Guitar through a bass amp?

[OffYourFace]

I just saw an interesting band from the UK called Frightened Rabbit.  My friend tour/road managed their US tour.  They have 3 guitars (all teles!) going at once.  Sometimes  the 'bassist' will run his tele into a bass amp.  He'll play bass occasionally but I saw him use the tele more often.  It was an interesting sound, pretty cool.  Sometimes he'd play a Roland floor-bass synth, a big unit with pedals similar to the old Taurus units.  I had never heard of them but they have been selling out shows here in the US.

[BenHagerty]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBcbDS5AGnk

nice offset action

[øøøøøøø]

I bet a guitar sounds better through bass amp, than a bass
guitar through a traditional guitar amp..

not neccessarily. i used basses together with guitar amps to great results many a time.
depends on what you're after... i don't need very low end thump when playing bass,
so a (higher wattage) guitar amp is just fine for me. 

verily, many a recording situation has ended up with bass through a guitar amp because often it will sit better in a mix.  Probably even some records you've heard.  You have to be a little careful of the speakers though, sometimes, when running bass through certain (vintage) amps.

[stevejamsecono]

well, it worked for the Misfits, so why not

[parry]

...You have to be a little careful of the speakers though, sometimes, when running bass through certain (vintage) amps.

That's what I'd always heard too...
never seen it happen though.
And not that it mattered - I always used to run my Rick through my SuperSix... MAN, that thing could twist up your gut and make cakes in your shorts...

[StevenO]

...You have to be a little careful of the speakers though, sometimes, when running bass through certain (vintage) amps.

That's what I'd always heard too...
never seen it happen though.
And not that it mattered - I always used to run my Rick through my SuperSix... MAN, that thing could twist up your gut and make cakes in your shorts...

Mmm cake.

[fuzzking]

well, it worked for the Misfits, so why not

[Superfuzz]

that's the #1 rule for stonerrock..plus the best Rolling Stones sound ever (sticky fingers) comes from ampegs 4x10 combo..the one like an svt in combo style..

[IFoughtTheLaw]

I like playing though my bass amp (even though it is a crappy Ibanez 15 watt starter amp, lol) I like the warm meaty sound I can get from it, very Jazzmaster-like. Lots of fine control on the mids and lows.

I've heard that Stevie Ray Vaughan switched over to playing bass amps at a certain point because he could get so much sound out of his guitars that he would blow out his regular ones, lol. I wish I was that awesome

[fuzzking]

verily, many a recording situation has ended up with bass through a guitar amp because often it will sit better in a mix.  Probably even some records you've heard.  You have to be a little careful of the speakers though, sometimes, when running bass through certain (vintage) amps.

well, we recorded some stuff last week, and i wish i had made my bass player use a guitar amp. he played through a mesa/boogie 400+ amp with a big cab and i didn't have a chance to monitor it correctly when tracking, i just set up some control1s and had a pair of (though good) headphones... now i'm constantly tweaking the ultra low rumble on the track... argh.

[fuzzking]

verily, many a recording situation has ended up with bass through a guitar amp because often it will sit better in a mix.  Probably even some records you've heard.  You have to be a little careful of the speakers though, sometimes, when running bass through certain (vintage) amps.

well, we recorded some stuff last week, and i wish i had made my bass player use a guitar amp. he played through a mesa/boogie 400+ amp with a big cab and i didn't have a chance to monitor it correctly when tracking, i just set up some control1s and had a pair of (though good) headphones... now i'm constantly tweaking the ultra low rumble on the track... argh.

lemme guess, you had the cab on the floor and you let the bass player get 'his sound?' 

yep. i knew it was too much low end, and i turned some of the lo freq down when he was taking a leak, but i think he turned them back up when i was taking a leak.  no way to put that giant stack on a chair or such. if i still had that little ampeg combo, i would/should have made him play through that.

[fuzzking]

no DI, as we only had 4 channels for the whole recording, haha. kind of "fixed it in the mix" by shelving off agood amount of ultra low rumble and accentuating the 200-300 Hz area. yet another lesson learned.

oh - and sorry to the original poster for the thread hijack. 

[phibes]

I plug into an Ampeg B25-B bass head and run that into a Marshall 4/12 and it's pure sex.  Really clear clean and a real nice crunch.  A tube screamer kicks it into a really nice overdrive.  The head was cheap compared to all the guitar heads I've owned. The only Guitar head I would switch to would be an ElectricAmp.  A Sunn Model T would be nice to drive more cabs.

Guitars through Bass Combos though can get messy.  Good for blues though as said.

A guitar through an Ampeg SVT into an 8/10 is pure sex though.  Nice clean and loves fuzz pedals and girls.

[phibes]

What kinda tubes you runnin in it?

[øøøøøøø]

What kinda tubes you runnin in it?

JJ 7027s