After reading on Analogman's website, he states they sound this way because there is less circuitry being they are TB. I have also noticed that the TB tube screamers like the OD-9 and the Ibanez HW seem to be a little more open sounding if that makes sense. Since it is TB the pedal doesn't turn off until the switch comes up. The OD-9 is a great sounding pedal but ultimately I couldn't get use to the switch. Need to have some buffered pedals on your board. I use it as a dedicated buffer and I think the buffer is great. I have had both and currently have the 808 because of the buffer. What you will find is that some combination of the two will be in order. Get on Google and read and then apply that knowledge to your current rig to help you keep your sound when all you pedals are off. Who knows, is the point, until I get it raging with my band?Īs far as the true bypass vs buffer vs good/bad buffer thing goes, like someone else said - study. That said, I haven't tried out the 808 and I definitely will, the difference may be small and I may end up liking the 808 as much or better. The extra mid hump helps keep me out front in the mix in my band that has heavy organ and keys as well as a horn section. I need it for the extra clarity when I am rolling back to get a clean sound, and to preserve my pick attack better when I am at full and everything is compressing. The TS5 I have since read is the TS9 circuit with cheaper parts and it does sound very close to my other friend's OD9, the same brightness level for sure.įor me the extra brightness in the circuit as opposed to the OD808 is working. Rolling around my guitar volume gives me pristine cleans to extreme, fuzzed out overdrive.

I am using it with unity volume and it's overdrive knob all the way up into an already overdriven tube amp. I got initiated into the TS family via my friend's TS5.

Mymaxon