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I guess there's 2 sides to this tube screamer and one is EQ shaping for an overdriven amp and the other just the tube screamer or two through a clean amp. It seems like it's just personal preference as far as op amps go. I've tried a couple of BB along with the LM833 plus the others I've...

http://www.ibanez.com/parts/2004_PARTS/electronics/others/tubescreamer/ts9/TS9.htm board layout http://www.ibanez.com/parts/2004_PARTS/electronics/others/tubescreamer/ts9/ts9_2.pdf Each of these specify this but it appears it might be related to its switch. Here's a familiar site...

I read your business about components et. al., and not be contrary outside of human nature but if the TS7 and TS9 are the same circuit, why is there a Zener diode right in the middle of the TS9 board that doesn't appear anywhere on the TS7?

The bunch of sticks held together with unicorn droppings is a MC1458N chip. Aside from that I tried a LF353N BIFET that boosted the output but seemed to reveal that it didn't color the sound enough for perceived warmth but it seemed to make me want to play at a million miles an hour which might...

Turns out the guitar player on that Beck song was Jason Faulkner and from what I've found he uses a compressor and your thoughts on compression and clipping, while logical anyways, point to where his sound is coming from. I tried the Germanium diodes, but the fast cycling sound of the...

I think I need to spend some time researching clipping. I know I like harmonics of all sorts, a lot, but I have the lingering question of whether I can really have this pedal do the two things I really want it to do in the same mod. I want to use it before a high gain channel to fill out the...

So I've spent some time opening and reassembling the T7 ~ I first A/B'd the two TS7's, found I thought one sounded vaguely (as vague as vague gets) warmer, so I set it aside and got to melting stuff in the other one. I mentioned the 808 swap, but I swapped those resistors back because I was...

It does make sense to define the mod before pursuing it. When I was messing with the DS-1 I put in a red and a blue LED in place of the diodes and the sound was what I thought was tubey (It's running into an old Carvin X60 tube amp ~ which interestingly has some 4558 ICs specified in its...

So I received the TS7 and a second one, mostly to see what two would sound like together. I applaud them together ~ just delicious sonic maelstrom in front of a high gain channel (dive-bombing, phaser, speedy runs, ridiculousness). I did the 808 mod to one of them, but I can't perceive any...

JBroll ~ thanks for your efforts over the years here. I honestly just found this forum tonight after ordering a TS7 this afternoon and after trying to soak in everything I could find out about Tubescreamer varieties and mods for the past week or so ~ had been dabbling the past few weeks...