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Can a bass head work OK for keyboards?

I brought my Carvin combo to a friend's house and he ran his keys thru it, sounded great.

The same guy bought my old GK combo, a 700RB/115, and the keys rip thru it, so do his electronic drums.

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I often use a bass rig in my keyboard synth rig. If I'm using amps for stereo, a Roland KC350 is one side, Mesa M3 Carbine and Aggie DB112nt is the other. Sounds massive, and quite clean. Synths go to a mixer first, then some stereo fx, and out to the 2 amps.
 
the biggest problem with using bass (or even guitar) amps is the lack of frequency range. yes a bass amp will give you the lower frequencies, but neither of these will give you good high frequencies. and bass tweeters sound really bad imho.

I really like the sound of a synth going through an SVT & Berg NV412 :)