Tube Guitar amp with analogue synth?

Deathbycalculator · Post by **Deathbycalculator** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:43 am

I am thinking of buying a tube combo amp fender hot rod deluxe, twin 65' or even the new peavey value king combos. The question is I am a guitar playing but I also play analogue synth bass and leads with my MS-10. I was wondering if any of these amps can handle both of these or not or are there a make of speaker that I should be looking at?

asd · Post by **asd** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:01 am

playing bass frequencies (whether from a synth or bass guitar or whatever) through a regular guitar amp will damage it. i don't know if it will damage the electronics, but it will mess up the speaker so i wouldn't suggest doing it.

the reverse isn't true though. you can use a bass amp for higher frequencies so you could buy a bass to use for your guitar and synth (although i really don't know anything about amps for synths so dont' know if this is a dumb idea). fender bassman, acoustic and some sunn (?) amps are pretty common/popular bass amps that i've seen guitar players use

Progger · Post by **Progger** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:48 pm

The whole concept of using a Fender Bassman seems logical enough. Would you really have to use a combo? One would have more flexibility with speaker choices while using an older Fender head. I wanted tube driven reverb as well as the tube sound, so I picked up a Fender PA 135 (2 cabs each with a 12 and a horn). They can go pretty cheap. My Minimoog sounds immense enough through the Fender, which takes guitar pedals well enough for driving the tubes, etc. We have had musical results using the head for multiple electric guitars, acoustic guitar, electric mandolin, bass, digital keyboards, drum machine, MiniMoog Model D (though no more than four channels at a time). Servicing older tube equipment can be an expense/pain, so I try to use it with everything (and love it). The amp is clean ala Fender Twin. I think that the equivalent of a Twin Head (Dual Showman Reverb?) would be an interesting match for guitar and Moogs.

I enjoy hearing keyboards through a good tube amp. The last show I can think of where the keyboardist used one, that I saw, was for the band Darediablo. He (Matt Holford) was using a blackfaced Fender head. Sadly, I remember no Moogs.

MarkM · Post by **MarkM** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:22 pm

Guitar amps are voiced totally different than a bass amp or PA system. Much more mid.