I was so lucky with my TS808. My sister was at a garage sale and she saw music equipment and she facetimes me and shows me a box full of “those things you step on when you play guitar” 😂. She shows me the box and I see a TS808 in there and she was able to bargain it down to $50!!!!! I got so lucky idk how but I did. It’s a great pedal

I'm a simple man, I see Mike Cole post, I click.

The true secret to the TS808 is what most people don't pick up on (please try what I suggest below)... And maybe this is why all the other tube screamer variants were made (from it being misunderstood in the first place) When people first heard guys like Stevie play it and they wanted that sound they attributed it to the TS so they went out and got one and hated it. Because they weren't using it right.. they were cranking the drive and not hearing what they thought they would. Because you dont drive the tubescreamer... you drive what it's plugged into. Please try this. Get your favorite overdrive pedal ( or just your amp ) have it set to your usual rhythm settings, put your TS808 BEFORE this pedal and set the Drive at about 9oclock.. basically just enough to engage the pot so that it wont steal volume. Then crank the volume all the way and put the Tone wherever you want. Now with your overdrive pedal on, engage the tube screamer to play your lead/solo and feel the magic. you basically get a lead boost + that greasy smooth sustain of the Tube Screamer circuit without adding an additional drive tone since you are keeping the TS drive down.

I had a Tube Screamer Mini (based on TS808) and it's a killer pedal!!! Cheers from Italy!

One of my favourite TS-Style designs is the T-Rex Moller. It's a tubescreamer with a blend-knob and a seperate boost circuit. Quite underrated in my opinion.

This was a useful video for me. Instead of demo-ing the most recent TS clone it answered a question I’ve had for a while. It hasn’t inspired me to spend money, I already have as TS9 but if I go down the TS into TS path one day I’ll probably add a 808 since there’s a functional difference.

"Look On" You are a real Frusciante fan!

I'm running the JHS Bonsai that contains 9 different circuits - essentially 9 different tube screamers including the two you specified. Also the Wampler Tumnus and Plexi. The OG circuit provides most of my warm tones. I use it a lot.

I have a TS10. I got it in the late 80s in Boston after seeing Phish at The Paradise. To this day, it is the only distortion pedal I use. I am amazed to see vintage TS10s going for $500 on ebay. To me, the only real difference between the 3 is that the TS10 is the easiest to change the battery.

I like your style, Mike. You kinda bring guitar content down to earth in a way. Keep it up!😉

Lol thought you were about to do an ad read for your sweatshirt 😂

“Nothing sounds quite like an 8-0-8!”-Beastie Boys, out of context.

I can't imagine being so delusional that I convince myself that I hear an appreciable difference between these pedals.

That a little recording studio I see? When we getting new Mike Cole music on Spotify??

The 808 tames the top end the ts9 definitely has high trebble and this causes a clipping effect when pushed higher. Esp with other distortion pedals. High treble is the sound of classic rock though, they would never allow for that in the age of sythesized computer edits.

Aww, man.....why did I click on a tube screamer video. Ya got me.

I got the TS808 and I think it’s amazing, it’s definitely my fav overdrive pedal. Now I’m waiting for the J. Rockett Archer…and hopefully get the perfect combination 🔝✨

Get a JHS Bonsai if you're Tube Screamer variations obsessed.

I wasn't able to tell a difference between the two, saying the guy with 3 TS variants in his collection.

TS808 here! Thank you for your great work! Love your channel!

The TS9 and the 808 are both tube screamers and both will do the same job, as well as the plethora of other ones...

1:55 Mike "Jerry Seinfeld" Cole

I have never mained a tube screamer. That being said, I do own one that I love, and it's a TS-808. The reason why I don't use it all the time is that I only like it into a dirty amp (which is a KILLER sound) but into a clean amp it has this weird high end thing going on. When I don't know what I'm getting into, I use a Klone

I am a TS9 guy...why? Because the TS808 is so associated with so many guys that the prices are out of my range!!

Love this video!! And love your playing! The video really gave me the ability to hear the subtle differences between the TS9 and the 808, both iconic pedals. Most of the time with these pedal comparison videos, the audio quality is lacking rendering them useless for my purposes. So really great job nailing down the audio!! For me the 808 tames the top end. If you ever get a chance to try a TS808TM or other tube screamer variants, I would love to hear your thoughts. All 3 are excellent pedals. Looking forward to more of your videos! Just subscribed!

Two TS808 tube screamers have been on my pedalboard for over 20 years. They are actually converted TS5s, but I did the conversion myself, as well as many TS9 to 808 and they all sound just as good as a "real" 808. I run them into a clean amp, typically 15-20W and keep the tone control right at 9:00. This might vary on clone pedals, because the pots have different tapers than what Ibanez used. Gain is set a little less than halfway up on the first one one and all the way up on the second one. Volume set on each pedal to match my bypassed volume. This gives me a lot of optrions from clean to #1, #2 or #1+#2. I think you are on the right track here. The Tube Screamer is a great pedal and two play very well together. My idea with them was: they should not significantly alter my base tone and there should be no volume shift as I engage them. The TS808 set as I describe does exactly this. I run a volume pedal after the TS pedals to control my stage volume without changing the distortion.

You can JHS Bonsai, it does them all

Nice FRUSCIANTE riff in there man. Don’t hear many people playing that solo stuff

I don’t have many pedals but I really like the overdrive sound I get out of the boss blues driver

I've been using the 808 for 10+ years and one thing that stands out versus a lot of other guitar pedals is tone control. When I'm using my Strat (with Texas Specials), I set my 808 to ANY desired overdrive level with the volume at 12 o'clock. I then have the tone knob on the 808 and my amp set to be ALMOST (

Also, lets not forget the Boss Super Overdrive which is the Tube Screamer's evil twin.

This may sound weird, but Sheffield Made Plants brought me here 🥰👍

Love your videos, brother! Thanks for the great content! 🎸

Love your stuff!

I’m an 808 kind of guy. But I just bought the JHS Bonsai at some point because I was sick of the TS game and wanted it to stahp.

I love my Maxon 808 better than my Screamers

I love the tones you're getting on both! Great playing! If you're feeling adventurous, try out the Behringer clone, I believe the TO808 and let me know what you think. But I do need one of the actual Tube Screamers in my collection. Happy pedal day!

Cool.. I have the 10 on my board along with a Caline pure sky, and a EHX Crayon. Seems to cover most of the sounds I go for. If I’m feeling a little 60’s, what the heck, Put ‘em all on at once. Instant Joy( and depending on the guitar I’m using) Feedback of epic proportion💥💥😱😎 Great content on your channel!

I'm a TS9 guy it was also pretty much the first pedal I bought , I find this one has a bit more bite than a 808 and I agree with the comment below I use my TS9 before my favorite overdrive which right now is Browne Amplification Carbon which is a Blues Breaker based circuit, them together is a masterpiece . Also stacking the TS9 with a RAT is great as well .

I don’t care what anybody says! The Bonsai is the answer to all TS endeavours

Just happened to me ts808. I'm in love. I wish i had done it earlier. I don't listen to a lot of classic music. It's 50s' 60s rock to r/b then classic punk from the 70s. Other than the radio john mayer and srv and those types guy's passed me by! I had no reference point. So i tried the boss sd1 one. I've hated my guitar for two years! I thought i was doing something wrong! I couldn't figure out why I could get close but not where i wanted? It's because it's not the ts808. I don't even need to try another pedal! I swear! I always need / want/ obsess over "better" the gross amount of money I've spent on home audio. But love i love it. You actually captured the sound well!

If you like either of those TS pedals you have to try the Browne Gritador

Nice to hear look on as a testing song

I bought the 808 reissue when they cam out in 2004. Only overdrive pedal I’ve owned that long. They just have something special. Super classic smooth cranked and contains single coil edginess when slightly cranked

I've been subbed since about 27k, its been great seeing both your channel and your content quality grow. Keep it up homie🐏🐏

The worst thing about Ibanez pedals are the boxes. I hate those boxes! But yeah man, I love my Ibanez tube screamers. I have a few now of TS9 TS808 and a couple to versions of it. Whats really cool is stacking them from going to a clean to a high gain tone. Mix the TS9 and TS808. Or two TS9's. It's a subtle difference but still very cool if you put both of them just past edge of breakup.

This is why screaming is not the best form of communication

I’m a TS9 guy. My dad had one, and it’s what I’ve always used. The joyo one kicks ass too lol

Next let's see 6 MT-2s daisy chained haha. Great video man.

My go to has been an 808, but I’ve modded it with an Allums kit. That being said, I have a boss Sd-1 modded with an Allums kit and they are both a must have for me..

Mike, if you really want to hurt your head with this one, ask your buddies at Sweetwater to hook you up with a JHS Bonsi pedal....its every Tube Screamer ever in one pedal.

The noble screamer by keeley is my current favorite but also love the jam pedals tube dreamer and Analogman silver mod

I pretty much did the same thing. In the late 80’s o went for a tube screamer, the 808. Was told they were no longer available. They were out of ts9’s but had the Ts9dx. I used it a couple times and it’s been sitting ever since.

Nice playing! For Years I never wanted the " Ibanez Tube Screamer" just because everybody else had one It was always the Boss SD-1 for me. Years later I had to have one to see what I was missing, out of the Re Issue TS-808 I prefer my Hand Wired TS-808 the best, just a warmer tone . I have the Maxon OD-9 on my radar now.

Cool video Mike, you are rocking the long form thing and really have enjoyed the new type of videos.

I’ve got an ibanez turbo tube screamer it literally covers all the grounds from ts9 stock sound to super fat crushing sounds

6:40 amazing song by Frusciante!!! Look on

ts9/ ts808 i think there's two models only because of the history of their production please correct me if i'm wrong ts808's footswitch gone out of production so they launch the (almost) the same circuit with a new enclosures if they sound really DIFFERENT, i wouldn't call them both tube screamer as a manufacturer. after launching the ts9, ts808 just gone out of production, but because of the folklore and myths going around, ibanez marketing team saw the chance and reissued the ts808. but after all it's the same thing :D but, all that, i have both

08 was my first pedal!

I have Maxon Apex 808. This comes really close to the original. Placing a boost (Walrus Emissary Parallel Bost) in front can yield some awesome touch sensitive drive. Unfortunately, the Apex is seemingly no longer in production, and now they are becoming more expensive.

Clean boost: TS9 Overdrive: TS808

I run a ts9 into a rat. It is the best combo I have ever used. Drive all the way down, level @ 11, tone @ 3. Rat = distortion @ 11, filter all the way down, volume @ 2-3

A ts-10 video would be great!

Hey Mike, I just found your channel today. Just wanted to say that I really enjoy your approach and attitude towards guitar. Earned a sub, well done man.

Lowkey you kinda gotta run a tube screamer into an amp that’s on the edge of breakup to get the actual tube screamer thing

But throwing that Look On cover in there at 6:32 is 💰.

I like the TS9, the TS808 sounds just a bit too bright.

I like to turn down the gain to 7 or 8 O'clock, turn down the tone to 10 O'clock. Amd then max out the level. But that's for boosting the front end of a high gain metal amp, to make it even more, of a high gain metal amp.

I use a TS9 to drive an amp about half gain, modern metal tone, my brother-in-law uses a TS808 for an edge of breakup blues tone.

Keeley mod 808. One of my staples. Personally, the modded 808 beats any stock model currently.

"What do you mean the green one?" - My dog

i have both. rocked the ts9 for a long time. got the 808 and the 9 got curbed..you want some magically delicious tones? put the 808 in front of an eq pedal its wonderfull i use the eq on for solo boost or if i just wanna get some nasty jake e lee high gain rythm

Great video, I use to have AD9 that was my favorite pedal for a long time.

Great video! I like the stacked Tube Screamers. Also, we have the same studio desk.

TS9 is taming the top end a lot. It also sounds more compressed. I'm not sure why that is - could have to do with your pedalboard; could be the circuitry. Fantastic demo! I think the 808 is the sound I prefer from this vid. Thanks!!

Principle Skinner Voice: We call them Screamed Tubes

My tube screamer is a hand built clone with both the 808 and ts9 circuits built in

I had a clone of 808 and ts9. I liked 808 better. Its kinda sounds warmer.

Most commonly I use a Gen. 3 Fulltone Fulldrive 2. You can choose symmetric or asymmetric clipping via a mini toggle (meaning 808 or ts9 flavor) and the boost is built in. I have mine modded so that the boost works independently as a 9db max clean boost.

I have bought at least three or four tube screamers. Sold all of them. Thought I missed them. Even though I never used it much. Bought another one. Still don't use it. But...there it is... a testament to tonal wishy washyness. Turns out my favorite green pedal is the Nobles ODR1. I have had only one and it will always be on my board. That said I know many fine players use the TS to great effect. Please enjoy yours. Good to see your subs growing. Well deserved.

The 9 sounds cleaner and spikier, while the 808 sounds more artificial, but at the same time has a "tweed" twang to it.

I have an old Ibanez Metal Screamer, it sounds like all of my Tube Screamers. They all sound good and quite similar. In a band mix you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

LOOK OOOOON LOOK OOOOON LOOK OOOOOON

Great video Mike, and hello from Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍😁🤘

Strymon deco is my pedal 👍

"Which Tube Screamer"? Why I haven't been to Subway in 20 yrs...they have a picture of a sandwich on the wall. I order it. They say, " what do you want on it?". " I want that sandwich that you're advertising in that picture on the wall." "Yeah, but what do want on it?" Circular hades. I just left.

TS 808, and the Heir Apparent are my go to's in every Helix patch I use.

I don't have an actual Ibanez or Maxon Tube Screamer. I DO have a Kingtone Duelist, and I adore both the TS and BB side of that pedal

Ok, I’m gonna be honest, half the time, I don’t know what the heck he’s talking about, but something about him and the way he talks about stuff is so lovable and entertaining I could sit her for hours

Your guitar looks exactly the same as my main guitar. Mines a 2021 Pro 2. Ive always loved the T.S. I've recently gotten the Ibanez T.S. Turbo which allows you to toggle between TS9, 808, or Hot which to me seems like a stacked T.S. sound.

Trey Anastasio uses stacked tubescreamers with a compressor to get his main tone.

I liked the John Frusciante - Look on riff!

I use an 808.I plug into a Fender tweed tube amp and leave the 808 on always to get my overdrive at a reasonable gigging volume(I have no use for a clean tone!).It's my only pedal (along with a Vox wah and Boss tuner)and it stays on all the time.I play Blues and old school Rock n Roll so I only use that one tone.I find both your Tubescreamers sound great and quite similar except the 808 has a bit more low mids and a smoother treble giving a slightly more organic tone.

I bought an 808 new in 1981 for $79. Ended up trading it for a DigiTech RP300 ($299) about 20 years ago. My biggest regret in my guitar life.

Huh.....I called Sweetwater and asked them to send me an Soldano SLO to try out......they just laughed and hung up on me. I dont get it.

Have had an 808 reissue and a mini. Now I use a full drive 3. All have been great but different. That being said, the FD3 isn't leaving my board.

Do you have a great channel and great content I’m glad I found you keep up the good work.

Try the handwired 808!

What I picked up from this video is any TS will be fine. Buying a more expensive TS will not fix your tone, but it’s definitely cool to have a vintage one.

Love the TS9.