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Question about guitar amps

Crow T. Robot

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Ok. Bear with me. After playing guitar for a number of years, I decided to learn to play the bass. I bought a bass, and a Laney bass amp. Unfortunately, I failed to notice that the amp I bought (used) has no headphone jack. The only way I can practice and keep the peace at home is if I listen to my CD player and my playing along via headphones. My guitar amp -has- a headphone jack. Here is what I have come up with, but I wonder if I may be damaging my equipment? I'm taking the "send" from the effects loop of the bass amp, and sending it into one of the input jacks on the guitar amp. I send the CD player thru the other input on the guitar amp, and listen to what I'm doing via the headphone jack on the guitar amp. To silence the bass amp, I plug a cable to "nothing" into the "return" of the effects loop of the bass amp. This all works, but I wonder if it could be harmful to the amp section of the bass amp, as it is driving "nothing." Is there a simple way to do this better? Advise please, you gurus of amplification!
 
Crow T. Robot said:
Ok. Bear with me. After playing guitar for a number of years, I decided to learn to play the bass. I bought a bass, and a Laney bass amp. Unfortunately, I failed to notice that the amp I bought (used) has no headphone jack. The only way I can practice and keep the peace at home is if I listen to my CD player and my playing along via headphones. My guitar amp -has- a headphone jack. Here is what I have come up with, but I wonder if I may be damaging my equipment? I'm taking the "send" from the effects loop of the bass amp, and sending it into one of the input jacks on the guitar amp. I send the CD player thru the other input on the guitar amp, and listen to what I'm doing via the headphone jack on the guitar amp. To silence the bass amp, I plug a cable to "nothing" into the "return" of the effects loop of the bass amp. This all works, but I wonder if it could be harmful to the amp section of the bass amp, as it is driving "nothing." Is there a simple way to do this better? Advise please, you gurus of amplification!
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Turn it up to 11.
 
The bass amp power amp is simply being idle with a open input. No harm done.
 
shecky said:
The bass amp power amp is simply being idle with a open input. No harm done.
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Right, basses damaging guitar amps only occur when you try to push sound out of the speaker, and it blows from the excessive vibration.
 
Your instincts are partially correct. Old amps and very cheap amps can be damaged by amplifying nothing. A good, modern amp is not going be harmed. I therefore suggest you continue to rock-on totally.
 
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