Effect pedal help?

Question:Hi I'm a bass-playing guitar player and I wan't to take my playing to the next level with some effects.

I know that running a bass through guitar effects can really damage them. If I get bass effects, will I also be able to play my guitar through them? Or will it not sound good?

Thanks a lot

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hi I'm a bass-playing guitar player and I wan't to take my playing to the next level with some effects.

I know that running a bass through guitar effects can really damage them. If I get bass effects, will I also be able to play my guitar through them? Or will it not sound good?

Thanks a lot

You can run a bass through a guitar pedal all day long and not damage a thing. You can run a guitar through a bass pedal all day and not damage a thing. The interesting times come when you try to run things through an *amp*.

Guitar amps are not built for the amount of low-frequency signal a bass guitar puts out. Actually, check that - it's not the amplifier, it's the *speakers*. On the other hand, a bass amp and bass speakers can handle a guitars higher frequencies with no problem at all.

The only real difficulty is that guitar pedals are meant for guitar and bass pedals are meant for bass - meaning that they're optimized to work within a certain frequency range, and anything outside of that won't sound as good. Of course, feel free to try - music wouldn't be music without some expirimentation. The Fender Bassman was treasured by bassists, even though it was a guitar amp (one of the few guitar amps at the time that could handle a bass and make it sound good).

Good luck with your tone tweaking!

Saul

I'm also a bass player; I've put my bass in a guitar effects, and it sounded horrible.
however, I don't have an effects pedal yet for my bass, but something did happen where a guitar went into my bass amp and it worked just fine.

I'm not sure what will happen in this case.