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SensoryOssuary:
Okay, when I got my guitar, I didn't have enough money to get a decent amp, so I just have a 10-watt porto-amp. It's fine for practicing, but having also used some of my friend's better amps, I realize that is compromises the tone more then I thought, in addition to not being very loud at all.

Additionally, my brother has a several-hundred dollar 100 watt SWR LA 15 bass amp collecting dust in the basement. I want to buy it from him, but someone has told me that using a guitar with a bass amp for too long would ruin the amp.

(I also realize that the bass amp tends to make the lower strings more prominent, but since my music is just electric guitar and vocals, I could use a little low end anyway.)

I would hate to see the amp somehow get ruined, but I'd also hate to see it go to waste, so I'm asking the forumites a potentionally stupid question: do you think it's okay to use with a guitar?

onewheelwizzard:
Kyuss did it.  I think that pretty much answers your question.

timehat:
I believe the Fender Bassman is usually sought by guitarists, although its original purpose was as a bass amp.

GuitarJunkie:
Yeah thats perfectly fine, as previously mentioned, the guys from Kyuss did it and I'm pretty sure Josh Homme does it in Queens of the Stone Age too.

Just don't do it the other way round.

Bass + Guitar Amp = Bad juju.

Aneurhythmia:
I can't see how running a guitar through a bass amp would ruin it.  Doing the inverse, in rare cases, can cause problems.  The active pickups on some basses can potentially put out enough signal to push the speaker cones unpredictably or possibly even fry electronics in the amp.  The latter I've heard tell of but seems unlikely to me.

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