Any potential problems using my guitar head for bass?

[Soundstorm]

For extended periods.

I got my vintage Orange OR-120 in last week and it sounds amazing for both guitar and bass. It actually sounds 10x better than my Mesa M-Pulse 600. Punchy, loud, and VERY beefy. I'm sitting it on my 410, with the impedence selector set to match.

I'm asking if there are any potential hazards to the amp by making it pull "double-duty", besides going through power tubes more rapidly.

Btw, the amp has all new caps, I had the circuit upgraded to the "pix-only" circuit, and it has new Mercury Magnetics trannies. Just in case it's age was a factor.

Thanks!

 

[David Jayne]

No problem at all. An amp is an amp, more or less.

 

[rickdog]

I rocked hard on my basses through a Marshall 100W Super Lead for years. Other than needing to replace tubes (which probably had more to do with age than with playing bass through it), it gave me zero trouble.

Well, it did fall silent on me on a gig once. "Fall" is the operative word - it vibrated off the back of my speaker and yanked the input cable out of the jack. I guess I was playing kinda loud at the time....

BTW, the way I used this for bass was to connect the bass and treble channels together with a short patchcord, then plug the bass into either channel (each channel had two input jacks). The tone controls did almost nothing, but the two channels' volume controls acted as a REALLY BIG bass control and a REALLY BIG treble control. Not a lot of subtlety to the sound, but for rock gigs in a bar it killed.

 

[Soundstorm]

Yeah, I forget Lemmy uses a 100 Marshall head doesn't he?