Re: Effects - the difference between bass and guitars

isteen@xxxxxxxxx (isteen) writes:

Hi

There are loads of overdrive effects for basses - and even more for
guitars. What's the difference between a standard overdrive for a bass -
and a standard overdrive for a guitar?

Is there any problems in using an guitar-overdrive effect on a bass?

Has anyone tried it?

I have and it sounds like ass unfortunately. The lows are robbed. A
good bass overdrive pedal will have a blend knob to help with that.
The other possibility (and I haven't disected them) is that there may
be high pass filtering in the signal path that kills bass regardless
of the effect. Overdrives designed for bass guitar of course, wouldn't
do that.

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