Will playing a guitar through my bass rig hurt it? D800 and GK 2x12 neo. I'm thinking about adding a distortion pedal also. What do you think?
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Mesa D800 (Aged Horse)
- Thread starter Ralph69
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- Feb 12, 2006
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- Development Engineer-Mesa Boogie, Development Engineer-Genzler (pedals), Product Support-Genz Benz
It won't hurt the amp or the low frequency drivers, but as a general caution, if your cabinet has a tweeter it is possible to damage the high frequency driver and/or crossover because there will be a lot more high frequency content with distorted guitar.
I blew a piezo tweeter in my MarkBass 2x10" with distorted guitar, & replaced it with a horn tweeter.
Ooh, didn’t think about that.
I guess I was thinking that for guitar purposes, one might want to reduce the tweeter volume, if not turn it off altogether. Seems like it would add some “edge” to the tone that may or may not be desirable.
This from the guy who plays a lot of instruments, but never “got” guitar in the first place...
I used the original crossover that was in there, which was a filter.
The bass drivers still see all the signal & then the horn only sees the high frequencies. I think 3.5 kHz was the cutoff.
The bass drivers still see all the signal & then the horn only sees the high frequencies. I think 3.5 kHz was the cutoff.
