender Rumbles. I’m in 7th grade and am planning to be in talent shows thought-out middle school and high school. Which Rumble should i go for-

60 watt for $220.00 (normally $250.00)
100 watt for $280.00 (normally $350.00)

Yes I know that that DPW (dollars per watt, don’t ask, i made that one up) is lower on the 100 watt but think, im a teen that isn’t old enough to get a job and has no allowance. So if i buy the 100 watt then my money for bass guitar accessories goes ALL into that. I have some money left over if i go 60. I’M NOT ASKING FOR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ANY OTHER AMP!

A: I would go with the 60 watt amp. With the extra money you can buy a pedal or something you would like to go along with your bass.

Q: Can an electric bass guitar amp work for and electronic drum set?
My brother bought a cheap bass guitar online and I went out to pick up an amp for it (Fender Rumble 15), and since the bass is so crappy, I decided to switch to drums. I am going to buy the Simmons SD7K Drum set, and I was wondering if I need to buy a whole other monitor/amp for it, or can I somehow connect it to the amp I have.

A: you can use the same amp but BE CAREFUL because if it’s only 15 watts it could very easily blow. For drums you should be looking at a 30+ watt amplifier.

Q: would a Fender Jazz bass work in a Peavey bass amp?
i have a jazz band concert tonight and i hate my schools bass guitar. it is a peavey bass with a peavey amp. would a fender bass work in the peavey amp?

A: yeah, your fender should work with any brand amp, brand doesnt effect compatibility. the only differerence in brands is the sound. so if you dont like how the peavy amp sounds i woukd try a different amp

Q: How to fix humming and cracking on a bass amp?
i have a fender 15 rumble bass guitar amp
the amp hums slightly when it is not plugged into amp.
plugged into a plug that has like 5 and is extended idk what it is called.
i have a fender squire bass,
i dont know im like a beginner and i bought it all used from craigslists,

Can someone help me fix cracking and the humming?

A: You are hearing a 60 Hz hum. This is almost certainly caused by a poor filter capacitor in the power supply of the amplifier. It is allowing some AC to pass through to the power supply. That’s the only thing I would suspect since you bought it on Craigslist. Not many people get rid of perfectly good equipment and that’s probably why the seller got rid of it.

A good technician will put a ’scope on the output of the power supply and expect to see a straight DC signal. Any AC ripple is a sign of a bad filter capacitor.

The fix isn’t too expensive or complicated. $20 for the capacitor (about 400,000 uf) and about $50-$60 for labor.

Q: bass in a guitar amp?
i have an old gorilla tubestack guitar amp, i also have a fender bass amp but it doesnt have a line out 2 record with. i was wondering if i could use my gorilla amp with my bass

A: yes, but not recommended. But, we lost our base amp in the middle of a set and ran the base through a Peavy Twin,turned volume,highs &mids down and miked it thru the P.A. system.that got us thru the nites gig and done it twice since. good luck jf/cajun country connection

Q: if you connect a bass 2 a guitar amp will the guitar amp get damaged in any way?
I have a fender frontman guitar amp what will happen if i connect a bass and a guitar to the guitar amplifier will it damage it?

A: Not at all.

Original had a large keyboard amp that I used for my bass for several years. Was pretty good, but not made for bass guitar.

However………I had a nice little guitar amp that I used for practising with as my big amp is awefully heavy & bulky. My 13 year old tried it out, cranked it up and blew the speaker.

So…..It’s OK to plug in and use, but if it’s so loud that it starts to distort, you are at risk of blowing it.

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Q: How will an electric guitar sound through a bass amp?
Does anything differ? Sound Quality maybe? My reason for asking is i’ve been playing bass guitar for a few years and I’m going to play electric guitar once I get my new Fender. I already have a bass amp and don’t want to spend too much more money. Would my Fender sound good with my bass amp and an electric guitar cabinet hooked up to it? Thanks in advance.

A: me thinks, it wouldnt.
i probably would play but since the bass amp is configured to play an octave lower than an electric guitar, you might have some volume issues.
just adding an electric cabnet, give you more speakers, noe the capability to play and electric clearly.
if you still wanna use the cabnet, go out and buy a head unit, it doesnt have to be top of the range Marshall equipment, but if i were you i would.

good luck…….