67Audio Harry Balz vs Ibanez Tube Screamer Mini

The 67Audio Harry Balz and the Ibanez Tube Screamer Mini are both pedals sharing dynamic, high headroom, mid-forward. The 67Audio Harry Balz leans bright and saturated. The Ibanez Tube Screamer Mini leans transparent and warm. Current prices: $108.04 vs $60.16.

Similarity
citedBlended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.

40% — somewhat different

Shared genres
citedGenres both listings are associated with.
  • Blues
Shared tone character
citedDerived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.
  • dynamic
  • high headroom
  • mid-forward
  • sustaining
Citation fame
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Price

$108.04via Reverb

$60.16via Reverb

Description

The 67Audio Harry Balz is a dual-channel overdrive in a 1590BB enclosure offering two independent gain stages designed to capture the sound of cranked amplifier output tubes rather than preamp-tube saturation. An internal voltage converter and regulator boosts headroom beyond standard 9V operation producing a dynamic open response with less compression than typical op-amp drives. Seven controls including Gain 1, Gain 2, Volume, Q, Treble, Mid, and Bass allow wide tonal shaping. True bypass. Suited to classic rock, blues, and any context where pick dynamics and guitar volume rolloff feel are priorities over compressed sustain.

The Ibanez Tube Screamer Mini puts the classic TS808 circuit into a compact enclosure, preserving the mid-boosted, smooth overdrive of the full-size original in a much smaller footprint. Reviewers find it nearly indistinguishable from a TS808 in a blind test, with the same warm midrange push and pleasing, smooth sustain, though to some ears it is a touch clearer and louder with slightly more headroom, landing between a TS9 and an 808. It works as a classic low-gain blues and rock drive and as a boost stacked into a tube amp to fatten and focus lead tones. Affordable and pedalboard-friendly, it delivers the cornerstone Tube Screamer sound on a budget, with the main trade-offs being a battery-only power option and smaller controls that are harder to read on stage.

Genres
citedGenres this gear is documented as being used in.
  • Classic Rock
  • Rock
Tonal lean
  • bright
  • saturated
  • transparent
  • warm
Good for
citedOccasions this gear suits — judged per model, or derived from its wattage, connectivity and category.
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  • Busking
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