Ibanez TS808 TAMURA-MOD Tube Screamer

Ibanez TS808 TAMURA-MOD Tube Screamer Who better to mod a pedal than the engineer who invented it? In the year 1979, Japanese electronics engineer Susumu Tamura unknowingly started a sonic revolution. Seeking to create a circuit to compete with the Boss OD-1, Mr. Tamura inadvertently developed a pedal that would go on to become the most copied, cloned and modified guitar effect of all time. That pedal was the Ibanez TS808 TubeScreamer. Known for its incredible warmth and organic, tube-like quality, the “808” quickly became the go-to amp-pushing pedal for countless guitarists around the globe, including a soon-to-be legendary blues player from Texas named Stevie Ray Vaughan. Over the past four decades, the 808 has taken on a variety of incarnations and launched the careers of many aspiring pedal designers looking to build a better mouse trap. But as the saying goes, there ain’t nothing like the real thing. The Tamura-mod TS808 is the culmination of a three-year quest by Mr. Tamura to re