Ibanez Tube Screamer
TS10

The Tube Screamer is a distortion unit. It doesn`t contain any tubes, it`s all semiconductors inside! Ibanez has tried to emulate the tube distortion with a semiconductor design. That means there is a diode in the loop back of an OpAmp. That`s not a bad idea and the result isn`t bad, but you can`t compare is with real tube distortion. It sounds ugly, when the battery is low.
Many guitarists like the Tube Screamer series, the early models (TS9, TS808) have become vintage effects.

Last modified on Wednesday, 22. February 2006