it was meant for a guitar)ĭ) in an effort to compete volume-wise, you might push the speaker too hard and damage the speaker, since (as a guitar speaker) it might not be very efficient at bass frequencies. (depends on your amp)Ĭ) the bass will overdrive the amp and burn something in the input of the amp (not likely, but who knows. If you have good quality gear, and don't push the amp and speaker very hard, it'll probably be fine.ī) the bass will overdrive your amp and sound bad. When you think about it, there's not much difference between a guitar amp and a bass amp, they do the same thing- except that the speakers are designed to take the punishment, and input/gain/etc parts of the amp are expecting a different signal. I also have a 2x12 guitar combo at home that I run bass into sometimes and it works pretty well at practice volumes.

BUT- It was a powerful and well built tube amp, run into a bass cabinet, which is relatively safer than what you're suggesting.

One of my favorite bass tones comes from a friend of mine who has a guitar amp that was custom built for him, but he uses his bass through it instead. I know either way I'll probably lose some of the bass frequency but I just need to be heard over drums, which are trying not to overpower an acoustic guitarist. Oh, and the reason I'm not worried about tone at all is a) folk punk, emphasis on punk, and b) I'll probably run into my TonePort, into AmpliTube for a bass amp emulation, then into a 'blank' patch on the Mustang. What I am worried about is will the Fender Mustang II be able to handle the sound of a regular 4-string Fender jazz bass in standard tuning? Or am I gonna break stuff? So I'm not worried - whatsoever - about tone. No clue what that sounds like but they want me in and I'm down.

However, I reconnected with my best friend from days of yore, an excellent drummer (and my best man in 6 months), who's joined up with an acoustic player to do some folk punk jamming. Now, I had no problems because nobody ever wants to jam with me (har har more like I never have time). However, after moving a few months ago I've been bass amp-less, and recently obtained my first (and only) real guitar amp, a Fender Mustang II (v.1). Up until lately I've had a bass amp I've been able to use for jams, so it's been a non-issue. All my musical life I've been brought up being told 'Don't you DARE run a bass guitar through an electric guitar amp!' and so on, so I've always been verrrry hesitant to do so.

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