Use Keyboard Amp for guitar?! (sort of stupid questions)

[hoon]

Hello,

I have (actually it has been in my house for a while)
Crate KX160, keyboard amp. (maybe 160 watt =)

I currently use it for my electric guitar which goes into
J-Station first then into amp.

My silly question is...
what is difference between keyboard amp and guitar amp?
Also what wrong with keyboard amp to use as "guitar amp"?
(i know it doesn't sound like guitar amp though - negatively;

Oh well it was "the" questions by poor student
who cannot afford fender XXX XXXX amp -0-;;

Have nice day, see you!

 

[Wide Awake]

A guitar amp is more midrange oriented, with the highs rolled off. A guitar amp is also designed to "color" and "distort" the sound, where as a keyboard amp just tries to cleanly reproduce the more extreme highs and lows of an electronic keyboard.

Using the J-Station with a keyboard amp is fine. From my experience, keyboard amps don't sound good at all when turned all the way up......be careful with that volume control.

 

[Gidge]

actually, coming out of an amp modeler like the J-Station, it is preferable to go into a keyboard amp because the sound you are after is already there, so a guitar amp would just muck it up.......the keyboard amp will amplify it cleanly like Wide Awake eluded to......

 

[AlChuck]

Wide Awake alluded to it, not eluded (which means "escaped from").

On the issue of the modeler through the keyboard amp, I concur. I use a POD but it doesn't sound very good through a guitar amp, even a good clean one. It sounds fantastic through a PA, though, which has the same basic design criteria for sound reproduction as does a keyboard amp. I justplayed a piece at an electonic music recital last night using the POD through the house PA and it was a wonderful thing.

 

[hoon]

thanks everybody =)

p.s; actually, now this keyboard amplifier is used for guitar
(through j-station) and computer (i don't have computer speaker;

 

[Dani Pace]

Keyboard amps work pretty good to amp an acoustic guitar, through a mic or a pickup. Of course if you are using a processor a clean amp is what you may want, get your effests from the processor and use the amp for volume.