Ibanez Tube Screamer, Comments?

[JammerMatt]

Re: Ibanez Tube Screamer, Comments?

It seem to "feel" the TS9DX more than I "hear" it, if that means anything. When I get a few nickels to rub together, I'm sending it on over to John for a mod. Skarekorogh sold me.

 

[FireBros.]

Re: Ibanez Tube Screamer, Comments?

For whatever reasons, the Tubescreamer is the standard by which all other pedals are judged. There are a lot better pedals available, and a lot worse. IMO everyone should own one, if they can. For punk and metal though, I agree that the DS-1 would be a lot more versatile.

 

[StrykeBack]

Re: Ibanez Tube Screamer, Comments?

Where is this john guy that I can send my ts9dx off to get modded? perhaps he'd sell me the couple caps or chips and a schematic? i'd be really interested in opening this up and seeing how it works.

My ts9dx was always really dry and muffled, putting it right after my barber tone press really pushed it alive a bit more but I'd like to get an even more open sound out of it.

 

[75lespaul]

Re: Ibanez Tube Screamer, Comments?

Yeah, I'd like to know who John is too for that mod :smoker:

 

[STRATDELUXER97]

Re: Ibanez Tube Screamer, Comments?

Where is this john guy that I can send my ts9dx off to get modded? perhaps he'd sell me the couple caps or chips and a schematic? i'd be really interested in opening this up and seeing how it works.

My ts9dx was always really dry and muffled, putting it right after my barber tone press really pushed it alive a bit more but I'd like to get an even more open sound out of it.

Hello guys...Here's the deal or most common dislikes about the entire Tube Screamer line...

1) When you click the pedal in,you lose your lows....
2) Everyone complains about the "midrange hump"...

The fix...Beef up the lows,give the pedal the ability to have more gain at high drive settings,but also have an actual cleaner boost at low drive settings with the volume on the pedal way up....

The eq problem gets taken care of because while we beef up the overall tone in the lows,you don't percieve that mid hump...It's actually a corrective midrange eq change or we can actually change the mids by changing the values on the mids set resistor....

I love the TS9 and the reissue TS808,but I always have to mod mine,simply because I want my lows to stay the way they are with the pedal in or out...I actually prefer the lows to be more prominent because I'm a strat player and when I kick that TS in,I want a full,round tone,with alot of singing sustain...The TS benefits from better caps even if the values don't get changed..There are quite a few electrolytic metal can caps in the TS that don't give the pedal better tone...You need the right opamp in these pedals also because that's where the smooth,singing,tone comes from(Partially)...

The Tube Screamers I have on my board get alot of use...I use the reissue 808 set for a slightly boosted blues tone and I have a TS5 that has alot of gain for a Gary Moore,Santana,EJ type tone...Warm,full,and singing tone...Midnite Man has 2 TS5s that I Modded for him...Maybe he'll chime in also...Anyway...Enough rambling... :smack:

 

[Nite_Maresz_25]

Re: Ibanez Tube Screamer, Comments?

I've never been a huge fan of the TS-9 or TS-808 either.

But personally I find stock Tubescreamers to have kind of a compressed tone that makes me feel like I'm playing inside a chrome bubble that I wish I could break through and get out into the open air again.

I think the Boss DS-1 is a much more versatile and better sounding pedal. It's a pedal I can leave on all the time (that's how Vai and Satriani use the DS-1) and go from clean to scream with the volume tone of my guitar.

The Boss DS-1 has a much more open and natural tone, IMO.

+1 to the hole thing

 

[STRATDELUXER97]

Re: Ibanez Tube Screamer, Comments?

+1 to the hole thing

The Tube Screamer isn't a heavy metal guy's pedal....It's mainly used to push an otherwise maxed out preamp into a tube like tone with compression...Alot of people buy a Tube Screamer thinking it's going to be their "Marshall In A Pedal" and they are very dissapointed when the pedal just overdrives and doesn't crunch with gobs of gain...Also it seems alot of players need a distortion device and not an overdrive pedal for the tones they desire...A distortion device really colors your original tone,an overdrive pedal can enhance your tone if used right..

 

[lex666]

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I was playing my TS9DX last nite. On the TS9 setting, there is a mid boost, and your lows are gone, but the next setting, just above the TS9 setting, give a really nice tone. The midrange honk is gone, and the lows are still there without being muddy. I think the turbo version exceeds the original TS9 version because of these additional settings. I would recommed trying the TURBO version before writing off the TS9 completely.

The TS9 may not be what UR looking for if you want metal. Like others said, its not a metal box, and it definetely isn't a "Marshall crunch" in a box. I think it was intended to be used sparingly, as a boost (clean, mild or dirty) but it definetely isn't a disortion box. I think its transparency or mildly dirty boost is where the TS9 or TS9DX excels. If you like the sound of your amp, but wished it had more "push" then the TS9DX would be the way to go. If you wished your amp sounded like something else, then something else is what you need...