Acoustic Bass Pedals

[ciel]

I've got an electro-acoustic bass, which does nicely for most stuff I play, however, I need to play something with a bit more power to it and wondered if anyone has ever used pedals with this type of guitar? I was thinking of a chorus and overdrive pedal. Would it work (I realise that the guitar doesn't really look the part for rock music, but I can live with that if it means I don't have to buy an additional guitar!).
Thanks.

[velvetkevorkian]

It will work but any gain pedals (OD, distortion, etc) or delay (and possibly others) will increase the chance of feedback with an acoustic instrument- the other night I put my girlfriend's acoustic guitar through distortion/delay to sound like a cranked 5150 amp and it just fed back constantly, through nothing more than my hi-fi speakers.

[ciel]

Thanks for that - however, it may not be worth buying the pedals if it's likely to feedback. It's looking more like borrowing or buying and electric one!

[teej]

Never used an electro acoustic, and I'm not very gizmo-savvy in this context, but I always use a preamp (fishman pro-eq platinum) with my acoustic upright - if it's just more punch you're after, maybe something like that would work?

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

If you're plugging it in and putting it through fx that might make it feed back, you could try reducing the feedback by sticking a CD over the soundhole woth blu-tak. Also might get a better sound by fitting a magnetic pickup.

[EskimoBassist]

I borrowed an Electro Acoustic for a few performances. With it I used:

TU-2 Tuner
MultiComp Compressor
CEB-3 Chorus
DD-6 Delay
M-80 Pre/DI

I got some great, really natural sounds that really complimented the acoustic bass.

[cheddatom]

I've done it, but I think blocking the soundhole would have helped. I had to angle myself away from my amp, turn it down, and put my noise gate on. At lower volumes it shouldn't be too bad. We've recently done a lot of guitars on an album i'm making by playing an electro acoustic into a distorted practice amp and we've had no feedback issues (standing very close to the amp)