running an active bass into a outboard preamp pedal

[varunkapahi]

i plan to buy a hartke vxl bass attack preamp pedal
http://www.samsontech.com/products/p...fm?prodID=1734

i wanted to know if it would be completely okay to engage it with a passive bass?am asking because my boss GEB-7 bass eq doesnt work well with active basses, guess the signal gets too hot for it.
so whatsay?

[Swift713]

Did you mean to ask if it would work to plug an active bass into a Hartke Bass Attack? It should be fine. You may have to adjust an input gain knob on the pedal, or worst case scenario, turn down your bass. I'm surprised to hear that the Boss 7 band isn't working with an active. Are you boosting a lot of frequencies with it?

[KarateKid25]

I have run both my Warwick Thumb and Stingray (both active) through my Fodera Outboard Pre before. You can just adjust your volume if need be.

[diechris]

i used on with my modulus loaded with an aggie obp3 and didnt have a problem... it also worked fine with my old brown boss EQ and newer EQ pedal.. may i ask how your geb-7 doesnt work well?

[i2k]

Originally Posted by varunkapahi

am asking because my boss GEB-7 bass eq doesnt work well with active basses, guess the signal gets too hot for it.
so whatsay?

Strange, I ran my active basses through almost all kind of Boss EQ and never encountered any problem.
The only fx that won't work well with active basses is fuzz.

[varunkapahi]

i my self do not have an active bass a friend once plugged in his ibanez bass through my eq pedal and it sounded weird it but it is very probable that the battery in his bass could have been too old or something

[niftydog]

Originally Posted by i2k

The only fx that won't work well with active basses is fuzz.

That's not entirely true. The OP is correct when he says the active bass may be 'too hot' for some pedals. I struggled for a long time to find a wah pedal that didn't distort when faced with the output from my Stingray, and if I really dig in, my BassIQ will clip.

An EQ pedal is particularly susceptible to clipping because it has the potential to introduce a lot of gain. Also, any filtering type of pedal is more likely to clip because they dramatically boost specific frequencies - often to the point of clipping.

[varunkapahi]

thanks for all the replies guys

[bongomania]

To solve problems with the level of a bass's output, try to select pedals which have an input level control. That does limit your selection quite a bit, but it's one solution. Another solution is to find a pedal which handles the output level of your bass just fine, and which has its own output level control. Put that pedal in front of whichever other pedal is clipping, and adjust the output level of the one to match the input needs of the other.

[varunkapahi]

thats a neat idea. the hartke pedal does have a output pedal knob i think
thanks bongo