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The Ibanez TS808 Vintage Tube Screamer Reissue is back. This is the incomparable overdrive pedal that vintage gear hounds are always hoping to find. The 2004 TS808 reissue features the same famous square footswitch and the warm tones of the JRC4558 chip used in most of the original TS808s. Ignore look-alikes. If your tone is suffering from a lack of real warmth, the TS808 is the real, nongeneric prescription.
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As a guitarist changing pedals on the pedalboard is like changing your shoes for the season. I'm always tweaking, adjusting and changing them. BUT...The Ibanez TS-808 is ALWAYS on there. I use it for giving me a slight breakup on the clean channel of my Mesa Boogie Mark V. I also kick it on to give extra bite to my solos. In both cases it is awesome. I would replace it IMMEDIATELY if something ever happened to it...in fact I have been thinking about getting another one to run a little hotter. I also own Carl Martin, Fultone, and Boss OD's, and The TS-808 and the Fulltone GT-500 are the pedals that never come off the pedal board.
I bought this pedal not to long ago. I have also played the real ones, It doesnt sound close to the original, it sounds EXCACTLY like the original!!!! I run this through the OD mode of my mesa express 5:50 and my JSX head through the crunch channel. THis pedal is the ultimate for rock n roll and metal. For metal, this shines on a high gain lead channel for a nice smooth solo. This pedal is over 100 bucks, but its worth it. If I had a choice between this and a low end guitar, i would choose this. If you want to put a pedal infront of a weak od channel on a cheap solid state amp for a BROOTALZ overdrive, this is not the pedal for you, for that situation get the tube king. I also have a MXR ZW overdrive, this is better in many ways for rock. I do play brootalz, but for that i just go to the lead channel on the JSX and put the gain all the way. I use this for alternative, hard rock, classic, and neoclassical.
The reissue TS808 Tube Screamer from Ibanez get's very, very close to the original, right down to the odd DC input jack that requires an adapter to work with modern power supllies. So cosmetically, it's a dead ringer (minus the chips and scrathes that any original would have if it has any paint at all). Of course, it's tone we're seeking here and while the purists may claim that it's not exactly reproducing every part of the orginal TS808's signal path, the tone is what you're seeking, all the smooth sustain, the midrange hump the Tube Screamer is known for and the mild, tube-like brakeup of your tone at low gain settings. A great pedal that delivers what it promises, though to truly get the complete SRV/Texas Blues sound, you really need to run 2 of these in series and they sound best that way, a little pricey, but you get what you pay for.
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