is there a better all around pedal than the

Skip · Post by **Skip** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:42 am

ibanez tube screamer?
they are pretty damn great!

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:44 am

holy fucking shit

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:49 am

Are you actually serious?

The tubescream does the following.
Tinny and mid humpy to wooly and mid humpy overdrive.

Take any OD pedal with any form of EQ past a single tone control and it's already 10x as versatile as a tube screamer.

Will · Post by **Will** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:17 am

They always sound really fake to me. A Fuzz Face with the guitar's volume back does better crunch IMO.

Justin J · Post by **Justin J** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:27 am

i have never used one. never seemed very appealing to me.

Chicago Mike · Post by **Chicago Mike** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:30 am

You can't beat an old vintage ProCo Rat.

Orverdrive, Fuzzy, Boost....pretty much the only pedal (other than a Keeley TS9) that I've kept.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:05 am

box of rock
can do those bluesy over drive sounds
and has ac/dc sounds literally inside of it

Chicago Mike · Post by **Chicago Mike** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:51 am

I've always wanted to try a box of rock....saw a couple videos on youtube that sounded pretty cool.

TideBleach · Post by **TideBleach** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:55 am

i cant stand them, i had a ts9 and returned it. then got a ts 808 for free from a friend and still don't like it. it thins your sound and kills it completely. as someone on here once said they are turd screamers.

aen · Post by **aen** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:58 am

Oh boy, Im going to have to agree with everybody here.

Turdscreamer.

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:13 am

Devi ever shoegazer is the best fucking pedal ever. it has distortion under one foot switch and fuzz factory fuzz under the other. I havent stepped on my cherished vintage big muff in over a week. The dirt pedal to end all dirt pedals

Ninja Mike 808 · Post by **Ninja Mike 808** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:38 am

OLCircuits Mint Condition (Y.A.T.S.)

It's a Tube Screamer times two.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:23 am

I hate Tubescreamers

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:54 am

I've never played on but All the cool people hate them (for the guy from the silversun pickups, be has one of those 4 knob deluxe ones) so I'm going to jump on the blind hate bandwagon. anyway my amp has real tubes that scream plenty on their own

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:25 am

metal dudes n chicks just use the tubescreamerz to tighten the bass for bruuuutal palm mutez.

aphasiac · Post by **aphasiac** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:54 am

I had a Digitech Bad Monkey (tubescream with extra bass EQ knob).

Didn't like it - not gainy enough. The end.

sp3k · Post by **sp3k** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:09 am

I have a boss sd1, i like it has a bost, you can't really do much with it...

Chicago Mike · Post by **Chicago Mike** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:19 pm

I love the midrange hump of the tube screamers and I really only use mine as a clean boost to get a little dirt, but its one of my all time favorites.

I think it's a distinct pedal that's pretty versatile with a little tone stack eq'ing of your amp...or at least it is with mine.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:20 pm

it depends what sort of sound you're after. if you actually like your guitar to sound brittle and glassy tubescreamers can be quite handy. but they have no 'oomph' whatsoever, if you're looking for a versatile pedal with a decent amount of gain they're rubbish, but they have their uses (for me anyway).

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:05 pm

I think the sansamp GT2 is great & pretty versatile.

Opinions are like arseholes though, we all one.

I think the original generation tube screamer could be better perhaps ?

I have the same vintage and modern ibanez effects pedal, and the difference is quite astonishing.