Quick Question for Musicians

[MrBagface]

Recently the amp I use for my midi controller broke and I've been stuck for something to use. I know that often people put an mp3 player through their guitar amp and I'm wondering if I can do the same with my laptop. I have my midi keyboard running through my laptop and usually use a guitar cable and an adapter going from the headphone jack as the output. I know that usually a keyboard would have too high a frequency and a guitar amp wouldn't handle it well but if the keyboard is coming from the laptop does it make a difference and would it break my guitar amp?

 

[Raven's Nest]

It'll work but like you said, its generally a bad idea to mix and match instruments and amplifiers.

That said I use a cheap guitar amp to practise my vocals through so that'd kind of make me a hypocrite if i said don't do it.

 

[Raven's Nest]

It'll work but like you said, its generally a bad idea to mix and match instruments and amplifiers.

Really?

I've heard of a few guitarists back in the day running a guitar through a Leslie amplifier to great effect.

Don't see why other combos couldn't work.

Oh it'll work but generally amplifiers are tailored to work with certain frequencies, often the result is crap but sometimes it is worth watching your amp blow up a few days later...

I don't know about you but I couldn't afford to buy a new amplifier after every gig because I wanted my bass to run through a JCM 800... Awesome thought that sounds!