Bass/electric/keyboard combo amp suggestions

I am looking for a 30W combo practice amp that will work for:

bass, guitar + keyboards.

Any ideas? I presume keyboard amps will handle bass frequencies

Bass guitar is one of the most difficult and punishing instruments to put through a loudspeaker, so unless you use something built for the job, it's likely to have a short and troubled life. I'd therefore be more inclined to look for a small bass amp that can also handle keys or guitar rather than to try putting bass through a keyboard amp. You probably won't find one with the 'extras' that seem to be common on guitar amps though - 'overdrive' channel, reverb etc. - so you'll need to use outboard processing for that.

I'd have to agree. Bass amp are built to take serious punishment, much more so than guitar or keyboard amps. Bass amps also have a huge frequency response, with a suprisingly high top end range. This will make one ideal for keyboards. I'd have to recommend some kind of amp sim for guitar purposes tho. I've used my old Trace combo with a zoom amp sim unit, and it worked quite well, just roll of the bottom and top. Acoustic guitars sound gorgeous thru bass amp too.

I bought a Marshall 25W practice bass combo (10' speaker, very compact) and it seems to puch its weight pretty well for only 99 quid brand new. Never tried it with keys or guitar but it seems robust enough, no special frills though, just 2 inputs (for either active or passive instruments), 3 EQ knobs and a headphones output socket.

I don't know whether it really qualifies as a practise amp judging by the rattles I can get but my Ashdown Electric Blue 150 12' is pretty versatile. I paid about £330 a month ago for that at the Bass Center in Brum. I haven't experimented much, but my acoustic sounds pretty good through it. I have a 30 watt guitar/keyboard/vocals amp from Torque and it just cannot cope with the bass guitar even at quite low volumes.

Cracking amp, 150 watt so quite giggable but tame enough for the house. It has a bass harmoniser and a bass boost so you can get a nice rumble at low volumes

I had the same challenge only a few weeks ago and managed to solve it with a s/h Peavey bass combo - 130 watts, Black Widow spkr. Obviously it handles bass and keyboard but also doesn't make a bad job of guitar.

Doesn't have a reverb but then I have a V-amp II, so that was okay. The key thing being the cost - £75.00 only. I know that you can pick them up for around this price pretty easily.

Hope this is of some use to you.

All the best