i play guitar and lately i have been thinking about also trying bass. now, i'm only 14 so i don't really have alot of money to spend, so i was just planning on buying a cheap good beginners bass, maybe a squier affinity series, and for an amp, is it possible to play a bass through a small guitar amp? ah ha i feel like such a retard asking that.

Yeah, it's possible. It will work but it won't have a full bass sound. It will sound like a bassjust with tons of treble. It will work perfectly for practice. Don't turn it up all the way though or else it MIGHT, blow out.

First of all, congratulations, on making the choice to play the coolest instrument in the world

Squier Affinity basses are pretty OK, they do the job, but you're still paying for a name to a certain extent. I'd say for the same money, try some kind of Ibanez or Yamaha, they represent far better value for money. Generally speaking they feature far better components, woods and pickups than equivalent Squiers, are better built, and I find the necks on Ibanez basses far more appealing to play.

My Yamaha would cost just a little bit more than a Squier Jazz bass, but is built to a standard higher even than a mexican fender, and I truly love it

As for amps, if it's just a guitar practice amp, I really wouldn't want to risk playing bass through it, basses tend to put in too much bottom end punch for weak-magneted guitar speakers and have a habit of blowing them out. You'd have to play really, really quietly, and even then it'd still likely sound a bit shit. If you had a bigger guitar amp, you could probably get away with it though. It's very much worth investing in a little bass amp, there are hundreds made by marshall, crate, peavey, ashdown etc., my personal favourite is the Marshall MB-25 mk.II. I've had one for years and years now, even though I have a biiig amp for gigging etc, the little Marshall is still satisfying to my ears and puts in most of the work for home stuff.

Good luck with bass, anything you wanna ask, no matter how retarded it may seem, it's worth asking, better to get embarassed on a web forum than end up with a pile of useless gear

thank you so much for the information. i think i will do that i'll start with a good bass then if i like it i'll keep at it. every single guitar player i know who has tried bass LOVES it so i am very excited

You could also got something second hand for the amp. Basically you can put guitar through bass amps, but not the other way around, so you could always get something larger second hand and play both through it. My old bass player has this huge fucking rig that just sounds so cool when anything is played through it. Although it's worth a few grand...

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