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Anyone here using a bass overdrive when playing the bass's well-known six-stringed cousin (which I believe is called the "guitar"? Joe Bonamassa endorses them...)?
Just wondering why you might choose to and what they bring to your tone that another drive wouldn't. I think Jonsi uses them.
I ask because I like the look of the Dark Glass stuff, and I saw that their Vintage Microtubes Deluxe drive is a bass pedal. Any insight helpful. Ta!
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Usually there's a clean blend, which can be nice if you're running a drive pedal into something already driven and want to keep a lot of the fundamental sound and just add some hair on top. This usually also retains low end. Even bass pedals without a clean blend do tend to be voiced to retain low end.
Tone - always going to be subjective, but my own subjective opinion is the flatter sounding ones should work pretty well on guitar (and that would include the Vintage Microtubes).
Cons -
EQ points could be below what'd be useful on a guitar. For example any pedal with a 40hz bass knob probably isn't going to be much use on a guitar, but an 80-100hz bass knob would be fine (again Vintage Microtubes pedal will be 100hz IIRC, Sansamps tended to be at 80hz IIRC). If the EQ is left fairly flat it won't matter anyway, I just personally wouldn't try to put a whole load of deep bass through a guitar speaker
Some of the scooped bass distortion pedals sound quite extremely scooped on guitar. I have used an MXR M80 as a guitar distortion before and it worked ok providing the mids were run very high (run flat it was very scooped). If there's a way to dial the mids back in it'll probably be fine though.
I like using guitar distortion for bass (Boss Metal Zone is the best), but I use bass Wah for guitar, because it doesn't give that heinous top-end fingers-down-blackboard sound that normal guitar wahs do.
I said maybe.....
Although if it replaces my Hyper Fuzz I'll be astonished.
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@ICBM if you ever get the chance also try the MD2. It probably needs a clean blend for deep low end but as far as a bass distortion goes I think it is pretty good, I prefer it to the MT2 anyway.