Tone sucking Tube Screamer !

Bob Hoffnar · Post by **Bob Hoffnar** » 18 May 2000 12:45 am

I have one of those old stock reissue green fellas and it periodically decides to remove lows from my signal. I unplug it to bypass it then I plug it back in and it works untill half way into some gig. Can this be fixed with a power supply or something simple ?
I have heard that this can be normal for a Tube Screamer.

thanks, Bob

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Steve Feldman · Post by **Steve Feldman** » 18 May 2000 7:09 am

Bob -

Can't help you with the electronics problem, but you might want to check out the Tubeworks preamp that I just described over on the amp thread. It produces the most beautiful, musical, clean tone you ever heard, but it can also be overdriven with the guitar channel alone or stacked on top of the clean channel. You can get everything from squeaky clean to a nice blues sound to ear-blistering crunch.

Bob Hoffnar · Post by **Bob Hoffnar** » 18 May 2000 8:16 am

Steve,
Those tubeworks pre amps are great. I used to use one myself. The Ibaneze distortion box I use has its own sound(sub harmonics) that I use for certain things. I just need to find a way to make it more reliable.

Bob

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Franklin D-10

Bill Terry · Post by **Bill Terry** » 18 May 2000 3:43 pm

Bob,
I've got an 'original' green Tube Screamer and I've never had that problem in the 15 or so years I've had it. I wonder if it could be a mechanical thing, like a connector? I've seen some pretty weird behavior from dirty or corroded 1/4" phone jacks. I haven't had mine apart in a while but I think it has a switching jack on the output side. Those are known to cause problems with age. Might be worth a look since you mentioned unplugging then replugging it seems to affect the behavior.

Those things do have a unique sound, I wouldn't take for mine......

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Chris Bauer · Post by **Chris Bauer** » 19 May 2000 12:12 pm

Gotta echo Bill on this one. My original Screamer has never shown any tendency to alter my tone in that way. I notice a bit of coloration with my reissue pedal but it's subtle and hasn't seemed to change over time. Let us know what you figure out about this. It's kinda intriguing.