I've just gotten involved with a band/jam kind of thing but we have too many guitarists and not enough bassists so I've thrown my hat into the ring as temp bassist until a proper musician turns up!
I've not played a bass since my teens and I've got a decades old P bass copy that I inherited and that's it, will i kill my 30 year old Fender Champ 12 if i run the bass through it at any volume? Would i be better buying a cheap used bass amp and sell it on when (or if, maybe i'm a closet bassist?) i'm done?
New strings are on the way and I've been bingeing on "Bass guitar lessons for guitarists" videos on YouTube, any other tips?
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Better look for an old Peavey combo or similar. iI you can stretch to it, one of the new Fender Rumble combos, v lightweight and sound decent.
If there is a reasonable PA at the jam you might get away plugged into that, may not be brilliant but not as noticeably awful as plugging an electric guitar straight in would be.
It's easy enough to get a half-decent bass amp that will do the job for practice or jamming - look for about 100W minimum with a 12" speaker, anything much less than that will struggle. If you can get up to about 150W and a 15" speaker that will handle it easily - amps like that are usually large and heavy, and so quite cheap second hand.
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