Green Reaper GR9 is a faithful analog modeled simulation of the *Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9, an historical overdrive pedal of the 1982.
The first incarnation of the Tube Screamer series, the TS-808, was first released in the 1979 and hand-wired by MAXON engineers, who has been Ibanez's production partners until 2002.
This pedal quickly became wildly popular due to its ability to deliver one of the smoothest and most responsive overdrive tones ever with just three controls. That's why, still today, this is one of the most cloned and modified pedals ever.
We carefully modeled the original pedal and added some goodies, including several modified versions of the circuit, to further shape your guitar tone.
GREEN REAPER SPECIFICATIONS:
*All product names are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with KVR. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used solely to identify the products of those manufacturers whose tones and sounds were studied during Audiority's sound model development. Ibanez is a registered trademark of Hoshino, Inc. Tube Screamer is a registered trademark of Hoshino Gakki Co. Ltd. MAXON is a registered trademark of Nisshin Onpa Co., Ltd.
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Reviewed By Faydit [all]
July 20th, 2021
Version reviewed: 1.1.2 on Windows
I must admit that I never have been a big fan of any Tube Screamers (independent of the version), although I liked the SD-1 to some extent. So I modified a real SD-1 to more bass and exchanged the silicone diodes to LED's, which made a much better sounding, more dynamically reacting pedal out of it.
The Green Reaper, especially in 316 and LAFF LED mode is the first pedal, which comes close to this sound.
I really like the idea of implementing differently modded versions / circuits, and they all sound good, very much depending on individual likes and with which other equipment you want to connect the pedal.
Also very helpful I find the global control section, especially the "to amp" switch and the "mix" control, which allow better adjustment.
The pedal also seems to work and harmonize well with some of my favorite amp sims, which is not always the case. Some gear sounds great alone or in specific combinations, but also can make things worse in other ones.
I usually don't use overdrive pedals very much, but this one seems to be able of improving the sound into a direction I like.
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