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Maxon Reissue Series OD808 Overdrive

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For over 40 years Maxon’s legendary "808" overdrive circuit has been an essential ingredient to achieving great guitar tone. Whether it’s used as a booster to drive an amp, as a Dirt box for crunch and extra sustain or as an EQ to shape the tone of a high-gain amp, the 808 in its many incarnations has shown up in more rigs and on more recordings than anyone would care to count. The Maxon OD808 – After 40 years it’s still being used to reinvent guitar tone as we know it. Reinvent your tone – play the Maxon OD808.

an overdrive + boost that marries a Tube Screamer-style channel with a silicon treble booster, probably of Dallas Rangemaster origins. Technique is really the elimination of the unneccessary ... it is a constant effort to avoid any personal impediment or obstacle to acheive the smooth flow of energy and intent" JHS creates a vast range of single-mode overdrive and distortion pedals which have nearly all become fan favorites. For this reason we’d have expected the Bonsai to take the form of nine separate TS-inspired stompboxes – but this love letter to the Tube Screamer, in its 9-in-1 format, is guaranteed to go down as one of the best JHS pedals – and one of the best TS clones – of all time. For this weeks review we will be looking at the Maxon OD808, possibly the best overdrive pedal I’ve had the chance to experiment with. It’s honestly soeasy to get a good overdrive tone from it. Honestly though as stated above by tekbow the differences between these pedals is slight. If you are happy/unhappy with your TS9 I doubt you are going to more/less so with an OD-808While all of these pedals are great, they all have different qualities which make some more suitable than others. Do I want something traditional or modern? It tightens the sound of your guitar through your amp. This makes each note sound equal so it really speeded up my playing, it’s as if I am playing each note harder but I am just lightly touching each string.

The Palisades is an absolute unit of a Tube Screamer clone. There's a host of options available. Of course, there are gain, level and tone controls, but also a second channel gain control and an output boost. On top of that there's a bright mode, and the option to disable the buffer. Personally I swear by the Klon(e) build by our Juansolo, just like many here do. It also is an overdrive, but one without that mid character. It takes the signal, makes it louder, adds treble and gain, all to taste, without touching the rest. Very tranparent pedal, great sounds and almost all settings are great. It is THE more pedal. Gives you more of all the good stuff. It really has that mojo to me.

The Best Selling Overdrive of All Time

There are quite a few shootouts of the Maxon pedals on youtube, including this one comparing five versions: Long story short ... this unassuming OD808 was the winner. The Ibanez TS Mini was last place and the fancy, ridiculous expensive TS808HW was somewhere in the unremarkable middle.

The lists in this article were last updated on June 5th, 2023 The Best Selling Overdrive of All Time

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a highly tweakable Tube Screamer inspired pedal from Belarus that features a bass boost toggle switch and an asymmetrical clipping mode that gives you a slightly crunchier tone. also, if you get an 808 or TS9 etc etc from whoever some are relay switched, some are TB, whole myriad. for the relay switched ones, this little item to convert them to TB without drilling holes is supposed to be good. Maxon play off being the original makers and charge lots of money, and Ibanez are the original brand. and charge lots of money. and a million and one other makers make clones at varying levels of price. The most outrageous of the standard production ones is the TS808HW (handwired). they don't use "premium" or "hand selected" components, they use the same bog standard stuff out of the same parts bins as the other pedals.

From what I know the 808 is less middy mostly. That after all is the defining quality of the tubescreamer. Different versions of both do exist though. I think to recall the 808 also is a bit more agressive. Personally I also like the 808 more of the two as it is more natural to me.When a product reaches this level of popularity (or even a much lesser level, for that matter!), it’s only normal for the industry to take note and try to “join the revenue party.” That’s why the Tube Screamer has become one of the most cloned and referenced pedals of all time. A painstakingly encyclopedic take on the Tube Screamer clone that offers (reportedly) exact replicas of nine rare, classic, and must-have tube screamers from over 41 years of green overdrive history – and the usual three knobs to tweak them. “Is it analog?” we hear you ask. Yes, it is! The company goes as far as saying: “When you plug into the Bonsai, you’re playing through the exact same circuitry as the original pedals.”

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