Comments on: Can you run a guitar through a bass effects pedal and vice versa? http://www.jokerverox.net/guitar-effects/can-you-run-a-guitar-through-a-bass-effects-pedal-and-vice-versa Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:15:59 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: kylethompson91 http://www.jokerverox.net/guitar-effects/can-you-run-a-guitar-through-a-bass-effects-pedal-and-vice-versa/comment-page-1#comment-266 kylethompson91 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:17:59 +0000 http://www.jokerverox.net/guitar-effects/can-you-run-a-guitar-through-a-bass-effects-pedal-and-vice-versa#comment-266 Honestly, you should consider which instrument you have a preference for, and which you would be playing in a band. Not only for this purchase, but if you want to get a bigger amp, or a new guitar, you have to decide. If you go with a guitar effects processor, your bass can run through, but as mentioned before you will probably have more high end response and not enough low end(which may or may not be compensated). Plus the effects pedals are designed for a guitar, and a guitar plays on a whole other octave and has much more range than a bass, and therefore a bass will sound much different through, let's say a wah pedal for example, than your guitar will. There are reasons that pedal companies make effects for bass, because you normally want your bass to sound, well, like a bass, and not a 1 octave down guitar. Hope I make sense.<br><b>References : </b><br>Rico Suave Inc. Honestly, you should consider which instrument you have a preference for, and which you would be playing in a band. Not only for this purchase, but if you want to get a bigger amp, or a new guitar, you have to decide.

If you go with a guitar effects processor, your bass can run through, but as mentioned before you will probably have more high end response and not enough low end(which may or may not be compensated). Plus the effects pedals are designed for a guitar, and a guitar plays on a whole other octave and has much more range than a bass, and therefore a bass will sound much different through, let’s say a wah pedal for example, than your guitar will. There are reasons that pedal companies make effects for bass, because you normally want your bass to sound, well, like a bass, and not a 1 octave down guitar.

Hope I make sense.
References :
Rico Suave Inc.

]]> By: Ken C http://www.jokerverox.net/guitar-effects/can-you-run-a-guitar-through-a-bass-effects-pedal-and-vice-versa/comment-page-1#comment-265 Ken C Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:53:59 +0000 http://www.jokerverox.net/guitar-effects/can-you-run-a-guitar-through-a-bass-effects-pedal-and-vice-versa#comment-265 I'd run a bass through a guitar pedal. The bass effects usually don't have as good of high frequency response. However, the guitar effects may not have the bass response that the bass fx does, but that's easier to dial back in. You'll trade away some effects designed for the bass, but it's a better compromise to get the one designed for guitar. Greetings from Austin, TX Ken<br><b>References : </b><br>40 years of playing guitar and bass 35 years of live performance I’d run a bass through a guitar pedal. The bass effects usually don’t have as good of high frequency response. However, the guitar effects may not have the bass response that the bass fx does, but that’s easier to dial back in.

You’ll trade away some effects designed for the bass, but it’s a better compromise to get the one designed for guitar.

Greetings from Austin, TX

Ken
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40 years of playing guitar and bass
35 years of live performance

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