bass amp for vocals?

[flank]

could i run vocals into bass amps for a ghetto practice rig? my band needs to get vocals but we dont want to buy some pa speakers and what not. I've got a decent pa myself but i cant drag it back and forth every time.

the amp in question is a peavey 1x15 Tnt amp,and theres a possibility there could be two of them (same amp) played together.

i've got a mixer i can put the mics into that has a line out to run to the input of the amp.

now, the question is, will this work or will it blow something up? or impedance mismatch?

anybody ever tried something along these lines? I know a few bands that put mics into various amps for practice purposes, and i guess it works for them

 

[El Dunco]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

My sister uses a small bass practice amp for karaoke, and these are wireless mics so I don't think you should have any issues

 

[flank]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

i dont see how there could be much of any issues with it. We don't mind the quality of the sound, just as long as the vocals can be decently heard.

 

[El Dunco]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

i dont see how there could be much of any issues with it. We don't mind the quality of the sound, just as long as the vocals can be decently heard.

They definatley will, vocals can be heard loud and clear all through the house on 3 volume of a 40 watt bass amp

 

[danglybanger]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

I can't comment on how it would sound through a bass amp, but you can get passible results with a bass and eq pedal into a pa, and singing into the pa as well...

ditch the bass amp for the time being?

 

[The Golden Boy]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

You'll get better results with a bass amp than you will with a guitar amp. I've used the TNT amps for vocals.

 

[flank]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

You'll get better results with a bass amp than you will with a guitar amp. I've used the TNT amps for vocals.

thats cool that you have experience with that actual amp. I guess we'll give it a try.

thanks guys

 

[LesStrat]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

:werd:

 

[baritone]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

Bass amps, keyborad amps, and many acoustic guitar amps would work just fine. Guitar amps work as well, but the others have wider frequency responses. I get the best response from my solid state bass amp, except that I'm not that great of a singer.

 

[Kamanda~SD]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

I blew a bass amp doing that, but it was a small 50w bass amp.

Use it for now, but since you already have a mixer and such, invest in an active PA speaker.

 

[ericmeyer4]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

I blew a bass amp doing that, but it was a small 50w bass amp.

Use it for now, but since you already have a mixer and such, invest in an active PA speaker.

+1

I did that bass amp thing for practice in my old band. It worked. That is about the only good thing I could say about it. It worked. Just not well.

 

[The Golden Boy]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

I blew a bass amp doing that, but it was a small 50w bass amp.

Use it for now, but since you already have a mixer and such, invest in an active PA speaker.

The speakers in my EV PA bins are the same speakers that were loaded in many bass cabinets of the day.

I don't see how you would have blown an amp by using it for vocals. I guess it's possible- but, if everything's connected properly (paying attention to impedance), the most damage you're going to do is blow the speaker, in which case you're pushing it too hard, and it's not a matter of what you were running through it, but how hard you were running what you were running through it. Using a guitar speaker you're dealing with less "headroom" than with a bass speaker- and generally a lot less power handling capability.

 

[baritone]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

A bass guitar is also at risk of blowing a speaker, since there is such variation in tones and volumes. For this reason, limiters and compressors are so important to bass players. If running vocals into a guitar or bass amp, a compressor will protect the speakers. My bass amp has a built-in limiter switch for this purpose.

 

[The Golden Boy]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

Figure an E on a bass is around 40hz. A low B is around 30. That's a lot for a speaker to handle, especially one that's not really made to go down to 40hz.

 

[flank]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

well dont worry, i dont have much of a vocal range. hahahaha

 

[Kamanda~SD]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

I forgot to mention I was runnign the mic directly into the input.

 

[Smilemon]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

I tried a PG 58 in my 15 watt crate B amp, i could barely hear it.
In my 30 watt acoustic amp its quite a bit louder.

Smilemon

 

[LesStrat]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

TGB is correct.

 

[Stratfan]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

A few years ago, some friends and I got together once a week to jam. We ended up using a make-shift PA system so everyone could be heard. I plugged my guitar into a POD, and that went into a Tascam 424 4-Track recorder/mixer. Another guitarist ran a line-out from his small practice amp into the Tascam. The bassist plugged straight into the Tascam, and we also plugged in a mike or two. The left line-out of the Tascam went into a Peavey TNT bass amp, and the right side went into a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe.

We had no problems whatsoever. One thing though, we ran line-level signals into the amps rather than just plugging a mike straight into them.

 

[JOLLY]

Re: bass amp for vocals?

I forgot to mention I was runnign the mic directly into the input.

I blew one doing the same thing.