IbanezTS9 Model Overdrive Pedal - TS9, Classic, MultiColored

This pedal....so much has been said about it. Legendary...is the word often used. Using this term is extremely accurate. It's THE sound. It's basically turning a tube amp into a higher quality, better sounding Boss Metal zone.Many call it or use it as a "Boost" pedal. That isn't quite accurate. When people say "boost" most think about a boost in volume. It boosts the mid frequency and Gain. Put this pedal in the front(not the FX loop) of the amp with your Amp's distortion channel gain set to around 12-1 o' clock. Set this pedal to 0 Drive, Tone...wherever u want and Volume up past 12 o clock somewhere and you have literal awesomeness.I have a Marshall amp and one of the most irritating things about Marshall's distortion tone is the "woody" sounding bass. You cannot get rid of it unless you dial the bass to 0 and then your guitar sounds like it's coming from some old transistor radio. Use a tube screamer in conjunction with a Marshall amps distortion produces some of the best sounds ever and you will want to play the damn guitar all day!They say it "tightens" the sound. It does far more than this. It increases the mids. It increases the High's and the Marshall's "woody" bass is altered to usable bass. It increases the gain which means you can have your amp's gain level lower and still get some amazing sounds. It's also great on it's own. You need an overdrive just on the threshold of clipping that sounds magical...look no further! This is IT!Amazing Legendary pedal hand's down!

I have several Overdrive pedals, they all do their own thing. This one does it's thing very well. I'm glad I added it to my collection. It works very well with a clean Fender amp (Strat or Tele sound great), although I also play it through my Blackstar St. James and 80s JMP Marshall. Great construction too

This is a fantastic overdrive pedal. It is a classic for a reason, it produces a fantastic tone and let's you dial in the right amount of overdrive (nothing too heavy though, for that get a distortion, not an overdrive). Not only is it a great overdrive, it also helps shapping the tone of your guitar. Owning a Gretsch Electromatic G5435T it is known that the high end of this guitar is not great, in fact I used to play almost every song using the neck pickup. With the arrival of the TS9 this is no longer the case, it brings the Gretsch bridge pickup alive.My favorite feature of this pedal is the tone control. It produces such a fantastic tone cranked all the way up that my guitar sounds just wrong when this pedal is off. It functions as a booster for your signal bringing out the mids and highs, without killing your low end.Since I don't own a booster pedal yet I am leaving the tone cranked all the way up and dial the Drive knob according to the song. I love the tone so much that I don't even want to to play the clean signal of my guitar. I will probably get an EP Booster soon and that way I can back off the tone knob a little bit and let the booster do most of the tone shapping. Meanwhile this pedal is doing a great job at both shaping my tone and creating a fantastic creamy overdrive.

This peddle is just what I thought it would be love it!

Very happy with pedal. Quick delivery. it takes me back to when I was a kid. Sounds great.

I have a bunch of pedals and multi-effects processors that model classic pedals, one of those being the Tube Screamer. I have an amp with overdrive, and inputting a a Boss CS-3 compression sustainer and DA 2 adaptive distortion pedal (notable upgrade from the venerable DS-1).Between the two of these pedals, I could sort of make a Tube Screamer. But what the hell, I wanted to just try it outright. It is one of the most fun pedals out there, and I really feel that if you have the most basic (good) tube amp and this pedal, you could go a long way.One big downside is that there is no level control in terms of overall gain in the loop. Obviously, when you throw on an effect, you don't want to blow the house down, but that is what this does unless you tweak its processing characteristics. I am still trying to play with that. Most other pedals have some sort of output level control.I don't care because I am having so much fun with this. Play notes, power chords or whatever and listen to the "motor run" on a good amp. It just runs and runs..

I love this pedal. This is my all around crunch / overdrive pedal. From anything you want to play, you can almost get most any tone needed. Put this behind or in front of a wah pedal and you got yourself a tone stew brewing.

Timeless classic. What’s not to love.