Can you play a bass through a guitar amp? 

I think you sir should stick with a bass amp lol

@@aphone6529 What?

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Best comment, hands down

Lol 😂😂

TimB4305 he can do that because he plays ricks, rickenbackers are super trebly

He used Marshall Super Bass heads with 4x15 and 4x12 cabs. Definitely a bass rig.

And he didn't use Rick pickups in his early Ricks.

I think the fact that he always put the bass EQ on 0 was more of a factor.

If it's good enough for lemme it's good enough for us

Same, the shop made my parents think i REALLY need a bass amp or something will explode

@Heads Mess so, is it safe to plug my bass even with volume up and dist. pedal

@@devonshire458 just be careful to listen to the speaker. The amplifier will be fine but the speaker is the only part at risk of blowing

And the boss octaver

@@punman5392 what abot celestion 80 ? (2*15) they can use to up to 160 watt and im using mt15 (15watt head) is it safer with this type of speakers ?

I concur

But if he's ill, shouldnt he rest first before he makes more videos?

Yes! More bass!!! The reason I unsubscribed years ago. We bass players need you Phillip! We NEED you!!!

He looks quite HEALTHY to me!

davie504

I got a rumble 15. Good little amp must have wammed on it with the bass turned up ...

@@jayville26554 something like that

I started out on a crate 15 watt guitar amp I had from when I made a miserable attempt to learn guitar

@@onutube6392 why did u change to bass

@@gavriilkremastiotis1914 i couldn't figure it out back then

Lol nice catch

I got a bed bath and beyond ad by clicking on thay lmfao

friggin RIGHT!?

Ugh. I can't stand show offs. Oh, I have a 1975 Fender Precision...all original.

Nice shout out to Jennifer Batten. Not removing the lady bugs is a nice touch of respect.

I bought the same bass and put lady bug stickers on it. I tell people it used to belong to Jennifer Batten too.

Peter C , hey, anything belonging to a talented celeb performer is still a cool thing to have.

Even Carol Kaye uses one of those SoundGear - Basses in the interview of hers you are able to find here, on RU-vid. The SDGR - Series is nice, mostly not heavy, is easy to play due to the neck, the sound is OK.... And some artists play the more advanced instrument of that series.

I have that exact same turquoise green active ibanz bass. Feels like a guitar to play.

@@biggils8894 That's a great color.

I have a pair of SR 5 strings: an 05 and a 1305. I got the 05 from Dave Pegg. He had it defretted whilst on tour with JT as IA brought a new song into the set half way through the tour that required a fretless. It's a lovely instrument. The 1305 I got to match the fretless. Again nice but the 05 is the special one.

Definitely yes, and new ones are still great! Our Bassist needed a 5-String for some new songs and just bought one blindly. And you can actually do this! Do some setup and get on the road, doesn't have to be expensive! But in Studio he used my BTB200 (that's less versatile), but it plays AMAZING! Kinda same money and i don't know if i was just lucky, or the all we're great, but definitively worth checking out!

jeez i had a really fun time reading this comment. That's nuts! how to drive a amp to its max lmao

Loads of PA systems have been destroyed by super high frequencies. It can be barely audible and still have massive amounts of power. That's one main reason bi-amping (or at least an LPF in the chain) is common.

Love to hear how that sounds

Dude that sounds awesome I wanna hear that

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There's more on your favourite streaming sites. Just search for 57 Down

Spinal Tap? 😉

Im trying a new release time 8am PT. Thank you for posting and for being on instagram. You Rock!

*hole?

I guess you can say that, but I am also really suprised he is a bass player. Most of the videos I watched from him were about guitars, so I thought guitar is his main instrument

False Ego - Untrue. If you can play guitar, you can understand something about the bass, but playing bass even moderately well is not a slam dunk, even though you can play guitar.

TheConvert I can't play bass so I don't know much, but I think if you can play guitar well, you shouldn't have a problem playing a rhythm bass part on a song you can play on guitar, obviously unless it requires some bass exclusive techniques, such as slapping, or bass solo, etc. It really depends on what you need for the music you play. If you want to play simple stuff on bass, I guess you can easily play bass when coming from guitar after practicing for few days

sure not... the only things that bass and guitar have in common is body, neck & strings. Everything else is different.

Similarly, I use a Behringer ADI21 bass pedal that is similar to a san samp kind of a thing. As such I plug my bass lead into the ADI21 input and then connect the XLR output of it to an XLR cable, and then connect the xlr cable to the input on mt Electrovoice powered PA speaker system while at the same time connecting a cable to the amp output of the pedal also. This means that I also plug a guitar cable into the bass output jack of the pedal. It is okay with this pedal to use both the XLR out and the bass out at the same time. When you connect both to the PA and to your guitar or bass amp in this way you are using a method of amplification called biamping. Biamping in this way produces remarkably great results with both bass and guitar. This produces a sound similar to a tube amp and it sounds very open clear dynamic and powerful. This method works very well with acoustic guitars and amps and amplifications systems including biamping. This is a very affordable way to achieve a very high quality sound. Using excellent quality gear suitable for stage or guitar use is of great importance because without using good rated equipment you are not going to be able to achieve good results with guitar or bass. Guitar and bass have special amplification requirements and the use specialized amplifiers and speakers. House PA systems must comply with guitar and bass requirements and as such many establishments now have decent PA systems that can be easily connected to. A good powered stage monitor for your personal home use might have available Bluetooth connectivity and this might be useful for home music purposes in addition to guitar or bass biamping.

No doubt. When he was slapping, I thought it was Flea for a second.

I want to trigger the car alarms nearby, what should I use for that? I'm looking for a Lemmy kilmister kind of sound

My guitar amp turned out to be a bass model any way. Use bass cabs though.

traynor yba series

I use a acoustic 140 (bass) + Hiwatt High Gain 412 (guitar)

The guitar player in my last band had a Fender Bassman amp that an electrician friend of his messed around with, and it made an incredible guitar amp.

WHOA. That sounds pretty cool.

I have a silver face 1971 head with 2 15" cab. you regret just like I regretted selling my black face Super Reverb and Strat that had just a 6 digit serial#.

Cabinets yes. The heads were marshal super lead 100s and plexis. Guitar amplifiers.

Im not 100% here, i know he used and abused the super bass head , 15s on the bottom 4 and 12s on top for a very long time, but ive heard stories, and again stories are just that. But ive heard of lemmy substituting jcm800s in the early 80s when he couldnt get what he wanted. Good to hear from you scotty, been a metal player for almost 15 years now, but your country tips have really helped out. Dont tell.... im a zz top addict! Keep slaying the bullshit oh groovy one.

Groovy Music Lessons lemmy used Marshall guitar heads because they where louder with better natural distortion to them,theres videos here on youtube,that give his whole rig rundown

Why do people argue with me.....I have no idea. Anyway: The amplifier head Lemmy used for 30 years (yes, really) was a model 1992 Marshall Super Bass Head (1976 build) that he nicknamed “Murder One”. He only stopped using that when Marshall themselves built Lemmy a prototype signature 100-watt head in 2007 modeled after the ’76 head called the 1992LEM. In the newer head, the main difference is that compared to the original, it has circuitry of both the Super Bass and Super Lead, allowing for greater frequency range. www.bestbassgear.com/ebass/article/how-to-get-the-lemmy-kilmister-bass-sound.html

Anna Hootman The elephant in the room: every metal player is a closet ZZ Top addict.

He started as a bassist

Thats the way I remember it also. I think ZZ top did as well. Thank you Pryce for posting.

Lemmy....not Lenny...Phil...what about running a distorted bass through guitar amps or using a distortion pedal. Im assuming the padding and eq would come into play as well?

Chris Squire of YES also, I think.

Who's Lenny?

Lemmy's Marshall was a a Bass Amp Head and the speakers he used in his cab, were designed for bass frequencies.

Show Adam Neely the value of decades of experience over the classroom. ;-)

Might NOT be a good idea! Davie, as good as he is, has an army of trolls behind him! BAD karma!

Hey Matt I’m thinking about buying a bass myself, did you go through with buying it and did you have any problems with running it through a guitar amp?

Yes. I gots to know.

that won't solve anything because guitar amp cabinets are 'open back'. Proper bass cab design is a bass speaker in a closed back enclosure. This limits the excursion (travel) of the speaker cone for those deep bass tones.

that's literally how the bass of Seven Nation Army was recorded. It's a six-string through a digital pitch-shifter into a bass amp.

And then you showed it... like a freaking mind reader.

I played a Fender Vibroverb with a 15 Gauss spkr and rocked it with a MXR compressor for years on gigs. Bought a Carvin 15 that sits on my passenger seat. You dig?

Depends on the speaker. A cheapo no-name Chinese speaker like the one in that Fender amp he's playing might not like it much. Get a good quality 15" speaker with a higher X-max (distance it can travel) and you'll probably be fine. That's the primary difference between bass speakers and guitar speakers. Guitar speakers don't have to move as much and you get cleaner, more defined sound. Bass speakers have to move a lot more in order to generate those low frequencies, and are designed for that kind of punishment. The downside is they don't give you the same clarity and definition as a guitar speaker, but nobody uses a bass speaker for guitar, so it doesn't really matter.

What about the Fender Bassman? Designed/Advertised as a bass amp for the Fender Preci bass, then became a legendary guitar amp...? Did it not have "bass speakers" in it?

@@schmoemi3386 yes it did but you're talking about a 60 year old design. Things have changed a lot since then.

Maybe that's why the Bassman got so famous as a guitar amp? Because the speakers weren't that "clean" but a bit more "mean", which guitarists liked...? :-)

You have broken your speaker.

Thats why it is ideal to use it with a descent preamp (for bass specificly) pedal in front of the amp. After all, thats a guitar amp, its not supposed to have the necesarry frequancies. But with a preamp you can compensate and bring this what amp has not up. I hope this makes sense... :)

my best friend's name is Jim Crockford here in Ontario Canada.

@@StratmanDarrell sweet, I'm from Malta 😂😂