Tone City Green Tube vs Warm Audio Tube Squealer
The Tone City Green Tube and the Warm Audio Tube Squealer are both pedals sharing mid-forward. The Tone City Green Tube leans warm. The Warm Audio Tube Squealer leans transparent.
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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
- Rock
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- mid-forward
Tone City Green Tube
Tone City · pedal
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$172.24via Reverb
The Tone City Green Tube is a Tube Screamer-style overdrive that makes no secret of its inspiration in name, colour or voicing, and unusually for Tone City it comes in a full-size rather than mini enclosure. It delivers the familiar mid-gain, midrange-focused overdrive: warm and smooth with a pushed midrange hump that helps leads cut, and enough compression to even out pick attack. Controls are simple -- Volume, a Tone dial adding treble as it opens, and Drive for gain -- while a dual-drive feature widens the range, so it works both as a light, gritty edge-of-breakup boost and as a fuller driven rhythm tone. It pairs well with single coils and humbuckers alike, adding heat and attack to an already-driven amp. True bypass, 9V.
The Warm Audio Tube Squealer is a switchable overdrive pedal recreating three of the most influential Japanese mid-gain circuits in one enclosure, the TS808, TS9, and TS10, letting players choose between the era-specific voicings of the classic Tube Screamer lineage. Modern additions include a mix knob to blend in clean signal alongside the driven tone, a pickup-voicing selector optimized for humbuckers or single coils, and an external voltage booster switch for extra headroom. In side-by-side comparisons with an original TS9 reissue, reviewers found it sounded very close, with only a slightly brighter character setting it apart. It works especially well as a boost into an already-driven tube amp and stacks cleanly with other gain pedals. Suited to blues, classic rock, and hard rock players who want authentic Tube Screamer family tones with modern flexibility.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Classic Rock
- Hard Rock
- warm
- transparent
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Occasions this gear suits — judged per model, or derived from its wattage, connectivity and category.- Busking
- Live