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You can but the size of you guitar amp and its speaker will affect the sound.
If you have a larger speaker in your guitar amp you'll probably be able to produce more of the frequencies of the Bass Guitar that a proper bass amp would.
Electric bass Guitars produce a louder sound than electric guitars so be careful not to blow your amp. Turn the volume output down on the bass guitar.
I don't know for sure but I imagine if you don't use care you could probably damage a valve guitar amp by playing a bass too loudly through it.
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TaigaYes. It's common and in the cases I've seen usually involves 100 watt bass amps from the 70's, the Ampeg V4B and the Fender Bassman being the most popular. These amps are renowned for taking pedals really well, which you'll wanna use if you want any significant distortion. As long as you're not pushing the wattage too much on what the speakers in your cab can handle, the skies the limit as far as guitar-through a bass amp-through a guitar cab is concerned. Don't play bass through a guitar cabinet though, that will blow your speakers. But that's a different subject altogether.
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Do dean basses work with guitar amps?
Never use any bass with any guitar amp. Guitar amps are not meant to handle the lower register of a bass, and the speakers on your guitar amp will blow out if you try to play a bass through them.
What happens if you play bass on a guitar amp?
Your speakers will blow out. A guitar amp is not meant to handle the low register of a bass. Even on a practice amp.
Can you play an electric bass through a guitar amp?
They can plug in and work, but most guitar amps aren't built to give a solid bass output, so sound will be fuzzy/ weak. Best bet is to just get a small bass amp. A 15w Fender Rumble amp is about $150 and sounds great for home practice.
Can an electric guitar be played on a bass guitar amp?
I can't think of any issues other than the regular guitar amp may not have the size of speakers to give the best bass sound. ------ Guitar amps are made to output guitar frequencies. Bass amps are made to output bass frequencies. If you interchange the two, you will not do damage but at some point the amp will cut out. I believe it was Tony Iommi who used to play guitar through a bass amp to get some really nice bass distortion on his guitar. ------ I believe that after too much use, the low frequencies of a bass may damage the guitar amp. I'd say it's alright to use it with a guitar amp, but try to keep it in moderation.
How do you make a bass amp sound like an electric guitar amp?
If you are using a guitar amp as a pre-amp to a bass amp (plugging your guitar into a guitar amp, and then patching the guitar amp to the bass amp), do not do this. Bass, acoustic guitar, and vocals (mics) are low impedence, where guitars are high impedence. You can very easily damage your equipment doing this sort of thing. If you are trying to get guitar sounds out of a bass amp, in my opinion, it's next to impossible. There is only one type of bass amp that I know of that you can accomplish this with...Ampeg has a series of bass amps with "switchable tweeters", meaning that they come equipped with tweeters, but you can turn them in order to use rig as a bass amp, and turn them on in order to play an acoustic guitar thru the bass amp. Since an acoustic guitar is low impedence, this works fairly well. You can also plug in an electric to this setup, even tho an electric guitar is high impedence...It's possible to plug in a high impedence instrument into a low impedence amp, but it's not advisable to plug in a low impedence instrument into a high impedence amp.
