Ibanez TS808HW 4-stars Reviews

Why spend €100 when you get the same thing for €300?

This must be aimed squarely at either collectors or idiots. A really heavy, pedal board space hogging, Limited Edition Tube Screamer that arrives in an enormous metal box / Museum Display Case.

Does it sound better than any of the Ibanez or Maxon 'Screamers'? Couldn't really comment. Sound is far too subjective and personal. I certainly could not hear anything particularly remarkable about this Hand Wired Holy Grail, other than the fact that it sounds slightly different from all the others. But then 'all the others' sound different from each other anyway!

Suffice to say that I chose the Maxon OD808 - at a third of the price - for its warmer, smoother sound ... even though it commits pedalboard heresy by not having a Full-Bypass switch.