Tube screamer into Laney VH100r - which one?

MatthewShreddery

I'm looking to tighten up the high gain channel in my vh100r, and to add a bit more sustain. I've tried a bad monkey, Timmy, and a Maxon SD9.

All sound ok, Timmy is best IMO.

Thinking of trying a TS9, but does anybody have any other recommendations?

timmysoft

Best I tried was the mxr zw44

MatthewShreddery

cheers bud Ill have a listen to some demos.

viz

There's a cheep keeley ts9 on gumtree at the mo.

gjonesy

timmysoft said:

Best I tried was the mxr zw44

Is that a gtod with a paint job? Or same /similar to the boss sd1?

MattG

Try the electro harmonics east river drive, much cheaper and i think it sounds a bit better too

Bidley

I use a stock TS9 for tightening up my gain channel (Carvin X100B), ahve done for years and years, and it does a brilliant job at it.

MatthewShreddery

Yeah I've been looking at the TS9 - seems like a pretty standard option so worth a try for sure

samzadgan

gjonesy;414595" said:

timmysoft said:

Best I tried was the mxr zw44













Is that a gtod with a paint job? Or same /similar to the boss sd1?

Nah his one is the slightly modified boss sd1. Sounds very different to GT OD, which is more of a tubescreamer

steamabacus

samzadgan said:

gjonesy;414595" said:

timmysoft said:

Best I tried was the mxr zw44













Is that a gtod with a paint job? Or same /similar to the boss sd1?

Nah his one is the slightly modified boss sd1. Sounds very different to GT OD, which is more of a tubescreamer

I believe the GT-OD and ZW-44 are the same boards but there's a switch on it to select one or the other. It's not particularly accessable (you have to remove the board to get to the switch).

The GT-OD is more 'tubescreamer', the ZW more 'SD-1'.

I've got the GT-OD but I've never bothered looking for the switch and confirming this.

gjonesy

samzadgan;414682" said:

[quote="gjonesy;414595"]timmysoft said:


Is that a gtod with a paint job? Or same /similar to the boss sd1?

Nah his one is the slightly modified boss sd1. Sounds very different to GT OD, which is more of a tubescreamer[/quote]

Nice one, my mistake, have a wisdom. Still possibly worthy of suggesting here though

Dave_Mc

If you've already tried the bad monkey you've already more or less tried a tubescreamer (assuming you had the bass knob set to 12 o'clock).

timmy is a fair bit different, less compression and sustain, more flat in the eq (i use the danelectro timmy clone with my laney gh50l for rhythm tones, then kick on an sd1 or tubescreamer (currently the VS route 808 since thomann had it for cheap last time I put an order in) for more compressed/middy leads.