Guitar through bass amp..?

[copacetic]

I'm putting some songs together and need to occasionally put some guitar chords in to test some ideas. Will the guitar do anything to my speakers? Volume would not be too loud.

[nofi]

in my experience , no. i have an old roland 1x15 bass combo that has had bass, guitar and vocals run through it at various times. even though i replaced the speaker after twenty years it was because it just wore out from hundreds of hours of use.

[Alanko]

Nothing to worry about there. How many guitarists rock a Bassman?! 

[Dave W]

No, it won't hurt your speakers. Assuming you have a closed back cab, it won't sound the same as a typical open-back guitar cab, and you may have to work with the eq a little more than usual since it's designed with bass in mind.

[Highlander]

Usually the problem is the other way around...

[slinkp]

Didn't Keef used to play guitar through an SVT?   

[Psycho Bass Guy]

Didn't Keef used to play guitar through an SVT?   

Yep. And when he blew them up, they changed the 6146 output tubes, plate load resistors and Amperite relay for warmup with 6550's and a traditional standby switch and a legend was born.

[nofi]

well, that answers an age old question for me. i often wondered where the guitar amps were during that period of time. all i saw was a row of svts.

[gearHed289]

Didn't Keef used to play guitar through an SVT?   

Johnny Winter played through SVTs too.

[slinkp]

How the hell does a guitarist possibly need an SVT, that's what I never understood.

[Granny Gremlin]

Stadiums and being on drugs that make music fade waaaaay to the background.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

How the hell does a guitarist possibly need an SVT, that's what I never understood.

Remember that in those days, the backline WAS the PA for the instruments. Space and distance quickly dissipated guitarists' natural volume advantage, so they wanted amps that were as powerful as possible. The SVT was originally a dual-purpose amp, patterned after Hull's earlier models with accordion inputs as well. Once the Stones discovered the V4, all was right again in the world.

[lowend1]

Johnny Winter played through SVTs too.

Rick Derringer and Punky Meadows IIRC, also. I guess that's why they saw a need for the V9...

[Alanko]

Weren't the stones basically beta testing the SVT on those late '60s tours? They weren't using them because they were bass amps, but rather because an amp manufacturer was giving them rugged high-output amps to use.

I love the footage from that era where there are priceless Gibson semi-hollow guitars slumped casually against amps.

[nofi]

i guess the guitars were not so priceless way back then. it took another fifty years so.