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!

Excelente pedal

Timeless classic. What’s not to love.

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.

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

Love this pedal, had it for over a ear now and still going strong. I have my guitar straight into the TS9 going into a noise gate, into my Peavey 6505+ and it brings out the best possible tone on the Lead channel. It just has the perfect drive to bring out the distortion and it chugs perfectly for metal and rock. In addition the TS9 create great tone for single notes, they’re really clear and sharp, and nothing sounds fuzzy or muddy. That is, if you turn the drive nob fully, then it can be muddy sounding. You need very little drive for this to work well. Great sounding pedal, would recommend for anyone regardless of the genre you play. I mostly play metal and alternative but it is versatile pedal, so you can use it with any amp.

I just got this pedal today so I haven't played around with it enough to leave a thorough review, but so far I'm impressed. The overdrive is warm and really alive sounding. I've played around with pairing it with other distortion pedals and the results have been very interested, when I paired it with my Boss Metal Zone the tone was amazing but the background noise was a little much, pairing those with a compressor and adjusting the settings on all three should fix that. It gave me a unique sound that I am looking for. 4 stars for right now.... once I play around some more I'm sure it will jump to 5.

I’m not going to add anything to the reviews here - just wanted to celebrate finally getting this pedal again. Before I knew anything about gear I bought this pedal at a used guitar & instrument shop near Philadelphia in the late 80s. I wanted ‘distortion’ so… I liked how it made my guitar sound like Tears for Fears, but it didn’t sound like Metallica or Trevor Rabin so I eventually traded it for computer parts in 1996. The two guys at the computer shop were metal heads and when I presented this pedal as a trade I’ll never forget how they looked at each other like “hell yeah!”After 30 years of recording, and the last 5 years of pedal experimentation, I came to realize what I had, and that the sound I was looking for is in the pickups and amps. I got it today and man it weighs a lot! I forgot what a monster this thing is. It’s an absolute tank of a pedal. It hasn’t changed a bit. I haven’t even plugged it in yet. My Orange & Seymour Duncans already know ☕️