On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 03:58:39PM +0200, 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, if your bass is not active, you might want to use a direct box with line-level output (might be hard to find, many are mic-level output) to feed the soundcard line in. Passive bass pickups might be loaded badly by the line in circuit, and you'd get a dull, quiet sound as a result. > 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. be careful with volume level going into the stereo speakers :-) electronics should be fine though. In the olden days (1960s) there wasn't much distinction between amps for bass and amps for guitar, they'd just plug the same 100-watt tube amp into different speakers. Those amps are still good! I still use a tube guitar amp for recording bass sometimes, it sounds nice at low levels. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
