Hey hey.

I'm planning to buy a TS808, as I'm a huge Stevie Ray fan, but I know that the reissue TS808s tend to have a mellow overdrive sound rather than a screaming blues sound.
I'm have no problem with that, I adore SRV's tone, but I like a bit of a boost for the solos. So should I buy another tube screamer and use two, like Stevie Ray's rig, or buy a boost pedal?
I'd be using my SRV Custom Strat through a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe.

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--GUITARS--
'Stevie Ray Vaughan' Signiture Fender Strat
USA Standard Strat
--EFFECTS--
MXR EVH 'Phase 90'
Keeley Boss 'BluesDriver-2ph'
Baja Tech Custom 'Das Fuzz'
--AMP--
Fender Blues Deluxe

Keeley can mod your reissue to original specs
www.robertkeeley.com

however, a cheaper option with almost exactly the same results would be to buy a boss sd-1 and get it modded. I believe all modders do this mod (generally called the sd-808 mod).

Your best bet for the money would be monte-allums mod at www.monteallums.com/product_links.html. Get the DIY kit for 20 bucks or send it in for 35 bucks \m/

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Well, since everyone else here is doing it, and I'm one to jump off a cliff when all my friends do, here's my rig:

For guitar:
Tonebone boneyard pedalboard

Diamond Compressor
5 Loooper
Strobostomp
Vox V847 Wah
Boss PS-5 (Coming soon)
T.C. Jauernig Diabolical Gristle Tone Manipulator OD pedal
Tonebone Hot British
Boss EQ-20
ISP Noise Decimator
Boss DD-20
Catalinbread Sagrado Poblano Picoso

Backup Rig:
Boss OD-20
Catalinbread Super Chile Picoso

Off my board:
Boss RC-20XL (used for practising)
Dunlop Original Crybaby
Monte Allums Modded SD-1 (SD-808 mod)


I use lava cables

Hmm, sounds interesting 'n all, but I live in the UK
Is it really worth the extra cash?

Anyway ya sorta missed the point of my question; I want the mellow overdrive of the TS808 but at the same time I want some fat overdrive for solos.
Do I buy a second TS808 like SRV had and use that to add some beef, or just buy a boost pedal?

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--GUITARS--
'Stevie Ray Vaughan' Signiture Fender Strat
USA Standard Strat
--EFFECTS--
MXR EVH 'Phase 90'
Keeley Boss 'BluesDriver-2ph'
Baja Tech Custom 'Das Fuzz'
--AMP--
Fender Blues Deluxe

If you want to sound exactly like SRV, you'll need two of them.

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Gear:
Fender Strat standard
Gibson SG Special Faded
Electro-Harmonix NYC Big Muff
Dunlop Original Crybaby
Boss BD-2 Bluesdriver
Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man
Fender Blues Jr.

Maybe a Fulltone Full-Drive II. It is based off the TS808 circut but can go above and beyond! Two channels too but the second channel is just a boost off the first.

I have a Strat--> FDII--> Blues Jr. and it nails the SRV tone and can even get a little dirtier!

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FOR SALE:
Boss AW-2 --- 50$
Ibanez TS-808 --- 140$
Digitech Tone Driver ---35$
Digitech Main Squeeze--35$

All w/ original box and paperwork. Shipping not included. PM me for more info/pics and we'll go from there...

Whoa. Wait a second here. I'm going to disspell most of your 'SRV tone quest' questions right now. I've seen too many of these threads floating around and I just want to say a few things about this elusive tone . On the first album that he did (Texas Flood), you're hearing lots of two set ups: a. Stevie with various Fender Blackface amps (Vibroverb, Super Reverb) and a Tube Screamer and b. Stevie with an illustrious Dumble amp head without a tubescreamer. Also on this record there are a few spots where he employed a Roland Digital Chorus/Delay unit, post production. You can hear this on 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' 's solo. It's faint, but it's there. Then he moved on to using just Dumbles and he actually used Marshalls too. He used a 1959 Bassman all over his later albums as well as the Marshalls and Blackfaced Fenders like previously mentioned.

Most of his tone came from his amps. That's all I'm really trying to say. Some good speakers in a good Fender Blackface reiusse or original are gonna totally make a difference. I thought it was a tubescreamer too, but I had to spend about 3 years how he made this little pedal sound like it had a real tube in it. And then I cranked up a Blackfaced Pro Reverb with replacement speakers in it and I was pretty much set.

Sorry, I figured someone wouled find this handy. I'm just bitter about my tone quest that I had.

Travis