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Old 09-12-2005, 12:24 PM
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Old 09-12-2005, 12:39 PM
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sparkledrive. much better built pedal, more usable tones, true bypass switching plus the ability to blend your clean signal into the tone.
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Old 09-13-2005, 05:01 AM
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I like the Sparkle Drive by far. Not only does it (in my opinion) have better tone, and the aforementioned true bypass, but everybody and their brother already has a TS9. A killer tone, but a tired one.
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Old 09-14-2005, 12:14 PM
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I absolutely love the Sparkledrive. The blend knob makes it an amazing pedal. I leave it on all the time, with the blend set at about half/way, giving you a clean when played quiet but dirty when played loud. I also use a tube screamer and turn that on when I want more distortion, with cascading gain structure you can get a wider variety of tones.
BUT!!! The one thing about the Sparkle drive that sucks is the freaking bypass switch goes bad. I know two other people that have the same problem with the pedal. Voodoo Labs must have had a bad batch of switches. It really sucks when you try to turn off your pedal and you get no signal from a bad switch.
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Old 10-03-2005, 05:14 PM
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A sweet pedal that's comparable to those two is the Barber Direct Drive or any of the Barber pedals for that matter. They are all true bypass as well.
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Old 10-03-2005, 06:38 PM
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yeah the sparkledrive is nice to be able to blend your tone, but nothing comes close to an original ts9. I have one that is older than I am and every time I plug it in, I listen to its rich wisdom. I think it really depends on what tone your going for, but for that classic distortion you cant beat an original ts9.
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Old 11-01-2005, 09:09 AM
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yeah the sparkledrive is nice to be able to blend your tone, but nothing comes close to an original ts9. I have one that is older than I am and every time I plug it in, I listen to its rich wisdom. I think it really depends on what tone your going for, but for that classic distortion you cant beat an original ts9.
I say phooey on the classics!!!!
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Old 11-01-2005, 02:12 PM
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...nothing comes close to an original ts9. I have one that is older than I am and every time I plug it in, I listen to its rich wisdom...
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