Using a guitar overdrive for a bass guitar.

[300mhz]

Can you use a guitar overdrive/distortion with a bass? Will it screw up the pedal?

[skip tracer]

Sure you can. The best distorted bass sound I ever got was through a Tubescreamer.

[jackass]

I get a nice fuzzy sound out of my MXR Disto+. It won't **** with the pedal at all. The only real danger in combining guit. and bass equipment is that you'll blow speakers--or that you'll sound too trebly.

[DAVEoftheBASS]

Bass + Russian-made Big Muff = nice.

[EdgeCrusher]

Cliff Burton used a Big Muff Pi, so there can't be much wrong with it. I use a Boss HM3 myself, and it sounds great! Just experiment with everything available and find whatever suits your tone.

[ClemencyThis!Ry]

If you want to check out some nice distorted bass, check out the band in the link below. They have not one...but 2 bass players. They're incredible.

http://www.angelfire.com/indie/thegimme5/

[pluginbaby]

RATM's Tim Commerford used a Marshall DriveMaster (i think, i know it's marshall something) for the bass distortion on the first album.

Also, i've used my Boss ODB-3 Bass Dist on guitar. Which is also fun.

[SoullessGhost]

I don't really like my bass distortion pedal, it's too fat and well, bassy. As well as pricy... If you're looking for a sharper distorted sound, I say go for guitar distortion. If you want fatter distorted sound, go for bass distortion. Didn't Krist use guitar distortion for bass solo in "Been a Son"?:rolleyes:

[The User]

Originally posted by SoullessGhost
Didn't Krist use guitar distortion for bass solo in "Been a Son"?
He used a rat, i believe

[LordSLug]

i use an Ibanez Seventh Heaven.

it's a distortion pedal meant for 7-string guitars and it has a built in noise gate.

i can get the fuzziest tones out of it, plus it's not noisy.

even at full gain and volume it won't make my amp feedback.

[Bad Johnny]

Originally posted by SoullessGhost
"Been a Son"?:rolleyes:

he used distortion on an assload of songs

[thunda-berd]

yeah man, of course, the DS-2 Turbo Distortion from BOSS gives great distortion sound with bass :D

[NormanConquest]

Yeah, the Tubescreamer is great as a bass fuzz, especially if you're using a bass amp with valves. You won't get the total saturation of the Big Muff, but more of a farty, slightly overdriven tone, kind of like Larry Graham on Sly Stone's "Dance to the Music."

[spanky]

I like a little ds-1 on my bass at times. tastes good. and inexpensive compared to some of the other condiments out there.

[jacobhimself]

i like fuzzier distortion on bass, like around the world by RHCP... a nice fuzzy rumble.

[cin]

On the other end of the spectrum, anyone used a fulltone bass drive for guitar? I'm interested in trying one with guitar, I'm also trying to get my bass player to buy one. ;)

I liked the idea of the proco juggernaut for the guitar too, because of the clean/dirty mix control, but then I found out about the sparkle drive. ;)