Ibanez TS9DX

4 knobs - cinch! I always use the ts-9 setting but it's good to have something to play with once in a while.

As I said above, the unit really rests on the ts9 setting. The reason I bought this and not the TS9 was simply because I needed a good overdrive and my local shop only had this one (so they gave me a TS9 price and less). Tried it out and thought is was ok enough to buy (in the store I was using some sort of average humbuckered Godin through a Fender Hot Rod type thing). Well once I got it home and got her cooking it totally blew me away...it was EXACTLY what I was looking for. You can go from a kinda chunky dry hollowed tone to a more saturated hendrixan type effect pretty easily. After that I kick in my SD1 for smoother solos etc. I have a small collection of effects most of which are ehx but my current simplified setup is Tele (replacement pups/pots/switch and callaham bridge) => Boss TU-2, Dunlop 535Q, Ibanez TS9DX, Boss Super Overdrive SD1 => '69 SF Super Reverb Amp w/4x10 Weber california speakers. That's it. Just a plank through a tuner and wah and two overdrives and into one of the best amps ever made. This sounds glorious by itself but add in a band and man oh man! This pedal just reacts BEAUTIFULLY with the Super Reverb at band level where the amp itself is beginning to break up (holy grail clean tone). We play a particular tune where all I'm doing is single strumming open chords Em, G, C, Am, D, Em, A, B one chord to each bar with the odd little fill and embelishment. Each strum I draw out and articulate and nuance with the inspiration that this sound evokes. You know that if you start romanticising about simple chord progressions then there's something special going on!

No problems at all. Keep a spare battery around - you don't even need a screw driver or 5 cent piece to open it!

Local dealer has it sorted - like I'd need them! :)

I play in a pop/rock/suburbs/piano based/whitlamesque band and this pedal fits the bill perfectly for me and how I approach the guitar and my role in the band. I just love it because I find myself squeezing all I have out of the neck of my tele to get her howling and wailing and just cooking good and proper. I think there are a lot of botique pedals out there with this chip and that chip and the original this and that etc etc but all in all this pedal has an attitude and sound that I just love. The pedal simply gives me *Exactly* what I was looking for!

File under; Jangly, Thinline, Edgy, Cool, Beer, Girls Dancing, Pubs.
Cheers!

sencillo de usar! 4 botones, que mas quereis? drive,level y tone, y claro, un boton para los distintos tipos de distorsion, el modo ts9, ts9+ el hot y el turbo. simplemente es mas distorsion en cada paso.

SI BUSCAS UN SONIDO VALVULERO AQUI LO TIENES! sin lugar a dudas la mejor compra que he hecho, el ts9dx te da ese sonido overdrive que andabas buscando! y en el modo turbo llega a una buena distorsion, PERO MUCHO OJO! esto es un overdrive!!!!! nada de distorsion, no encontraras metal en este pedal! la mejor manera de usarlo es con un buen amplificador con distorsion, encima de esta. te teletransporta a un sonido que no pensaba que pudieses entrar nunca, con los harmonicos que andabas buscando para tus solos. yo lo utilizo para el sonido crunch de mi amplificador.

stratocaster del 74 y epiphone lespaul-fender pt10-whawha crybaby-IBANEZ TS9DX-marshall shredmaster-boss os2-mxr phase 90-daneletro reverse delay-bossdd6 conectados a un fender twin reverb.

a pesar que te lo dan nuevecito, no es muy dificil desgastar su pintura, al a?o lo tienes picado de por todo...

de momento nada de nada

toco desde radiohead hasta oasis, britpop del bueno! indi-rock y algo de blues, y en todos estos estilos el ts9dx me da lo mejor de el, si lo perdiese compraria uno nuevo, y si no tambien, pienso comprarme otro y usarlos en cadena!

Real sexy sounds come through this beast. Eeasy to shove in some great tones especialy with a strat and VALVE amp. Takes time to find your own kinda sound but when you do get it is just lush.
No manual don't need it though if you bought an overdrive pedal you really aint gonna screw abouit readin a manual.
No dont know or care its just reall hot ok dudes!

Mex strat- boss wah- compressor- boss sd1- ts9 - BIG MUFF! - Carvin Bel air 212 or marshall avt 150.
Real quite and suppressed.
Always cooks up my tubes and kicks the amp over real good.
Carvin bel air is employed mostly. "cook those valves up brother!"
Come on SRV is the man and if a TS9 is good enough for him it has to be for me i just bought dx for the bonus of harsher distortion settings of turbo hot etc!

Yes cause i can my pedals are treated like golf balls but they can all take it especialy mr green. SD1 always with me for back up.

no need it wouldnt break

top man dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Roery Gallagher SRV Hendrix pink floyd Muse bify clyro bach mozart Yngwie Malmsteen buddy guy rage audioslave punk n e thing good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Coming into third year of playing(still crap)
Buy another but probably t=get TS808
Favourite feature is the fact you can shove it through a cranked valve amp and just go to heaven (almost) thats not to say it has electricuted me though!More gain would be bonus for metal.Helps be get beetteerr tone yes sir! Jimmy Page and les pauls are both seriously overated. oh yeh why are rory stevie and jimi dead?

This is a great pedal. Takes some time to find your sound. Got 4 controls. Drive, Level , Tone and an 4way mode button. wery cool. Evry knob responce nicely, chanes alot when you switch modes. I would like to have mid control, to dial some more mids in.

Well. I'm usin this pedal with my Hiwatt Custom 100 allmost cranked. I read somewhere that this pedal was unusable for Metal, well IMO this pedal is most exelent. You just have to have slighty overdriven amp. I use him with couple of difrend guitars. LP's, Jackson kelly , Kramer, Fender Strat, Washburn MG and G&L tele. The Jackson is my main guitar. I have loaded him with duncan JB in the bridge and '59 in the neck. This gear absolutly sings took some time too find out what combo would sound best.

Never let me down. Giged with it for couple of years, no problem (other than my marshall pedal)

Great pedal. Just have to use it with cranked single channel amp, othewise it sound flat and powerless. If I would lost this pedal, I would probibly buy TS-808, but I'm no so sure. just wish it had middle knob.

Fairly easy to use; it's an OD, so nothing really scientific about setting it up.

I use it with a Fender Vibrolux and either a Strat Plus Ultra, Mid-70's Tele (w/Texas Specials), or an ES-335. I've never used anything other than the standard TS-9 setting live, but have played around with the other three on my own time. Works best with the Strat or Tele - the ES-335 does a pretty good job of overdriving the amp all on its own. My pedal chain is usually: Digitech Compressor-->TS9DX-->Digitech Delay, sometimes preceded by a standard Crybaby or a vol pedal. BTW, don't attempt using the comp and OD together; not that you can't, but the degree of difficulty is such that it's not worth the effort. Bottom line: Gives a nice warm OD - for my styles (Gospel, Blues, C&W, R&B), it's all I really need. I give it a 9; there might be a 10 out there, but I haven't tried one yet, although I understand the Barber Electronics box to be pretty close.

Haven't broken it, although I'm pretty easy on equipment. I don't know of anyone else who's broken one either.

Never dealt with Ibanez.

I play for a church choir, where we cover a lot of diverse territory (hymns, southern and urban gospel, contemporary, etc.), and play blues, c&w, and some r&b on days other than Sunday. I've been playing guitar for about 20 years (with a 14 year gap - which I don't recommend, BTW), and the TS-9DX does a great job of giving the Vibrolux a little more juice at lower volumes, although I'm fairly selective about when the OD is inline (I can't crank the amp much past 5 in church without knocking the front row over, but usually have it much louder elsewhere.). If it were stolen? I'd either buy another one, or maybe the Barber OD, based on what I've heard about it.

pedal is easy to get a great tone. this is a stock unit. bought at pawn shop, therefore no manual was included. EASY to use if..this your kind of sound. i have read that folks cannot get distortion out of this pedal. no shit. this is a warm, crunchy, overdriven machine. if metal dirt is your sound, then this product is not easy to use.

68' deluxe reverb. 64' olympic white stratocaster. i have only been playing for a short time, but feel i have an ear for tone, more than playing ability. this is the sound i was looking for. 6 months ago i bought a danelectro daddy o, and thought it sounded good until. plugged both pedals in and was amazed a the difference. the dx has a thicker sound; my favorite is the + mode. i have heard this is a close ts808 flavor. hot and turbo modes are almost too dirty for me, but, it has a sound for everone, except metalheads.

actually i bought this pedal not working. it appeared to be in brand new condition. got home, opended it up and found 1 broken solder joint. after the repair, has worked perfect. so far so good. makes my daddy o seem like a toy.

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i play blues, rock, jimi ( or at least attempt some mentioned). playing for 5 years. if i lost this, i would replace it with a reissue 808, only if the price was right. this will problably never happen. this is the best ibanez pedal for the value. i love the fact that you can change modes. it is just like 4 for the price of one. have tried sd1, daddy o, digitech bad monkey, ts9, and chose the dx for its versitility. overall great product for my stylee!

Takes a little tweaking to get the sound right but once you get it right it is great!!.

I think the big problem with the negative reviews here is that

a) people expect this to be a Heavy Metal pedal and
b) people use it with an amps clean channel.

When i first bought this and plugged it in I was very dissapointed.
Then I checked the manual, and read, 'use with a gain/overdrive', bang there it was the tone that everbody is talking about.

I think that this pedal is kind of unuasable with a clean amp channel
but just a little gain and the magic is there.

All modes produce great sounds, but you will need to tweak to find the tone you are looking for.

It's a mean green stomping machine...

Good range of tones, but you need to work with it a little. Very rewarding when you get it sorted.

I would give it a 10, but it has more choices to choose from than the regular TS-9. You need to play with them to find your sound. If you are a metal head and think this is going to give you your sound, don't waste your time. Please don't review it and trash it.

I am using a HSS Texas Special Strat with a 70's MXR flanger and a Ernie Ball Volume pedal through a Mesa Boogie Mark II C+ Combo Amp. Bought them new, that should tell you how old I am. I first bought a TS-9 and used it and it sounded good. The Ibanez web page claims that the TS-9 DX has the 808 chip in it. This is the same chip being used in the new reissue TS-808. It is suppose to be a little warmer sound than the chip in the TS-9. With a good tube amp, this thing really adds life to the sound!! The straight TS-9 mode adds very little color to the sound unless you add it yourself with the gain and tone knob on the unit. The other three modes each add more gain and mid to thicken the sound. Similar to the Santana sound.

It is perfect for that extra kick for leads (higher volume and more sustain and grit if you add it). Remember this is not a distortion box!! It pushes your tubes ability to distort. Not for Metal.

Hand wired and built like a tank! The I/O jacks are mounted to the housing not the PC board. The old ones are still around after 25 yrs!

For an extra $10.00 over the standard TS-9 it is a no brainner. It has a better chip, has the TS-9 setting plus three others. I am very happy with it. For clean and leads with gain in them it is a MUST HAVE. It brings out the charcter of your tube amp. NOTE: If you use this through a high gain transistor amp it might help your sound very much in heavy distorted playing. I tried it with a transistor amp and these types of amps just don't have the extra headroom that tubes have.

There is a reason why tube screamers are a ledgend in rock & blues music and the orginals go for $400+ on ebay. There are business made just around mods for tube screamers.

This pedal is easy to get a good sound out of it. It's got four knobs: gain, volume, tone, and a mode switch.

I use a Samick JZ-112 Semi-hollow electric guitar through a Marshall MG100DFX Combo amplifier and occasionally a cheapo squier strat. I occasionally use a BOSS GT-6 and an Electro-harmonix Big Muff Pi. My effects order is Crybaby Wah -> Tube Screamer -> Big Muff Pi -> Marshall MG100 -> BOSS GT-6. My main musical influences include The Smashing Pumpkins, Everclear, Our Lady Peace, and the White Stripes.

I was reading some reviews about some disappointed people looking for a great metal tone. This is not quite the pedal to do that on its own. When I tried it out, I initially thought that it was supposed to have this crazy heavily overdriven sound, but I was wrong. I tried it out before I bought it, but I decided that it had a wonderful crunchy sound that I could use to play lighter rock songs with. With the TS9 setting it offers a lovely overdriven guitar sound and is great with my amp's clean channel but it's nothing that will give Metallica a run for their money. It definately hits the spot with the White Stripes when he's not using his big muff pi.

If you're after a great metal or alternative rock sound, it's great for use as a booster pedal for your overdrive channel. I normally set up my Marshall MG100's overdrive channel with OD1 distortion and the all the knobs at 12 o clock. This gives a great general overdriven sound that's not over the top. Then I setup my TS at the TURBO setting, gain all the way down, volume all the way up, and tone all the way down. When I turn it on, it gives your guitar some sweet sustain and compression and just helps give you a little bit of boost in the gain on your amp. Occasionally it can get a little noisy on higher settings, but then again what doesn't make a little bit of noise at the high settings? Also, the tone knob doesn't add a lot of treble. It pretty much controls the amount of bass that the pedal emits.

This is a great pedal. It doesn't suck tone and the overdriven sound is fantastic. If you need a booster pedal for your current hi-gain setup, this is an awesome pedal to get. If you're after a good pedal to give you some slight overdrive to your clean sound, this will do the trick. It's no wonder why the TS is one of the greatest pedals ever made.

This is a very solid pedal. I would definately gig without a backup.

I've never had to deal with tech support

For my style of playing: White Stripes, Everclear, Our Lady Peace, Smashing Pumpkins, Better than Ezra, Led Zeppelin, and Blues, it's terrific.

I've been playing for about 5 years and this is definately on my top 5 list of pedals. I also own a BOSS GT-6, Big Muff Pi, Crybaby Wah, Snarling Dogs Tweed E. Dog, and an Alesis Compressor.

If it were lost or stolen, I would definately buy another one.

The only thing I don't really like is that the tone doesn't have a lot of range.

When I bought it, I compared it to the original Tube screamer and it sounded pretty much the same. Other Boss overdrive pedals also sounded pretty good, but this one sounded better to me

The pedal is pretty straight forward. The different settings (hot, turbo, etc.) take some fooling around with to understand what they do (which is add more bass and sludge).

I give it a 5, because I know some people want this sound. As for the sound I was expecting (metal) I give it a 1. I read that James Hetfield and Billy Corgan use the tube screamer, and I thought this would help me get that super-overdriven metal distortion. Wrong! As other people have said, this is not a metal pedal. It does provide a warm tone, good for blues and 70's rock. But if you're looking to shred and play metal, skip this one. I'm returning it tomorrow. It also was very noisy, unless I turned the overdrive or level down, which sounds like not having any pedal at all. What I found, was that it adds bass, and makes your guitar sound sludgy and muddy. It was oversaturated. Again, it's because I play with tons of gain. With the gain on my amp turned down to 3 or so, it gave a nice warm, smooth distortion, but you can't play Metallica with that.

Built like a tank.

Great overdrive if your sound requires less gain, and more warmth. Stay away if you play 100% gain, hot-rodded, shredding metal.