MichaelW
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I'm going to try to get some build reports reported Haven't been very consistent with that.
This past year or so I've been on a roll with finding and building some older more obscure overdrives and really digging them.
The Ibanez JD9 is a newer addition to the PPCB catalog but is a somewhat obscure, disco'd and underrated overdrive pedal.
In a nutshell, it's a high gain Tubescreamer with a mid control.
With the mid knob at noon you've got the typical mid forward TS sound albeit with much more gain and compression.
The mid control is also pretty powerful in that you can fine tune how much mid forward you want. From scooped modern high gain to a TubeScreamer on steroids.
It sounds great as a standalone overdrive pedal into a clean amp but it's got a ton of output and like it's less gainy TS808 cousin, it can really crush the front end of a dirty amp.
My "dirty amp" is my Friedman IR-D (Dirty Shirley tube preamp) on the gain channel with the mid gain setting, gain knob around 2 o'clock. Which puts it in hot rodded JCM800 territory. But it absolutely needs to be tightened up and the 3 pedals I like the most for that is the SD-1, my vintage narrow box TS808 clone, and the Jan Ray.
The JD9 steps things up a bit in terms of aggressive gain, and while it's not really my style of playing, I can appreciate what it does.
Highly recommended build if you need a more aggressive Tubescreamer!
The only change to the BOM I made is instead of using 1N914 clipping diodes I used BAV21's. The BAV20/21 has become my new favorite 4148/914 alternative.
This past year or so I've been on a roll with finding and building some older more obscure overdrives and really digging them.
The Ibanez JD9 is a newer addition to the PPCB catalog but is a somewhat obscure, disco'd and underrated overdrive pedal.
In a nutshell, it's a high gain Tubescreamer with a mid control.
With the mid knob at noon you've got the typical mid forward TS sound albeit with much more gain and compression.
The mid control is also pretty powerful in that you can fine tune how much mid forward you want. From scooped modern high gain to a TubeScreamer on steroids.
It sounds great as a standalone overdrive pedal into a clean amp but it's got a ton of output and like it's less gainy TS808 cousin, it can really crush the front end of a dirty amp.
My "dirty amp" is my Friedman IR-D (Dirty Shirley tube preamp) on the gain channel with the mid gain setting, gain knob around 2 o'clock. Which puts it in hot rodded JCM800 territory. But it absolutely needs to be tightened up and the 3 pedals I like the most for that is the SD-1, my vintage narrow box TS808 clone, and the Jan Ray.
The JD9 steps things up a bit in terms of aggressive gain, and while it's not really my style of playing, I can appreciate what it does.
Highly recommended build if you need a more aggressive Tubescreamer!
The only change to the BOM I made is instead of using 1N914 clipping diodes I used BAV21's. The BAV20/21 has become my new favorite 4148/914 alternative.
