Favorite Blues Pedal

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I'm looking for a good blues and rock pedals and I've stumbled across the Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer. I've heard great reviews on it. Anyone own one of these? I've heard some samples on it and I really wanted one. It makes the MT-2 sounds cheap. Even for rock, I think the TS9 is way better.
 
If you dont want to mod the pedal or pay to have it modded, then the Tube Screamer is a great deal. It is probably one of the best stock pedals around.

As with most pedals, the TS is even better when modded. But the Blues Driver BD-2 is superb after a good mod kit is installed. It would be hard to choose.

But you did say "blues" and that word, imo, does not conjure up notions of Tube Screaming distortion and heavy grinding buzz guitar. You may be better off with a simple clean boost. Or mod a GE-7 eq pedal and use that for a clean boost. A good clean boost or eq boost into a good tube amp makes for some very very memorable blues guitar! The MXR 10 band eq modded is a real monster, too.
 
soundchaser59 said:
If you dont want to mod the pedal or pay to have it modded, then the Tube Screamer is a great deal. It is probably one of the best stock pedals around.

As with most pedals, the TS is even better when modded. But the Blues Driver BD-2 is superb after a good mod kit is installed. It would be hard to choose.

But you did say "blues" and that word, imo, does not conjure up notions of Tube Screaming distortion and heavy grinding buzz guitar. You may be better off with a simple clean boost. Or mod a GE-7 eq pedal and use that for a clean boost. A good clean boost or eq boost into a good tube amp makes for some very very memorable blues guitar! The MXR 10 band eq modded is a real monster, too.
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Sounds great. I think I'll go try it out at GC tomorrow. Any other opinions?
 
A TS9 and a Dunlop Cry Baby wah pedal are pretty standard for most blues players. Combine those two pedals with a good guitar and amp and you shouldn't need much more for most blues tunes.
 
2 great TS options from Ibanez that are well below the radar, but have a similar chip set are the Tube King and the Metal Charger.
 
Dani Pace said:
A TS9 and a Dunlop Cry Baby wah pedal are pretty standard for most blues players. Combine those two pedals with a good guitar and amp and you shouldn't need much more for most blues tunes.
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Alright, I'm going to get one today. I already have the Cry Baby; can't wait to get the TS9.
 
You might also try the Visual Sound Route 66. It's a compressor and TS808 circuit built into one pedal at a nice price.
 
i recently bought the bad monkey and have been... monkeying around with it since i got it and i can get quite a few sounds out of that thing.
 
Ocd

Got a fulltone OCD awhile back... I love it. I get a wide variety of tones, even on a single setting I can get a zillion tones just adjusting the volume on my guitar. Its money.
 
Just bought got my TS9 3 hours ago. It's waaaay better than the MT-2. I should've got this in the first place instead of the MT-2. The tones are great; very bluesy. The only thing that's stopping me from getting a better tone is a nice amp to go along with it. I'll be having lots of fun tonight.
 
try this out

Set the drive to about 1, the tone to 1, and the level to about 6 through 8.

Clean drive is my favorite use for a TS-9. It sounds great with a little slap-back echo behind it.
 
JCH said:
Set the drive to about 1, the tone to 1, and the level to about 6 through 8.

Clean drive is my favorite use for a TS-9. It sounds great with a little slap-back echo behind it.
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Cool. Will try that.:)

What amp do you have?
 
I LOVE my TS9! It took me a bit of fiddling with it to find the right settings for me, but once I did its made me very happy. I play through a Traynor YCV80, basic rock kind of music (not metal). With a slight crunch on my amp, the TS9 with all controls basically at 12:00 just makes me smile every time I hear it. Midrange crunch is the best term I could come up with to describe it. Butery smooth and a little nasty. Sounds great on full chords and single notes.

But this is my first OD pedal so I can't say where it ranks amongst its competitors. I just know that I really like mine. I can see why it's such a popular pedal. And now that I've logged so many hours with mine, I can recognize it from so many recordings where I can single out that distinct overdrive on the guitars.
 
Compressor anyone??? I love mine. If my old guitar player hadn't bought up every vintage MXR Dynacomp in Vancouver I'd have one...I ended up with a Boss CS-3.
 
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