If you run a Guitar effects pedal through a bass rig, will it damage the pedal?

[Tawlks]

Yesterday, I probalby foolishly tried out using a Boss MD-2 Mega Distortion through a bass and bass amp. do you think there's a risk of damaging it? When i tried playing it today through my normal guitar rig it sounded a little different, i changed the settings for gain and bottom end when i put it through the bass and havnt put it back to normal yet so that might be why.

[PatrickF]

Nah, it should work just fine.

 

Effect pedals aren't too picky about what goes through them.

[stevemcb]

Bass will not damage your guitar pedals.

Reset the knobs and you should be good to go.

I often use my guitar pedals on bass with no problems. Guitar amps (if run loud) might be a different story though.

 

Steve

[Tawlks]

oh right, thanks That's what i thought, seeing as pedals only process the signal i didn't see a way of them getting damaged, I was just a bit worried.

 

So i'm assuming it's fine to use a Boss Mega Distortion for bass regularly? Ot atleast till i get an EMA and buy a bass overdrive (probably not a boss though)

[stevemcb]

Yeah, it will be fine to use it for bass regularly.

 

If you're after a cheap bass OD I'd suggest trying out a digitech bad monkey - great mild grit with very little low-end loss, or for more of a fuzz tone the EHX bass big muff is a good choice.

 

Steve

[claytonjohn18]

yeah it'd be tough to damage it. It may sound like {censored}, but that's another story.

 

You'd have to have INSANELY high output pickups on your bass to damage the pedal.

[Kassanova]

DON'T DO IT!

It totally throws off the ph balance of the pedal, infusing its electrons with sub-atomic particles that reverse the polarity and cause an influx of negative ions to the output thereby resulting in massive tone impurities! Yor toanz R N danger!

j/k

[Tawlks]

Haha, that science doesnt make sense. however i think it will mess around with the hydrostatic equilibrium within the lithium diodes of the err... rubber matt at the bottom.

lol

[Dolf]

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Do you get the internet where you're from?

[Daeveed]

One of my bass dirt pedals is a Silverkiss. It works nicely. I also use an RE20 for delay.

[xtoby44x]

no pedal damage but your bass speaker might take a beatin start out with a low volume on the pedal and work up to a comfortable level without too much drive on the speaker. or you could get

 

 

THIS:

[gae86]

If you run a Guitar effects pedal through a bass rig, will it damage the pedal?

 

no..

 

but it will damage the guitar...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

just trolling!It's fine;)

[driverhasabomb]

 

no pedal damage but your bass speaker might take a beatin start out with a low volume on the pedal and work up to a comfortable level without too much drive on the speaker.

 

 

Bass speakers can generally take a lot more abuse than guitar speakers. There is no reason to do this.

[hooya]

Hell, if I can run a freakin' bassoon through a bass amp and guitar pedals, you can run a bass through it.

[Poltergeist]

it wont harm anything.... except your tone. that pedal is horrible. for bass is even more useless mud.

 

buy a bass big muff instead, dude...