ihategarybettman Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 This may be the most stupid question ever asked on this site, but here goes: are Ibanez Tube Screamer pedals intended to be used primarily with tube amps? Also, what guitar and/or amp do you feel is best suited to the Tube Screamer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strat0124 Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 Well I think they work best with tube amps, but no, they'll work well with anything you got. Down like a dollar comin up against a yen, doin pretty good for the shape I'm in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headlow Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 I use my Tubesreamer with me Tele through a fender stage 100. Its not a tube amp but i think it works pretty well. In fact the tubesreamer through the clean channel gives a better distortion than the dirty channels on the amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIAMOND DUST Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 I use mine with a tube amp. They really drive the clean channel to a sweet, dynamic kinda distortion. I have used one with a solid state amp, but it made a tinny, and very piercing sound. http://b-cordova.dmusic.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennyf Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 Originally posted by ihategarybettman: Are Ibanez Tube Screamer pedals intended to be used primarily with tube amps? Also, what guitar and/or amp do you feel is best suited to the Tube Screamer?You can use 'em with anything. They do work particularly well into a clean tube amp, or for solo overdriving a slightly distorted tube amp. It seems to me that they still let the character your guitar and dynamics of your playing come through better than some other distortion pedals, probably because they are not a super-gaino-screamazoid pedal. I used to use 2 in series going into a clean tube amp. I'd set one up to give me some crunch at a little less volume than the pedal bypassed, and set the other up with a little crunch and a volume boost. Turn both off, turn down the guitar a bit, clean rhythm. Turn up the guitar, clean lead vol. Turn down the guitar, pedal one on, crunchy rhythm. Turn up the guitar, pedal two on as well, nice singing lead tone with a little volume boost. There's a lot of hype over the TS808 vs. "original" TS9 vs. "4558 op-amp" vs current pedals, but there ain't enough difference among any of 'em to wet your pants over. Even the TS-5 "potato bug" version sounds pretty much the same as any other TS-9 variant. I imagine the new "tone-lock" version sounds pretty much the same as well. Can't comment on the "turbo" versions, never tried one. band link: bluepearlband.com music, lessons, gig schedules at dennyf.com STURGEON'S LAW --98% of everything is bullshit. My Unitarian Jihad Name is: The Jackhammer of Love and Mercy. Get yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 Ironically, there is no tube in a tubescreamer . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tld Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 I decided to take a chance on a TS808 modified to the old TS9 specs from here: http://pedalworx.com It was $125 as apposed to the approximate $99 for a stock TS808. While I've never had a chance to A/B it with a stock pedal, I gotta admit, it sounds really really sweet. Tom http://www.digitalaudiorock.com The Protools Plugin Preset Co-op Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Strat Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 Personally, I think Tube Screamers suck. BlueStrat a.k.a. "El Guapo" ...Better fuzz through science... http://geocities.com/teleman28056/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revolead Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 Originally posted by bluestrat: Personally, I think Tube Screamers suck.I'd have to second that. I think for $110 there's a lot better pedals out there. They've just got too much midrange. I personally like my Boss Blues Driver just fine. I'm considering getting it modded my Keeley, like he did with my DS-1. Then again, I'm kind of a Boss posterchild. Shut up and play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Strat Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 Originally posted by revolead: Originally posted by bluestrat: Personally, I think Tube Screamers suck.I'd have to second that. I think for $110 there's a lot better pedals out there. They've just got too much midrange. I personally like my Boss Blues Driver just fine. I'm considering getting it modded my Keeley, like he did with my DS-1. Then again, I'm kind of a Boss posterchild.That's funny, I'm into DOD distortions. Their Mystic Blues Overdrive blows the Ibanez TS-7 out of the water, IMO. BlueStrat a.k.a. "El Guapo" ...Better fuzz through science... http://geocities.com/teleman28056/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Bitch Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 Old school Chandler Tube Drive(rack) into a Marshall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 A Tube Screamer's main mission in life is to give a little character and a good kick to the preamp tubes of a tube amp, though you obviously can use it more as an overdrive sound in itself with any kind of amp, or even direct, with varied results. Personally, I myself like NO pedal in front for overdrive/distortion, and prefer to get the best of what an amp has to offer in those departments either on it's own, or with some kind of very clean boost or a compressor/limiter with good boost to slam the input. A T.C. Electronic Chorus/Flanger pedal, for example, has a good preamp in it with about fifteen decibels of clean boost, if I remember correctly; cranking that up without the chorus on makes one Hell of an overdrive-boost for a cranked-up blackface Fender! If I wanted an out and out fuzz, that's a different matter, though, and I'd be more inclined to stick a pedal there in front. Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revolead Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 Originally posted by WOW: Old school Chandler Tube Drive(rack) into a Marshall. Eric Johnson: beautiful tone, beautiful music Shut up and play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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