I am putting together a rack linux system specifically to use as a bass effects processor plus synth if I can make it work. The issue with guitar amps and stereos is the speakers. Bass can generate a very dynamic signal. The initial peak is high coupled with many harmonics. But, if you keep good control of the levels, you will be fine. If you want to use a guitar amp or stereo, keep the levels down - works fine although they won't have as good a low end response necessarily as a good bass cab and head. -- Veronica Merryfield, somewhere in Cambridgeshire, UK ----- Original Message ----- From: "caffeine" <caffeine@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 2:58 PM Subject: [linux-audio-user] plugging a bass guitar in a linux box > 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.
