Ibanez nu tube screamer vs ts808. The creation of the tube screamer was an attempt to outclass boss od 1 and mxr distortion. The tube screamer an overview. The tube screamer was a series of pedals first developed by ibanez in the late 70s replacing the ibanez overdrive and overdrive ii.
Ibanez in association with korgs nu tubescreamer is a new tube screamer get it that puts a fresh spin on an old classic pairing ibanezs tube screamer. The ts9 ts808 and the ts9dx. However it didnt stick along for too long.
After the success of ts808 ibanez released the 9 series in the early 80s. They retained the color scheme for the series and even today you will find it easy to spot a tube screamer on a pedal train. Nevertheless every version was a shadow of either the tube screamer ts808 or ts9.
In this video i check out the ibanez tube screamer pedals. Among the 9 series ts9 got most of the attention. And at the beginning of 1980 ts9 as launched.
Between 1985 and 1992 ibanez released a variety of models into the market. The nutubes overdrive is different from the diode clipping of the original. Ts808 was the first tube screamer on the market launched in 1970.