u/Sundae_Labaux

I have a quilter bass amplifier (Bass Block 800) and I wanted to see about running its two speaker outputs into two passive PA speakers. Is this a dumb idea?

I have a mixer that I have run into the Mono Aux input of my amp for practice at home, coming out of a bass cab which is where this idea was birthed. I figure a power amp is a power amp and it will work if I scale it up.

I use modelers and I figured this would work for small gigs where PA is not provided since my amp is only about 700watts RMS (1000 peak).

Please don't be afraid to tear me a new one if this is a dumb idea

Not sure if I'm in the right subreddit for this but, here we go. I'm a bass player and I've been using a modeler for the last three years and I've been using a sansamp for the last five before. My amp situation right now is a Quilter Bass Block 800 and a Fender Rumble 200 with the amp pulled out and a speaker jack hot glued in (I'm an amp tech, you can trust me lol).

My issue that I'm having is that I'll need to get a PA sometime since I'm kinda a solo act now since my band broke up twice and I'm a little torn on the fact that a PA will blow my quilter out of the water so what's the point in having an amp anyway. I've thought about getting a little practice amp for at home practice or jamming but, for my main setup, do I even need an amp at this point?