Which ibanez tube screamer is the best

I have the drive rolled back, and a boosted level. It's great! The only and almighty ts9, I play it with the drive control all way down to get that sweet bluesy sound, or all way up to do rock! Very useful to get "that" sound with and hybrid amp. I use it more as a boost than my main overdrive, but sounds really nice either way.

Turn the drive up and you get a really thick distortion, keep the drive low and you get a simple well-rounded gain boost. Not leaving my pedalboard anytime soon. Who hasn't owned a TS9 Tubescreamer?

I had an Maxon-made original issue TS9 before I got sick of tubescreamers. It sounded like a tubescreamer should. If you really listen while staring at your gain knob settings you can barely notice the difference! From what I can tell the TS and TS9 were copied from Boss's OD1 only with a high-cut tone control added and the diodes switched to symmetrical clipping because Boss supposedly had the asymetrical clipping idea pantented at the time.

There are a few other component differences that give this pedal slightly stronger bass and a mid-hump that favors the lower, rather than upper mids. The clipping and mid-range bias really suit Fender single coil pickups and Blackface fender amps, but a TS9 sounds cool through a marshall or a vox as well though I prefer the Boss SD1 for this application usually. Here's a little tech for those of you who are curious. The revolutionary idea in this whole family of overdrives was putting the clipping diodes in the feedback loop of the dual op-amp softening the clipping substantially compared with the diodes-to-ground approach fro the DOD OD camp that preceeded it.

I could say more about this classic pedal, but we all know about it. Its a tone in and of itself and if you play a Strat through a Blackface Fender amp you are basically required to own one or a boutique derivitave. If you haven't tried one of these you should.

Its a classic like a Telecaster; sure you can improve on it from an intellectual standpoint, but its been doing the job in its own way for so long that tampering with the formula is really creating a whole new tone and defeats the idea of having something classic. Really, you need to appreciate a stock TS9 in a loud, electric blues band situation before you knock it -- it thicken single coils even with the gain at 1, can produce a good amount of its own distortion into a clean amp, has a wollop of output to hit the 1st tube in your amp and helps single notes cut the mix instead of getting lost.

There's a reason many famous guitarists use this pedal. The sound is really amazing. I would describe it as an overdrive pedal, rather than a distortion pedal. I can get nice, subtle overdrive out of it, and then crank up the drive to get some great heavy overdrive perfect for lead. I'm pretty sure I'll never replace it, however I have thought often of adding another to it, so that I have both my favorite settings ready to go during live performances.

Legendary pedal, I've used it as my main overdrive sound for years. Can be used as a booster or as your main solo-ing overdrive sound. Strongly recommended. Bar none, the best Overdrive pedal on the market presently and in the past.

If you are looking for proof of this all you have to do is search "Tubescreamer users" and you will find everyone from SRV to Nashville power houses. The tubescreamer can and will do everything from clean boost to straight up hard driving cranked tube amp tones.

Very reliable and very affordable. Abominable Electronics Hellmouth. Ibanez TS Tube Screamer. Maxon OD-9 Overdrive. Analog Man King of Tone Overdrive. Xotic Effects BB Preamp. Paul Cochrane Timmy. JHS Colour Box. Maxon OD Overdrive. Like the Tube Screamer Mini, the East River Drive is True Bypass but due to the slightly larger pedal footprint, is able to accommodate a battery compartment as well.

The Ibanez TS Pro is a vintage reissue of the pedal that started it all. Tonally, some have described it as having a warm and creamy texture to the sound. This is likely as close to an original TS as you can get in terms of looks and tone.

At least from a production pedal, that is. The pots for example, do feel lower quality and the Boss inspired enclosure is made of molded plastic. However, it would be well suited to bedroom use. Regardless, a good sounding overdrive pedal for the price. Rather than a single tone control, we have a 2-band EQ so we can independently control the high and low end.

The EarthQuaker Devices Palisades is another rare unicorn of an overdrive pedal. Not only does it include a second gain stage and a boost all independently footswitchable , it allows you to change how the circuit is clipped. Giving you access to some of the various Tube Screamer types of circuits.

Allowing you to go from tight to fat sounding. You can go from a thinner low-gain tone to thicker high-gain tone. While most pedals in this list offer medium overdrive tones. With the toggle switch you can take the pedal from beautiful low-gain tones all the way to searing high gain tones. One of the reasons people tend to love TS style pedals for amp-like tones is that it blends part of the clean signal back in. The Moonshine V2 takes this to another level by including a clean blend control, so you can choose exactly how much of the clean tone is blended back into your signal path.

The best pedal depends on personal taste and budget. While there are many clones of this circuit, there are also many mods that have been done to it. Then there are pedal builders that have started with one of the Tube Screamer variations and taken it in an entirely different direction. It was originally developed by Maxon and sold under the Ibanez brand in And various iterations of the pedal have been used by a huge number of artists from Stevie Ray Vaughn to Jerry Cantrell.

If you want to learn more about this pedal, Analog Man has an article on the history of the Ibanez Tube Screamer. The Tube Screamer is typically used to get amp-like overdriven tones from a clean amp or to push an overdriven amp into heavier saturation. You can use your Tube Screamer as a boost pedal. Like dialing in any amp or pedal, set all controls to 12 and adjust accordingly.

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