Bass amp for bass and electric guitar

[rbachman]

Guys and Gals,

I have a Rogue Beatle bass and I have a Deluxe strat coming.

Do you know of any small amp that will handle playing these 2 around the house. I have "very" limited space" and I have a very "sensitive" back. I will have to move it to and from the closet to store it.

And I don't have a big budget -- around $200.

I was told that a bass amp with an effects loop would work. Is that true?

Thanks a lot !!!!

[Vaughanabe13]

You can play guitar just fine through a bass amp, although I wouldn't try it the other way around - guitar amps usually aren't built to handle the lower frequencies. The problem with playing a guitar through a bass amp is it usually sounds pretty bad - scooped mids and such. You might want to consider looking at Keyboard Amps as well such as the Roland ones.

[texas twelve]

My son plays a bass and an electric guitar through a 200 watter bass amp with a 15 inch speaker and a tweeter. Both sound good.

As said, I have heard that a bass through a guitar amp is asking for speaker trouble, unless you are playing at super-low, bedroom practice volume.

[Herb Hunter]

You are actually asking for quite a lot: and amplifier suitable for both electric guitar and bass guitar, under $200 and light weight (bass speakers tend to be heavy). Probably the best compromise would be a bass speaker cabinet connected to an electric guitar amplifier head. By making it a two-piece system, it would be easy to carry.

Below is a link to a page describing a $250, 40 lbs bass amplifier from a reputable manufacturer with which to start out. Later, you could add an electric guitar amplifier head to play through the bass amp's speaker if you wanted to improve the sound of the electric guitar over what the bass amplifier provided. You could put the amplifier on a dolly to make it easier to move around.

https://www.carvinguitars.com/produc...oduct=PB100-15

Here is a solid-state, electric guitar amplifier head (a tube one would be preferable but typically more expensive and heavier).

https://www.carvinguitars.com/produc...product=SX300H

Here is the amplifier dolly:

https://www.carvinguitars.com/produc...p?product=DB35

[ljguitar]

Originally Posted by Herb Hunter

...By making it a two-piece system, it would be easy to carry.

And you only have to move the head if you throw a table cloth over the speaker and make it a coffee table...

[rbachman]

Originally Posted by texas twelve

My son plays a bass and an electric guitar through a 200 watter bass amp with a 15 inch speaker and a tweeter. Both sound good.

As said, I have heard that a bass through a guitar amp is asking for speaker trouble, unless you are playing at super-low, bedroom practice volume.

What amp is that?

[texas twelve]

It's a Drive amp I got him at MF. He plays his guitar through super-cheap preamp that still sounds quite well.

His bass he just plugs in the other channel.

He also has another speaker(a Carvin 12 incher) plugged in to the combo.

[mwfisher54]

See if you can find an SWR Workingman's 10. I have one with the matching extension cab. I don't play electric guitar, but it does an adequate job for bass for where I play (i.e., if I need lots of volume, I let the house sound system carry that and use the SWR as a bass monitor.) I have seen a couple of reviews of the WM10 on Harmony Central by electric guitar players who love it.

http://reviews.harmony-central.com/r...an%27s+10/10/1

This amp was discontinued a few years ago and the "WorkingPro" series introduced, but you can still find them on eBay now and then.