I do this all the time and run it out through my little M-Audio SP-5B monitors. No problem. As far as playing bass through guitar amps/combos is concerned - it's probably the speakers. You can sometimes get away with it but not at the normal volume you would want to play a bass. Jan On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 08:58, caffeine wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have a bass I'd like to plug in my Debian box. I know lots of people > do it routinely with guitar, but I'm worried about the possible side > effects on my hardware. I know that using a bass on a guitar amp would > blow the thing off, but I don't know if it's just the guitar amp speaker > which is not suited for such frequencies or if it's the electronic which > suffer. > >From what I understand, the "line in" soundcard input shouldn't have any > problem dealing with the bass input, but problems might arise with the > output (ATM this would be my stereo). I don't know enough about sound > processing to be sure my assumptions are right. > > Anybody has any idea/knowledge to share ? > > thanks in advance.
