lane2 Posted September 12, 2002 Share Posted September 12, 2002 i have seen a band do this, and we just started a band. we also dont have a whole lot of money and we have an extra amp. will it sound good, work? it just for small shows put on like in a small gym with no pa. thanks if you can help or make sense out of what i said. lane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halljams Posted September 12, 2002 Share Posted September 12, 2002 [quote]Originally posted by lane2: [b]i have seen a band do this, and we just started a band. we also dont have a whole lot of money and we have an extra amp. will it sound good, work? it just for small shows put on like in a small gym with no pa. thanks if you can help or make sense out of what i said. lane[/b][/quote]I would love to see more singers singing through guitar amps. For a variety of reasons. Check out SUPERVIBE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dak Lander Posted September 12, 2002 Share Posted September 12, 2002 You know, for alot of things like you're doing, it'll work fine. The guitar amp won't have a horn tweeter & may not have a tweeter at all. No biggie, 'cause most people won't hear the difference. You just may have to tweak the EQ a bit to compensate for the venue. In small places it'll get you by until you can get a PA. I used an old Hohner amp for several years with multiple inputs. It had an instrument, line in and bass input, if I remember right. I ran an acoustic guitar, through a pickup into the guitar input and my vocal mic into the line in. It worked just fine for that. Today, it woudn't be the thing to do but, I wouldn't hesitate if my PA and back up went down. Our Joint "When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it." The Duke... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franknputer Posted September 12, 2002 Share Posted September 12, 2002 It kinda depends on the amp & what it sounds like as to how well it'll suit the need. If you don't have a lot of $$ (who does?), I would suggest trying to find a graphic EQ pedal with as many bands as possible (some are 6, some are 10, etc.) because most guitar amps' tone circuits are voiced for guitars, and also they would not be much help damping feedback. You can find these around for >$100 easy, and it'll give you a bit more to work with EQ-wise. It may help the amp's preamp response a bit as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Thrashole Posted September 12, 2002 Share Posted September 12, 2002 I have done this in every garage band I played in while i was in my teens. It was an old Westbury solid state amp that I still have. Then moved up to the radio shack mixer and stereo reciever p.a. system before getting a real system. Reach out and grab a clue. Something Vicious My solo crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wewus432 Posted September 12, 2002 Share Posted September 12, 2002 On a regular guitar amp you're going to lose a lot of your high end because the speaker doesn't reproduce frequencies above, what is it, 10K, I forget, might make vocals sound a [i]little[/i] muffled, but an acoustic amp with a tweeter can reproduce much higher frequencies comparable to a PA system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattC Posted September 12, 2002 Share Posted September 12, 2002 It will work (I guess) in a guitar amp with sufficiently high volume. Can you get your hands on a spare bass amp, especially one with a tweeter? If so, use that, and it'll sound better. ...think funky thoughts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lane2 Posted September 12, 2002 Author Share Posted September 12, 2002 alrighty thank you everyone who posted a reply, you have been a big help. i guess we will give it a shot and mess with the eq, and we do have an extra bass amp with tweeter so hopefully we can get one to sound alright. thanks again! lane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted September 13, 2002 Share Posted September 13, 2002 Keyboard amps are pretty good for this, if you happen to have one. Some of them even have jacks for a mic on them (keyboard/PA combinations). If you don't have money for this and must use a guitar amp, try and get some sort of a small mixer and run a line out to the guitar. And if you can't do that, then try and get the loudest guitar amp you have and go for it. We did this for a while when we rehearsed in my parents' garage. The good ol' days. It worked. It was fine. Very limited midrange, but if that's what you have, you just go with it. Good luck. Lettuce know what you end up doing and how it works. Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael saulnier Posted September 13, 2002 Share Posted September 13, 2002 Ah yes... amp for vocals... the "good old days"... Practice through your amp / bass amp or whatever, but if you can afford it, you might be able to "rent" or "borrow" a PA from someone for actual shows. We used to have a friend who would let us use his PA if HE was the sound guy, (to make sure no one blew it up!)... It worked out fine until we were able to find a used PA ourselves. guitplayer I'm still "guitplayer"! Check out my music if you like... http://www.michaelsaulnier.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mats Olsson. Posted September 13, 2002 Share Posted September 13, 2002 It can be cool to do in the studio, recording vocals through a gtr amp. /Mats http://www.lexam.net/peter/carnut/man.gif What do we want? Procrastination! When do we want it? Later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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