Guitar AMP as speaker

[pomaranc]

I want to play rocksmith in split screen mode but my speakers are really bad and quiet (I usually use headphones)

Could I use AUX in on my AMP (Orange CR20L) and use it as speaker?

I heard that amp could blow if you use it as speaker (due to low frequency sounds) but that AUX in is there for MP3 player so I think that it should be OK.

What do you think?

 

 

[cragger89]

It will sound like crap.

 

If it has an MP3 input, it will be fine. Guitar amps when designed are voiced to sound raunchy, distorted, etc. The MP3 input may well not suffer this, but generally, guitar amps are not good as monitors.

 

Try and see.

[pomaranc]

It will sound like crap.

 

If it has an MP3 input, it will be fine. Guitar amps when designed are voiced to sound raunchy, distorted, etc. The MP3 input may well not suffer this, but generally, guitar amps are not good as monitors.

 

Try and see.

it sounds pretty good (since it makes guitar sounds most of the time ) but it makes quiet weird and high pitched noises when pluged into PC especially with rocksmith running so that worries me a bit.

[TheDudeWhoTriesHard]

Have you tried putting your speakers on the pickups?

I mean, just plug your guitar to your amp, just have your speaker, smartphone, mp3 player with speakers resting on the strings with the actually speaker output on top of the pickups?

My friend used to do that when were were lazy to bring actual speakers.



Scratch that... (I should stay away from vodka for a while)

It will suck as a speaker. Using guitar amps for speakers... not a good idea.

[Lutkeveld]

It will sound like crap.

 

If it has an MP3 input, it will be fine. Guitar amps when designed are voiced to sound raunchy, distorted, etc. The MP3 input may well not suffer this, but generally, guitar amps are not good as monitors.

 

Try and see.

 

Guiter amps are normal amps if i'm not mistaking. It's just the driver that's 'distorting'.

[cragger89]

No.

 

They are deliberately voiced to sound "good". The decent guitar amplifiers are, anyway.

 

Marshall became successful because all other British amplifiers produced at the time sounded clean, thus guitarists who were inspired by the American bands were not interested in them. John Marshall hired a friend who design and made some valve amplifiers which gave the harder, raunchier, distorted sounds more associated with rock music.

[flowalex]

I use a guitar amp as a speaker, the way it goes for me is my audio interface to my bass amp out through a passive port and into the amplified guitar.  I adjust the eq of the two amps so that it sounds good. I don't use the mp3 in port or head phone out because it doesn't sound good

[ShearMe]

it sounds pretty good (since it makes guitar sounds most of the time ) but it makes quiet weird and high pitched noises when pluged into PC especially with rocksmith running so that worries me a bit.

That's probably a ground loop issue. Just add in a cheap ground loop isolator.