Microphone through Deluxe Reverb

Fred Rogan · Post by **Fred Rogan** » 20 Oct 2021 5:54 pm

Occasionally I play a gig where I play solo and do American songbook standards. This is usually for engagement parties, etc., and take place in smaller rooms at lower volumes - background music.
I play electric 6 string guitar and run that and an SM58 mike for vocals through my Deluxe Reverb. It sounds good, very adequate and I've done it 3-4 times (haven't had the DR long).
I mentioned what I was doing to a gear sales person and he said I risk damaging my amp. He could not tell me how exactly I would damage the amp but he was talking amp and not speaker (I replaced the stock Jensen with a 50 watt Eminence made for and sold by Dr Z).
Anyone have an idea as to whether this guy is full of beans or does he know what he's talking about?
thanks

Ken Pippus · Post by **Ken Pippus** » 20 Oct 2021 6:12 pm

Fulla frijoles.

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 20 Oct 2021 7:45 pm

He wants to sell you something.

I mean, there are lots of ways to damage your amp - e.g., playing too loud and distorted for too long, getting massive uncontrolled feedback for too long, playing your Deluxe Reverb without a speaker connected, red-plating your tubes, and so on. But nothing specifically due to using a microphone through it at a reasonable volume. I've done it, and so have lots of others. Geez, before the advent of readily available PA systems, bands did it all the time.

D Schubert · Post by **D Schubert** » 21 Oct 2021 3:50 am

Long ago, I did coffee-house and small-bar gigs with a Deluxe Reverb, a Shure SM-58 and one of those big ol' low-to-hi Z transformers. Guitar in the normal channel, vocal in the reverb channel, volume set at a sane level. Everybody else on the block was doing the same thing, too.

Fred Rogan · Post by **Fred Rogan** » 21 Oct 2021 5:53 am

Thanks y'all.
D. Schubert that is exactly my setup.
I kinda felt like I was about to get a sales pitch but it was just disappointing as I've had a long term sales relationship with this guy. Just goes to show ya.
I'll keep using my Deluxe.

Jack Hanson · Post by **Jack Hanson** » 21 Oct 2021 8:23 am

Harmonica players do it all the time (but usually not with SM-58s).

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 24 Oct 2021 1:10 am

well considering that way way back, before PA systems became "the thing" , we all had Fender amps with two channels , one was used for a MIC. Gibson and Ampeg also had dual channel amps, some even labeled "MICROPHONE"

So apparently , according to this guys logic, there are tons of two channel Fender amps floating around that are all damaged because we plugged in a mic !

So...He's nuts !