Bass Slave amp

[TRex]

Hey guys, I'm looking at picking up a Fender rumble 100w bass amp for bass use at decent volumes. I was also learning about amp slaving and had a very interesting idea.

Could I use the solid state Rumble as a slave to my Jet City guitar amp for larger gigs? I would be running the jet city effects out into the rumbles effect in.

Would the tone knobs of the rumble even be in the loop? Can a bass amp have trouble reproducing guitar frequencies?

I guess the speaker might be the only thing that would definitely sound a bit off.

 

[FuseG4]

Re: Bass Slave amp

I've done this with my Fender Champion into the Fender rumble, and I didn't like it.
The controls on the rumble won't affect the FX loop.
The sound lacks the midrange voice you'd associate with a guitar, lots of bass and then some treble detail. Doesn't sound particularly great at all to me, except in C# tuning all gained out and sludgy on the neck pickup, but it's nothing any decently gainy guitar amp wouldn't do better with the same sized speaker.

The answer to what I was looking for was "a bigger guitar cab" or something of that nature, a cure for boxiness if you will. Going into a bass cab and solid state bass power amp *in general* isn't a good short cut to that.

 

[TRex]

Re: Bass Slave amp

I've done this with my Fender Champion into the Fender rumble, and I didn't like it.
The controls on the rumble won't affect the FX loop.
The sound lacks the midrange voice you'd associate with a guitar, lots of bass and then some treble detail. Doesn't sound particularly great at all to me, except in C# tuning all gained out and sludgy on the neck pickup, but it's nothing any decently gainy guitar amp wouldn't do better with the same sized speaker.

The answer to what I was looking for was "a bigger guitar cab" or something of that nature, a cure for boxiness if you will. Going into a bass cab and solid state bass power amp *in general* isn't a good short cut to that.

I might try it, was just curious about if that would work

I'll definitely try it if it works. If it sounds like crap I'll get a bigger cab or another amp.

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[FuseG4]

Re: Bass Slave amp

yeah always try it maybe you'll find something, doesn't hurt nuthin