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SOLD! - 1980 Ibanez Tube Screamer TS-808 JRC4558 D "R" tubescreamer TS808

SOLD! - 1980 Ibanez Tube Screamer TS-808 JRC4558 D "R" tubescreamer TS808

€ 1.100,00Prijs

100% Original and early TS808 with serial 122754, the Ibanez (R) "trademark" logo, the famous JRC 4558D opamp chip (37th week 1980), SK121 FETS and a flush power adaptor jack. The circuit board is the MP-D01201B Maxon KU version and the capacitors date week 42, 1980.

 

This one sounds sweet, powerfull and gritty but when dialing back the Level 40% (no volume increase), Tone 50% and Distortion 70% it just pushes your amp into tonal heaven with that holy grail creamy overdrive that we all love and search for.

 

In the mid '60s effect pedals emerged as the guitarist's tone-warping tool of choice in the wake of the guitar mania fueled by British Invasion bands like the Stones, the Beatles, and the Kinks and later Hendrix, Beck, Cream and Zeppelin toward the end of that decade. Though these bands predominantly relied on tube amps for classic tones, the new sounds they injected into their signal paths via pedals were made possible by the 1948 invention of the transistor. Pedals quickly became one of the most cost-effective, convenient, and instantaneous ways to generate the exciting new sounds that shaped rock 'n' roll and modern culture by extension. By the late '60s, the market was flooded with portable sound-modifying devices, and effects became commonplace in pop and rock music. Sonic expression was forever changed...

 

Of all overdrive pedals in history, the Ibanez Tube Screamer is arguably the most beloved of them all. Designed by S. Tamura in the late '70s for Ibanez and its parent company Hoshino, the Tube Screamer has been used by guitar greats as diverse as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Walsh, Eric Johnson, Trey Anastasio, Brad Paisley, The Edge, and some would go as far as saying no single pedal has had a greater impact on musical expression or played as important a role in the development of effects modification. 

 

"If you look at the schematic between a Tube Screamer and a Boss OD-1, they're almost exactly the same thing," former Ibanez product manager John Lomas says. "The OD-1, though, is what they call an asymmetrical clipper. When you put a signal in it, it does not distort the top and bottom of the soundwave the same. Instead, it distorts one differently — the way a tube would. The original Boss OverDrive was designed to be a tube simulator, which was really big back then because, of course, most amplifiers were starting to get away from tubes. They were solid-state, and they really sounded like shit. So there was a market for tube-simulation pedals. I believe that's probably why the Tube Screamer was named the Tube Screamer."

 

In the early days, pre-1982 that is, Stevie had his guitar plugged straight into his amplifier with the exception of a Wah pedal for Hendrix tunes. Roadie Cutter Brandenburg would run out on stage between songs and plug the guitar into the Wah pedal and the pedal into the amp. After the song, he would run out again to disconnect it!!!

 

Then in 1982 guitar tech Donnie Opperman introduced Stevie to the Tube Screamer from his experience with Joe Walsh. 

 

Donnie also made Stevie’s first pedal board which has become legendary: a piece of scrap aluminum bent along the top edge to lift that side off the stage floor. He had Stevie place the Wah, TS and a MXR Loop Selector where he wanted them on the board, screwed the pedals onto it and reinforced the whole thing with Gaffa Tape whilst also taping Stevie's Fender VIB|REV footswitch and the whole thing to the podium floor... Stevie used this board for several years and used a Tube Screamer more than any of the very few effects pedals he employed from 1982 to 1990.

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