ampage Tube Amps / Music Electronics	For current discussions, please visit Music Electronics Forum.

ampage archive

Vintage threads from the first ten years

Re: TS9 reissue

:

12/21/1999 2:48 PM

Re: TS9 reissue

Probably not a lot of players who still consider a TS9 as the Holy Grail. Historically speaking, when they were first produced, there wasn't a lot of small pedals that could get that sound, so I can see why they were treasured by some players. Now there are lots of pedals that are similar. We get a lot of complaints about the tone of TS9s here on this board, personally I never met a Tube Screamer I didn't like (sound tanks included). A little knob tweaking and I seem to always get something I like out of it. Could be my particular guitar/amp/"style of playing" set-up that makes it work for me.

JD

12/22/1999 3:50 AM

Relay a story that was told to me. A friend of mine who runs a music shop here. He use to play out in California and told about this big music chain he was working at.

When the TS-9 came out they sat down with a shipment of them and a bunch of 808's. he said this was a time they really couldn't give them away for $20. A bunch of them sat down with a git and a amp and tried them all out one after one.

They would evaluate them and throw them in piles of great--mediocre and lousy sounding. He claimed they had equal amount of each type in each pile.

I think that just shows that not all pedals are created equal. And also suffer from tolerance and drift.

YMMV

bw

12/22/1999 5:50 AM

i've got an old ts-9 i use all the time to gig with. i got a reissue for a back up and there is a major difference in the sound of each. the original has a much darker, thicker tone. the reissue is alot crisper with more treble response.i ussually play a les paul and various valco and fender amps and prefer the original. i bought a daddy-o , sounded great at home. played it two sets at a gig and switched to the old ts-9. the daddy-o just didnt get it under live conditions with my set up. i promptly traded it off. i'm sure there is alot of variation in the same model of pedals, and i would'nt judge all daddy-os by my experience. i've found that i need to test that 'great sounding' amp or pedal at a live gig with the band in order to get a true read on its performance. muddobber

12/22/1999 11:44 AM

like a boomerang hey? Play in bigger rooms, higher volumes, under the "weather" of the rest of the band. That's when you will experience that some pedals have strange spots of weakness or that they could be overschadowed by the rest of the band.

A friend of mine plays in a metal type band. Without the band his equipment is not bad sounding (for metal that is, not my typo music). But his thick burry-you-alive sound, comes out very thin in his band at higher volumes. I followed him a few gigs, different places, different sizes of audience and rooms.

kin regards,

Jsh

12/29/1999 7:24 PM
Tonefactor	All Tube Screamers including the 808 suck at producing distortion into an otherwise clean amp. Their forte is boosting the input of an already overdriven amplifier. Used this way they help to smooth out the distortion and decrease the bass to keep the amp from sounding boomy.

Page 3 of 3