What's the best tubescreamer?

[John_A]

i've got the metal-cased yellow one. admittedly i've only tried it head to head with my joyo (which is a ts clone) but it sounds very different (as far as od pedals sound different, obviously, it's not like one sounds like a fuzz and the other sounds like an od, lol). My ears aren't as good as they were either, though, so



arguably that's the case with a couple of the mooers (i haven't tried the green mile, though). actually it can be too easy to hit the bigger knob by accident, which is annoying.

Mines the yellow metal one too, I'll try it again and report back! Agree about the level control should have been the big knob, but you can't have everything, they're small, cheap and sound great

[GearAddict]

In a moment of weakness I picked up the Mooer Blues Crab...it's unbearably cute but it doesn't measure up very well to my Danno TODv1. Not a huge amount of gain and lacks body to my ears. But maybe that's what bb pedals sound like.

[thereformant]

I just made a video comparison between a TS808 and a Digitech RP TS808. I'd appreciate feedback (no pun intended)!

A sounded better to my ears but theres not that much in it. Does anyone actually use the TS in this way anyway? I thought people only used these into already distorted amps...they sound dreadful on their own.

[Dave_Mc]

Mines the yellow metal one too, I'll try it again and report back! Agree about the level control should have been the big knob, but you can't have everything, they're small, cheap and sound great

yeah the mooers i have sound pretty good. and as you said, in a small case there's not much room for the knobs elsewhere. I suppose they could have used all-teeny pots, but then some people would complain that you couldn't adjust on the fly, lol.

In a moment of weakness I picked up the Mooer Blues Crab...it's unbearably cute but it doesn't measure up very well to my Danno TODv1. Not a huge amount of gain and lacks body to my ears. But maybe that's what bb pedals sound like.

i prefer my tod too, but i still think the blues crab sounds "good". but yeah it's definitely a light od.

[GearAddict]

i prefer my tod too, but i still think the blues crab sounds "good". but yeah it's definitely a light od.

Do you know how the Mooer Green Mile compares to the Blues Crab? Does it have more gain?

[Dave_Mc]

^ i haven't tried the green mile. but assuming it's just a tubescreamer (or a turbo tubescreamer, i guess), i'm guessing it has a bit more gain. more mids and smoother and less transparent (that's how my joyo tubescreamer clone compares to the blues crab, anyway).

[Nik Harrison]

I had an Ibanez TS9 on my pedalboard for a long time, and considered it to be unbeatable for a couple of decades until one guitar show where I heard a Rothwell Hellbender! This totally changed my view, and then after that had my perspective totally changed again when I got a valvesporker (tragically now discontinued)! I try to keep an open mind these days because there are so many pedals out there, and so many different views on them but you won't go far wrong with one of these.

[uncle_psychosis]

I'm a big fan of the Sparkle Drive ---the clean blend is really useful, more pedals should have one.