Electric Guitars

[Pine Apple Slim]

Guitar Amp and Bass Amp-Another hypothetical

Free amplification for both guitar and bass,  from any single mnf. No small custom shops, has to be a maj brand. You guitar amp and your bass amp have to be the same brand.

Myself, I'd prb go with Mesa. I think I could be very happy there for both guitar and bass amps.

[Tone Deaf]

That's a tough one. I can't think of too many amplifier manufacturers who excel at both guitar and bass amplifiers. You may have ended your own thread with your selection of Mesa.

I might consider 65 Amps (may be cheating if you consider them boutique, but I think they may have transcended that by now). Maybe Bugera as well.

[GilmourD]

Fender or Peavey also excel at both.

Actually, technically, Trace-Elliot is part of Peavey, now, so I'd take a Trace-Elliot stack with an 18 and a 4x10 and a Peavey 6505+ half stack.

[PrawnHeed]

Ampeg?
Fender?

[Saturn]

My main amp is a Carvin X-100B. Carvin doesn't reall accel at making bass amps so I look at other brands. Actually I'm looking for a new bass rig so I've been checking out a lot of bass amps. I'm really digging the Ampeg stuff quite a bit.

[honeyiscool]

Fender, I guess, by default.

[Marko]

I’d probably go with Fender.

I already have two Fender guitar combo amps, and two matching cabs for bass.

Right now, I practice guitar through a small VOX or Roland combo, and bass through a G.K. head/cab rig.

[Pine Apple Slim · Accepted solution]

Ampeg is a good bet too, I guess. Not too familiar with the guitar amps but know they made some good ones in the past. Could do a lot worse.
Fender is another but their bass amps dont get a lot of love for some reason. Im sure they make a head & stack that would be good tho.
Carvin is another acceptable company. Not the best in either category but a wide enough selection to make me happy. I'd put Peavey in this category as well.
I still thing Mesa is the winner hands down.
So I'm marking my own answer as "solution"

[Alecto]

Yeah, I'd go with Mesa as well.  I love my TA-30 and I had a great time when I rented a Walkabout with an Am Std. P-Bass. 

This should be a short thread.

[bjcarl]

Mesa, Ampeg, Ashdown, Marshall, Fender

[Help!I'maRock!]

Reeves

[lz4005]

Who needs two amps and cabs when you can use a Fender Bassman 50 stack?
Throw a few pedals for reverb and drive in front of the normal channel for guitar and an EQ in front of the bass channel for bass and you're golden.

[Marko]

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lz4005 wrote:

Who needs two amps and cabs when you can use a Fender Bassman 50 stack?
Throw a few pedals for reverb and drive in front of the normal channel for guitar and an EQ in front of the bass channel for bass and you're golden.

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Nice rig to have (and seriously, I’d like to have it), but really a compromise. 

It wouldn’t meet my bass needs/desires, and I doubt most guitarists would be happy with it considering what’s available today. 

Were I to go with Fender, I’ve got a ‘65ri Twin Reverb and a Hot Rod Deville 410 (both stored in back for now), either of which I’d prefer, although having PA support, I’d opt for something much smaller. 

Sticking with Fender, for bass cabs (also stored in a back room as I use a small/light G.K. rig), I have two Fender Pro 410s that on-stage will own any guitard rig I should encounter, and are designed/tuned strictly for bass. 

I don’t have a fender bass amp, but I’m sure they have something I could be happy with. 

But again, that’s a nice rig that I’d like to have. 

[Pine Apple Slim]

<<<Who needs two amps and cabs when you can use a Fender Bassman 50 stack?>>>>

lol. This is in the shop being refurbished right now.

I don't have cab(s). Plan on building 2 separate 4 ohm cabs, the guitar cab will hold a Weber California 15, undecided yet on the bass config, prob just a single 15 to match the other cab.

[kit_strong]

Probably Mesa as well at the high end but for something in a more wallet friendly price range Ampeg.  They have a long history of being one of the major names for Bass amps and the relatively new GVT series of guitar amps are great.  I love my GVT-15,

[Morganbich]

Be a Bad Cat like Led Zep

JP has been playing a 15

JPJ has big Bass Rig

[Belva]

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Pine Apple Slim wrote:

<<<Who needs two amps and cabs when you can use a Fender Bassman 50 stack?>>>>

lol. This is in the shop being refurbished right now.

I don't have cab(s). Plan on building 2 separate 4 ohm cabs, the guitar cab will hold a Weber California 15, undecided yet on the bass config, prob just a single 15 to match the other cab.

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May want to reconsider. These will run just about anything, but I wouldn't want to run it @ 2 ohms. The speaker jacks are parallel and that's what you'd get. If you're gonna do this, make the cabs 8 ohms. then the amp will be fairly happy with either cab ans be realy happy with both at once

[bjcarl]

Orange.

[Valtyr]

Mesa Boogie. I'm not far from having just one brand for all my amplification needs.

I currently use a Mesa Mark III for guitar, and my bass cab is a Mesa 2x10. I use a Peavey bass amp, but I'll probably replace it with a Mesa some day.

Regarding the Fender Bassman 50 stack, I used to have the 50 and matcing cab and used it for guitar and bass. While it's a great set up, what I really wanted was Mesa Mark series gain and none of the pedals I had tried (including Mesa vtwin) got me the results I wanted.

[Pine Apple Slim]

<<<<May want to reconsider. These will run just about anything, but I wouldn't want to run it @ 2 ohms. The speaker jacks are parallel and that's what you'd get. If you're gonna do this, make the cabs 8 ohms. then the amp will be fairly happy with either cab ans be realy happy with both at once>>>>
Dont plan on running both cabs at once. I'll use one or the other.