It’s been copied hundreds of times, in both the TS9 chip configuration seen here and the original-design TS808 chip version. Depending on your outlook, it may be either fortunate or unfortunate that it’s virtually impossible to have a discussion about overdrive that doesn’t touch on the Tube Screamer. (I have and like a lot of solid state pedals, but never use them.Let’s get this one out of the way first thing. To hear this, it's important to compare directly, because taken alone, solid state pedals obviously can sound very fine. Solid state pedals sound kind of boxy, grainy and narrow compared to tube pedals/amps which sound more clear and open. Real tube pedals all sound more natural than transistor pedals. I personally play a SIB CUDA, a KOCH Superlead (these are great), sometimes a Blackstar HT Dual (great rocker), I used a SD Twin Tube before (not as good, but still better than solid state pedals).Ī discontinued VOX straight6 is great for fat low gain or clean. They can sound as great as any great tube amp, if they are put in front of a tube power amp. These work with real tubes at full voltage and are the same like a tube preamp section. When buying a tube pedal, it's important to know if it's one of these or a real tube driven pedal. Matter of taste, but not the same as a real tube amp. These have no true tube sound, because they don't run on full voltage and therefore sound different. Ibanez tube king, Butler tube driver, etc. pedals with an alibi or starved mode tubeĮx. There are three kinds of "tube sounding" pedals, and knowing what's inside makes it easier to choose.Įxample: Tube screamer, OCD, and a zillion more.ĭo not really sound like a tube amp, but are fine for what they are.Ģ. The Jester does, cause that is what it is. None really sound like a tube amp, honestly. I haven't used thousands but I have had a bunch of the TS and TS type and Boss pedals. It sounds like a tube amp just breaking up, when fed into my dead clean SFDR (playing low volume, so not pushing it). Actually, in my current band, I use it on the lowest gain setting on about 1/2. It isn't super gainy, not like an Angry Charlie (which I also have and don't use). It is basically the OD channel from a tube amp in a box. I also had a Butler, the blue one, years ago. I runs the tube on low power, it is basically a regular OD except the tube kind of smooths it out. I still have an old Ibanez tube king, I like it for gainy stuff. I got this after I sold my MK IV, and it really didn't sound like "typical" boogie stuff to me, like the MK stuff. But as someone said, the high gain channel was real "metal" sounding.
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