Ok, I am all about Fender (Rumble) for bass, but both guitarists I have played with have sworn by their Orange combo amps.
In my opinion they sound great and do the job, especially if you like a bit of dirt and grit, but they can sound clean and chimey (is that a word) also.
Actually, reading the threads above, my Rumble 25 is what my son is using for guitar and I was using it for guitar also and it does sound good.
I’m definitely a fan of the Orange sound, it and Marshall really.
Not as much of a Fender amp sound fan for guitar. For all the things Fender does I would instead want a Vox.
I hear you, but a fender twin reverb is the clean tone reference sound for basically everything including the neuraldsp gojira plug-in I mostly play my guitar through, so…
Yep nothing wrong with them at all and lots of lovers; I would just prefer an AC30.
Fender has that huge scoop and is kind of like the opposite of Marshall and Orange. Vox is all about the mids and highs.
On that note this is probably a fine combo amp choice. I’ve seen them mic’d at local shows:
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/AC15C1--vox-ac15c1-15-watt-1x12-inch-tube-combo-amp
nice!
Dumb question…
I have been contemplating buying a guitar amp. However, the more I start digging into this, the more I start thinking I may be better off with my bass amps and a pedal or two.
I have a Bergantino at home, and my Phil Jones in my work apartment. Both are super clean and from what I can tell really don’t do anything detrimental to guitar, it just sounds weird because they are so super clean. I’m never going to play out, at least on guitar, and I really don’t want another box to carry around or move back-and-forth, etc., but, I do like petals. And yes, I know @howard , I can do all of this with amplitube, which I have been doing, but I would like to do it outside of the computer, for a couple of important reasons.
I already have the super cool boutique Beatle vox amp pedal and I’m thinking perhaps a Marshall pedal next to it might be a lot of fun for guitar. I was looking at a fender reverb twin amp but honestly, the sound is super clean, and I already have two amazing reverb pedals, so I’m starting to think what’s the point of me at least, having a guitar amp.
Important disclosure… I am not a guitar player, I never want to be a guitar player, I simply want to be able to know my way around the guitar enough to use it a little bit and some experimental stuff, chords, weird sound, creation, etc.
So, the long-winded question is, is there something wrong with this plan acoustically that I’m missing? At first, I thought the bass amps might cut off the high end, but I don’t think these amps actually do that.
What am I missing?
My take (others feel free to correct me!)
For clean tones: nothing really, it won’t hurt the bass amps to play the guitar through them. You’ll just not have the well known sounds of the other amps.
What you’ll miss is the character of the guitar amps at high gain or when you overdrive them. Marshall, Orange, Vox, all the others break up in different pleasing ways. Unclear how your current amps will do there, but this is a fundamental part of guitar sounds, especially for blues and rock.
Play around with it though! You might get a pleasant surprise. Do any of your bass amps have a gain setting before the preamp?
I think your plan is fine unless you want to play really high-gain stuff. You can put the Vox and Marshall pedals in your Bergantino FX loop and see how that sounds.
Yes. And amp alone sounds, well, weird. So so super clean. This the thinking about a pedal or two, like I’ve done with bass - super clean amp and a darkglass, an ampeg, a fender pedal to make the clean amp be many “character” amps.
I want to effectively do the same but with guitar, but guitar amp pedals into existing bass amp(s).
if you really want the guitar amp experience you can also look at amp-in-a-box pedals. I know UA has a few of those iconic ones.
Could also just get a ToneX
Wait, this essentially puts my Amplitube 5 into a pedal, correct?
This is basically what I did to keep myself from buying a lot of guitar pedals 
Yeah, iirc I was using the Tonex plugin from Amplitube which is also very intuitive and user-friendly.
Perfect! That’s going to “save” money then. Lol
Yeah exactly, and then just download whatever models you want. You could also capture your Bergantino and use it for recording bass with the amp tone. It’s basically a budget Quad Cortex.
I’m on it. It’s a great thing for the apartment for this and bass too. No more shuffling pedals back and forth. Thanks!!!
Guitar cab speaker character too, but if you’re playing clean that wouldn’t convince me to buy another amp.
FYI, you can do ToneX 2 different ways. I have ToneX in AmpliTube MAX. If you don’t have AmpliTube, you can just buy ToneX. There’s also a ToneX pedal. There’s an active ToneX captures (separate app; included) online community (ToneNET) that you can download other peoples captures from. In AmpliTube, you can log into it and grab the captures that way.
In AmpliTube, you can switch between AmpliTube and ToneX via buttons in the top right corner.
Overloud’s TH-U also has some very unique guitar amp captures available. They own several physical amps used by famous guitar players and have captured them. Check out the Made In Rock plugins. You can buy them individually, or buy a 3-pack or 5-pack bundle and chose which 3 or 5 you want.
Even then, you could put something like a Digitech Freqout in the chain and have that high gain feedback on demand. Or, set a tubescreamer up to do mostly clean boost with a little dirt in and that’ll replicate the high gain sound without the feedback.
