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Bass Guitars through ordinary Amps?
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May 11, 2008 12:58 a.m. BillyZoom:
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May 12, 2008 3:14 p.m. cielski:
We had a jazz bassist gigging in our theater playing an upright thru a BOSE 802 powered by a GK that sounded fine. Not rock n roll levels, mind you.
The SVT 8X10 supposedly doesn't go low enough for the fundamentals---only the harmonics. The notes are supposed to be more balanced that way without open strings overpowering the fretted notes.
The 34" Fender scale was the first bass you could hear on a 3" TV or AM radio speaker, so I've heard---again due to harmonics as opposed to the fundementals.
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May 12, 2008 8:47 p.m. cyclopssam:
that's around100-220hz,"boom the trunk" stuff is bumped up 80hz for the must part.for the longest time i never knew the beach boys had a bass player,till i saw them on t.v.
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May 18, 2008 10:12 p.m. DrGretsch:
Funny that you mentioned this topic but last week I used my Brand New Fender Re-issue Super Reberb as a Bass Amp, Of course at low volume, but it worked well! ,,, Maybe even broke it in a little?
The place we played at wanted Low volume since it was a Senior place.
Anyway, I wouldn't use it a higher volume but it sounded great with my group "The Banjo Guys.
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May 27, 2008 9:57 p.m. Sid:
You can use any amp for bass. Some may not sound too good, but many don't sound too good with guitar, either. But it shouldn't be any more likely to be damaged by a bass as it would with a regular guitar.
As many mentioned, the speakers are the problem. The lower the frequency, the more a speaker has to move to reproduce that frequency, all else being equal. The more surface area the speakers have, the less they have to move to reproduce a given frequency. That is why big speakers (15", 18") are often preferred for bass. But multiple smaller speakers with the same surface area as a big speaker can handle bass just as well, assuming all else is equal again (power handling, suspensions, etc.). For example, two 10" speakers have about the same surface area as a 14" speaker (if anyone still makes such a beast) and should be able to reproduce bass just as well.
Minimizing cone excursion is the reason for tuning bass cabinets with ports. If properly done, it can dramatically reduce the cone excursion for the lower frequencies, allowing the cabinet to reproduce lower frequencies without the speaker being damaged. But only to a point. At super low (subsonic) frequencies even a tuned cabinet will have have the same cone movement as an untuned cabinet. The hope is that the amp driving the cabinet will roll off these subsonic frequencies.
Not all amps properly roll off these subsonic frequencies. I damaged a couple of speakers with my Ampeg B25B until I realized that the amp was designed to amplify down to 7 Hz.
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May 28, 2008 12:55 a.m. cyclopssam:
7HZ!?.......
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