The Tone City Green Tube is a Tone City overdrive pedal. Close alternatives include the Wampler Moxie TS10 Tube Screamer Style Mini Overdrive and the Sonicake Blue Skreamer. It pairs well with the Friedman Dirty Shirley and the Soldano Astro-20 Head.

Tone City Green Tube

Tone City · pedal

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.

  • tube
  • overdrive
  • blues
  • mid
  • ts
  • midrange
  • bypass
  • smooth

Good for

  • Busking
  • Live

Genres the Tone City Green Tube is commonly used in

  • Blues
  • Rock
  • Alternative
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  • Classic Rock
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  • Blues Rock
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  • Country
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Amps that pair well with the Tone City Green Tube

Friedman Dirty Shirley

Friedman

28% match

Put Friedman Dirty Shirley in front and the mid-forward tone leans further toward high gain

Soldano Astro-20 Head

Soldano

28% match

Run mid-forward into Soldano Astro-20 Head for more high gain on top

Friedman BE-Mini Head

Friedman

tonal match
$203.48via Reverb

Friedman BE-Mini Head stacks high gain on top of the mid-forward already here

Blackstar St. James 100

Blackstar

tonal match
$2074.33via Reverb

Put Blackstar St. James 100 in front and the mid-forward tone leans further toward high gain

Mesa Boogie Triple Crown TC-100 Head

Mesa Boogie

tonal match
$2999via Reverb

Put Mesa Boogie Triple Crown TC-100 Head in front and the mid-forward tone leans further toward high gain

Blackstar Series One 200

Blackstar

tonal match

Blackstar Series One 200 layers high gain onto an already mid-forward signal

Hughes & Kettner Coreblade

Hughes & Kettner

tonal match

Run mid-forward into Hughes & Kettner Coreblade for more high gain on top

Hughes & Kettner Warp 7

Hughes & Kettner

tonal match
$937.50via Reverb

Hughes & Kettner Warp 7 stacks high gain on top of the mid-forward already here

Pedals that stack with the Tone City Green Tube

Greer Black Mountain

Greer

23% match
$199via Reverb

Greer Black Mountain stacks fuzzy on top of the mid-forward already here

ZVEX Fuzz Factory

Zvex

22% match
$199via Reverb

Run mid-forward into ZVEX Fuzz Factory for more fuzzy on top

MXR Analog Chorus

MXR

20% match

Keep MXR Analog Chorus after Tone City Green Tube in the signal chain, clear of Tone City Green Tube's own gain stage

Ashdown Velvet Compressor

Ashdown

17% match
$150.07via Reverb

Ashdown Velvet Compressor's own compressed character is the real reason this is worth trying

Caroline Guitar Company Kilobyte

Caroline Guitar Company

11% match
$199via Reverb

Put Caroline Guitar Company Kilobyte after Tone City Green Tube in the signal chain, clear of Tone City Green Tube's own gain stage — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Boss DD-3 Digital Delay

Boss

11% match
$139via Reverb

Run Boss DD-3 Digital Delay after Tone City Green Tube in the signal chain, clear of Tone City Green Tube's own gain stage — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

NUX XTC Overdrive

Nux

tonal match

NUX XTC Overdrive layers high gain onto an already mid-forward signal

Caline CP-31 Hot Spice (Black)

Caline

tonal match
$52.99via Reverb

Run mid-forward into Caline CP-31 Hot Spice (Black) for more high gain on top

Alternativessee all similar tone character →

Wampler Moxie TS10 Tube Screamer Style Mini Overdrive

Wampler

76% similarity
$213.13via Reverb

Shared character: smooth, compression, middle

Sonicake Blue Skreamer

Sonicake

76% similarity

Shared character: light, wide_range, middle

Ibanez TS808HW Hand-Wired Tube Screamer

Ibanez

76% similarity
$262.61via Reverb

Shared character: single_coils, true_bypass, smooth

Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer

Ibanez

74% similarity

Shared character: single_coils, pick_attack, smooth

67Audio Harry Balz

67audio

73% similarity
$108.04via Reverb

Shared character: volume, true_bypass, treble

Electro-Harmonix Spruce Goose

Electro-Harmonix

72% similarity
$96.75via Reverb

Shared character: single_coils, true_bypass, treble

Fulltone OCD

Fulltone

72% similarity

Shared character: single_coils, pick_attack, volume

Colorsound Power Boost

Colorsound

72% similarity

Shared character: volume, smooth, treble

Cornerstone Antique v2

Cornerstone

71% similarity

Shared character: single_coils, volume, compression

Joyo Tauren

Joyo

69% similarity

Shared character: middle, s_build_quality, boost

Ibanez TS Mini Tube Screamer

Ibanez

69% similarity
$60.16via Reverb

Shared character: light, boost, smooth

Ibanez TS808HWV2 Handwired

Ibanez

67% similarity

Shared character: smooth, warm, blues_players

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Questions people ask

What are good alternatives to the Tone City Green Tube?+

The closest matches in character are the Wampler Moxie TS10 Tube Screamer Style Mini Overdrive, the Sonicake Blue Skreamer, the Ibanez TS808HW Hand-Wired Tube Screamer.

What pairs well with the Tone City Green Tube?+

Strong matches from rig and tone-complementarity evidence: Friedman Dirty Shirley, Soldano Astro-20 Head, Friedman BE-Mini Head — Put Friedman Dirty Shirley in front and the mid-forward tone leans further toward high gain.

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