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Re:Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort-O... by smcameron on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:15PM (#18350988)
Short answer: No. Guitar amps are weird, not like hi-fi amps at all. In a hi-fi amp, distortion is the enemy. In a guitar amp, distortion is sought after. Driving the pre-amp section of a guitar amp into clipping is extremely common and desirable. Doing the same with a hi-fi amp is not. A hi-fi amp will be typically connected to speakers with a woofer and a tweeter and maybe a mid-range, trying to accurately reproduce all frequencies. A guitar amp typically has nothing but 12 inch speakers. A guitar amp is literally half the instrument. Plugging a guitar into a hi-fi amp is faithfully amplifying 1/2 of an instrument. You'll end up buying a guitar amp anyway. Just get a guitar amp.
Re:Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort-O... by Steve44 on Thursday November 01, 2018 @06:44AM (#18352598)
> A guitar amp is literally half the instrument.

I'm not a musician and this confused me for some time. I'd see electric guitars with their own amp & speakers then a microphone for the the PA system in front of said speaker. I couldn't understand why the electric guitar wasn't just plugged in, something I read a few years ago was a light-bulb moment.