Noob so please bear with…
Currently im “trying” to learn bass with my daughter (14yrs) were both doing the B2B course. we each have a bass guitar and we currently have 2 amps (only small ones, a fender rumble 15 and the others an Ashdown Studio Jnr, both 15w) the amps are adequate for our living room and initally learing but with all the gear being kept out and ready to play it does look rather messy and cumbersome with the leads, wires and stands etc etc.
Reading through some old topics i stumbled upon the ABY pedals, would this be viable for me so i could potentually remove one of the amps ?
Will a 15w amp cope with 2 peoples buzzes and rattles. Or will us playing together through 1 amp become a noise mess?
Happy to receive any other suggestions for a cleaner set up and potential ways that my daughter and i can play together
** Im currently doing the beginner to badass through a Samsung tablet connected to a fairly decent JBL speaker for sound quality via Bluetooth. So any headphones solutions would also need to be able to accommodate listening to josh too ? (You can tell im not very techy) .
Thanks
G
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Ying together 2 basses to one amp will sound no different than 1 bass into the amp. it will be the same loudness, amount of noise, etc. if you think of it, if you pluck 2 strings simultaneously on your bass that’s plugged into the amp than that is what you will be doing in this proposed setup, plucking 2 strings simultaneously. however you will both be playing TOGETHER which means it will be difficult to discern who is playing what (ie if one of you plays a wrong note, there will be nothing to tell you who it was that did it). so it might be a little confusing.
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I agree. I separate my sound sources. Bass amp and music audio mix. If there are 2 basses then it’s best to keep the amp separate too.
You don’t need the ABY pedal maybe a mixer if you want to go that route.
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If it’s the cord clutter bothering you, why not look into something like a wireless guitar set up.
https://a.co/d/fqjf14E
I use these and they’re all kinds of fantastic. They’ll handle both passive and active basses and the sound quality is indistinguishable from a cable, at least to my ears.
I’ve tried some of the cheaper offerings with little success. These with the charging case…are now a metric buttload cheaper than when I bought them a year and a half ago but I gladly payed full price for them when they came out and would again had they not lowered it, mind you.
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