Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer vs Mad Professor Supreme Matt Schofield Overdrive
The Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer and the Mad Professor Supreme Matt Schofield Overdrive are both pedals sharing low gain, bright. The Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer leans sustaining. The Mad Professor Supreme Matt Schofield Overdrive leans saturated and full.
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Blended 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.48% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Blues
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- low gain
- bright
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The Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer is among the most influential overdrive pedals ever built, a 1982 evolution of the TS808 using the same mid-focused circuit with a slightly brighter, more aggressive output stage. It produces a smooth, compressed overdrive with a pronounced midrange hump that helps single-coil and humbucker guitars cut through a band, and a gentle low-end rolloff that keeps the sound tight. Most players use it not for heavy gain but as a low-gain drive or as a boost stacked into an already driven tube amp, the classic way to fatten and focus a lead tone. Closely associated with Stevie Ray Vaughan and a huge range of blues and rock players, it remains one of the most cloned circuits in existence and a benchmark for mid-rich overdrive.
The Mad Professor Supreme is a dual-channel overdrive developed with blues guitarist Matt Schofield. The A side is based on Mad Professor's Royal Blue Overdrive circuit and voiced for low-gain drive suited to neck-pickup blues leads. The B side is an entirely new design giving Schofield's preferred fat, dynamic tone with power-amp-like response and generous headroom. Each side has its own Volume, Drive, Bass, and Treble controls, switchable with a single A/B footswitch, and the two channels can be run independently or stacked together for higher gain. It is aimed at blues and blues-rock players who want two distinct, amp-like overdrive voicings in one box.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Metal
- Alternative Rock
- Rock
- Blues Rock
- sustaining
- saturated
- full