bass who plays guitar

[mrm56]

teles, p90s and filtertrons into bell & howell projector amps
arion chorus, love pedals and too many delays for one person to own.

i live in the country so my quiet play at home is probably different than yours

 

[kjp360]

Yep guitar came before bass for me but not by much. I definitely have more stage experience on guitar.

The best thing I have used for at home practice is Kemper if you can stomach the price. Mine is powered, so I can use headphones or play through a cab at low volume. Both options sound great for guitar and bass. I find the footprint manageable and like to plop it on a desk or table for practice.

Before that I was using my 62 Epiphone Futura 4x8, sounds great at most volumes but it wasn't working for my current living situation. Before that I used a 59ish Gibson GA-5 1x8 that was an amazing home and recording amp. The owner had left it with me for years, one day came to "use it for a jam" and subsequently pawned it...before I could successfully buy it from him...likely for exponentially more $$

I have a large boatload of a guitar gear, but the reality is 9 out of 10 times I just reach for an acoustic when I want to play tbh. No set up, no cables to trip on and no effects to hide behind or fiddle with. Best of luck hunting for what works for you!

 

[MojaveVox]

My only guitar amp is a Fender Red Knob Twin. 100W combo but it’s totally usable indoors because of the 25W power switch, sounds massive

 

[Bassinthemudd]

IK Multimedia Axe I/O w/AmpliTube

 

[Barticus]

From metal to blues this is my goto for volume and tone. Mesa Mark V

Practice everyday for guitar and bass
Yamaha THR30 - with Bluetooth and wireless, for low volume and amazing tone and quick recording directly into iPad and garage band

HX Stomp with patches and stomps for both bass and guitar for rehearsal and gigging.

 

[JimmyM]

Yes I'm a bass player first but I also started on guitar and never gave it up. Guitar experience transitioned to bass. This is a question to those on this forum who's first instrument is bass but also play guitar:
if you are not gigging and you are a quiet, play at home type, what amp/pedal combo do you use to get low volume/big sound?
My guitar is Fender Strat.
Low volume w/presence/small footprint: Tube amp? D class?
Asking for opinions from real world experience,

For recording, I use an Ampeg PF50t with a Tech 21 British pedal plus a handful of other pedals when I want a different sound. For jamming, I usually use a Crate Power Block into an SVT 210av. Sometimes I use a 73 Fender Super Reverb, but it’s so dang heavy that I opt for convenience.

 

[lfmn16]

Telecaster with Fender Champ. Years ago I went down the pedal rabbit hole and almost never returned. Now I just play clean into the Champ. Forces me to play better.

Yup. I've sold about 3/4 of my pedals and when I play out I only use four - tuner, light dirt, overdrive, and EQ for a little boost. Most of the time I play clean.

 

[Artman]

I've played guitar for 40 years, and bass for 4. Lately I play a Gretsch Elecromatic through a Roland JC-40 when I'm playing guitar. I've been on a solid state kick lately, but I think it's just cuz I'm contrary. It sounds great in a band mix, though.

Those Roland JCs give the purest cleans you can get. That's why so many jazz cats love them. One player's sterile sound is another player's accurate. So much of the expressiveness is literally in your own hands anyway.

 

[arbiterusa]

This is a question to those on this forum who's first instrument is bass but also play guitar:
if you are not gigging and you are a quiet, play at home type, what amp/pedal combo do you use to get low volume/big sound?
My guitar is Fender Strat.
Low volume w/presence/small footprint: Tube amp? D class?
Asking for opinions from real world experience,

For “big sound” I find small amps are what you want. That monster opening riff for Yes’ “Owner of a lonely heart” is a Marshall 15 solid state combo. All the Boston distorted stuff is supposedly through Fender Champs. I use a Boss HM2 or Behringer Tube Amp Emulator pedal on the “California” (Mesa) setting, output to a Boss DD-6 for stereo panned slapback (very little) into my GG-10 Gorilla combo. Close miked. Sounds great.

Clean tones I like my cheap Marshall MG50DFX. That’s a pretty great all around amp. You can do any gig with the 100 watt version.

It might be because I’m a bassist first, but I want my cleans CLEAN and it’s maybe no surprise that I tend to really prefer solid state guitar amps.

 

[J-Mags]

Those Roland JCs give the purest cleans you can get. That's why so many jazz cats love them. One player's sterile sound is another player's accurate. So much of the expressiveness is literally in your own hands anyway.

I usually play them with effects. I used to live in New York City and practice in hourly studios and I kind of learned to love the JC series because the tube amps were often poorly maintained. Honestly, sometimes they don't sound as good as a Deluxe Reverb or something when I'm playing by myself, but they sound fantastic in a mix because of their cut, and how clean they sound.

 

[friend33]

At home I play my guitars through a Magic Amps Crossroads (15w) around 90% of the time and the rest through an At Mars Specialist (Filmosound conversion ~20w). Those go through either a PS2 or an Iron Man II Mini. And plenty of pedals.

You can pretty much use any anp that has the sound you like as long as it has a good master or you use an attenuator. Fryette and Tone King make two of the best. (The PS2 is technically a re-amper, but that means it can also be used to bigger-ize either of those amps for the stage.)

 

[Rip Van Dan]

Yes I'm a bass player first but I also started on guitar and never gave it up. Guitar experience transitioned to bass. This is a question to those on this forum who's first instrument is bass but also play guitar:
if you are not gigging and you are a quiet, play at home type, what amp/pedal combo do you use to get low volume/big sound?
My guitar is Fender Strat.
Low volume w/presence/small footprint: Tube amp? D class?
Asking for opinions from real world experience,

My wife and I live in the bottom section of a house which was an in-law apartment when the in-law was still alive. Although our land lady is a long time friend and the BF of my wife's, I can't really play through an amp at home. No worries though I just plug my bass into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Gen3 audio interface, put on my Bose headphones, and play along with any music on my computer or online such as You Tube. I have a wireless on my bass but don't have one on my headphones, so I am usually sitting at my desk when I'm playing.

If you are not going to be playing along with music on your computer, you might consider getting an acoustic bass just to play around the house.

 

[ThudThudThud]

Maybe you guys can help me. Lost all electric guitars in the fire, so looking for a new one to record with (one man band, home recording). Needs to fit a Fishman Triple Play pickup (which excludes many guitars). $800 max. Wanted a G&L Tribute S-500, but the pickup doesn't fit due to the bridge design.
Currently between the Fender Special Edition HH Telecaster, and a Player series Stratocaster. Which way would you go, and why?

 

[GIBrat51]

Yes I'm a bass player first but I also started on guitar and never gave it up. Guitar experience transitioned to bass. This is a question to those on this forum who's first instrument is bass but also play guitar:
if you are not gigging and you are a quiet, play at home type, what amp/pedal combo do you use to get low volume/big sound?
My guitar is Fender Strat.
Low volume w/presence/small footprint: Tube amp? D class?
Asking for opinions from real world experience,

I haven't been in a band for several decades, now; and have never had any real desire to be in another one. So, I've been a "bedroom player" ever since. Amps for my guitar(s)? I have a couple; which one gets used depends on what I want to play. They are:
1) Early '70s Rickenbacker TR-7 solid state combo amp. Probably one of the best of a bad lot - the SS amps that created the bad rep that they've spent decades trying to overcome - the TR series amps still sound good. Not as many effects as you can get now, but if you want the basics, it does the job. It does Surf really well, and played thru it? My Rick 330 is a Jangle monster. It works great for anything I want to play on a solid body guitar - that was written before about 1978...
2) Gretsch G5222 Electromatic. A 5W, combo tube amp, pretty much identical to the Fender 600 Champ. I had mine retro-modded to the original, '50s specs; Different speaker (8" Weber) and tubes, and one of the 2 outputs modded for distortion. An awful lot of early C&W, Rock n' Roll, and Blues was recorded with a mic'ed up Electromatic in the studio. And, on one of my Hollowbody guitars? That's exactly what I play thru mine...

 

[roller]

Those little Bugera V5 amps are sweet and can usually be picked up on the used market for bargain prices. I highly recommend.

PPS I was really close to getting this bugera. Built-in attenuator, reverb and headphones; but alas, no aux in.