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Post subject: Good Bass Amp for Guitar?
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:12 am
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To make a long story short: What's the best bass amp/amp head + cab combo for guitar? I'd prefer to keep this under $300 (used) if possible.

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I do a lot of signal-splitting, and I'm looking for an amp to meet my needs.

First, I have my guitar plugged into a y-adapter. One cable feeds into an Ibanez DE7 delay/echo, which I have set to minimum time (30 ms). The dry out feeds into my fuzz pedals, while the wet out feeds into my overdrive pedals. Sometimes I do clean + fuzz, clean + overdrive, just fuzz, or recalibrate for just overdrive).

The second cable, however, is more relevant to our discussion today.

That second cable runs from the y-adapter into a sub-octave pedal, which filters out anything higher than F on the D string, knocks everything else down an octave, and then feeds into a bass fuzz pedal. On its own, this chain creates an adequate low end; combined with the other signals, however, I get what strikes me as a full, muscular sound, and I am very happy with it. However, my amp isn't.

I'm plugging into a Line 6 Flextone II, which is an awesome guitar amp capable of delivering many killer tones. However, if I set the sub-octave signal too high, or fuzz it up too much, I can tell that it's starting to cause some damage. I don't push it too far - as soon as I notice, I dial the sub-octave down. It would be nice to have an amp that could capture that low-end without any reservations, though - something that will allow me to dial up that low end, or fuzz it up.

If the "best" bass amp for guitar is something like $2,000 and there's a good amp for my purposes for $250, I'll gladly go for the "good amp." I guess I'm really asking, what's a good bass amp for what I'm doing? Also, would it work for me to grab a guitar amp head and plug that into a certain bass cab? How might this work with a tube amp head?

If it's any help, I'm currently EQing my amp with bass at 5 of 10, mids at 8 of 10, and treble at 2 of 10.


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Post subject: Re: Good Bass Amp for Guitar?
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:04 pm
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I have a Jaguar Baritone that I am currently running into a Rumble 75, with a Yamaha DG Stomp for effects (primarily reverb and tremolo). I've only had the amp for a couple of days, so I can't tell you what the long-term outlook will be, but so far, I have nothing but raves for this amp. I got mine for @ $250 new, which meets your budget requirements. Try one out and see what you think!


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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:11 pm
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Line 6 Lowdown Studio 110. Clean setting works for guitar or bass with pedalboard and you also have your choice of other bass guitar voicings. 75 watts. Cheap, reliable, small, light. Cheap too. Did I mention it is cheap? I have one I've beaten like a 2 dollar mule for over 3 years. $200 bucks right now on sale near you. Pretty sweet buy and right now cheap. I paid $300 plus tax 3 years ago. They actually have come down in price.


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