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Is it Safe?
I'm babysitting a base guitar plus amp for a few days, and I want to plug in my Takamine acoustic/electric to see what it sounds like etc. The amp is a Johnson Standard 10B and the lead is the one belonging to the base. From what I've read here, it should be safe to do this, but does someone know for sure that this won't damage my Takamine (it doesn't matter so much about the amp, obviously!) 
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As far as I know, only the opposite is unsafe. If you were to plug a bass into a guitar amp, it would explode. I don't know whether or not it'll affect your sound.
Don't take my word for it, though. Get an informed opinion!
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Bass amps are the most indestructable of all amps. Your guitar can't hurt it.
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Safe as houses Mate as the English would say. Won't hurt it at all.
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Originally Posted by Ballard
...If you were to plug a bass into a guitar amp, it would explode....
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LOL....I don't know that I'd go quite that far. You could blow the speaker if you turn it up too high, but as long as you kept the volume low it wouldn't hurt anything. Exploding amps are a Bad Thing! 
Carol, it shouldn't hurt anything. There's no difference in the electrical connections or anything. You might lose a little mid in the sound, but it won't hurt the guitar or amp.
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As far as I know, only the opposite is unsafe. If you were to plug a bass into a guitar amp, it would explode. I don't know whether or not it'll affect your sound.
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It is more likely to rip the cone. I have never heard of amps exploding but, it is a really bad thing if you see all the magic smoke escaping from your amp. 
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I actualy prefer the sound of my nylon acoustic out of my sons bass amp over that out of his regular guitar amp. I have to turn down the bass setting and turn up the treble but the end result is a clean pure sound... 
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It will not damage anything but I doubt you might not get the full range your Takamine will deliver. You will be fine, though. It is when the amp has settings that go to eleven, you have problems
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I want to ask you something about safety.
Is it safe to drive an acoustic amp? I heard that it'll cause cone damage. (is it myth or true?)
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One good thing about music is that when it hits you, you feel no pain - Bob Marley
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I want to ask you something about safety.
Is it safe to drive an acoustic amp? I heard that it'll cause cone damage. (is it myth or true?)
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I have asked some amp builder friends. Stay tuned.
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Well most of them laughed at me because they can't imagine why anyone would want to but, I did get a serious answer. The odds are you can't overdrive an acoustic amp because they are designed to play clean at loud volumes. You would need a pedal. A Blackstone is designed to run into a clean amp so that would be a good choice.
http://www.blackstoneappliances.com/
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Uh Oh. A second opinion just in.
"The problem would be with the speaker system. The woofer could handle it...but if it has an electromotive tweeter, and a crossover network....that would be the rub. A passive crossover allows low frequency distortion into the tweeter. Pop goes the tweeter.
I don't think it would bother a piezo tweeter, which is pretty common in acoustic amps, especially the cheaper ones. But, boy, that would sure sound nasty."
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.... Pop goes the tweeter.
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Isn't that a song ? 
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