Boss SD-1 vs Ibanez Tube Screamer - Which One For Your Christmas List?
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- Опубликовано: 4 дек 2022
- In today's video, I'm comparing the Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive with the Ibanez Tube Screamer. Both of these classic overdrive pedals do the same sort of thing but I'm going to show you why the Boss SD-1 which retails for around £60 is a better buy compared to the £120 Ibanez Tube Screamer.
The Studio Rats are core band members Paul Drew on guitar/production/mixing, drummer James Ivey and Dan Hawkins on bass. They collaborate with singers and musicians to produce radio-ready songs. 
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I have both of these pedals and love them. The TS is mainly used for my DR with a Strat, and the SD-1 is permanently jacked into my Studio Marshall as a boost. However sometimes I throw the TS in front of the Marshall and let it sing. Love your videos.
Love the SD-1, I have two on my board for different flavors of OD (one is modded, one stock). I use a cheap Klone (mosky silver horse) as a clean boost at the end of my gain section into an SV20, it sounds glorious!
Happy new year to the Studio Rats!
Same here, SD-1 is my favorite pedal and I also got two on my board one as a always-on tone shaper (not much boosting actually) and one (moded) for the drive sounds
I absolutely agree with you. I use my SD1 in front of an overdriven Marshall for solo sounds. But what is really amazing: Whichever guitar you use, whichever pedal - it always sounds awesome!
is the sd1 good for pop punk ?
@@wonderz_808yeh , DS 2 also great
@@wonderz_808 it's a must have for punk
SD1 is probably my favourite pedal. And with a boost like you showed it’s a winning combo!
Great vid! those licks are 🔥🔥!
great review, thanks
How funny, tonight I was Googling what the differences are between these two! Glad that my fave channel has got the answers! Great stuff as always Paul! 👏🙌
Cheers Mark.
Great tones! Good job!!!
Brooo, I love your clean tone!
I picked up the 40th Anniversary pedal not too long ago (would have gotten the classic as well, but that's what was in stock) and I like it to get certain sounds. Definitely worth the dough. I got it specifically to goose my Marshall JMP. Toss in a dash of delay and/or chorus and it's an 80's time machine.
I have both and love them both. I use the SD1 boosted by a GE7 for lead stuff. It works great.
always great tones!
This was a great video. Thank you.
Great video. The TC Elec Spark Mini is fantastic! I've used it for years to push overdrives and even for boosting acoustic leads. It adds the perfect, musical upper mids to your tone no matter the situation. Great to see it presented in this way.
Actually JUST picked up an SD-1 and this Friday should be able to hear what it sounds like with the band and my BluGuitar Amp1 ME :)
Just got my first pedal a week ago and it is the SD-1 and I love it, paid $50 for a new open box
Hi Paul.
I have both but I don' t use them anymore. I loose to much signal. I prefer true bypass pedals like the Carl Martin DC drive that' s sounds better in my opinion. But I must say that you got a great tone with the Spark Mini. Keep up your good work and playing. Greetings from Sweden.
Hey Paul, I love your guitar tone. Thank you. 👍😉😊
Cheers Chris!
I Ordered & Got this Exact 40th SOD-1 and con NOT tell when using my BOSS GT-10 Petals ! Am I missing Something SO Fundemental the Reason I got the GT-10 is for ALL the Petals to date. So Handy. FAN and Thank YOU for doing this !
Best sounding overdriven Tele I've ever heard...those Filtron looking pickups apparently. I'd have never imagined an overdriven Tele sounds that good! Cheers buddy!
Same, I'm glad you mentioned the pickups because I was just baffled as to how a Tele could sound so good with an overdriven tone.
My favorite overdrive pedal - the Boss SD1. I use it everyday. i have a 100 overdrive pedals in my collection and none beat the
Boss SD1.
I noticed the Vivian Campbell licks in this vid. Well done! Just bought both pedals, waiting on the postman :)
Enjoy!
Fantastic video. You could use a myriad of different pedal combinations.... but enuf can not be said about (1) Boost pedals being underappreciated. And (2) the incredible range of tones available via stacking pedals. 👍🎸🔊🎶👊
Couldn't agree more. The SD-1 is vastly underrated in my opinion.
I find it much more useful than a tube screamer, even though they're similar. There's something the TS adds that I just don't care for.
Anyone looking for it to push the mids, just take a look at the mid knob on your amp and give it turn clockwise 😄
I also highly recommend the spark boost. I have the full size, which I got for the price of the mini during a sale at Sweetwater, and it's amazing. It has a level and gain knob, a bass and treble knob, and a 3-way mode switch with clear/mid/fat, which gives tons of tonal variation.
Can use it as a straight clean boost, or frankly use it as a TS replacement all on its own. I prefer to use it to push my other drive pedals like you're doing here though, or just to rough up a good clean tone.
is the sd1 good for pop punk
@@wonderz_808yes
Spark Boost is brilliant, massively versatile, not expensive - very good shout
Wow! I actually just learned something from this video lol! I’ve been playing professionally for some years and I’ve always used a distortion pedal and a tubescreamer afterwards because that’s what everyone does for the most part. I had no clue I could just use a boost pedal and my OD of choice. You can set ya amp a lil dirty to get some dirt for stage 1, kick on the boss for rhythm and kick the boost for solos…definitely a great option. This will help me make more money now. Lol! Thank you!
Hi there. I enjoyed your Boss Katana videos. Kudos. Would you dare putting the more exotic stuff like the humanizer or the saw/square wave effect to some use in a video? Both pulling it off or failing spectacularly would be worth watching I'm sure. Greetings from the Netherlands.
For me the sd-1 is the best for Marshall amps …I have both .but I say again the duellist is the BEST 👍👍cool post
Nice video. I’m wondering if we can Purchase the Tonex model you captured with the free version of Tonex you demonstrated in a past video? Thank you.
I've never really gotten on with a tube screamer. I keep one around though because how well these pedals work largely depends on what amp you're putting then in to and you never know what amp you'll end up with next
Hi Paul, great video. There is obviously some delay / reverb in your sound also. What pedal is providing this please? Do you have a video on this also? Thank you.
SD-1 all day. Own both and the SD-1 is my go to.
I’ve never understood the lack of love for the SD1, I’ve always preferred its slightly less ‘smooth’, “rockier” sound over the TS. Not sure how much of that is the asymmetrical clipping, or just a different tonal spectrum, but it’s great!
It does asymmetrical clipping.
@@mmartinez9764 I know, I said that, derr!!
TS in front of a Plexi is the God Tone
It is definitely the asymmetrical clipping of the circuit. Tubes themselves naturally clip asymmetrically so the SD-1 is already technically closer from a sonic recreation standpoint. You are right sir!
I ever heard a so good sounding sd1 overdrive in all my life long. Awesome clean sou d and setup.. I guess. 😎🎶
This clean tone is amazing
I play a Marshall JCM 900 and a JCM 2000 and both I run through a Friedman Buxom boost and then I switch out between a boss sd1, Mosky Silver Horse, and a Behringer vintage tube overdrive 0800. I play simple 90's Era pop and skate punk (all rhythm) so nothing fancy but I like messing with different tones. Each pedal work's well with the amps OD channel but if I want a super saturated sound I'll combine either OD pedal with the Friedman and it kicks it up a notch. I think what gets me the most high gain saturation is the Mosky Silver Horse believe or not. Also that Mini Spark works really nicely for bass, I was running a Hartke LH500 head with a Hartke preamp pedal and then the Spark and man did it make that amp sound nice, now I run a Gallien-Kruger RB700 paired with an MXR Bass DI preamp
I was using strat the other day and had sd1 dimed into a tube screamer mini (vol 3oclock, gain 9 o clock) into clean of a Marshall jcm900. Sounded good
I never gelled with the Green pedals because I love the edgy sounds through a Marshall with SD1 .Outside of Metal etc.I love the Boss Overdrives though.Spitty rude sounds.I love the OD3 too
Also for the price of the TS9, it’s getting towards the SD1W territory, which adds a little more versatility over the original. There’s also the Blues Driver and that combined with the SD1 is an unbeatable combination.
The TS Mini is a great deal though and the only Tubescreamer worth considering unless you’re really into that circuit.
Yeah but TS9 is probably the most copied pedal so you can get both perfect clones or customized versions
Another great video Paul. Wondering if you still prefer the sd 1 over the overdrives in the gx 100? Great playing btw and the Tele sounds great!
Cheers Gary, it’s a subtle thing but yes I do. Even with the Axe Fx I still use real drives, I feel it helps with all modellers.
@@TheStudioRats that is great insights Paul, thank you! 🙏
I love my SD-1, just want a little bit more bass. I put a EQ before my SD-1, but the bass is not tight enough. How do I get a more pleasing bass from my SD-1? Thanks!
I came looking for info on the SD-1, and I already happen to own that little TC Spark as well. Happy little coincidence that the host thinks they sound good together, as I will be using my SD-1 the same way.
I love the sd-1 pedal!
Sound better with a strat. Behringer Vintage Tube Overdrive $27. Nice video!!
We are waiting for the demo of the new Wampler Triumph, based on the Bad Monkey (Ts with added tone controls) and the SD1. This demo would be a very nice prequel.
+1
Yeah, I can’t find a single video comparing the Triumph and the SD-1, which is a bit strange considering the Triumph (punch mode) is based on the SD-1.
SD-1 is my most essential pedal
I've got an original SD-1 from the 80's that I am using together with a CS-2 compressor. Gives it a lot more oomph and sustain when needed. I replaced this couple of pedals alternatively with a SuperSigna from CmatMods: a great double OD/Boost pedal, 3 clipping modes, 3 band EQ, independent Boost. For me, it's the holy grail of pedals: if there's only one, that's the one I would keep. In fact I have 2 just in case anything goes wrong, as these are not being produced anymore.
Did you run the compressor into the sd1 as a boost?
@@CrazyCalabrese78 yep works as well
@@frantisca sweet, thanks!
fantastic video!!!! and you play really so expressive !!! but what can you say about your green telecaster!? !?? !? ??? amazing!!! where can i find one like that ?
Cheers Luca, it’s a master built fender. You can order one.
@@TheStudioRats is it a Thinline Deluxe? Pickups?
The SD-1 just sounds so much raunchier and more alive even though the difference is kinda subtle, the TS seems to filter off the end subtley(or maybe the Asymmterical clipping generates a little more high end) and a bit too much low end - great for a specific kinda almost lo-fi effect but you can kinda get that with the SD-1 with the tone knob up. Maybe in a mix I'd have more trouble telling them apart(aside from the extra gain) but played like this you'd have a much easier time selling me the SD-1 as an actual amp or ironically, tube-based.
The SD-1 rules for "Classic Metal", it was the one pedal that worked with my Vox AC4TV back when I had one too, and also helping get those QOTSA vibes
Would a ts9 be better for my new 68 custom deluxe reverb amp? Thanks for this video! Very informative!
I think so
The funny thing is , The first Overdrive pedal I ever bought was a Boss sd-1. Much Later I bought a cheap ( TO-800 ) and oddly I just found out they sound pretty similar. The TO 800 has a different thing for spicing up cleans with a very small amount of drive that the ad-1 just does not do but when the drive is up they are almost the same and I also have the Tc Boost so this was extra cool for me. I happen to have a fuzz pedal that is in the way..but it turns out that when the sustain is turned way down it also has a nice overdrive sound that mix's well with my normal set up.
I have an 808 and sd 1 always thought they were in the same ball park. Until I used them though an orange or50, 808 was so much smoother.
I don't know how good it is to test them in front of a digital amp though.... I always go for the SD1.
Ahahahah super nice Paul, I'm still imagining my granny on Reverb
I have both, they are indeed very similar and yes the SD-1 got more gain, but I am hearing with my SD-1 some harness in the high frequenties that the TS doesn’t have. I have TS808 reissue, this could be the difference. I use the TS mainly for this reason.
I'd go for Boss SD-1, but I can never get tired of Boss SD-2 Dual Overdrive and Boss ST-2 Power Stack
I have used the DS 1 since 1998, cause I thought what I heard everywhere was distortion. And I wanted to play nirvana all day long. Just bought the SD-1 and it has been my favorite pedal since 2 hours ago that I connected it to my guitar. Been using the wrong pedal for 20+ years
This is one of the best guitar tones I’ve ever heard
SD-1 any day of the week!
And if your granny needs her cash to keep the heating on this winter, just ask her for the Behringer Vintage Tube Overdrive…… sounds just like a TS9 but it’s £20! You’ll be her favourite grandchild then!
I got one for $20 and it's a nice pedal, it even works well for bass you just have to turn the tone back to keep the low end
I got mine on sale for $18. It's the best damn pedal.
I’ve got both. A TS 808 and the Behringer. I can’t tell the diff. Actually I have that Super OD also. I can’t get any of them to sound as good as this video though! Ughh
Yea studio rats using ir and enulators. Which sound great but pedals do not react the same.
I own a Boss SD1, OD1, and a BD2, and they sound better with certain amps, but not so much the Boss Katana Mk11 amp? Where as my Ibanez TS9 sounds amazing through it. M
Is it possible to get classic SRV-style tones with a SD-1 as well as a Tube Screamer?
Yea but less SRVish than TS9, I'm afraid. Still works, but SD1 is better for humbuckers.
When it comes to strats with just single coils, TS9 is better.
@@MikeCarvin Thanks!
If you have budget ts9 for sure, i use sd1 as a boost
I always thought the TS sounded best when stacked on a Boss Blues Driver. Which is weird because I would have expected Boss+Boss to sound better.
SD-1... THAT'S the sound of rock n roll
The SD-1 wins hands down. Paul you have a great natural easy sounding feel.
Cheers Neil
I prefer a Tube Screamer to the SD-1 for a boost on dirty tones, but the OD-2, ST-2, or OD-3 on a clean tone as an “amp channel.”
definitely Sd1❤❤❤
Man at 6:16 the tone of just that boost pedal alone into the Matchless model sounds awesome. Just sayin'...
GRANNY'S BEEN ROCKING AN SD-1 FOR 30YRS!
A compressor before the SD1 will work as well
I've had all the different versions of Tube Screamers and never been happy with how they sounded. The SD-1 is a better pedal, but the BD-2 Blues Driver is even more (?) better (betterer?) IMHO.
Agree bd2 is king
They sound basically the same except the tube screamer has Les gain and seems a bit more mellow. I kinda liked the boss pedal more.
Here's what we do. Compare overdrive pedals but never turn on the the ts9. Brilliant!
SD-1 Waza would be my pick😎
I just cant kick my 808 of my board... whether its pushing a Strat through a clean amp or pushing an already driving amp with my Ibanez.... it is heroic.
Wampler’s TS8 vs TS9 is funny, have you guys seen that?
WOW...with all knobs at 12 O'Clock, SD-1 is crunchier than TS pretty significantly! 👌🏻
The SD-1 is fuller sounding and has a little bit grit to the sound
Asked for an SD-1, and granny got me a Metal Zone. And not the Waza version.
Damn!
Don't worry, just plug it in the loop😁
Even better 😂
That's destined
There's a lot of folks here that apparently don't understand what a Tube Screamer is used for. It should be used to either push you amp, or pair with your favorite overdrive to push it so your solos to cut through the mix with the midrange hump. It gives just enough extra magic to make your tone sing. Other drives can pull it off, but he Tube Screamer is famed for doing it so well. SRV, John Mayer, Kenny Wayne Shepard, Marcus King, Gary Moore, and on and on. It's personal preference really. What do your ears like. Dude here could ditch that spark, and put the Tube Screamer in front of the SD-1. I guarantee it would yeild a good result.
special mention to TC Electronic Magus Pro & TC Electronic Zeus
Have you tried them with Zinc Carbon 9v batteries? GP greencell Extraheavy duty zinc carbon is a must. Night and day difference.
sd1
I have both of these pedals. The Boss is by far more versatile
SD1 all day. Bought one as a new guitarist, hated it, sold it. Grew up, played many pedals and realised that used right the sd1 is a class act.
Personally not a tubescreamer guy, the sd1 is my winner. And it remains a mainstay on my board, as a gain boost 👌
Get a BD2. Job done.
Also, I think you simply cannot beat Boss.
It may be the begjnners choice, but it's also the choice you come back to.
SD-1 all day!
SD-1 nails the 80s-90s brown sound
SD 1
In the last 35 years, I don't think I've ever had a pedalboard without the TS9 at the beginning of the chain set drive to zero and level to maximum....I also have the Boss Sd-1 that I bought in 1989 used...but I've always preferred the smootie tone of the TS9.
Tube Screamer to impress your lawyer friends; SD-1 to impress your Marshall fanboy friends.
I have versions of both. But not these two brands.
👍🏽👍🏽
I’m gonna borrow my Dad’s SD1 and compare it to my TS7 in HOT mode 😂
SD-1
In reality the two pedals are not exactly the same. Change the cut: -Boss-sd-1=asymmetrical.
-Ibanez Ts-9= symmetrical.
The ibanez ts-9 holds the bass more when you twist the tone knob than the boss sd-1.
In my opinion the choice depends on the genre you play and above all on the type of amplifier you have.
In my opinion on Fender amps, the ibanez ts-9 sounds much better than the boss sd-1.
Ts anyday
NEITHER ! The HUDSON SIDECAR is a much better choice ! Tone should not be sacrificed !
How to make an SD1 sound like a TS and save half your money 4:24
Or just get the SD1 , use your volume control spend the £60 on buying your granny her present !