All user reviews for the Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer

http://www.ibanez.com/accessories/spec.asp?m=28

classic stomp box size
3 CONTRL: volume, drive, tone
9V battery or power adapter (not supplied)
PS: Boss AC OK

UTILIZATION

Trs use simple manual con, but there is no need

SOUND QUALITY

Despite its simplicity this distortion provides an extended range of sounds
Eg with a gibson amp and a good two seconds I thought I heard hendricks
the tone can be very useful and really fawns

OVERALL OPINION

Originally, this silent pedals manufactured by Maxon
https://www.music123.com/Item/?itemno=86294, but it's not easy to find in europe

The PDAL is a bomb, although uses (p ex and APRS qualiser before we get a lot of true rock sound.

- Metal
- 3 potentiomtres (Drive, Tone, Level)
- Power: 9V battery or mains
- Jack on 6.35 (in, out)
- Replacement Integrated Circuits by an original LM1458N

UTILIZATION

A switch on / off, 3 potentiomtres, do not bother to have 15 to Bac know how to use

SOUND QUALITY

Well, it's basically why I made the purchase. The MODEL used by Eric Clapton, Keith Richards or even Popa Chubby has built a reputable in the field of overdrive. Possdant Pod2 one I tried in vain to get an overdrive but when I attacked the strings, obtained by saturation attack lgre turned distortion.

I use an Ibanez RG550 with a Peavey Classic 50/50 and with a Vox V847.

Depending on rglage gain, you get a crunch from the muscles a nice warm overdrive.
The knob of the Tone is not to look pretty, it is feared
I use most of the time, the neck pickup with the potentiomtre Tone of the guitar 7 / 10.

The grain obtained is fabulous with either the bridge or neck pickup your exact is not aggressive. By combining a TS9 Tremolo lightweight, one raproche Vox amps of the '60s.

I use the following rglages on M-one to try to reproduce a Vox AC-30:

[1] Soft Tremolo
speed: 4.87 Hz; depth: 60%; fx level: 52%

[2] Room reverb
decay: 0.78; Predelay: 0, size: small, high cut: 2.51 kHz; hi color: 0; lo color: 0
Reflect lev: 0dB; reverb lev: 0dB; modulation: off; mod speed: 0, mod depth: 0; fx level: 18%

IDAL is the MODEL for Blues, Blues / Rock. If you are looking for a metal distortion, go your way.

Examples APRS changes:

Its clear (http://egraffin.free.fr/ts9/TS9-clean.mp3)
Drive 0 (http://egraffin.free.fr/ts9/TS9-od0.mp3)
Drive 5 (http://egraffin.free.fr/ts9/TS9-od5.mp3)
Drive 10 (http://egraffin.free.fr/ts9/TS9-od10.mp3)

OVERALL OPINION

Try it and adopt it. I heard this effect unit, there are 7 / 8 years old when I com o play the guitar, I think the c'tait TS5 MODEL therefore cheap. A force to try to reproduce with a TS9 POD2, I buy a DCID TS9 Reissue. Few months after the purchase, I changed the two Integrated Circuits and Resistors to reproduce the TS808. For more information on this operation you will see a page of my website dedicated the Tube Screamer (http://www.linux-france.org/article/web/egraffin/ts9.php). Since I have I can not do without.

Analog pedals, three knobs: Tone level, drive
Verdtre footswitch box with a vintage look.

UTILIZATION

It's plug and play, you turn the knobs and you find your sound like a great!

SOUND QUALITY

What sound, what heat! My god it's good, couple with my Peavey Classic 30, a lot of bluesy sound extraordinary writ is nirvana!

Nothing is cast, everything is good take!

OVERALL OPINION

I've had a little over a month, and APRS moults hearing recommendations on the pedals, I started and I do not regret my purchase. Excellent overdrive if not the best (that is subjective, I know). One tip: try the!

Sweet overdrive, overdrive amp so hot lamps.
It's going from blues to rock ... and that's class!

UTILIZATION

Then there is the extremely simple! A button for the drive, one for tone (redoutable!) and one for the volume!
No need to notice it's going alone

SOUND QUALITY

This is the ultimate warm sound. Please note that the rest of the overdrive, not distortion of the metallic abstain. But for blues and rock until it's perfect. The button will color your tone overdrive and expands the sonic possibilities of your game and finally, it respects the characteristics of your guitar and your amp's level! An happiness.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 2 years and it serves me for everything. After saturation for sharp well for solos, especially if you play as a group, choose the disto ... but the TS9 is to have in all cases, anyway! Its price is not high compared to its potential and remains affordable OCCAZ.

It is a small jewelry overdrive, blues and grunge trs. No metal distortion but is ncessaire?

UTILIZATION

Very easy to use there are three rglage. Ms. no indication on the buttons one might find the sound for your eyes closed.

SOUND QUALITY

I use a vox amp with a 52 telecaster and it carrment the rve. The heat of the overdrive gives a warm and trs trs lamp. There are no complaints.

OVERALL OPINION

I tried one of the 80 original TS9 and I did not hear any diffrence. I do not believe that a magic mystrieuse oprerait electronics in the 80s and I do not think Ibanez would have had to remake its own ide hardware and less well. (What would be the intrt).
The sound is anywhere outside like the original, no need to ruin by finding a use pedals. Its new price is well justified because trying to adopt for trs trs long. I do not use more than l. There are unavoidable, the TS9 is one.

Overdrive legendary used by every major.
Analog course

UTILIZATION

3 pots: Gain, Tone and Volume
An 8 year old child can use it

SOUND QUALITY

For 110 euros, you enter the legend.
Pedal very medium
The sound is creamy to perfection in a tube amp, that the fact bluntly.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for six months, I get on my Fender Hot Rod a sublime crunch, much better than the gain of the amplifier.
I have tried many models since I played but this model is a must, we must have.
It's expensive but the legend at a price.

Bê should clear up a misunderstanding, some believe that this is the model "Vintage" but it is no longer available as it is "Vintage", this is a reissue of TS9 Ibanez, presented on the market around 1980. This then raises a second misunderstanding, that the price as a vintage model is trading, so, double the original price specified here.

Having said that, following the model for Vintage, sorry but there's no ad hoc item.

Tubescreamer, it is aptly named, a transistor amp, it sounds almost lamp on a Vox AC30, it becomes even more interesting. A true overdrive a rare finesse.
Analog electronics well designed, so silent. PSU making industry, Jack IN / OUT jack.

UTILIZATION

You throw the manual, however, on an "original" long ago lost it, except music maniacs. You branches and you play.

SOUND QUALITY

A Wha used with Original CryBaby, a phaser Guyatone PS-OO7 found today, a Korg AX1500, a VOX AC30 74 years. Instrument: a Les Paul Custom BlackBeauty 68 or Stat 89 Plus Gold Lace Sensor.

Whether with the LP or the Stat, quickly found his happiness. Some may find the config above a little snob, I can not help it, with 30 years of guitar, I have accumulated and I have kept only the best.
That said, if the TS9 indifferent to the metal with the addition of Korg in series, some might change their minds.

OVERALL OPINION

I own two, the oldest since she was released, around 80, I do not remember exactly. Strangely, it was originally, an integrated circuit type JRC2043DD (the first 200 000 were equipped with this circuit). Some swear by the JRC4558D, however, the sound of this version is just as interesting. For good measure, I soldered the 2043, I replaced an integrated circuit support, I bought a JRC4558D and I welded a support, it can compare the result with each circuit. The second comes from the 4558D, there is no difference between the two pedals equipped with the same circuit.

I tried a lot of pedals before this one and never really find what I wanted, when I plugged in, it was love at first sight.

A particular use is a trip with a TS9 + Boss CH1 Super Chorus, a small speaker sony amplifée and Start. No bulky and super sound.

sold between 200 and 250 € on average, not a chance. It is of course possible to modify a reissue but it must replace several components condos, resistors, and know how to handle the soldering iron. However, purists argue that it comes close and some 90% of the original model. It's like a test-bed for high-end HIFI!

I recently tried a reissue of the material quoted above is very different, it sounds more "synthetic" I did not like, for cons I've tried a modified reissue, the original circuit, 4 capacitors and one or two resistors have been replaced: it sounds rather like my original. This change is very popular in the States.

Excellent acting, single use, robust and affordable prices indniablement trs in terms of its quality.
The sound of the natural saturation of analog lampes.Effet repection the nuances of the game
To boost grain and get more Submitted saturation, various solutions remember:
TS9 is a second branch SERIES is a compressor / sustainer upstream of the TS9 or the activation of the saturation of the amplifier in addition to the TS9.
I use it with an amp and tlcaster lamps.
Perfect to play the repertoire of Santana, Hendrix, J Winter, Rory Gallagher, Poppa Chubby, Larry Carlton, Mike Stern ...

UTILIZATION

Absolute simplicity

SOUND QUALITY

The sound of the lights in a box indestructible.
Should any solid body guitar

OVERALL OPINION

I MODEL, which is the last of the old rplique MODELS.
Fabulous

A transistor pedal. Overdrive trs type, built to last at least a man's life.
In short, buttons and a switch to pide, a solid construction and jacks. A PDAL what

1 Button to gain, to a level compared to the clear sound and a tone to color the sound.

UTILIZATION

Operation is simple as a three pedals knobs.
The rglages are trs prcis and progressive. The gain as any mini, you can really pile the caller prs for the sound you want (not like my other pedals lumberjack).
Tone really affects the sound and allows as much boost in crunch that color the sound.

In short, all the elements and the quality of the tube are scram l.

SOUND QUALITY

What a slap! For years I was looking for that sound. Can not find it with cranberry crunch of my pramps. A little too much, or too little gain, is not as pretty ... And I reois I branch, I turn 3 knobs and boom! SOUND! the real.
I do not know what the original and have 808 more, but personally, I have the perfect sound, that I had in my head and not in the hands.

OVERALL OPINION

PDAL solid and sound pretty syrupy, somewhat lo-fi and many overtones, spicy and sometimes unexpected.

Although sr, everybody thinks that everybody knows, but it is not true, the pedals is not for the bourrinage. It is used to boost the sound without adding saturation of solo passages for example, a booster of his lamps so that they saturate pramp naturally and faster, or have a mild overdrive that rounded sound and color.
Eg a quick sample: tonal 13:00, 11:00 ET gain a Level at 15:00:

http://bongo666.free.fr/ts9.mp3

Tone and drive level, it's easy for rglages.

The PDAL is a good old analog, mine is equipped Maxon.

UTILIZATION

It plugs and just play with the drive and Tone to find on the bluesy sound that goes well.
The level used to set an output level equivalent to other drives of the amp or stand out in a riff or solo.

SOUND QUALITY

The sound is that of an equivalent lamp lgre amplifier saturation.
The pedals Ragit trs well volume of the guitar and the attack of the strings.
RULES Although the sound is great for blues and blues to rock, metalhead, go your way.

OVERALL OPINION

C'tait my pedals achte Premire in 84, I found the same on ebay.

Well, I sold the meantime, I had made changes in Tvon mac, which provides a rel gain and closer to the sound of the True TS. But I tried a TS10 and I cracked it is much more velvety than the TS9 and suits me better.

CHARACTERISTICS of the Tube Screamer? So there are guitarists who do not know the pedals!

Joke hand, it is a design classic pedals. I find it nicer than Boss but also think more in terms CHAC battery (9V but you can also use an AC adapter). For he is in a trap located under the pedals which do not ncessite disassembly always too long.

UTILIZATION

The basic principle of such pedals is relatively simple. APRS having branch, it RULES three pots:
- Drive: the saturation level
- Tone: Tone is expected one but it's actually a plutt SETTING THE mdiums band (as a electro-acoustic amp). This requires a familiarity.
- Level: the output volume.

SOUND QUALITY

I use a Danelectro with various amps and in each case, the sound is to go. This as said, the particularity of rglage "tone" I demand an adjustment period and made me even hsit with a Boss SD-1 but had a better Tube Screamer Agues got my rendering. The SETTING THE saturation is gradual trs.

I first bought it because my amp is a lamp Stimer Garen 1962 and then dpourvu channel saturation. The rendering is plutt organic and warm (normal is analog technology) and it is easy to forget that it is a machine transistors. It also works perfectly in front of a Pignose.

- Crunch: Grand musical.
- Satur: Crmeux and blues-rock hope. The pedals offer a contribution in sustain (sometimes I got too) while having a brand personality trs. This is an excellent saturation, but that of pedals, not that of an amp.
- Mtal: Do not saturate enough. For this aim plutt a Pro Co Rat.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 9 months. I like the sound organic, progressiv of rglages. As said prcdamment I hsit with a Boss SD-1 (trs good and half price) but I found the Tube Screamer more subtle in its tone. It said so much, I think you pay the price of the legends more than enough, however, this is a legends MRIT: This is terrible for PDAL blues-rock.

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UTILIZATION

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SOUND QUALITY

Gnialissime, trs trs pretty bte to his well-built hard to beat ...
... Oh I forgot, AO 4558 does not change the sound, do not be fooled ... especially in the case of a disto o obj is of the dirty sound ... color could make a spcial IC is gommme. The 4558 was chosen because it silent t cheap ... same for different versions of TS with condos and Resistors ... designers / industrialization have put what was in store .. 22k 47k ald in a circuit does not change (from a filter).

http://glimmertwins.skyblog.com/

OVERALL OPINION

To buy the closed eyes

Classic overdrive pedal
A little more than the switch named Q1 (quiet one) that avoids the "click" when you activate the pedal. A little disconcerting at first, you always wonder if the effect is well underway, but found.

UTILIZATION

Setting without difficulty.
The tone knob affects the high frequencies but also the media (really impressive!)
The level and overdrive knobs are progressive. No big peaks in saturation.
A pedal that has in the stomach and has the merit of being used as a simple boost.

SOUND QUALITY

On its side in the open swimming greenday, Gary Moore, SRV etc. ....
A good overdrive virile without being too thick or runny own very brief.
From blues to heavy rock through to modern pop, it fits perfectly. The sound palette is more than adequate for a single pedal, the more it works wonders in the coupling to the crunch of my vox.
For a more roots, the eldest of 808 seems more appropriate.
I play with a TV on a vox ac15cc1x. At the intake sustain this pedal has nothing to envy to that of my amp lamp. The behavior based attack, volume, etc ... is staggering. They are hidden when the lights ??????

OVERALL OPINION

A pedal mythical and timeless telling me the seller. For once, what is one trying not m'enfumer. After some say it's a sound that is found on half of the rock albums. Of course but it's so good.
I owned a Marshall blues breaker 2, ben 30 euros more for is not ch @ £ § I resold without regrets but then not even a hint of nostalgia.