Gate Voltage higher than Drain, will it cause damage?

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The maximum gate to source voltage for the MOSFET is 20V. -12V is 17V below the 5V power supply, so within spec.
For safety just add a resistor voltage divider between the comparator and MOSFET gates to divide +/-12V down to something like +/-5V or 6V.
Depending on what frequency range you need (how quickly you expect the comparator output to change) something like 10k+10k resistor would drop the swing of the comparator to +/-6V. That resistance (effective 5K of the two 10K resistors in parallel) forms an RC filter with the gate capacitance of the MOSFETS. The P-channel has a high gate capacitance, which will put the -3dB frequency below 10kHz. That might be OK, depends on what is driving the comparator. If you need better high frequency response then use lower value resistors (make sure the series combination is not below what the compator can drive).
 
Thnx, I thought of that as wel, to add a extra resistor or just risk it.
Audio range 20 - 20K or more like 13K, witch seems to be around the max range of a piano.

I could go a rail to rail opamp, but i don't have the OPA2991 at home.
I do have the Rohm sh8mb5, also 30 € cent cheaper than OPA2991.
(the OPA991 is freaking tiny, SOT23-5/6)
I thought that would be nice workaround.
 

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