# TS808 Tube Screamer

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

- Canonical page: https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/ts808-tube-screamer/
- Machine-readable index of the archive: https://pedalboardarchive.com/llms.txt
- Evidence and reconstruction conventions: https://pedalboardarchive.com/methodology/

- **Category:** Gain
- **Types:** Boost, Buffer, Mid boost, Overdrive
- **Also known as:** High-gain Tube Screamer, Ibanez TS808, Low-gain Tube Screamer, TS808, TS808 Reissue, Tube Screamer, Vintage TS808
- **Controls:** Drive, Footswitch, Level, Overdrive, Tone
- **Identification:** The model is identified.
- **Documented appearances:** 7 boards, 1991–2026

The narrow green original-style Tube Screamer with three black knobs and a small square chrome switch.

## Documented boards

Each row is an observed appearance on a dated board. A position is only an observed one where that board's order evidence says so.

| Artist | Board | Date | Positions | Order evidence | Page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eric Johnson | Ah Via Musicom four-amp system | 2018-04-04 | 3 | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/eric-johnson/ah-via-musicom-four-amp-rig-2018/ |
| Jared James Nichols | Five-device summer touring board | 2026-06-10 | 3 | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/jared-james-nichols/summer-tour-board-2026/ |
| Joe Bonamassa | "Boomer" Time Clocks touring board | 2022-08-24 | 4 | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/joe-bonamassa/boomer-touring-board-2022/ |
| Joe Bonamassa | Four-amplifier touring board | 2013-01-01 | 7 | Source-described | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/joe-bonamassa/touring-rig-2013/ |
| Philip Sayce | That Pedal Show studio signal flow | 2026-06-05 | 5 | Source-described | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/philip-sayce/that-pedal-show-board-2026/ |
| Robby Krieger | Forrest Penner live board | 2020-10-20 | 5, 6 | Source-described | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/robby-krieger/forrest-penner-live-board-2020/ |
| Rory Gallagher | Early-1990s live pedalboard | 1991-08-01 | 2 | Cable-traced | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/rory-gallagher/early-1990s-live-pedalboard/ |