Effect profile / Gain

TS808 Tube Screamer

Also documented as High-gain Tube Screamer

This gain entry consolidates documented TS808 Tube Screamer variants, controls, settings and roles across dated guitarist pedalboards.

Pedalboards
6
Artists
6
Archived variants
7
Documented roles
  • Pushes and buffers the Fuzz Face for a more focused, sustaining rhythm response.
  • Acts as Bonamassa’s primary gain effect in the documented 2013 rig.
  • Provides the heavier of Krieger's two staged overdrive sounds.
Controls found in the archive
DriveFootswitchLevelOverdriveTone

Source-specific records

Documented variants

7 archive entries

01
Recorded model

Vintage Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer

Controls

Overdrive / Tone / Level

Documented settings

Tube Screamer into Fuzz Face / Dirty-rhythm path

02
Recorded model

TS808 Tube Screamer

Controls

Overdrive / Tone / Level

Documented settings

Primary gain effect / Mid-focused boost

03
Recorded model

Ibanez TS808 Reissue

Controls

Overdrive / Tone / Level

Documented settings

Heavy gain / Exact positions not documented

04
Recorded model

Vintage Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer

Controls

Overdrive / Tone / Level

Documented settings

Light gain / Exact positions not documented

05
Recorded model

Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer

Controls

Overdrive / Tone / Level

Documented settings

Control positions not published / Placement follows the evidence note

06
Recorded model

TS808 Tube Screamer

Controls

Overdrive / Tone / Level / Footswitch

Documented settings

Used for selected solos / After Dyna Comp / Before modulation

07
Recorded model

Ibanez Tube Screamer (TS9 or TS808 alternate)

Controls

Drive / Tone / Level

Documented settings

TS9 or TS808 selected as alternatives / Each housed in a Keeley true-bypass loop

Archive references

Pedalboards using this pedal

6 documented rigs