Plugging guitar into mic input

[averagewhiteman]

Hey folks, I am planning on picking up a bass guitar. My brother started taking guitar lessons on an acoustic he got this Christmas, and he can play Yankee Doodle already. STOP LAUGHING< you gotta start somewhere right? Anywho, he's starting to learn chords and said it is not as hard as he thought it was going to be. I'm hoping Bass is even easier. Yes, I know nothing yet.

Well, I thought I could try to learn Bass. I have an old SX-828 in my garage with Mic ins, and some old Technics crap speakers, and was wondering if I could plug a bass guitar into it. Not looking for anything loud or even good sounding, just semi accurate I guess.

Will this work? Is there some adapter (transformer box) or something I should be using, or is a seperate guitar amp necessary.

Also, I was thinking of buying this cheap ass bass on Ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=38080&item=7303855870&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Any help appreciated.

[Rockmonton]

well for sure you COULD use it, and have a bass preamp (i reccoment Peavey T.B Raxx preamp, cheap, GREAT preamp) and do it, but guitar is much easier than good bass, as bass tends to be semi-percussive and needs a lot of theory behind it to sound real good. you could go ahead, for shits and giggles once i plugged ze bass into a sansui g-5000 and it sounded nice. but i'd just get a small bass practise amp, reduces risk of blowing up your mic section.