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I started playing guitar in 1974 and by 1979 I'd graduated to my '72 Tele Thinline, Fender Princeton Amp (non-reverb) and an MXR Dirtortion + built right in Rochester, NY where I was going to college. I remember clearly the day I bought the pedal at Area Music in Geneva, NY. I had no idea about Tube Screamers, let alone the phenomenon that was Stevie Ray starting to happen out in Texas. Even with what I've learned in those (long) intervening years, this reading taught me a lot about "Screamers". I'm sure you'll note my emphasis on Maxon developing the pedal, something I only learned myself in the last few years and the realization that make me want to make this video.

A thank you goes out to Zack Hillman’s for his excellent article on Reverb on “Creating Tube Screamer Tones of Famous Players.”
https://reverb.com/news/how-to-use-yo...

I need to thank Brian Wampler for his permission to use the video clip of his comparison of gain pots to illustrate part variation in Screamers.
   • BUSTING THE MYTH about TS9 and TS808 ...  

I need to thank Dan Orkin at Reverb for permission to use the clip from their video on the JHS Bonsai where Josh Scott expresses his opinion on chips.
   • Josh Scott of JHS Pedals Investigates...  

I’d like to thank Jackson Audio for their permission to use the music from one of their Broken Arrow videos for the intro and outro music illustrating the TS goodness available there.
   • Jackson Audio - BROKEN ARROW Dynamic ...  

And as is often the case, I need to thank Perry McManis and Dave Onorato for editing another big script.

Thanks for watching.

Until next time, thanks for being a part of the five watt world.
Keith