Q: I’ve heard that some players like to run two overdrive pedals, with one feeding into the others. Is there any chance I could damage my pedals by doing this?
A: Your pedals should be safe. It’s become quite common practice for players to cascade overdrive and/or distortion stompboxes into each other, or to run a clean boost pedal before or after an overdrive or distortion.
The advantage of doing this is that you can set up one pedal for a rhythm-type tone, then step on the second one to push the signal harder for a solo/lead tone. Plus, the tonal combination of two cascaded overdrive/distortion pedals is different from a single pedal turned up for more gain.