Playing Bass on Guitar Tube Amp, Can i mod it to be a full-out bass amp?

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You can use any guitar amp as a bass amp. It will simply sound like shit if it's a combo. Big tube guitar heads make fine bass amps -- IF YOU ARE USING BASS CABINETS.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Also y'all owe me major apologies for saying I was being a jerk on that one pick-up thread.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey i told my dad to buy a 40 watt bass amp off ebay for me.. he then saw a 50 watt guitar amp for 10 dollars more thought it was a bass amp and bought it instead... after searching around aparently the thing that get's wrecked ultimately is the speaker.. so i was wondering if or how much a basss speaker would cost to get put into this amp..
or alternitavly i could just sell the guitar amp and buy a bass amp...

― Michael Collins, Saturday, 17 June 2006 08:37 (seventeen years ago) link

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― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 17 June 2006 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link

SELL IT BUY A BASS AMP. Ok then.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Saturday, 17 June 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

STOP RIGHT THERE MAN! I started this thing a long as time ago, theres no way out, most of the people are idiots on this thing. And there is no solution to putting a bass speaker in, its not possible, as for playing bass on a guitar amp, ehhhh, I've been jamming with my guitar amp playing bass for the past month, its insanely quiet and its a 40 watt amp, the speaker hasnt blown, turning on the drive channel to get more volume helps, but it sucks cause bass pickups sound like junk overdriven and they pick up every little sound of your fingers against the strings, EVERYTHING

― Mike Lamie (Mike Lamie), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i just came back to this thread from so damn long ago.

― Mike Lamie (Mike Lamie), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Change the speakers or cab.
Anything else is an alteration of the Center frequencies of the EQ. Stupid expensive.
If you have a loop, run a boost in there. Many amps' preamps saturate too fast for you to even get the full rated wattage!
40 watts isn't enough to get a bass over a loud drummer. You'd need an 810 to get close, and it still won't work.
Buy a bass amp, or at least a bigger guitar head.

I myself run a bass(VI-type, so it NEEDS to be a compromise) though a guitar preamp. It has alot of bass inherently on the clean channel, though so that's....yeah.

If you find a fende M-80 guitar amp, it's a great bass amp that would need a bass cab.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 03:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Mike Lamie, you are a stupid motherfucker. Go back to harmony central, or whatever internet pit you crawled out of. LOOK, I AM INTRANET SHOUTING AGAIN, AND THE WORDS THAT I AM SHOUTING IS THAT YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF LISTENING TO PEOPLE THAT KNOW MORE THAN YOU. STFU FOREVER. GO AWAY.

Hi GZeus. Nice to see you here. Nothing you say will penetrate his skull. We've been through this over and over again. Soon, your kindness and information will turn to utter and total frustration, like trying to teach a baby how to skydive.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 07:11 (seventeen years ago) link

HAHAHAHA EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS ON. HI MIKE.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 07:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Buy a bass amp

crazy talk.

― lmaoborghini (eman), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it would be fun to teach him to skydive as a baby.
WHEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...............................................
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Oops.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Mike do you understand the PHYSICS of SOUND? Every SOUND has a FREQUENCY. The BASS frequency is LOWER than that of a GUITAR. A bass guitar...BASS guitar...makes a sound with a LOWER frequency than that of a GUITAR. A guitar amp is made to generate sounds in certain FREQUENCIES, which may overlap but don't encompass those frequencies generated by a BASS guitar. You have three options:

1. Do NOT play the lowest TWO OCTAVES on the bass
2. plug your BASS into a BASS amp
3. JUST DON'T PLAY BASS BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 01:48 (seventeen years ago) link

TWO octaves?
HUH?
No offense, but
A. A bass is ONE octave lower.
B. A guitar amp WILL reproduce the frequencies produced by a bass, but the speakers won't. The EQ just won't work well.
C. Yes, he's an ass.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link

You are correct! I am a drunken interdouche tonight. Pay no attention.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I've made worse mistakes drunk. No biggie.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

oh this

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

INTERDOUCHE

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 July 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i do play bass, quite well too. I just have never decided to understand the way shit works cause I dont need to. thats why I have you guys. That whole sound wave tip is the most sense i've heard.

Either way, under the pressure to jam with my band I've been using my 45 watt epi guitar amp on the drive channel so it will be loud, with low gain to keep it clear but boosted. Its alright, but it is quiet enough.

its funny though, now when I turn off the amp, it takes longer for it to shut down, and when I plug in my guitar to it, it sometimes gets weird and the speaker will fade in and out and get weird but its sort of funny

― Mike Lamie (Mike Lamie), Thursday, 20 July 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

avant garde

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 20 July 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Mikey, have you considered picking up an instrument that's more on your level?

http://www.johnlewis.com/jl_assets/Product/230215126.jpg

http://www.flicklives.com/Music/kazoo.jpg

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― While my guitar gently skeets (Matt Chesnut), Friday, 21 July 2006 02:02 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

this thing dragged on so long. the ending resolution. I have a decent bass amp and a Gibson SG Bass cherry finish. and I lived happily ever after, the end

― Mike Lamie (Mike Lamie), Thursday, 10 August 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

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― While my guitar gently skeets (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 10 August 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

i wonder how many claims there are on that one.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:14 (seventeen years ago) link

But doesn't a decent bass amp leave teh face of teh man unmelted?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 11 August 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

two years pass...

happy ending

― For technical assistance, please contact our Support Team (electricsound), Monday, 29 September 2008 07:14 (fifteen years ago) link

two years pass...

i think i expressed that I was indeed 16 earlier. Either way man, these dudes on here are being complete idiots, the archetypal shit head generation, and I'm fuckin sick of it.

― natty thread lock (am0n), Thursday, 28 October 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link

can a mod edit my amp to be a full-out bass amp

― dronestorm (electricsound), Thursday, 28 October 2010 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link

well if by "bass amp" you mean "cat jpg"

― arby's, Monday, 1 November 2010 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link

that would look awesome on stage

― Sniiiiip! (electricsound), Monday, 1 November 2010 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

just bought a musicmaster bass amp, made me think of this glorious thread

― private parts & labia (electricsound), Thursday, 2 June 2011 03:06 (twelve years ago) link

I thought of this thread too a couple of weekends back when I recorded some bass tracks for a friend with a Orange Tiny Terror into my 1x15 cab. It sounded pretty good.

I've been kind of thinking of finding one of these and actually using it with a bass like Leo intended.

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/attachments/instruments-guitar-bass-amps/212553d1294200607-fender-

― earlnash, Friday, 3 June 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.aberdeen-music.com/galleries/files/3/6/5/2/bassman003s_864504.jpg

― earlnash, Friday, 3 June 2011 02:21 (twelve years ago) link

five years pass...

Vox amPlug Bass Headphone Amp rocks

― And Run Into It And Blecch It (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 March 2017 19:04 (seven years ago) link

I have the guitar version, can it be modded to a bass headphone amp?

― attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 26 March 2017 20:57 (seven years ago) link

Not sure what the diff is.

― And Run Into It And Blecch It (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 March 2017 21:01 (seven years ago) link

It's the speakers that bear the pain of bass.

I got a '68 Bassman head now. Its really better on a guitar than a bass, but it's got a grind to it that's cool. With the right fuzz you can sound like Cactus on that head, which is pretty cool.

― earlnash, Monday, 27 March 2017 02:21 (seven years ago) link

i have a guitar amp, can I mod it into a fleshlight

― Neanderthal, Monday, 27 March 2017 02:39 (seven years ago) link

i have a fleshlight, can i mod it into a guitar amp

― stanley weebeard (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 April 2017 07:39 (seven years ago) link

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