JAM PEDALS
Tubedreamer MK.2
This is their second take on a Tube Screamer. The first was made
$260.00 USD
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20 years ago. It still uses a real TS 808 chip, a JRC4558 C. The
new one is far more usable with giving you excellent tones in
the low gain when using it as real transparent pedal or for a
SRV type boost pedal.The layout is Volume, Tone and Gain with a toggle to change
gain stages.
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Like the the first Jam you get a dead on ts sound
but with a lower noise floor. With the higher gain
it simply adds a few more good overtones & just
a bit of bite giving it great definition. You get your grandads ts, quite literally but that but extra that
was added on the board when it was recorded
on those old records.
How does it compare with the Mad Professor Green Wonder?
ReplyDeleteThe Mad P. is simply another hot rod Tube Screamer. If I went that route I would get the Warm Audio FLUFF Drive. It has a very good basic TS9 (parts are still easy to buy and not pricey) and it has both a half decent Brit Drive and very good Metal drive all great sounding and for $200.00 USD. The Mad P. is $390.00 USD. It does not have all that the FLUFF has nor like the Jam it does not have the original chip. Yes it is not cheap either at $260.00 USD. My point is simple if you want a dead on old school sound or you want the best hot rod. Nothing wrong with either. But?? Why sit on the fence with a half way choice???
ReplyDeleteThat said the bog standard Ibanez TS9 is on hundreds of rigs where a guy has paid thousands for his tube amp and as much or more for his guitar. Why?? because in use it is the perfect glue to nail his whole sound. The Tube Screamer was designed in the first place to be sold to young American players with any guitar but a budget single clean channel tube amp so the guy could dime the amp then use the ts to give him a faux Marshall single channel crunch sound. It worked dead perfect for that at the time.
Over the years it has primally been used the same way. A booster pedal with a fixed boost in the upper mids to get past even the worst mud in any cranked amp and give it punch and poke.
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