Tube Screamer vs. O.C.D.

[Nostalgic Distortion]

I'm caught up between these two fellas & I could use a little advice? I play just about everything and I've got a bunch of different amps so in one way or another I've got most of the British and U.S.A. tones covered!!! VOX, Fender, Egnater, Blackstar, Marshal, exe. If this was your choice to make what would you do & why?

 

[Archer250]

Re: Tube Screamer vs. O.C.D.

Screamer. Why? Tube Screamer as boost = instant classic tone.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Tube Screamer vs. O.C.D.

The voicing switch on the OCD gives it a lot of versatility, for working with different pickups. Also, it's a very transparent overdrive that lets the tone of your guitar and the nuances of your playing come through -- just sweetened.

 

[Van Noord]

Re: Tube Screamer vs. O.C.D.

I prefer the OCD. Warmer mids, better touch sensitivity.

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: Tube Screamer vs. O.C.D.

screamer for kicking you amps in the pants.
ocd is better for adding a gain sound to a clean amp.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Tube Screamer vs. O.C.D.

Both, and make it a Fulldrive instead of a TS.

 

[ErikH]

Re: Tube Screamer vs. O.C.D.

I'll take the OCD. It works great boosting a dirty amp or as the overdrive in to a clean amp. I love mine. Way more versatile than a TS, IME/IMO.

 

[trevorus]

Re: Tube Screamer vs. O.C.D.

Get an EHX East River for the TS, and the EHX OD Glove and have both for the price of either.

 

[Nostalgic Distortion]

Re: Tube Screamer vs. O.C.D.

Get an EHX East River for the TS, and the EHX OD Glove and have both for the price of either.

I've actually owned both once upon a time, both were great pedals in their own right but they can get pretty noisy when you crank up your amp. I love E-H pedals, I quite often pass over $150-$300 boutique dirt pedals for my Soul Food but I've found too many E-H pedals in a chain adds up to a lot of popping & hissing...

Really I want something that's going to work with any & all of my amplifiers just by moving around a few knobs? I've got a lot of amp specific pedals, a Bohemian Treble Booster for my AC's, I will typically run a Swell G Drive in front of any S.S. amps I'm using essentially turning it into a hybrid? A pickup booster for my Egnater and I also have a Ibanez TS15 head & cab, awesome amplifiers but the T.S. circuit is garbage! Absolutely nothing like the pedals, in any flavor! But that amp seems to really like being pushed by my Soul Food with the gain turned up to about noon and a Metal Muff T.B., gain also around noon, right next to it...

As of now I'm leaning towards the O.C.D., it seems like it sounds great no matter what amplifier it's being run through & that's what I'm looking for but I'm open to other suggestions as well?

 

[Liam1963]

Re: Tube Screamer vs. O.C.D.

I use them both, for the afore-posted reasons....

 

[Rex_Rocker]

Re: Tube Screamer vs. O.C.D.

If you've had the East River Drive and did not like it, don't think you'll like the standard Tube Screamer any better. I have a Maxon OD-9, Ibanez TS808, and MXR Classic Overdrive, and a buddy of mine has the ERD. We've compared them all side by side, and the East River is really close to the Maxon and the Ibanez. The MXR is a bit different, but it still has a TS-ish vibe to it. If the Maxon and the Ibanez sound, say, like 97% the same, I think the East River would be around 94% the same.

You probably want to look more into modded TS-type circuits rather than actual Tube Screamers.

 

[superpete]

Re: Tube Screamer vs. O.C.D.

screamer for kicking you amps in the pants.
ocd is better for adding a gain sound to a clean amp.

this is the answer

 

[Aceman]

Re: Tube Screamer vs. O.C.D.

I know the OCD has a lot of fans, particularly for the transparency factor.

But I have used a Screamer forever and a day and have never felt the need to change.

Gotta go with your own ears on this one man….

 

[Falloffthebonetone]

Re: Tube Screamer vs. O.C.D.

I prefer the OCD more as a distortion unit while the screamer works better as a boost to me. Simple solution is to get both used.

 

[Nostalgic Distortion]

Re: Tube Screamer vs. O.C.D.

I just bought them both? I ended up with some extra cash in my PayPal account & I've got 30 days to return one or both of them if I don't like them anyway? The O.C.D. is great, definitely the best all around O.D. pedal I've ever bought & a lot less expensive than some of the others I own! It seems to work & sound amazing in front of all my amplifiers & that's what I was really looking for but the T.S. is pretty cool as well!

I'm probably going to keep both, although the O.C.D. will have a permanent home on my board where the T.S. will probably get used "as needed"? Right now I've got it in front of my Ibanez TS15 Tube Screamer amplifier, beautiful sounding amp but the T.S.-5 circuit in it sucks, now it actually sounds the way I imagined it would when I bought it...

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Tube Screamer vs. O.C.D.

Try stacking the Tube Screamer and OCD.