Double Bass guitars and amps...

[oliebrice]

I've finally splashed out and bought a GKMB150s, which should arrive in the next couple of days- very exciting! But my question is ... will it damage the amp in any way to play guitar through it? At the moment I lend my old guitar amp to the guitarist in my band for rehersals, but as I never play guitar these days and rehearse acoustically at home I'm wondering if I can get away with selling my guitar amp and letting the guitarist use my GK. Any thoughts?

 

[anonymous0726]

Shouldn't hurt it unless he pushes it to the point of distortion and keeps it there.

Why doesn't he have his own amp?

 

[Huy Nguyen]

IMO, Should be fine, even with distortion. You'll prob need an FX pedeal for distortion at that level. Guitars need very little headroom. 150 watts is plenty for a guitar. My practice amp at home is way too loud even for 20 watts. If anything you might damage the speaker cone from playing too loud, otherwise it probably is safe.

I used to have a 60 watt Fender Twin guitar amp. My ears were bleeding by the time I turned it up to 5, much less 11.

But I doubt if it sounds good.. bass amps tend to not have reverb, which is a way of life for guitarists. Reverbless guitar is really weird to my ears.

EDIT: Come to think of it, I played my Guild Thinline (like a jazz box but thinner) clean for jazz through an MB once. Sounded horrible. I was much happier playing through a Polytone.