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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Yeah... That is kind of a question.
I have a camouflage Ibanez IBZ15 that I bought when I had a bass guitar for a week.
I just plugged my 6778LX into it... It worked, but not really impressively.
I am trying to decide if I should just sell it since I have a Crate CA15.
Anyway... Does anybody use a Bass Amplifier to play their six string through?
Kinda doing a survey and looking for anecdotes. |
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Location: NJ | occasionally
you have to mess with the eq but it works fine |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I have plugged a few in to bass amps here at the shop. They can't match a good acoustic amp, but I think they sound better than an electric guitar amp. And they work great for mandolins too. |
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| I used my 1975, 1621 through a Traynor Bass Master Mark Two on a 4x10 cabinet because I thought it sounded better with that than a regular electric guitar amp. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I play mine through a Fender bass amp, which is kosher now....I guess.
It's better than the sound on most of the PAs I've used lately and, as noted, better than an electric guitar amp. Which is my only other choice in this room. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | It's not a bass amp but I have my Peavey ED-100.
Made for electronic drums. 65 watts solid state with 1 15" Scorpion speaker and a high-freq horn.
No effects so i use a Line6 Verbzilla when needed.
Makes a good acoustic amp for my needs.
The Elite Bass absolutely BOOMS through it. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Acoustic through an Eden Nemesis sounds fine as it has 10" speakers and a tweeter. Just have to adjust the EQ to taste.
Also recently tried acoustic through a Ampeg B15N and using the bright channel it sounded rather nice. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Does a '59 Bassman qualify? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | no |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | an overly simple answer, bass amps are made to reproduce a clean signal, guitar amps, the better ones anyway will give you enough distortion to sound good which you are usually looking for in an electric.
In an acoustic you want clean, so the bass works. Maybe that's why one of the first really good acoustic amps was made by Trace Elliot, world famous for bass amplification.
Maybe not, maybe just a coincidence. You'd have to check the timeline to be sure. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Tjah ... |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Beauty is in the ears of its beholder ...
Vic
.. Cryptic , .. sure .. !.. |
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Location: NJ | I've got a small, Peavey 75W bass amp with a 15" in it.
Has a "bright" switch & 5-band e.q.
With the right settings, the Adamas LongNeck sounds REALLY cool thru it (especially w/the MattSmith BridgeCable B-string setup).
Weighs a friggin' TON tho, so it never leaves the MusicRoom . . . |
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Playing your Ovation guitar through a Bass Amp?