Anyone use a modern solid state bass amp for guitar?

[GuitarStv]

Out of laziness a few weeks ago (couldn't be bothered to unplug the instrument cable after playing bass) I started using this bad boy for guitar:



It's frigging awesome for jazzy stuff and clean funk guitar. The 15 inch speaker seems to roll off just a tiny amount of the upper highs that I usually don't like anyway. 100 watts SS gets hella loud. I'm contemplating bringing this instead of my tube amp the next time I go for a jam session . . .

 

[mantis]

Re: Anyone use a modern solid state bass amp for guitar?

Years and years ago my uncle who also plays Bass had a older Fender Bassman 10 setting around that wasn't being used anymore. He got a new Fender Bassman stack and the combo just collected dust.
Well at the time I was playing a Marshall JCM800 and a Fender Twin Reverb. I saw the Bassman at his house and thought " I wonder how those 4 10's would sound? So I plugged at the time my Gibson Les Paul and it sounded incredible straight. I asked if I could take it home and my uncle said " you can have it". Well it became my favorite amp back then even though it didn't have a dirty channel like the JCM and it didn't have reverb like the Twin but the sound I was able to get out of it with Pedals was simply amazing. I loved how thick chunky and warm it sounded. granted I loved my Twin and will always compare everything under the sun to it for cleans but the Bassman was magic and really something I felt the JCM lacked. I never took to the JCM as I was never a British type drive sound. I liked more my MXR Distortion + and the Bassman way more then the JCM.

It funny how we find our tone sometimes. Today I play a Krank Revolution 1 and I have tried very hard to replace it with something else due to it's lack of flexibility in the gain channel. It's brutal and thats it. Yeah you can roll the gain down to 1 but it's still has that brutal tone.
After every single amp I have played , I always come home to my Krank and wonder why I even bother to even try to replace it. I use a Boss GT-100 in the 4CM and I'm shocked how I was able to dial it in to retain about 97% of my original tone going threw it. I was never even close with the GT-10 and the older GT-8.
So I use the internal OD pedal in front of my clean channel to get that classic rock , hard rock tones I wish the Krank was able to do but it only has 1 gain channel with 2 volume controls and I use it more then the OD's for classic rock stuff. I'm a metal guitarist and I realized that when I try to play anything else other then.
Why am I telling you this? Well when I purchased the Krank which was back in 2006 , I knew nothing about the company , who the hell they where and where this amazing amp came from. I had no idea but I think deep inside me I knew all along. The Original Krank Revolution 1 heads where built to Fender Bassman 10 standards or they where Bassman 10 Hot rods.
The cleans I get out of this amp are Fender all the way. It's dynamic as hell which is the first thing I look for in a amp is a Fender like clean. The Krank retains the exact same tone I'm use to when I use to play the Bassman 10 all those years ago. It's Twin Reverb sweet and dynamic and punchy but has a slightly darker richer warmer tone to it like removing the last note of sparkle you would be use to with a Twin Reverb.

So Full circle to me I in many ways have my Fender Bassman but I also have the MXR Distortion + built in now completely hot rodded and badass. My Gain channel is exactly what I hear in my head when I'm creating music. I have been writing music since the 80's and back then I heard this tone in my head but never was able to reproduce it until I played the Krank.
I almost purchased the Peavey 5150 as it's drive channel was very close to what I was looking for but when I used it's cleans , I turned it off.

Rock on man!!!

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Anyone use a modern solid state bass amp for guitar?

I sometimes run my GNX pedal thru the loop of my Carvin Redline for guitar or bass

Like a big clean pa

But now I have some powered pa speakers
And and do a stereo thing
Or run bass left and drums right
Or some other thing

So the answer to your question is no
No I haven't

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[allbutromeo]

Re: Anyone use a modern solid state bass amp for guitar?

I used to all of the time when I was firsthinking starting out because I also played bass and had a 100w 1x15 Kustom combo and couldn't afford a guitar amp with enough power to gig with. So I just used the bass amp with a distortion pedal for dirt. Cleans sounded great on that amp

 

[Edgecrusher]

Re: Anyone use a modern solid state bass amp for guitar?

I saw the Bassman at his house and thought " I wonder how those 4 10's would sound? So I plugged at the time my Gibson Les Paul and it sounded incredible straight.

The bassman hasnt been a bass amp since 1959... its a bad example of using a bass amp as a guitar amp

 

[mantis]

Re: Anyone use a modern solid state bass amp for guitar?

So then what is it?

 

[Edgecrusher]

Re: Anyone use a modern solid state bass amp for guitar?

So then what is it?

Its a guitar amp nobody has used one seriously for bass in a long time... not to mention this thread title is "using a MODERN SOLID STATE bass amp"

 

[Artie]

Re: Anyone use a modern solid state bass amp for guitar?

Let me qualify this by saying I'm not a gigging musician, but I love to occasionally play through my Peavey MAX112 bass amp. It's just another choice in the tone palette. (With the Modern/Vintage switch in the "modern" position.) 40WRMS. Plenty for bedroom wanking. Think "Fender Twin" type tone.



Artie

 

[Kac]

Re: Anyone use a modern solid state bass amp for guitar?

This thread has got me thinking about trying a bass amp as a second guitar amp to have around... That's what this forum does to me.


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[Artie]

Re: Anyone use a modern solid state bass amp for guitar?

... That's what this forum does to me.

I think it does that to most of us.

 

[koshikas]

Re: Anyone use a modern solid state bass amp for guitar?

anybody using those class-D lunch box heads for geetarr

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[Aceman]

Re: Anyone use a modern solid state bass amp for guitar?

No

At least not anyone with any sense of style, tone, and taste.

 

[trevorus]

Re: Anyone use a modern solid state bass amp for guitar?

My GK bass head worked pretty well for guitar in a pinch.

 

[Boogie Bill]

Re: Anyone use a modern solid state bass amp for guitar?

I bought a Randall Commander bass amp years ago for cheap at a garage sale. It's solid-state, 120WRMS, 115, two channel, MV, combo. I've run piano, bass, drums, acoustic and electric guitar through it with varying degrees of success. It really needs a better speaker, but I am always impressed with it for electric guitar. It does very well at doing a ratty, pushed tone...perfect for SRV type blues.

I have a pair of smaller Acoustic Control AB-50 amps. They're designed for acoustic bass, but I use them mostly for my Alexis SR-16. But they work well for acoustic guitar too.

Bill

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: Anyone use a modern solid state bass amp for guitar?

No

At least not anyone with any sense of style, tone, and taste.

Tell me how you really feel . . .