Guitar amp into bass cab?

[Inazone]

I've been keeping my eyes open for a nice compact cab for my rack rig, and thought I'd found it today. A local shop had a 4x10 cab for $150 that by all appearances was a guitar cab. They had taken it used and not even marked it yet.

Turns out it is a Fender 410 Wedge bass cab rated at 8 ohms. Is there any harm in running a guitar amp into this? I wouldn't normally bother, but it's worth asking...

[Cleveland Metal]

Re: Guitar amp into bass cab?

Can't harm anything as long as impedances are in line. Might not sound so great, but you never know.

[Rupe]

Re: Guitar amp into bass cab?

No harm at all but you must follow all the impedence rules. I used to use a Hartke 4x10 with the aluminum coned speakers for certain clean tones on recoedings and they sounded awesome (a little secret that I have never shared anywhere before). Aside from that limited use, they sounded like ass, as I would suspect most bass cabs would.

[horns666]

Re: Guitar amp into bass cab?

I done that..wih a old green oversized Bass Marsall cab with a 150wt Celestion sidewinder...sounded like ass.