I just want to know if anyone has an opinion on the best locatin for the guitar amps and bass amp for a show. Plenty of watts so power is not an issue.
Awesome! You rule Cat! This will help us sound a ton better… and allow me to hear XD
I have a line 6 spider IV 150HD. My amp is never so loud it feeds back, i just have enough power to do what ever i want for now.

Cat is a complete idiot and I really have to wonder if he/she is pulling your leg or is thinking PA system, not guitar and bass.

Your guitar and bass amps NEVER go in front of you!!! How do you propose to tweak the settings between songs if you can’t walk over to your amp? If the audio engineer signals the roadie to adjust the amp mic or there’s a technical problem, do you really want the roadie front and center stage???Where on earth are you going to put the stage monitors if your guitar and bass amps are forward on the stage? Besides driving your singer beserk, you will get overspill on all your stage microphones, not to mention interferring with the balance on the PA. Finally, if you’re a skilled guitarist, you may wish to use controlled feedback as one of your skills. You certainly can’t play a song like "Flying in a Blue Dream" by Joe Satriani if you don’t have amp feedback. If your amp is forward on the stage, how are you going to play in front of it – stand on the heads of the people in the first row???

That said, you ALWAYS put your guitar amp to one side of the drum kit and the bass amp on the other side. You mic the amps and feed the signals to the PA. A good audio engineer will also feed your guitar and your bass guitar directly into the FOH (the sound desk) in case one of the amps should go dead. This isn’t the ideal situation, but it will still get your sound to the audience.

Now, the PA speakers go in front of the stage off to the sides or directly overhead . for big shows it’s usually both.

But don’t take my word for it. Look up recommended live stage configurations by Soundcraft and/or top audio engineers Andy May or Mick Hughes. (Mick is one of the most highly respected AE’s in the biz.) These two guys have forgotten more than the rest of us will ever know.

If it makes a difference i have a Rickenbacker 4004L Laredo and was thinking about getting a Marshall MG10 Amplifier just to practice on…will i destroy my amp or no?

thats a good question. i have a fender amp for my strat but i actually think my guitar sounds MUCH better on my sister’s bass amp. i have really no idea about the differences between the two kinds but i wouldnt be worried that it’ll cause problems because mine is fine and i love the clean sound i get with the bass amp.

maybe its different for everyone though…
sorry im not much help

i know the sound of tube vs solid state and ive played numerous tube guitar amps
but my guitarist is looking into the marshall Haze 40 and 40w is plenty loud for auditoriums and small clubs, but does tube really make it as loud as a 120 watt amp??

It varies from amp to amp. My 5 watt Epiphone Valve Jr. is louder than my 15 watt Fender Princeton. Both tube amps of course and I’m pretty sure they are both class A power. But yeah, I don’t gig with any guitarist that use over 40 watts of tube power. Most use 15 to 30 watt tube amps and mic when necessary.

I don’t really have a price limit, but I just want to know the range of prices for a pretty high quality bass + amps, or range of prices people usually pay for basses. Also, what kind of brands of bass would you recommend?
I’ve been playing acoustic guitar for 3 years and love it, and for the bass players out there, how does the bass compare to the guitar? harder? easier? just curious.
Any comments would be appreciated

What bass guitar you choose is really a very personal thing. You need to go and sit down at a dealer and try all the basses you are interested in. Fender and Ibanez make the best sounding bass guitars in my opinion. I bought the Ibanez because I play left-handed and they make an off the shelf left-handed version in the model I liked so I did not have to wait for it to be made. I love this bass (I have a 5-string) and it sounds great and has outstanding controls on the Bass itself so you can adjust the tone and volume on the fly. But, you need to go and play some basses to know which ones you like the best.

In the area of a high quality bass amplifier, I’m afraid that the industry has really let us down. First of all you need to understand that if you want a high quality tone from your low end, then the speaker’s frequency response is crucial. The E sting on the bass vibrates at approximately 41.2 Hz. So, you need to have a frequency response out of your speakers that is actually lower than that. That is called head room (or bottom room as the case may be). So, a frequency response of 38 Hz or below is probably adequate for a 4-string bass. The 5-string has a lower B string that vibrates at approximately 30.87 Hz. So in that case, you’ll need head room down to around 28 Hz to provide a high quality bass sound. DO NOT BE CONFUSED BY Frequency Range vs Frequency Response. A speaker can have the range of 28 Hz or 38 HZ but, the Frequency Response is what is important for adequate quality of sound. So, in my case (5-sting) there are NO bass speaker cabinets on the market that will take you to a 28 Hz response without spending huge amounts of money and many of those speaker cabinets weigh as much as 200 pounds (no, I’m not kidding). That’s a real problem to haul it around. So, after looking at all of the available options, I decided that the best and least expensive route was to first get a BOSS GT-10B Bass Multi-effects pedal which acts as a pre-amplifier and provides any possible sound I could want out of my bass, and then I run that through a QSC GX5 500 watts/channel stereo amplifier and that amp drives twin JBL JRX115 2-way Speaker cabinets http://www.guitarcenter.com/JBL-JRX115-15–2-Way-Speaker-Cabinets—Pair-773198-i1152805.gc (I need the 2-way because I sing and play guitar also so I need the high tones as well as the lows). But, the Frequency response on these speakers is only down to 50 Hz. That’s adequate for the A string on the bass but not the E or the B on my 5-string. So, I added twin JBL ES250PBK 400-Watt High-Powered 12-Inch Subwoofers that provide a frequency response down to 28 Hz (weigh less than 60 pounds each and cost only around $300 each) and now when I play a gig, I have other bass players coming up to me all the time asking what kind of amplifier I have that is turning out the awesome bass sounds. When I play, it’s that kind of bass sound that you feel even before you are aware of hearing it. So, when I practice at home, I just use the Boss GT-10B and a great set of head phones so, I don’t distrub the rest of the neighborhood. If you want that kind of sound, that’s what you need to do. The alternative for a 4-sting weighing in at 166-1/2 pounds is this little baby – http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/product/JBL-SRX728S-Dual-18-Subwoofer?sku=600444 – but, the catch is it will only handle bass notes up to around 220 Hz or the third octave A right below middle C. The bass has notes that go much higher than that. So, that means, you still need to buy another speaker cabinet (12"ers maybe & spend another $800 to $1,200 perhaps) to handle those notes (220 Hz up to around 530 Hz). So, go figure!

I know the line 6 spiders 1 2 3 all have metal, insane, blues, clean and stuff….what are some better amps with those sounds?

I was going to say some line 6’s

But a better brand would be VOX.
Most vox’s already have settings on and they are pretty good, they also let you make your own sounds too (like normal amps).

Id go for a vox

All i know is that your supposed to use a speaker cable.

Some heads will have multiple outputs, this is very important!! It may have a 4, 8 and 16 ohm output. The cabinet should clearly state which impedance it is. So if the cab says it is 8 ohms, you just come out of the 8 ohm jack from the back of the head into the cabinet. Any music store will give you the correct cable, you don’t use a regular guitar chord like you mentioned. Nothing to it.

My guitar is the breedlove black magic

You can but there are amps specifically designed for acoustic guitars – they have a two way speaker (woofer and tweeter) for cleaner highs:

http://www.zzounds.com/cat–Acoustic-Guitar-Amps–2589

i dont understand how a guitar amd can put off high amounts of treble when the speakers inside them do not contain a tweeter. sorry if i sound like a jackass, ive played for years but ive always been curious.

The only people who ever really use the word "tweeter" are car-audio people, and they usually don’t know anything about hi-quality audio replication. (They’re more concerned with wattage and volume than clarity)

The speakers in guitar cabinets are specially designed for guitars. Celestion is the big name in guitar speakers. Head over to their site and you can see response curves and all sorts of great stuff about their speakers:

http://professional.celestion.com/guitar/

But to answer your question: they are simply designed that way. They are special speakers designed to reproduce the frequencies that guitars and amps can generate, a part of that is high frequencies.

I got a guitar amp and I was wondering, what is the normal setting for it? My amp is a Fender Frontman.

I will echo one point everyone is making, which is that it IS largely a matter of opinion. However, there are some other key points to consider.

First, the fender frontman is a very nice little amp and as a fender it is definitely going to give you some nice clean tones (as one other person pointed out) that are very useful in certain styles of music such as jazz and blues (think about some of Stevie Ray Vaughn’s music and you’ll know what I’m talking about, though he also made very good use of some dirty tones as well).

Which leads me to my next point, style of music is also going to be a factor in how you set up your amp. If you are going for that classic rock sound, then one nice thing you can do with fender amps is to lower the bass a bit and crank the mid and the treble and get some really nice crunchy tones.

One more thing to think about is the type of guitar you are using (and even the pick you are using to play it with) can affect how you’ll want to adjust the settings on your amp.

These are all basically ideas on what will play a role on how you’ll want to set your controls. My biggest suggestion for you, however, is not to settle for what sounds OK, play with the controls until you get the tone that you LOVE out of this amp. What I generally do is to take a new amp and put all the controls in the 12 o’clock position and adjust from there and play with it until I get something that I personally feel is a great sound. There’s a good chance that you’ll find what someone else tells you is a good sound is not necessarily the sound you’ll fall in love with from your amplifier. This is one way to define what YOU sound like.

I bought a really expensive taylor acoustic guitar (which i love!) but i want an amp that will do it justice, So can i go and buy any amp, or are there specific acoustic and electric amps

I’d say go to guitar center or best buy’s music section or any place with guitar amps and ask them which one will sound the best for an acoustic