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Post subject: Bass support in new mustang gt40 amp?
Posted: Mon May 01, 2017 1:18 pm
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Do the new mustang gt40 amps support other types of instruments like bass guitars? I know the general rule of thumb is guitar amps for guitars only, but several other modeling amps support both guitar and bass (blackstar beam, Yamaha Thr10).


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Post subject: Re: Bass support in new mustang gt40 amp?
Posted: Mon May 01, 2017 5:01 pm
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Moving this thread to the new Mustang™ GT forum. But can also answer your question as well: no, these are definitely guitar amps and are not intended for bass.

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Post subject: Re: Bass support in new mustang gt40 amp?
Posted: Sun May 28, 2017 12:20 pm
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Sorry to contradict the admin right from the start, but tried a Jazz Bass at the shop and the GT40 sounded better than expected for it's size. It was one of the reasons to buy it, I was more impressed then the initial boxy distortions.
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Post subject: Re: Bass support in new mustang gt40 amp?
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:31 am
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Brad Traweek - Fender wrote:
Moving this thread to the new Mustang™ GT forum. But can also answer your question as well: no, these are definitely guitar amps and are not intended for bass.



The GT40's speakers been full range that sounds strange no ? Why would it it be unsuitable for bass (at homme at least.. so for practice, low volume and so on)

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Post subject: Re: Bass support in new mustang gt40 amp?
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 5:08 am
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I used my old Mustang III v1 all the time as a bass preamp for recording. I'm surprised the GT took a step backwards and is no longer capable of taking a bass. I would leave the Master all the way off (thus bypassing the speaker) and connect the effects loop OUT to the mixer directly. On the v2 MII amps this must be even easier as there is an XLR output. Mustang GT really can't be used that way?


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Post subject: Re: Bass support in new mustang gt40 amp?
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 9:15 am
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I've played bass through my GT100, using the Bassman model of course. It did fine, but I wouldn't try to use it for anything but living room practice.


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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 10:13 am
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Jbthigpen wrote:
I've played bass through my GT100, using the Bassman model of course. It did fine, but I wouldn't try to use it for anything but living room practice.


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As far as I have understood (correct mme if I'm wrong) , the GT100 (and above) have Celestion guitar speaker, so using it with a bass is perhaps unsafe.
I don't remember where I've read that but the GT40 as large band speaker (this would be logical to use it for streaming music) si using it with a bass might be perfectly safe.

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Post subject: Re: Bass support in new mustang gt40 amp?
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...and yet you can stream music via Bluetooth (BASS track and all) and that's ok for the speaker? I don't get it.


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Post subject: Re: Bass support in new mustang gt40 amp?
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 3:39 pm
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Brad just said 'not intended', as that is the actual situation.
Probably a wise stement, with regard to warranty issues.
Go ahead and use the amps any way you like,
if you're a nutter, you might blow a cheap speaker, so what?
If bass is THAT important to you, you'll replace it/them
with more appropriate speakers, keeping ohms law
in your left hand, to be lucky.
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 12:57 am
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Flipping the coin, I use a Fender Rumble Bass amp with acoustic guitar. Sounds great.


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Post subject: Re: Bass support in new mustang gt40 amp?
Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 10:25 am
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The main reason that you shouldn't play a bass guitar through a Mustang amp is that the speakers can't handle the low notes. The low E on a bass guitar is 41Hz. A six string guitar's low E is twice that. Low notes have to move a lot of air. To reproduce that, you need a tuned/ported cabinet and a speaker with a long throw of the voice coil. Smaller speakers have to move in and out further to reproduce bass and that recording of a bass guitar on streamed music is not moving the volume of air that connecting it to an actual bass guitar is going to require. Sustained use of a bass guitar on a Mustang amp is surely going to shorten the life of the speaker.


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Post subject: Re: Bass support in new mustang gt40 amp?
Posted: Wed May 09, 2018 8:44 am
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stratocaster1983 wrote:
Low notes have to move a lot of air. To reproduce that, you need a tuned/ported cabinet and a speaker with a long throw of the voice coil. Smaller speakers have to move in and out further to reproduce bass and that recording of a bass guitar on streamed music is not moving the volume of air that connecting it to an actual bass guitar is going to require.

wow, that doesn't make any sense at all to me. What about a bass synthesizer? Do you think that would move less "air" than a bass guitar, even though it can produce lower pitched notes than the bass can? I don't know, sounds like a when they explain science on Star Trek. It sounds good, but doesn't really add up to much.


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Post subject: Re: Bass support in new mustang gt40 amp?
Posted: Wed May 09, 2018 9:06 am
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A bass synthesizer is just as punishing on speakers as a guitar, maybe more so. A square waveform is particularly bad because of the rapid rise and fall of the wave, but who puts a synthesizer through a guitar amp? Not me! A synth needs a keyboard amp or PA - full range, high power.


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Post subject: Re: Bass support in new mustang gt40 amp?
Posted: Fri May 11, 2018 12:41 pm
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What I'm missing is how it would be ok to stream music which has a bass synthesizer track through that speaker and it's OK, doesn't void the warranty. But if you plug in an actual bass synthesizer, that is somehow more punishing and voids the warranty.

Same speaker. Same amount of bass. In order to "move air" the sound has already left the speaker. I just don't see how all that adds up to anything other than techno-mumbo-jumbo.


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Post subject: Re: Bass support in new mustang gt40 amp?
Posted: Sun May 13, 2018 10:18 am
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