Good pair with Muff

Pretty good sound for boosting and good pair for big muff boosting the mids.

A no brainer

I've had a lot of Tube Screamer-type pedals over the years and I have an ambivalent relationship with this type of saturation. I don't really like using them alone. Yet I wanted to boost an amp-in-the-box pedal and looked for the cheapest option I could find. I find the quality/price ratio of this mini pedal excellent. It sounds perfectly as good as the Maxon OD-9 and OD-808., it's made in Japan and costs way less than the normal-sized version. I even found it flattering used alone. I recommend it to anyone who wants to acclimate to the TS without having to pay a lot of money. Since you can find it for 50 euros second-hand, I think it would be a shame to get a Mooer or a Joyo for that purpose.

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Tube’s

A lil honky at times. But so depends on what rig you use and what guitar’s plugged in

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low price and high quality

I got it for 50 bucks and it works great. i mainly use it as a boost, it tightens bass and boosts mid. also a great overdrive pedal

Great overdrive pedal

I love my Tube Screamer Mini. I use it as a boost on the overdrive channel on my amp and it sounds great.

Friend of everyone, friend of your tone.

The Ibanez TS Mini is an interesting pedal, as it adds subtle gain to the signal chain, but also it stacks well when is paired with other drive pedals. With this pedal you will want to do Riffs and Solos all the time as its dynamics helps in the tone sustain, also it is middle equalized.

I haven't used any other TS like the TS9 or the TS808, but this little dude do the job fairly, perhaps there is something about the sound that you probably will want to use a booster before the TS Mini, and is about the "headroom" or in other terms, it sounds like if it was equalized in minus decibels, so needs to be pushed for more volume.

This pedal pairs well with other drives and fuzzes. By the moment I tried with the Blues Driver, SL Drive (Super Bass mode) and the Dyna Comp, to my taste, all them go before the TS Mini to approach a good mix between frequencies.

In general, the TS Mini is good for the rig, low price and fairly well for riffs, solos, blues and subtle overdrive.

Bang for Buck

My first tubescreamer, now I understand all the fuss. Lovely mid hump, I used it before other drives to turn a rhythm tone into a lead one, not really my kind of overdrive, but still awesome. As a standalone drive is best to have your amp cranked on the edge of breakup, as it's tone seems to have some dry signla in it like a parallel overdrive, which makes it great for stacking with other pedals. For 65€ it's hard not to give this pedal 5 stars. Very raw sounding and instant "vintagizer".

You'd be surprised.

I bought this 3 months ago. Almost never recorded anything without it, even with close to no drive whatsoever, it really brings a big sound to average crunchy amp channels. And a real nice distorted rhythm tone with the drive at 2 or 3 o'clock, which is WAY better than those front-page distortion pedals, like the Boss DS-2, or MetalZone, sh*t like that.

BUT, What really makes this pedal great, is it's orgasmic clean boost. Sh*t mate, the clean tones this pedal has. Over a nice clean channel from your amp, you put this little guy at no drive and 10 o'clock tone, and he will make you question your clean playing before you met him. Terrific with arpeggios. And hey, if you want a nice bright crunchy sound but your amps crunch tone is some boring and the-exact-opposite-of-bright piece of shit (wouldn't surprise me), cranck the tone all the way with just a little bit drive. It will be way way better. Plus the true bypass helps a lot too. And it small, so it's easy to carry around and doesn't take loads of space. Seriously, this pedal is so good. 10/10 would recommend.

This is THE overdrive for me

I listened to a ton of overdrives before deciding to get a Tube Screamer. My budget is never too big neither, so this mini version saves me money AND looks cute. And it's not any worse than it's big brothers. I often use it as a boost and it works great in that role.

You'll need to paint the grooves on the smaller knobs if you want to see them from further than 10 centimeters.

Like the small size. Sounds like a TS should.

The tube screamer circuit just does great things to a tube amp. The symmetrical clipping makes it a little smoother than say a Boss SD1. The knobs are pretty small given the mini size. The led light is a little dim at certain angles. As far as I can tell it sounds just like it's big brother. And that's the main thing. I'd rate it a 3.5 if I could.