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05-31-2010, 11:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: london | | | using a marshall guitar cab with bass head
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If I use my ashdown 600w head through a marshall guitar amp at low volume could I do any damage to either
my head is 600w at 4ohms I believe |
05-31-2010, 11:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Eastern Wisconsin | | | Guitar heads will work fine for bass. Some people even record through them, you can get some great tones. No danger at all, that's only for speakers.
EDIT: In your post it isn't clear whether you're using a guitar amp or guitar speaker. Amp = ok. Speaker = very bad.
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05-31-2010, 11:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Denmark | | | You really shouldn't play bass heads through guitar cabs. The other way around is pretty cool though! |
05-31-2010, 11:03 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | He said Marshall __GUITAR CAB__.
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05-31-2010, 11:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Eastern Wisconsin | | | Yes, he did, in the title.
He also said Marshall guitar amp in his post.
Make up your mind, OP.
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05-31-2010, 11:16 AM
| | Registered User | | | | | I think amp=cab.
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05-31-2010, 11:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: london | | | yeah sorry
ashdown head marshall 4x12 cab
its only for some quite bedroom jammin my friend has 2 marshall cabs and i thought to bring my head but i dont want to take a big bass cab and dont have a practice amp
would be the sort of volume you can still talk over really |
05-31-2010, 11:32 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Los Angeles | | put some EV's or Sidewinders in there and Rock !  |
05-31-2010, 11:35 AM
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guitar speaker cab with bass= no |
05-31-2010, 11:59 AM
| | | | guitar heads with bass cabs there's not prob at all , but otherwise is not recommend
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05-31-2010, 12:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Windsor, Ontario | | | I play my bass through my Vox AC4TV guitar amp, at low low volumes its fine, if you try to turn it up you can damage the speaker since its being asked to produce sounds its not made to produce.
Keep it super low, or buy a bass combo for cheap. |
05-31-2010, 12:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Phoenix. Az. | | | If your Marshal 4x12 has the 75 watt Celestion guitar speakers, they'll hold up much better to the abuse of bass duty than the vintage 35's would.
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05-31-2010, 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by anderbass  If your Marshal 4x12 has the 75 watt Celestion guitar speakers, they'll hold up much better to the abuse of bass duty than the vintage 35's would. | At the volume he's planning on playing at he won't even be sending 1 watt into them. |
05-31-2010, 01:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia | | | It doesn't matter if he said cab or amp, either one would be bad.
Running it into a guitar cab will probably blow the speakers unless you play very quietly (bedroom volume). Running a head into a full amp will seriously damage one or both amps.
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05-31-2010, 01:28 PM
| | | I see it's business as usual around here: people speed-read a post and respond without fully understanding.
The OP said he wants to play a bass head through a 4x12 guitar cab... at a volume you could talk over.
Answer: you could have a 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 watt bass head and still safely play it through a guitar cab at that volume.
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