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Post subject: guitar amp vs bass amp ?
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:11 pm
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What is the difference between an electric guitar amp and a bass amp ?


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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:57 pm
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Generally speaking, bass amps typically have considerably more wattage, larger, heavier built cabinets, different speakers, and different circuitry then its guitar amp counterparts. More wattage because bass freq require more power to be amplified than guitar freq, heavier cabs due to the fact that bass amps move a lot more air, speakers designed to move air (Usually a series of 10s,12s or maybe a 15 combined with a horn), and circuitry built to control bass s***. Of course this is general, there are some exceptions to this such as the 59 bassman which can do it all >_>

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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:49 am
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Bass amps (usually) have a lot more headroom (they'll run clean at a higher output volume before breaking up into distortion) on top of being E.Q'd more for lower frequency amplification


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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:02 am
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I have got some good tones using my tube preamps into bass amps. The amps I used had a 1x15 driver/speaker though, and that really sounds good for chunky rhythm sounds, but it really rolled off the highs quite a bit, to where leads sounded kinda strange

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