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Ibanez TS9 to TS808 Mod

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8/19/2000 4:39 AM

Ibanez TS9 to TS808 Mod

I got motivated today and put a JRC4558 (courtesy of Mouser) into my RI TS9, I used a socket and it was pretty easy as I have good soldering tools. I'm going to try and get carbon comp and metal film resistors for the rest of the mod and try both. Does anyone know anything about Analog Mike's brown sound mods? they sounded interesting and I'll like to try it on my TS9. As for the sound, I thought my RI sounded good right out of the box. With the new chip, it seems to have less grungy mids and be a little more transparent sounding. This is my first impression, which may change. I'm using humbuckers and a Mesa, it might sound totally different with a Strat and a Fender amp.

Ethan

8/20/2000 8:52 PM

Ethan,

That "Magical Tube Screamer" tone (whatever that may be), won't suddenly appear or disappear by changing a couple of resistors. Beyond swapping the two resistors in the output emitter follower, which *hardly* makes a difference, I wouldn't bother getting any special types of resistors. I believe that R.G. wrote some cool stuff about this.
You want a better pedal? Swap the caps with better ones. Putting in all film type caps in the signal path, including the electrolytics on the input and output, will make for a nice change.
Then again, we mod, mod, mod, and sometimes we realize that the original was really good anyways.

Sorry, I feel I'm just confusing things.

Gord

8/21/2000 4:39 PM
Ethan	Thanks for the info. I converted mine and I'm not convinced it's that amazing. I like my Fulltone Fulldrive much better. I actually borrowed a TS9 RI w/"brown sound" mod, no big revelation there. Ethan

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