Tuesday, February 25, 2020

OVERDRIVE- MAXON Apex 808 ...the guy that designed the Tube Screamer does a new one!!!


$300.00 USD
 MAXON APEX 808 

So Susuma Tamura does it again!!! He collected about a hundred Tube Screamers to find which one is the best. He nailed it down to a specific OpAmp, year and run. He then found and bought every one he could find.  Maxon have enough to last between two to three years.

Susuma Tamura 
Mr. Tube Screamer himself!
The inventer of the worlds most popular OD






CONCLUSION
Well the sound on the video has me impressed.
BUT ...I am a Marshall-in-a-Box guy. The Apex is very amp sounding ...much  like a good medium gain J FET OD. but the average ts is NOT!  A classic ts creates a very distinct symmetrical waveform and the Apex output is producing an asymmetrical waveform.
Many will love the Apex but thousands will never part from the one they have!!! It is NOT going to be a game changer!
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