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Use of guitar amp?

Use of guitar amp?

2002-01-17 by numungbah

Hi all, 

Anyone ever used a guitar amp for practice at home ? 

I have been offered a Peavey Express 112 ( i think ) guitar amp, it 
has 12" bin, I have been offered it well cheap and am considering it -
obviously the amp would miss the lows if I intended to use it live.

Or someone offered me two JAMO house speakers with 12" bass bins that 
I could plug right into a home stereo amp...what are house speakers 
like with the DTX, these speakers are quite big, and my amps quite 
beefy too - would I beable to play live with these ?

Ta
Martyn

Re: [DTXpress] Use of guitar amp?

2002-01-17 by S-E-A

If it's a bass guitar amp, you might get away with it. You will find that the snare, hats, and cymbols will sound as if they have been muffled with a sock but the kick will be okay - maybe.
If it's a normal guitar amp - DON'T DO IT! Guitars have a completely different sound to drums, very much in the mid-band range. The 12" 'bin' or speaker as the rest of the world calls it will not cope with the masssive transitient signals you'll throw at it. The driver may well end up distrotying it self.
As for your Jamo's - you may well get a reasonable sound out of them, not so much a Hi-Fi speaker, more a disco speaker for home use.
Using them live might be pushing you luck, but you may well get away with it.
Goldern rule is, if it sounds as if the speaker is about to distory it's self - it probalbly will!
A good keyboard amp (min 150W) is more the sort of thing you want to be looking for. 500W would be plently loud enough.
Have a 1000 W + PA gig - Better still!
the Sonic Energy Authority - a sound investment

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