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Electric Guitar Through A Bass Amp? [With Guitar Pedals, Preamps Effects & More]
Published 8 August 2025
Duration:
00:50:22
Are bass amps really so different from guitar amps?
Welcome to the show! People ask us this all the time - can you use a bass amp for electric guitar? The simple answer is “Yes of course!” But beyond that there are bunch of things you might want to think about before stampeding to the bottom end. Erm.
Thusly, we plug in to three classic bass amps with a bunch of pedals in tow and ask all the obvious questions. Ready?
Enjoy the show!
Pedals & Stuff used in this show
• TheGigRig Three2One
• Sonic Research ST-200 Turbo Tuner
• Source Audio Spectrum Intelligent Filter
• Union Tube & Transistor LAB
• ProCo RAT
• Analog Man King Of Tone
• JAM Pedals Custom Shop Harmonious Fall
• Tone King Imperial Tri Tube Preamp
• Boss RE-202 Space Echo
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Interesting bits and go to sections…
0:00 Intro and welcome
1:00 Today’s bass amps
2:50 Tele & Les Paul into the Ampeg SVT
4:35 Will a compressor help?
5:20 Change the amp EQ, surely
6:35 Add some reverb?
7:45 King Of Tone and/or RAT?
11:10 Tone King Preamp & Ampeg
13:30 Ampeg as clean platform?
18:25 What about a filter synth thing?
20:30 Ampeg conclusions so far
21:28 Fender Bassman 70 & guitar speakers
23:17 Bassman 70 & bass
24:24 Bassman 70 & Tele
27:12 Adding reverb to the Bassman
28:00 Nice clean sounds with Strat?
31:10 King of Tone with Bassman 70
32:20 Harmonious Fall for large Dan noises
34:55 Imperial Pre & Bassman 70
37:40 SVT or Bassman 70 so far?
39:13 Fender Tweed Bassman… kinda
40:26 Tweed Bassman with bass?
42:06 Tweed Bassman with Tele
44:16 Tweed Bassman with King Of Tone
44:45 Closing thoughts
Guitars in today’s show
• Fender Custom Shop ’63 Telecaster - Dan’s video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnQ4OIJFTgY&ab_channel=ThatPedalShow
• Fender Parsta/Bitsa Precision Bass
• Gibson Custom True Historic ’57 Les Paul Goldtop, Murphy Aged - no specific video
• 1961 Fender Stratocaster - Mick’s video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOMHUQeHGRQ&ab_channel=ThatPedalShow
Amps in today’s show
• Ampeg Heritage SVT-CL on Ampeg SVT-410 HLF
• 1979 Fender Bassman 70 on custom Brown 2x12. 1 x Celestion G12-65, 1 x WGS ET65
• 2002 Fender Custom Shop Bassbreaker (59 Bassman amp chassis in a 2x12 tweed cab with Celestion Vintage 30 speakers)
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