The Ibanez Tube Screamer is undoubtedly the most ubiquitous and famous overdrive pedal ever. It has been used by countless guitar hero's as well as being in the arsenal of a huge number of working musicians.
A number of years ago I decided to take a stab at building my own pedals. The Tube Screamer type circuit has so many iterations and variations that it is almost mandatory that one tweak the circuit and put their own twist on it.
Below is a video demoing my take on a TS type circuit with plenty of mods to satisfy my own needs.
As you may know I've dabbled in the DIY pedal scene for a while. I love the smell of melting solder and the fly by the seat of your pants "will it work?" feeling when making a pedal.
A number of years ago I started trying my hand at creating something different by mashing different pedal designs together. Some of these were non starters and others were OK. This particular experiment came out quite well.
Scott's Superdrive took the Tube Screamer type circuit and married it to a Big Muff type tone stack. Of course each of these parts of the pedal received their own tweaking and modifications. At the end of it all was a Mosfet output stage to recover some of the signal loss from the tone stack.
The result was an overdrive with more drive than a Tube Screamer, less buzz than a Big Muff, and an overall interesting characteristic all it's own.
