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Ibanez TS9DX Turbo Tube Screamer Overdrive Pedal

Drive, Mode, Tone, and Level knobs.

Overall User Ratings

Overall:
           10 out of 10
Features:
           9 out of 10
Quality:
           10 out of 10
Value:
           9 out of 10
I Want It:
           9 out of 10
Sound:
           9 out of 10
Ease of Use:
           10 out of 10
Support:
           8 out of 10
 
 

"Spend the Extra $9.00 and get the TS-9DX vs. the TS-9"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from yahoo.com
Submitted: 2/6/2005
Style of Music: Blues/Blues Rock Mostly
Musical Experience: Active Musician/Amatuer Recording
Location: Nothern KY on Ohio River

 

 
Quality:
Built like a Tank. Solid and smooth knobs, no pop's or crack's when engaging it.

Value:
The TS-9 is a great value. The TS-9DX is an exceptional value, for all the different tonal possibilities, for about $9.00 more.

Desirability:
What can I say? It's a pedal, not a custom made guitar. It's knobs and footswitch are in the same place as any other pedal. It's butt-ugly green, but who's going to come up and scruitinize my pedal board. Nice large foot switch, smooth, and no suprises.

Sound:
I have a TS-9, and a TS9DX, the latter I bought as a back-up for road trips. The TS9DX sounds exactly like the TS-9, in TS-9 mode. As a matter of fact, it's the same circuitry and components. The +, hot, and Turbo modes will give you a greater pallete of tones to play with and choose from. If you're in the market for a TS-9, get the DX for about 9 bucks more. The only overdrives that I found that even come close is the VisualSound's Route 66, and the Voodoo Labs sparkle drives, and each tries to emulate the TS-9, with great, but copycat circuitry. Unless playing super clean, one of these pedals is on all the time. Couldn't live the Blue's without it.

Support:
I have dealt with Ibanez, however, not concerning the TS-9's, but with guitar's. They were great, dealing with me. Didn't try the "your fault" bit with me. Sent one back, got a new one a week later.

Overall:
If there is ever a better, not equal, but better OD in a pedal configuration, I might buy it. With decent treatment, though, these will last for ever. There are many shops around that offer repairs and mod's to these (TS-808, TS-9's) if you ever want them. Popular enough, that some shop's only work on these pedals.

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"Awsome warm tone for your SRV, Allman Brothers, Black Crowes tunes."

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          9 out of 10
I Want It:
          8 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Submitted: 5/2/2004

 

 
Feature:
I can get every warm sound I want from this unit!

Quality:
Seems to be a solid unit. Haven't dropped it yet, but looks like it would stand up to normal use.

Value:
Paid $109. Its worth it!

Desirability:
I want it for the sound. Looks are good, but it doesn't really matter much what my floor pedal looks like.

Sound:
I'm using a Fender CyberTwin with a Les Paul Classic on the neck pickup for a great Allman Brothers sound. I use the TS9DX to add a nice warm punch for solo's and endings. This has a sweet classic/warm tube sound using the TS9 setting and works great with my Phase 90 for that SRV sound with my strat.

Support:
No problems...

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"A amp's best friend."

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          9 out of 10
I Want It:
          5 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Support:
          1 out of 10
User: a customer from gabintwork.com
Submitted: 3/3/2005
Style of Music: Take blues ,country ,southern rock , British rock & put them in a blender !
Musical Experience: Active Musician
Location: Beaufort , North Carolina USA

 

 
Feature:
The turbo setting is the most useful.The other settings sound thinner but i think they can be tweeked with the right communation of amp & guitar settings. No accessories.

Quality:
Could take a round of machine gun fire.Have had this unit exposed to salt spray at beach gig's ,spilled beer at honkytonk's,numberous other venues .Highly dependable.

Value:
yes.

Desirability:
It's like a bull.

Sound:
the turbo tubescreamer,to me, has the best sound when set on the-turbo mode.I am currently playing a mixture of blues,southern & classic rock.I use a stereo chorus peavey & use the lead channel with the distortion on zero. With the tubescreamers Drive & level set at two & my amp volume at three or higher, I get the sound of a kranked up Marshall jcm 2000 with my guitar volume set at ten.The unique thing about this unit is ,you adjust the amount of distortion you want , by using your guitar knob. You can go semi-clean at four or five or full blown on ten! Im playing a James Burton signiture telecaster.exp.30 years

Support:
Got the unit at nearby music store.No repairs needed.

Overall:
I,LL keep it till it fall's apart ,then replace it .I'd like to try it in communation with a tone classic.This units a great tool.

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"Great Pedal"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          9 out of 10
User: a customer from yahoo.com
Submitted: 1/20/2007
Style of Music: Contemporary Christian, Rock
Musical Experience: Active Musician
Location: Pasadena, TX, USA

 

 
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Feature:
You can turn the

Quality:
Its a nice pedal

Value:
It is kinda expensive but I didnt buy it. A friend from church gave it to me.

Sound:
I play this pedal through my Line6 SpiderII 112 amp and this pedal works great w/ it. It adds the extra distortion to the Crunch channel in my amp. Although this isnt a distortion pedal but it does add some to my amp. It also sounds great through the clean channel w/ some chorus.

Ease of Use:
It is real easy to use. No problems figuring out how to use it.

Support:
I've never called them. This pedal hasnt given me any problems.

Overall:
I dont think I'll ever need another Tubescreamer pedal ever again.

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"Tube Screamer it is"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from comcast.net
Submitted: 4/6/2005
Style of Music: a little of everything
Musical Experience: Hobbyist, would be giant
Location: Berkeley, CA

 

 
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Quality:
Seems perfect

Value:
Worth every penny of $110

Sound:
Straight out of the box I plugged it into my Fender 65 deluxe reverb reissue and was totally impressed. Had tried a Boss SD1, but that only muddied the pure tube tone. The 65 reverb is a beautiful amp, but has no gain controls (just pure fender tone). The Ibanez TS9DX makes the amp much more versatile, with no loss of tone quality.

Overall:
This is a keeper, I researched hundreds of comments by other musicians to select this.

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Ibanez TS9DX TubeScreamer Customer Review

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          9 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from gmail.com
Submitted: 11/8/2004
Style of Music: blues rock
Musical Experience: active musician
Location: ILLINOIS

 

 
Feature:
Excellent! Love the different settings!

Quality:
Very rugged feeling and heavy!

Value:
Yeah, but I only paid $50 for mine!

Sound:
Sounds great with my Line 6 Duoverb Combo!

Support:
Good pedal! No need for support!

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"It's not overpriced, it's sturdy, and it works."

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          8 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          8 out of 10
I Want It:
          8 out of 10
User: a customer from dot.state.ia.us
Submitted: 3/5/2003
Style of Music: classic rock
Location: nevada, iowa

 

 
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If you are looking for mega-drive distortion, this isn't what you're looking for, but if you want to wail in those upper registers, then this pedal will get it done. It's tone is sweeter as compared to a Marshall box that produces a harsher sound. Example: Marshall's produce vowel sounds like A's & Ahh's....Tube Screamer's sounds are more like O's & Ooh's.
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"Awesome pedal"

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          8 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          8 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from yahoo.com
Submitted: 1/22/2002
Style of Music: Christian Alternative; a lot of variety
Location: North Carolina

 

 
Very sturdy pedal; all four modes sound awesome; sounds great for both lead and rhythm guitar; I especially like playing in ts9 mode with drive about a quarter of the way up and tone about 3/4 of the way up
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"Amazing Pedal"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Submitted: 10/12/2002
Style of Music: Metal, Rock, Nu-Metal, Hardcore
Location: Port;and, Oregon

 

 
This pedal is amazingly good at offering a nice smooth clean sound, and a nice overdrive that is smooth and flows beautifuly.
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