MesaHead said:
am i going to run into problems if i run a bass through my rect-o-verb 50 watt head?
Are you going to use this for recording? My guess is you will, but I am not sure.................
Perhaps you could see the scenario like this:
Bass----> Guitaramp head-----> try usuing cabinet with bass speakers as you sound will a bit better.
Guitar -----> Bassamp head-----> think opposite way: try using cabinet with guitarspeakers as you will keep the brightness of your guitar.
I guess you do not want to get all these different amps and speakers for all these different kind of set-ups. So in your case you could use a bass going through your gtr. amphead and using the speakers you are already using. Just play at moderate levels and use commone sense.
The Marshall bass amps people where revering to before are probably the Superbass ones, they sound a bit darker than
the Superlead ones[ which were designed for guitar]. A lot of people will just use a Superbass through a matching [ohmage !!] guitarspeaker cab. and you will end up with a bit of a darker sound than the Superlead ones.
The fact that many folks convert the Superbass to the Superlead is I think a commercial one: It is guitarplayers who go for the older Marshalls and not really bassplayers, and since older Marshalls get rarer and therefore more expansive, shops will convert their Superbasses to guitaramps with the hope that they can sell them to guitarplayers.
If you ever come across a Superbass, just try them and do not be put off by the fact that it is a bassamp.
A similar story goes for the Fender Bassman, but I have heard less stories about people converting them to guitarversions. Personally I feel, if you get guitarspeakers on a bassamp they will sound fine, but I am talking about using them on recording levels as that is what I do most of the time, so when you start crancking them up they probably will behave in a different way.
Cheers,
Eddie