Anyone play a guitar amp through a Bass Cab?

What are the chances of it sounding ok? Any chance it will sound great? or is this just a silly thing to try?

I've been offered a 4x10 Cab. I'm thinking of trying it out. It's 8ohm so it's okay for my amp head.

I've heard of Jazzers using 1x15 cabs - but I play regular distorted/rock guitar if that counts for anything.

I'm a shit guitar player but whenever I play, I play through my 2X15. The sound is considerably more think than 4X12 I've played(not too many). I like 15" for guitar.

I played through a 1x15" when I started playing guitar. Wouldn't go back. There's a guitar rig left here whose cabinet is 2x15" that I don't like either.

Meh, 15's can be good depending, but as your main bitch, I don't think so.

as far as 10's. Yeah they can sound good. What is the cab and what speakers are loaded in it? I have a coupld vintage fender 4x10 cabs I play guitar through. The 10's on guitar are more of a tight sound. I also like doing a 2x12 and 2x10 mixture. That sounded neat.

The guitar player in my band plays through an old Matamp 1x15. Sounds really great.

It's an old ampeg 4x10.

I was hoping that using a 4x10 would make it sound 'tighter' - as you said, maybe more grainy... I don't know if that's the right word - less of the 'guitary' sound and more coiled and agressive - leaner maybe.

Maybe I should leave the tech room. I don't know how to describe what I thought it would sound like.

stick around, B_M_L, we've got a lot to learn from you.

I play my guitars through a bass amp. a couple, as a matter o fact. almost exclusively.

I love the way all my gtrs (solids, semihollows, acoustics, etc) sound through my Traynor ts25B. so much better than through the 12" on the ts25. rich and rounded, the 15" speaker just makes them sound so lush and beautiful. IT's actually a much better guitar amp than a bass amp, though.

it doesn't handle my octave pedals very well, which is why I use rig #2 more often:

I run the guitars into the ts25 and then run the ts25 into the roland kc500, which is an incredible bass/keyboard amp in and of itself. Dude from Grizzly bear uses one to run his bass and all those pitch shifted clarinets. so fucking low. the kc500 has a 15" and a tweeter, but doesn't handle the guitar by itself well, so the ts25 gives it that preamp boost, plus it has that glorious reverb.

this rig with the octave pedals is just devastatingly low. holy crap. hell, running my washburn semi-hollow into the octave into this double amp has made stuff fall off the walls in the Rumpus Room.


so fresh.

tweak it and play around with it, you'll get what you're hearing in yr head. if not, you can still get some great tone.




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Faiz

I play guitar through a bass amp. Right now, it's a 50 watt peavey I got in a trade a few years ago, but I'm saving up for something better.

I used to play through a Closed Back 2X15" Showman Cab. Technically a guitar amp but Closed Back and 2X15" smells like a Bass Cab to me.

It was back in my days of sludgy Fuzz Metal.


Jazzmaster>Stereo Delay>(Left out to SuperFuzz and 135 watt Showman, Right out to Boss DS1>Morley Echo Volume>100 watt Quad Reverb (4X12" Combo)

Stupid wall of Mammoth rumble.

There are no hard and fast rules about what amp and what cabinet work for whichever instrument. The closest thing to a "rule" would be that open-back combos are generally not good for bass, although the '59 Fender Bassman (it was a bass amp) is an open-back combo. Also, people generally tend to say that 10's aren't good for guitar, but then there's that '59 Bassman which is a 4x10" combo amp that is widely revered as one of the better guitar amps of all time.

My current amp setup is a two-amp deal, one guitar amp into a 2x12" and one bass amp into a 2x12". It sounds excellent (to my ears) for guitar, baritone, and bass. Both 2x12's are sealed. I used to use one sealed 2x12" and one ported 2x12", but then we found that the ported 2x12" sounds great for the bassist, so he's playing a bass amp into a ported 2x12".

My favorite bass rig is a high-powered amp into a 2x15" and a 4x10". Very great sound. Very impractical for gigging.

That doesn't really answer your question exactly, but I think the best answer is (as it often is) to try out the cab in question, if you can, and see if you like it. If you can buy it cheap enough, where you're getting it for less than the market value, then you can go ahead and buy it without hearing it, try it out, and if you don't like it, sell it for the market value and you've actually been paid money to audition a cabinet. If you like it, then you keep it and you're all set.

As far as people playing guitar through bass speakers, the first guy that comes to mind is Agostino in Bellini, playing guitar through a bass amp (Traynor YBA-3) into two 1x15" cabinets. It sounds fricken awesome. And it's pretty much a bass amp into bass cabinets.

There are no rules, really.

One of the things I like best about my rig is that it gets really nice tones for any stringed instrument I've plugged into it. It took a few years to get to this point, but it's great to be here. And it works equally well for practice, live, and recording. That's pretty much the dream, I think. One rig that works great for any instrument in any situation. And it definitely has my sound.

The way I got it set up was to try a zillion different things and with each new try, if it sounded better I kept it and if it sounded worse I didn't. I've used PA amps, guitar amps, bass amps, and mostly stuck with 2x12" and 1x15" cabinets, though I've also tried a 2x10", a 4x10", and a couple different 2x15"s.

If you're not likely to lose money on it if you end up selling it, what can it hurt to try it?