It was 1975 and I was 6 years old when first drew a circle around that beautiful Harmony Electric guitar and small practice amp in the Sears Christmas Wishbook. Disappointment ensued Christmas morning when one didn’t appear under the tree. This scenario would repeat itself for the next 7 years. Forward to the summer of my 14th year. I was working my first job serving tourists soup and sandwiches for lunch. I had just received my very first pay cheque and felt like a millionaire. I called the closest music store (400 km away) and told the owner that I was 14 and just got paid $300 and would that be enough to buy a guitar? Mr. “Danny Day” said that, “yes, I think I can find something for you.” So, I stuffed the cash into an envelope and mailed it to the store and waited in anticipation. Three weeks later my Dad got a call at his office asking if he knew who I was, and when he said “yupp, that’s my son” they informed him that I had a package at the train station. Now, we live on an isolated island in the middle of the Mighty Moose River, and getting to the mainland was a pain in the ass. But, grudgingly, he put the boat in the water and took me over to get my stuff. Inside the parcel was a BEAUTIFUL 1983 strat copy Ibanez Roadstar II, a Traynor 10 watt practice amp, tuner, strap, cords, a Hal Leonard “how to play guitar” book and a used, beat to shit 1978 Ibanez Tube Screamer pedal!! A few years later I was able to visit that music store in Timmins and was looking at guitars. Imagine my surprise when I saw that the (almost) exact same guitar I owned was $500. I found the owner and introduced myself. I asked if he remembered the order I had placed a few years ago, and he said he did. I asked “how was I able to purchase a brand new guitar, amp, case, cords, strap, tuner, book and shipping for $300? He replied “I was so impressed that 14 year old kid was so passionate and patient to get a guitar (I had told him my Christmas story) that I was willing to do a little extra for you”. Wow, what a great guy!! Although that guitar has long since been sold to upgrade, I still own that TS (and 3 more to boot!) and use it everyday. I’ll be an Ibanez fanatic until the day I shed this mortal coil and head to “great jam in the sky”. \m/, ,\m/

@fivewattworld

4 жыл бұрын

That's a GREAT story, absolutely love it. If you were 400 km from Timmins you WERE in the great north my friend. Must have been an amazing place to grow up. Thanks so much for sharing this man.

@fivewattworld

4 жыл бұрын

This wins comment of the week dude! Excellent stuff and I pinned it here so others can enjoy it. If "Timmins" was going to "town" then you grew up in the true Great White North brother. Are you still up there?

@Iam_Dunn

4 жыл бұрын

five watt world ...Yes, I returned to our “little slice of heaven” 11 years ago. Greetings from the real “Great White North”! Thank you for your content, I love all the new things I learn from your channel! :)

@bernardogui3933

4 жыл бұрын

This is a perfect short tale. Amazing story Mr.

@maxonmendel5757

4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful story. I love ibanez guitars.

“They were solid states and really sounded like shit.” Made me fall out of my chair from laughter

"Maxon is still building their pedals in that same factory today". . ."using the same middle aged ladies; only now a little older"

4:55 for some reason hearing "and they really sounded like s**t" in your calm, informative voice made me almost burst out laughing.

@fivewattworld

4 жыл бұрын

Well that’s a quote from the guy at Ibanez, and so it was delivered as such. ;)

@johnbatinovic6593

4 жыл бұрын

My first amp (in the 80's) was a Trayner - and it sounded like shit!!

@cary3428

3 жыл бұрын

Ha! Me too. I cracked up

@ryangunwitch-black

2 жыл бұрын

Same. Lol

Back in the early 80’s I attended an Ibanez event at my local music store. We sat on the floor while being wowed by all of the pedals being demonstrated. The tube screamer was all I wanted by the end. A few day later, after scraping together the cash, a buddy and I went back to claim our magical green box. The store only had 1 left in stock. I deferred to my friend and I bought a flanger instead. While I love (and still have) the flanger, I always felt that little twinge of buyers remorse. I finally closed the loop a few years ago when I got back into playing in earnest. I walked into the same music store and bought my tube screamer from the same person that sold me the flanger all those years ago.

@edisongabutero9455

4 жыл бұрын

Damn what a cool story

Me: Tell me a story, Keith Keith: How about the Tube Screamer.... Me: Yesssss

@Darkwell0071

4 жыл бұрын

Noah Ross you forgot the sustainnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnmmm and that sound oh oh oh that sound.

@DMSProduktions

4 жыл бұрын

@@Darkwell0071 How many: YES!

Best video yet Hypes! Really fascinating!!

@fivewattworld

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Hypes! I’ll return your germanium Keeley Red Dirt...no I will...I promise. :)

@I_like_turtles_67

4 жыл бұрын

You know it's a good breakdown when Rick gives it the thumbs up.

@chrisquinn9104

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, but what gauge strings to put through a TS?

@stranger5088

4 жыл бұрын

five watt world I love that so many of y’all different KZread music channels keep up with each other. Shows a lot of respect in the community.

@troywm1016

4 жыл бұрын

Rookie score Beato...

Did anyone else laugh out loud when he so nonchalantly said, "...and they really sounded like shit." :D I spit coffee.

@fivewattworld

4 жыл бұрын

That’s a direct quote from Lomas at Ibanez. :)

@bryonkidder6199

4 жыл бұрын

I just agreed...lol

@johngerson7335

4 жыл бұрын

I said "amen" out loud lol!

@ViddyWellBrother

4 жыл бұрын

Truer words were never spoken! 😊

@HowieC3

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I laughed out loud at that one. Caught me off guard. :-)

Pedalboards should come equipped with a tube screamer and a wah. Fixed on the board. Forever.

@ars3nikatnep

3 жыл бұрын

that sounds terrible

@rybrd251

2 жыл бұрын

@@ars3nikatnep I don’t know sounds pretty good to me

@paulcowart3174

2 жыл бұрын

So what wah do you use ?? I'm in the market and am running TS...Clean boost...echo So looking for a good wah to compliment my modest set up Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving

@WilDBeestMF

2 жыл бұрын

An actual tube with a screamer kicking it would be lovely.

@paulcowart3174

2 жыл бұрын

I picked up a Jam pedals wah...it's pretty damn 👍

In the extreme metal community tube screamers have long been considered the best boost available for lots of amps. Lots of classic metal tones have been just tubescreamer + 5150. Gain 0 usually, level maxed, tone to taste and you're straight into chugging heavy guitar territory where the mids allow the amp to growl. Such as good video as always!

Renee Martinez has now retired, last gig was with John Mayer in Manchester, October 18th 2019. John brought him on stage and said he was retiring, got a great round of applause.

3 years ago, I walked into a Salvation Army thrift store and saw a box of pedals. I asked how much for them and the clerk said $8 if I take all of them. In that box was a Boss tuner pedal, Boss delay (purple colored housing), a 3 knob MXR phazer and a Korg tuner pedal and at the bottom was a TS9 as well as a never opened Firewire Solo interface. I love the name of JB's pedal. "Overrated special". Classic!

@Selzor

2 жыл бұрын

You are so damn lucky

Who uses this _______ pedal? The Edge. Because The Edge uses EVERY pedal.

@420protoman

4 жыл бұрын

ME cuz i got the Ts9 re-issue and i also have the original 4 tube screamer chips that i can replace in this thing. i basically have the ultimate tube screamer. the new maxon apex 808 looks nice, i might pick it up too.

@continentalaquatics2725

4 жыл бұрын

Scott Wartenberg He only began using a couple of Tubescreamers in 2000 and he does still use at least 1 for live situations these days. They replaced his 2 Boss DS-1 distortion boxes and 1 Boss OD-1 that he used since 1981. He’s used an EHX Big Muff for 2 songs in their catalog and used an OCD 1.4 version for certain songs during their 2015 tour. He’s used a lot of Lovetone pedals as well as Death By Audio boxes. His tone changed with every song in the 90’s and none of those tones were subtle (extreme flanging, phasing, pitch modulation, envelope filters, reverbs [particularly shimmers] and obvious digital delay racks). I’m a fan of the Edge, but I use 2 different Boss Super Feedback & Distortion boxes, a Fulltone 1.7 OCD pedal, a Boss Blues Driver (I use this one most often), an EHX Soul Food pedal and an Earthquaker Devices Westwood Overdrive box

@owenf2835

4 жыл бұрын

@@skyflyr1015 eh i still credit him for innovating the pedal sound on guitar

For Japanese pedals, I think the present champion is the Korg Hatsune Miku. lol

@wooohoo2

4 жыл бұрын

at $550 ill wait for the joyo version

@rikantony6571

4 жыл бұрын

@@wooohoo2 lol

@xiaoguan1143

4 жыл бұрын

I love it when my guitar can say KOKO NEEKY GOOGOO MATSU HUNNA BEE BEE

@wastingyourtime05

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely true.

@shanewalton8888

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bjb1031 Go to Andertons KZread page to see the funniest pedal review video ever

Great video. Every weekend, on thousands of stages all over the world, guitarists stomp on the TS. Countless hit records have been made with TS guitar tones. Virtually all pedal builders have a TS variant of some sort. I know I do! Surely Tamura-san deserves wider recognition for this legacy. A plaque? A statue? Handprints in the pavement? R&R hall of fame perhaps?!...

Awesome design and pedal. My favorite was always hearing Tube snobs saying that they have to have tubes in their amp, only to throw a Tube Screamer in the path with diode clipping lol.

The Bonsai was a masterstroke, and it's the first Screamer-style pedal that got a permanent place on my board.

If you wouldn’t have mentioned SRV I would have been protesting in the street! 🤣

@Spartanm333

4 жыл бұрын

Yep but Steve was greedy - he played with two :) didn't he?

@timmiller4205

4 жыл бұрын

Thaddeus Fields. Lmao 😂🤣😅🤘🎸🤘!!!

@danxthexman82x7

3 жыл бұрын

Lol me too!!! SRV for life !

There's Tubescreamer user worth being mentioned: the late John Abercrombie. He used it to heat up the signal into his Roland Jazz Chorus, and to build his warm, beyond jazzy distorted sound.

My favourite Tube-Screamer Story is how this pedal by accident financed my drivers license (which is extremely expensive here in Germany): Back in middle school I had a friend who lived just a few houses away from my parents' home. I didn't even know that he played the guitar, but one day I saw this huge, beautiful amp at his home. I don't know where it came from, I have never seen another one like that before or after and it was just big and stunning, but in bad shape. It was a transistor copy of the Fender Twin Reverb by the company "Pearl" (famous for their drums) called "DuoReverb" only manufactured for a couple of years around 1980. I just had a small amp at that time and I asked him if he wanted to sell it. I didn't have much money, so I proposed 200 € for the amp. But he insisted that I had to buy it together with some pedals that came with it, stashed in the back of the cabinet, so we made a deal for 250 € for the whole package. This was in 2005 I guess. I really liked the amp, but had no idea what to do with all those pedals (I have never used pedals before, I had no patch cables and the only power supply I had was crudely wired into the mains of the amp), so after a few years of storing the pedals in the closet and playing the amp I decided to sell them to get the price for the amp down and maybe get some money for my planned drivers license. So I simply put them on eBay for auction, starting price 1 €. You all can imagine how it went down: The "random pedals" I bought with the amp were all vintage late 70's early 80's, namely an Ibanez ST-9 Super Tube Screamer, an Ibanez FL-9 Flanger, a BOSS CH-1, and an Ibanez AD-9 Analog Delay. As the following week went on and the auctions slowly came to an end, I absolutely couldn't believe my eyes. I don't remember exact numbers, but the tube screamer alone went for around 500 €, I think the BOSS came lowest for roughly 100 €, the other ones somewhere in between. I still think of buying this amp as the best deal of my life, I got the amp basically for free and it basically paid my drivers license which was well over 1000 € at the time.

11:24 love Analogman's website. It's like using the internet in 1999. Magnificent 👌

@danielpenney9077

4 жыл бұрын

He will add the Screamer to your Tube Screamer. Call him!!

@RogerBarraud

4 жыл бұрын

Flashback Buzz! :-)

@SlingShot830201

4 жыл бұрын

I LOL’d. Goooood times.

@paulcowart3174

2 жыл бұрын

Yes he does TS's right....he modded my TS9 almost 30 years ago and it's still my go to favorite pedal I use that and an Xotic clean boost to goose the TS cause I don't max the gain out

I'd love to see a short history of the MXR Distortion plus

@paulcowart3174

2 жыл бұрын

Yes...was my first pedal

@johnsmith-bk4ps

2 жыл бұрын

My first pedal too! A few years ago I stumbled onto one of those black vx-so pedals dual boost thing. It makes my distortion plus sound like a transistor radio

@paulcowart3174

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnsmith-bk4ps not sure what pedal your talking about

@johnsmith-bk4ps

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulcowart3174 I thought you were responding to the mxr comment. Distortion plus was my first pedal. In 1979

@johnsmith-bk4ps

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulcowart3174 oh. If your referring to my dual boost it's the one from nashville . I think it's 'visual" somthing.

That story made me get out my old pedals. I found one that I bought in 1985 at a music store in Den Haag, Holland, when I was first learning to play electric guitar, and rock music. It's a rare TS9 Super Tube Screamer with that mid boost control. I think it's one of the only pieces of electronics I own that actually appreciated in value. I certainly did not pay upwards of $500 which I see it going for now. Wow!

Please do a Jazz Chorus Amps Video!! As someone who has never used a TS pedal (I just my first OD - Blues Driver), I love how informative and well researched this video and this channel is. keep up the good work!

Here before but love this bit, Keith ! early '90s. Mentioned one thing with family but almost forgot another,,, this time, Wife's side of the family. They're all teenagers. SIL has three kids, two daughters a son. One of the gals wants to play drums, the other guitar... "Your uncle should give you a guitar". tough times but parted with a Memphis LP copy, Harmony battery powered amp and a Sound Tank Tube Screamer. Funnily enough, it was the son who took it up. He got pretty good.

I was so overwhelmed about what to think about TS before seeing this video. Now I feel confident at shopping around for the any kind of TS. Thanks a million.

@LTJR.

4 жыл бұрын

The 808 circuit has a little more grind to it. I've long known that Trey used 2 TS9's, as do I (808 TS9 with Sonic distortion and Purple Plexi) and many others, but I was surprised to see the way he runs them, that's just flat-out a whole heap of boost! If you run the clean into the dirty you get more dirty and compressed, if you run the dirty into the clean it's sort of cleans up the dirt and makes it much louder. If you run the boosted clean into the boosted clean you get super boost...to tell you the truth I'm only guessing because I was afraid I might blow up the front of my amps! Ha!

@paulcowart3174

2 жыл бұрын

Yes lots of good clones out there too Wampler does a good one

@paulcowart3174

2 жыл бұрын

@@LTJR. I always keep coming back to my TS Analogman modded Been through so many pedals and nothing stands up to my old stuff

Keith, this is another gem. Congrats on this. The Ken burns of gear.

I'm not a Tube Screamer guy but I love holding the new sparkly red one..

Tube screamers have really grown on me. I still think the Bluesbreaker topology is my favorite universally, but there’s a magic that occurs when using black panel fender amps with single coil fender guitars and a tube screamer with the drive set to zero and volume cranked with tone set to taste. I essentially treat them as my amps overdrive channel and am able to push my twin through a mix or just to boost the mids.

I have five, count 'em, five overdrive pedals ( a Tube Screamer among them). And the older I get, the more I want to play clean. Go figure.

"and they really sounded like shit". Its too early in the morning for me to be laughing this hard.

@fivewattworld

4 жыл бұрын

Ha! That's a quote Ray, I'm quoting the guy from Ibanez. Which is why I deliver it in such a deadpan way. Glad you enjoyed it. :)

Dude u hear tube screamer all over the place. It cool to know a little more about it now.

Is there a thousand like button? Cuz your videos should all have one. What you do and how you do it is amazing.

Bought the original TS-808 in 1980 for the exact list price he mentioned. And I still have it, with the box.

@derekschroeder291

2 жыл бұрын

He has the box

I just bought a Joyo Vintage Overdrive (a $25 Tube Screamer clone) and it actually helped improve my tone to make it closer to the ones I always listen to, especially on the leads and palm mutes. It's a good coincidence that this video popped up in my recommendations.

@mal2ksc

4 жыл бұрын

If you searched for that pedal through Google... it's not coincidence. The Algorithm has gotten pretty creepy the last couple months, and rumor has it the engineers have been buried in critical work with the pandemic and all, and they've chosen to just let the AI do what it wants so long as it keeps working. That AI was almost certainly aware that you had searched for Tube Screamer style pedals recently, even if it didn't know you had already purchased one.

My Boss SD-1 is crying in its BCB-60 somewhere right now. It’s OK buddy, we love you both.

This video makes me grateful for the internet. Awesome job man.

@fivewattworld

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Matt

Keith, only you can pick fly shit out of pepper for almost 25 minutes and make it thoroughly enjoyable. Seriously though, thanks for all of the research and thought that went into this video. The fact that Maxon actually made the original Tube Screamers is great just by itself, and I’ve always wondered how a Japanese company had a Spanish sounding name. Figured it was just a fluke of language. You wizzed past the first pedal I ever bought: the TS-7. The “Hot” switch turns it into something completely different. The foot switch is notorious for ‘breaking” but when mine gave out I discovered that a bit of contact cleaner brought it back to life. No, I don’t think this version warranted any more of your time 😜

Good callout to Schenker - he doesn't always get the credit that he deserves these days.

Some of the best videos I have seen, thank you Keith and 5 Watt World

@fivewattworld

4 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome Ric. Thanks for watching man.

@ricolander7393

4 жыл бұрын

David Good a member on the Fender Play Facebook Group turned me on to your videos. Thank you for your work!

I was living in Austin Texas when the reissue TS-9 and the Soundtank Versions came out and this is no bullshit everyone in town gravitated towards the Soundtank one! Which is funny because being that Stevie was a legend there you would think everybody would go the other direction but they actually listened with their ears and the Tank version was way better.

@fivewattworld

Жыл бұрын

And the Soundtanks are SO easy to take to 808 specs.

AHH Stevie is from North Texas! Great video but I won’t let one of our most famous guitar slingers be relegated to central Texas.

The way the TS works with a Strat is magic. The mid scoopy Strat sound vs the mid boost and hi/ low eq cuts of the TS cover a lot of sonic territory. Works great w/ other guitars and pickups but for me Strat and TS is like PB&J

How cool. I used to work at Morse Chain up on the hill in Ithaca back in the late 1990's. I used to shop at Ithaca Guitar Works over in the downstairs of that old school bulding quite a lot and remember Chris with his laid back demeanor. Great memories.

I always loved having a TS around. Not always the best, but always effective...

Once again we have here is a very factual concise history of a part of guitar history that made (makes) a difference in our listening and playing pleasure. Kieth is like the Ken Burns of Guitar History. I appreciate how he dives into one subject matter for this of us who cares, still making interesting for those who may he casually interested. Great job sir.

An aside: took me a surprisingly long time to realise that "tubes" and "valves" are the same thing.

Surprisingly even more interesting than I was expecting !!

I was not expecting you to name syu lol, i doubled back just to make sure. Super super obscure but was awesome to hear! he's a beast!

@fivewattworld

3 жыл бұрын

To be honest, that’s the good influence of my script editor. He’s always pointing me at good stuff from when I was just listening to jazz.

@TCMx3

3 жыл бұрын

the editor is a big, big fan of Galneryus and J-Metal (ok ok ALL metal) in general :D I would have loved to include more but it's very hard to find reliable rig info on some folks

These are some of the best if not "THE" best gear history video's on KZread! Excellent stuff! Would love one on the Marshall jcm800! Great channel 👍

Thanks for this. I use a digital version of the TS in nearly all of my digital presets. Having said that, I was in the music retail industry in 1980, and the Boss OD-1 was far better at replicating a tube amp breaking up than any of the TS pedals were. Granted, I was using a Super Twin.

Gosh Keith you are something Very Special . . . . Thank YOU.

As you were naming those artists and the list was getting longer, I thought "oh man he's forgotten srv!" and then, BOOM!

Big fan of your channel. I appreciate the work you put into your content!

@fivewattworld

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joseph!

I have the TS Mini - it’s absolutely essential.

@alexmurphy5289

4 жыл бұрын

It felt very cheap to me...

@Smart-Alex

4 жыл бұрын

Alex Murphy It’s a mini Tube Screamer lol. Not cheap at all.

@AbelLabel

4 жыл бұрын

I love my TS mini too. Having it for like a week but wow! :)

@ray.shoesmith

3 жыл бұрын

The mini is hardly cheap feeling, it feels solid af and it's surprisingly heavy for it's size. It is identical to the full sized screamer in every sense except it doesn't need a battery compartment, the tone and master volume knobs are much smaller than the OD knob, and the pedal switch is small, cylindrical and metal like the original switch. I got mine new for $89 AUD, compared to $159 for the full sized TS. Of course if you don't have the right sized DC transformer you'll probably have to fork out another 15 or 20 bucks to get a power supply unit, because they don't supply one with the pedal, but hey, that's a one off cost and you can accidentally leave that sucker glowing for a week without needing a trip to the store for another 5V battery. I love my TS Mini, it replaced an ancient Dano Cool Cat and it's been a total revelation.

@xjohn1970

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexmurphy5289 the TS mini has true bypass. As does the TS HW.. I has the Wayhuge overrated special. Great sounding tube screamer.

Thank God for tubescreamer! All I needed for my Metal ass is just a tubescreamer and a noise gate

When I bought my Tube Screamer TS808 back in 1981 (I think) I had no idea it was to become a mega classic. My friends and I were buying Ibanez effects at the time simply because they were significantly cheaper than the Boss equivalents. "I Want great lead sounds but not in a too heavy metal way". I said to the music shop man. "What you need is a _Tube Screamer_ " He replied. "OK". I did like it but when I sold it about five years later (by which time the TS9 was out) there was still no buzz about it being the pedal to have. Turns out *all* the pedals I had back then and got rid of ended up as prized classics today. DOH ! Ain't hindsight a wonderful thing.

Love your videos Keith. That was awesome. I think the only thing you missed was mentioning the ST9 from around 83. Tube screamer with mid control which I briefly owned. What about a video on the OD1. Seems like that one was the game changer.

@raymondlugo9960

4 жыл бұрын

I feel like I should go stereo out and have one chain use the OD-1 and the other use the Tubescreamer...hmm.

The way he deadpans the solid states “really sounded like shit”. Bahahahaha

@fivewattworld

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, that was just a quote, I’m quoting the guy from Ibanez...:)

Good to watch these again.

Tube screamers are definitely iconic. I like them with single coils pick-ups. I dont typically like them with humbuckers. Most of my guitars have humbuckers. A tube screamer, strat, and Fender amp are a magical combination, though.

wow man, I'm Japanese and play lead for many years, I didn't know Maxon was a Japanese company 'til right this moment man lol.

@Paul_Lenard_Ewing

4 жыл бұрын

Their designer is still Susuma Tamura and he just finished the Maxon Apex 808 which is total killer.it took him 4 years to perfect it.

@KalmBliem

4 жыл бұрын

lol

@StavrosFilm

4 жыл бұрын

@@Paul_Lenard_Ewing AWESOME!

Wow, grand slam, the research and collaboration and everything else that went into this has to be phenomenal, thank you

"A Short History" slowly morphs into "A Mini Documentary." Great video, thank you Keith!

Aw man, the Tone-Lok stuff was GREAT!

14:53 The Turbo Tube Screamer is the one I have. 16:31 A selection of guitar players who have used the Tube Screamer, and their settings.

Excellent musical history lesson!

One of the only series I thumb up before watching because I know I'll learn a lot.

This is the pedal responsible for the bright Ride the Lightning crunch. It's also responsible for Cliff Burton's legendary bass tone, making it easy to mistake it as a guitar. The Tube Screamer shines in For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Call of Ktulu, Orion, and Damage Inc.

I really love your "short history" series. I've watched a few of them now and you really do a great job. Every episode is filled to the brim with the best information. The presentation and editing are the icing on the cake. Cheers.

A lot of Mesas Double/Tripple Rec players like Kirk Hammett use the TS to tighten up the amp.....

Gotta say this one might be your best video yet. I feel smarter for watching it. Thanks.

In 1980/81 from Sam Ash on Kings Highway in Brooklyn I purchase an Ibanez Tube Screamer (light green), Sonic Distortion (darker green) and Compressor (Red) .... each for 49.99. Well built and used over 25 years until I sold them.

One of your best ever, Keith. Nailed it. Cheers PS- loved the 4:54 observation.

@fivewattworld

4 жыл бұрын

Actually that's part of the John Lomas quote...but it wasn't a good time for SS amps back then.

This was great. I nearly spit out my coffee when you were talking about the sound of solid state amps. I've always been a bigger fan of asymmetrical overdrives, though of course originally, I had no idea what that was.

I've had my ts9 nearly 35 years and it is by far the best o.d. pedal to be run through the front of a tube amp . There is just something about it that makes it so sweet sounding and it's not over bearing at the same time. Simply stated it makes you guitar cut though so well.

@paulcowart3174

2 жыл бұрын

Yes for sure almost 30 years for mine and still my go to pedal....that and an Xotic clean boost w echo is my basic tone I set it pretty clean and goose it w the clean boost Wish I could send back the hundreds of dollars I've spent on pedals in the last 4 year's since I started getting deeper into pedals but already had what I truly needed

I have a TS9 with a Keely "baked" mod and an 808 with Keely "mod plus" that Eric Johnson autographed for me. I run them both through my Marshall Origin 50 head. They sound just killer.

Gary Moore used one also! Like your other videos, this one was fantastic. Anyone who loves Tube Screamers would do well to watch this video from front to back! Thanks for sharing!

@stefanozurich

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, I’d associate the Marshall Gov’nor with him first though.

@kevinjohnbetts

4 жыл бұрын

@@stefanozurich For his blues era with a Les Paul certainly. But whenever he used a Strat he always had a Boss DS-1 on his board. Check out his version of 'Red House' on the 'Strat Pack' DVD (It may be on KZread as well, it certainly used to be) or the Hendrix Tribute concert he did where Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell performed with him. I'd say 'classic tones' but everything Gary played featured classic tones.

You can pry my 90's Analogman modd'ed TS9 from my cold dead hands! So many gigs, so much great tone. :)

@paulcowart3174

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I have one from before he even started his own pedals Has hung strong for almost 30 years

@LTJR.

4 жыл бұрын

@@paulcowart3174 wasn't he the guy that you would put $100 bill into the battery compartment and send it to him with postage prepaid back and he would do the chip swap with a two resistor change? The IRS may be looking for him. Ha!

@paulcowart3174

2 жыл бұрын

@@LTJR. LoL....I think so but yeah his pedals stand the test if time Almost 30 years ago he did mine and still my go to

I loved the comment "they sounded like shit" in reference to the solid state amps of the 70s. I LOLed at that one.

@fivewattworld

3 жыл бұрын

That was actually a quote from the designer at Ibanez but it sounds like me saying it..,so it makes folks laugh.

Cool shoutout to Ithaca Guitar Works! Spent much time in there while I was a student at Cornell. Great shop.

This was stunning. Thanks. I use a Maxon on my board. Now I feel better for having it there and not an Ibanez. What this video does make me want more than ever is a video from somewhere that actually describes the circuitry and the electronics of pedals. I'm virologist by career, not an electrical engineer. Anyone have suggestions for a video?

tubescreamer, metal zone, miku . the holy trinity

@clicheguevara9917

4 жыл бұрын

@Grace&Danger it transforms your triple rectifier into a fender Frontman! love it!

@stranger5088

4 жыл бұрын

I thought metal zone, metal zone, metal zone was the holy trinity???

@clicheguevara9917

4 жыл бұрын

@@stranger5088 for british clean. for some crunch you got to pack an hm2 into that chain

@stranger5088

4 жыл бұрын

Cliché Guevara 🤣🤣🤣 true, totally for got that!!!

I used my t S9 in my bass guitar rig. I also 5 knob. Early, From that Japanese company think my autocorrect refuses to spe flanger. Which is fantastically versatile.

Really interesting. I bought my TS808 about 1980 (don't remember exactly when), but it was amazing in comparison with other distortion-type pedals available at the time. I used it for, oh, I dunno, about 15 years. Not being a big rig follower, I didn't realise until comparatively recently how transformative it was for many of my guitar heroes, e.g. SRV. But I do remember one of our band followers telling me one night, "You're not the best lead player around, but, boy, you have the best sound!". He was probably right! :-)

When you made the comment about 70s solid state amps sounding like shit, I laughed so hard. This video is one of the best so far...keep em coming Keith!

@fivewattworld

4 жыл бұрын

Hey that’s a quote from the Ibanez guy. I’d never swear in the channel. ;)

@Woltide

4 жыл бұрын

@@fivewattworld the delivery is what got me haha

Was the “TS citcuit” used in the OD section of the Ibanez UE rackmount multi effect series they manufactured in the 1980’s? For that matter, we’re other pedals, such as the compressor or chorus pedals circuits, used in the UE units as well?

@LTJR.

4 жыл бұрын

Yep

One of the greatest pedal names ever

I'm with Rhett Schull. I hate tube screamers but tons of people love them.

@billbob4856

Жыл бұрын

ODR-1 ftw

Awesome video! although kind of depressing because I bought an original when they came out(along with a MXR distortion + and a MuTron Pedal flanger) it's depressing because I sold them when they were considered "used" not vintage which translates to $40 instead of $400, lol!, oh well.

@LIHPIT

4 жыл бұрын

Done the same thing TS 808 original boss ce-2 original silver screw digitech analogue delay that I absolutely loved thought I was upgrading to digital I sold them all £20 a peace and a few other iconic pedals all selling the stupid money and probably was when I sold them

@Zelomeisterdude

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I too know the feeling. I'm sitting here looking at the floor by my amp wondering why I don't see my original Tube Screamer, Vox Wah, and Electro-Harmonix Octave Multiplexer laying there.

@howabouthetruth2157

4 жыл бұрын

@@LIHPIT Shoot, I remember back in the early/mid 90's when digital rack mount amps & such were making a huge splash here in east/central Florida. I was gigging heavily at the time with my 50 watt LCM 800 ( larger venues ) and little Fender Black Face Champ ( mic'd for small clubs ).......and was astonished how nearly all the guitarists were tripping over each other to literally give their old tube amps away as "trade ins" for those brand new garbage rack mounts that would be "upgraded" ( true meaning: made obsolete and disposable ) to "the latest sound technology" over a span that could be measured IN WEEKS. I cussed & raised all kinds of hell with my peers, telling them they had lost their minds. AND I WAS OSTRACIZED FOR IT. I kid you not. I was looked upon as "the stubborn idiot who refused to change with better technology for sound". I even challenged them all to use their damned ears and listen to themselves on tape using their tube amps, vs those weak, fake sounding rack mounts of the era. The proof was right there, as anyone could hear the tube amp cutting right through the mix, but my peers were all blinded & star struck. It would be at least several years later, when one by one, these poor suckers would approach me to apologize and say: "You were right Steve, what have I done". Not only could they not give away that "new" obsolete shit..........they couldn't afford to replace that sweet old tube amp they practically gave away. Sad but TRUE story........and I'll never forget it. Steve......Melbourne, Fl.

The iconic Tube Screamer! The only pedal I have is have is a BOSS compressor/sustainer but if I had another one it would be a Tube Screamer. My amps have delay, reverb, etc.

@juanvaldez5422

4 жыл бұрын

What amps are you using?

@LeviBulger

4 жыл бұрын

Boss CS2 is my favorite pedal of all time! Killer, killer pedal. Also, something kinda funny and not mentioned in the video is that the Tubescreamer is itself a clone. The Boss OD-1 was the first of the "tube screamer" type of circuit, technically. Ibanez essentially cloned that pedal and called it the TS. Boss sued Ibanez and a settlement was reached to basically force Ibanez to use symmetrical clipping diodes instead of asymmetrical clipping which Boss had a pseudo-patent on. That's literally the only difference. Asymmetrical clipping is more amp-like as far as how tubes cause the wave patterns to behave when overdriven. It's why Boss was so adamant about retaining that design as their own. The Boss OD-1 is definitely more open sounding and not as compressed as the TS. The Ibanez is also more nasally sounding with greater emphasis on the upper mids. I personally prefer the OD1 and still use one to this day because I like the open nature of the way chords sound. But both are great and almost identical.

@LeviBulger

4 жыл бұрын

@@juanvaldez5422 I like your coffee, Juan!

@juanvaldez5422

4 жыл бұрын

Felix Blacksher have you played any of the boss amps

@LTJR.

4 жыл бұрын

Hi. If your amps have delay etcetera I'm guessing they're transistor? If so a tube screamer might not be the best choice. You may want to check out a distortion pedal with a tube in it. Unless of course you have and already decided TS was best for you.

My last name is Maxon, having such an obscure last name and seeing it on a pedal has been surreal. Also, semis

I have watched your other 'history' video's. I have a Blog Stomp Box Steals so I am well aware that these video's represent an infinity of work to do.BUT decades from now others will watch these when ALL other KZreadrs vids will be relegated to the trash bin.Damn well done and my most sincere gratitude for your vids.

@fivewattworld

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Paul! I’m editing the SG history right now. It takes about an hour of searching/editing for each minute of on screen. Sometimes it’s just making the effort. I’ll look at the blog. Btw, you look a lot like a young patent clerk. ;)

@Paul_Lenard_Ewing

4 жыл бұрын

@@fivewattworld Ben Franklin once said "today people no the cost of everything and the value of nothing" You sir have very valuable video's.

@fivewattworld

4 жыл бұрын

@@Paul_Lenard_Ewing Great saying Paul. Love the wisdom of Franklin. Thanks for the kind words.

@fivewattworld

4 жыл бұрын

@@Paul_Lenard_Ewing Hi Paul, I took a look at your blog, very cool. Shoot me an email sometime via the website (if I put the address here the robots will have us!). I'd like to talk pedals sometime.Thanks. Keith

@Paul_Lenard_Ewing

4 жыл бұрын

@@fivewattworld Thanks Kieth ...will do.

I have been playing guitar since 1975, I have owned about ten pedals. I never have played through a tube screamer. The only pedal I currently own is a visual sound ' open road'. I do not know if my pedal is in the TS format.

@paulcowart3174

4 жыл бұрын

It is

@LTJR.

4 жыл бұрын

I might be mistaken but I seem to think they also had one called a route 66 that may have been a TS variant. I do remember they made a nice chorus.

We need the centaur story now

Another great short history, Thanks Keith.

the best pedal ever created damnit

Hurts my brain when people try and tell me an early 1980s 4558 sounds "Better" than the newer ones.....

@johnvcougar

4 жыл бұрын

I think Josh set us all straight on that one, LOL.

@Rickholly74

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. While there are subtle (very subtle) variations in all of the TS pedals (I have nearly the whole line), I believe there is no basic sound difference between a TS9, TS7, TS5, or any other TS pedal. The only one I think (personal opinion) that has a slightly different EQ is the TS10. Again almost not noticeable to most users and clearly nothing that a tweak of the knobs can't cure..

@johnvcougar

4 жыл бұрын

The one exception I'll grant you is the NTS Nu-Tube Screamer. It's got quite a different character and responds differently to the touch to any other TS I've had in the past. Which you'd expect.

@elgen0314

4 жыл бұрын

............and yet it's the truth. Sorry to cause you further headaches

My awnser to what all of these men have in common: all men I'd be surprised to find on grinder.

this explains why i love my old japanese OD-1