What is the difference between maxon and ibanez

Kiichi Welterweight Posts: From what I know the is less middy mostly. That after all is the defining quality of the tubescreamer. Different versions of both do exist though. I think to recall the also is a bit more agressive.

Personally I also like the more of the two as it is more natural to me. Personally I swear by the Klon e build by our Juansolo, just like many here do.

It also is an overdrive, but one without that mid character. It takes the signal, makes it louder, adds treble and gain, all to taste, without touching the rest. Very tranparent pedal, great sounds and almost all settings are great. It is THE more pedal. Gives you more of all the good stuff. It really has that mojo to me. That sounds pretty awesome. Do you have a link? Dave Sloven Welterweight Posts: These were the good old days of LOUD, when tone equalled eardrum-splitting volume and hard-rocking guitar players were, for better or worse, anti-social by nature.

Hot on the trail of a more practical and less quarrelsome solution, amp designers on both sides of the Atlantic increasingly looked towards providing rock guitarists with the option of valve distortion at lower volume.

It was an immediate success as guitar players suddenly found they had the world of overdrive placed at their feet. Boasting valve-like asymmetrical clipping, it was an immediate success as guitar players suddenly found they had the world of overdrive placed conveniently at their feet, regardless of which amplifier they happened to be plugged into.

During , a rare variation of the TS with a narrower enclosure was made for a short while. This pedal originally utilized a pair of chips and was reissued by Ibanez in as the TS 35th Anniversary featuring the fabled JRCD chip. All TSs can be distinguished by their small rectangular metal footswitches. Repackaged as the Maxon OD-9 Overdrive and Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer, the schematic remained relatively unchanged, with the notable exception of output resistor values to reduce unwanted noise.

Although the unit retained its distinctive green color, the small style switch was replaced by a large rectangular type. When Nisshin Onpa and Ibanez parted ways in , Nisshin Onpa began to more aggressively market its own line of Maxon pedals.

Repositioning itself as a manufacturer of high-end mass-produced effects, Maxon expanded its line of analog pedals, using rare NOS components and classic circuit designs that are to this day highly respected and sought after. Archived This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies. Go to topic listing. Sign In Sign Up. Maxon Nisshin Onpa started out in the mid s as a guitar pickup manufacturer.

The Ibanez stuff has much cheaper parts inside and you can hear it. Maxon is still Maxon, made in Japan. If you look on Ishibashi's "U-Box" used gear section you can find all the old Ibanez stuff labelled Maxon. BIG difference. JimmyR said:. Messages 6, The current Ibanez 9-series pedals and the are made in Japan - IIRC, the 7-series are Chinese, but production of the 9-series was never moved to Taiwan or China, when Ibanez took over the production themselves.

They use the same transistors, capacitors value and type and resistors etc. The Maxon is true bypass, though, and therefore has a shorter internal signal path it doesn't have the transistor mute stages, as the audio switching is done in the switch. In those cases, the Maxon units could well be better sounding, both due to that and the shorter signal path. I don't think the info about Taiwan is correct. I wouldn't know how the FL-9 compares to the Maxon version though. Maxon just sounded so much better.

In fact, they really sounded like two completely different pedals. I could not dial one in to sound even remotely like the other.

The Maxon's also 'true'bypassed while the Ibanez pedal's buffered. And thanks for all the info so far. Had no idea that Maxon had a hand in the 5 series. I used a TS-5 for a while and remember liking it quite a bit - but that was way back in the pre-GearPage days.