Blindfold Tubescreamer Challenge - Screamer or Weener?! - Andertons Music Co. 

I would love to see Lee form a blues group called "Lee and his Andertones". 10/10 would go see

The rate at which you guys pump out quality content is remarkable. Thank you for everything

Do one for wah pedals!

That Mad Professor is the best TS-type I've ever heard. It's incredible! EDIT: The Maxon is amazing, too. Joint favourites!

Hilarious editing on this haha

Not going to lie I like these videos before they’ve even started. This is what you tube was made for. Fulfilling my guitar gear geek outs

Great touch with the coffee at 5:55ish. Maxon clear winner for me. Original and best.

Basically, if you want a Tube Screamer...............buy a Tube Screamer

Lee's playing has improved SO much, he sounded really really good in this video

Rory was on fire for this one!

I got really confused for a second when there was no smashing of the mugs. Then I noticed the editing. Very nice.

One thing that keeps really annoying me throughout this video is the spring reverb(coming from the Amp?). It's not too prevalent when the Capt'n is using his clean tones, but as soon as most of the tube screamers are switched on the unmistakable crappy choppy spring verb is there coloring the sound. Personally, I would much prefer not hearing any reverb on in a test like this in order to better tell exactly what it is each of the Tube screamers are doing to the sound. However, as always I love that you guys are creating videos like this and it helps us consumers make informed decisions when it comes to buying gear. Keep it up. Cheers

I absolutely love that the TS9 placed where it did. It sounded great and shows that (some) boutique copies don't always trump the original.

Round of applause for the editor of this video. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Love that you guys are putting the names and scores on the screen!!!

Woah, Lee's playing is his best so far in this video👏👏

I think that this is a beginnig of the whole new blindfold challenge series, where you put one, famous and original pedal against its copies. I can't wait for more! :D You should do the same thing with OCD, or Big Muff next! :D And some wah too! :D

How about a blindfold comparing the various Boss overdrive pedals. Like Boss OD-1 and forward.

You should have messed with the captain by using the jhs bonsia for every tubescreamer

Stellar content as always, guys

That clarksdale is my to-date, all-time-favorite pedal. -play it everyday.

Does any one else picture danish Pete sitting in a dark room all alone doing the edits on these videos, dying hysterically at all the little songs, meme references, and glass shattering sounds? Damnit Pete.

Short version: He likes Ts9, dislikes ts808. Even while he states preferring the 808 the ones he disliked are 808 copies. They should had thrown the behringer copy of ts9 and a boss sd1 if at least for the lols.

Ibanez Tube Screamer.... often immitated but never duplicated.

Lee, dude! You really make that guitar sing when you bend the strings!

I’m convinced the captain has the tone completely in his hands. I could sit and listen to his vibrato for hours.

I love Chappers drinking The Captain's coffee at 1:40 😂😄🤣

#9 is the Wampler Psychosomatic Drive

About 4 years ago I got a TS9 for $50, and literally thought "Why the hell are there mods for this thing? It's perfect, as is." Glad to see others feel the same way, and it sounds like per Lee's comments about sales skyrocketing for the original TS9, a lot of other folks are coming to that conclusion, as well.

Totally rooting for the Wampler throughout - I love the Clarksdale so much! I use it on everything.

Hands down the Mad Professor for me. It had some harmonic over and or undertones that were amazing.

Loved the cup move at 5.48!

7:05 ... This is the smartest I have ever seen Chappers look - behaving all scientific 'n' stuff ... he'd make a great lab rat ...

should’ve just hooked up a jhs bonsai and told lee each mode was a different pedal

What a delicious and soulful player the Captain is. Consider the bluesy cockles of my heart warmed.

I was actually surprised how noticeably different these sounded! Captain's guitar playing was perfect for this test though. And seriously man, you've improved so much this year!

mooer was used in "hot" mode, so too much bass is well expected, in "warm" I'm sure it would get better mark, since it would be the reqular TS

When I give up on the whole pedalboard thing and just run my Strat though the EHX East River Drive it sounds awesome. That pedal is mega sound for next to no money.

you can get SO much more out of the East River Drive!! Juicy, tight, crunchy loveliness!!

I think his initial reactions were great. And I was very impressed with his discerning ear on these. Very nice Cap'n.

Great job, Captain Lee!

The KEELEY screamer is the "red dirt". An authentic 808 sound with Keeley approved components.

I was half-expecting one of them to be a metal zone.

That strat sounds heavenly. With the TS9, it's magical.

5:45 - 6:00 is easily the funniest bit of video your team has put out. I love the tricks with the coffee.

I'm not usually a Tube Screamery kinda player but that Maxon sounded just lurvely. Oh, and fabtastic playing Cap'n... :-)

You had the green mile in hot mode as opposed to warm mode. Huge difference!

I've tried a few tube screamers over the years and recently discovered the Way Huge Green Rhino. It's unbelievable.

The Captain is quickly becoming the Tone Wrangler!! Damn that was some tasty playing. Job well done.

I feel like the name “tube screamer” is what gives it so much merit lol. It’s a fine pedal to be sure, but that name is stellar. Makes ya wanna use it.

20:16 when Lee first played Pretendng by Clapton, and then went for Bad Love from the same album "Journeyman". And sang "how meny times must we tell the tale" part

Rob’s vocabulary is something to behold.

Best vid in ages loved this, proves that the capn has a great ear for tone !!

Oh man! I loved the Wampler and Mad Professor so much!!!

Love tubescreamers. TS9 is my favorite pedal I own. That Maxon sounded fantastic and I think I may need to track one down and try it

Green mile looked like it was on the hot setting, and I believe the warm setting is closer to a ts sound. Just sayin

Rory's mug editing improves in leaps with every video... Well done, sir.

The green menace sounded absolutely heavy on that hot rod. My God.

When he first started playing the TS9, that was a great Dire Straits tone

The Captain sounds great! 🎸💯✌🏿👍🏿

ts9 seems like the winner to my ears.

Enjoyed the coffee edit. And lee’s playing which rocked this whole video

I think the ON button _click_ sound of Screamer-clones gives away at least the fact that it's not the Screamer, dunno if Captain took that into consideration or not. Great video tho, loving these blindfold challenges.

I've had the little green wonder for years... It always makes it on my pedalboard everytime i change it up.

Great video ! One observation: the original TS-9 (either the Ibanez or the Maxon variant) is something that we're so attuned to that it just feels and sounds right. I was expecting Lee to have a "this feels like home" moment when the Ibanez came up, and that's just what happened. Also, it seems that anything that tinkers with the original formula in trying to improve it just makes it lose some of what makes it unique. That's also something I've observed with Marshall amps: all the derivatives I've played or heard, in an effort to make it smoother, or more low-end heavy, or sounding "better" at low volume, lack the unique rawness and agression that classic Marshalls (Superlead, JMP, 800, Jubilee) have in the mids and that even a modern iteration of the design such as the DSL captures perfectly (seems to be the case with the Origin as well). I have found this to also work for the Strat (esp. with the myriads "boutique" Strat and Superstrat variants), Tele, Les Paul and other equally influential designs. All in all, my takeway from this shootout (that also applies to lots of things in the guitar world) is: if that's a Tubescreamer you want, just get the original one (Ibanez or Maxon). Despite (or maybe because) of its flaws, it just does what it does beautifully, and anything that alters the original recipe ends up not making it better, just different.

The editing was on point in this video!

"Action Lee-Play" was brilliant.

That Mad Professor took it for me, WOW. That company doesn't make a single pedal that doesn't sound amazing.

The switch on the Green Mile was set to the Hot setting which sounds terrible and did Mooer a disservice as the warm setting is the TS one.

That Maxon and the Green Wonder sounded awesome. I also loved the Clarksdale and Kafir Lime. Going to see if my peddle bud can build any and then I'll order whatever.

I bought the Maxon a couple of years back, it is, without a doubt, the best pedal I have ever bought. The valve gets cooking even when it’s bypassed and sounds better the longer it cooks. A genuinely phenomenal pedal that can be used to do so much. Wondered if it would show up, in this test, when it did I knew it would win, even without cooking the valve or touching the boost. The top left knob - the ‘artificial’ drive - rarely goes above 10 for me which is what Lee said spoiled the sound. With the Maxon Screamer and the empress reverb into my mark V, I could happily live without every other pedal on my board! Try one!

Lost my shit at "just choose a colour you like". Premium advice right here. Never change

The coffee cup editing fantastic in this. Hightlight of the video really

Very few OD pedals sound their best with “everything set at 12 o’clock” on an amp set on a clean setting. I chose a Green Mile as an acceptable substitute for a Tubescreamer on my pedalboard a while back and have never regretted it.

That blue Wampler pedal sounds good, just a bit more fiddling required And it appears The Captain has been practicing, sounding brilliant on that gorgeous strat unleashing his inner Pete

You should have Maxon OD-808 (directly a Tubescreamer clone) and Boss SD-1 because they're widely available and it would be nice to see how they stand against more "boutique" pedals. Nice test, though!!!

This was a really really really good video. Well done guys!

I absolutely love it when you guys do things like this. I've been playing for some time, but I'm only now getting into pedals. This was extremely useful. Lee, you're a monster. If you're just going to ruin a great guitar, send it to me. I'm kidding, but only just.

This is a very well timed video, I've been debating either a Tubescreamer-type or a Klon-type drive pedal for my board and I may well be making a purchase based on this video.

I could not live without my good old Ibanez TS9. It’s absolutely perfect for my playing. It does my pushed clean tones, blues tones and is great for tightening up the distortion tone’s on my hard rock and metal stuff!

Not gonna lie... little green wonder killed everything in my opinion!! I just have one!! I love mad professor!!

One of my favorite and simple pedals for more gain is the BBE boosta grande.

You know, I have a distortion pedal that's like a two in one kind of thing, so two independent distortion-circuits with each its own stomp-switch and controls, and you can also stack them (both on at the same time). But while one is the full-on modern type distortion, the other is based on a Tube Screamer style, where it rolls off the bottom and perhaps the high end, being more of a mid-boost. - So, even within a very different pedal that's not even marketed or presented like a Tube Screamer they put a "Tube Screamer clone". - It's just what it does is very useful; It can be like a boost, it can be to clean up frequencies and just make the guitar more pronounced, it can be a smooth Bluesy tone...

1:40-1:45, the old "Coffee Cup Switcharoo"!

That was fun. Keep up the good work at Guildford. Kudos for the Maxon. They make such good pedals. When my AD-9 finally died, I purchased the Maxon AD-9 Pro. Sounds just gorgeous and operates dead silent.

I really like these blindfolded videos. You get better and better with the setup. Keep it up mah dudes !

Def one of your best ever vids, the TS shades it for me....thx gents. PS: Keep taking the Grecian 2000

Please do a comparison of the American Fender strat line comparing the American Special, American Professional and American Elite strats.

Lee is a great guitar player so is rob! 🤘

Dunno why I watched this, but I loved it! Me, I've always had my Ibanez TS9 from back in the early 80s. Got it because I saw Chris Rea get a great sound from his Strat, live. It's absolutely the only pedal I have ever needed (when playing my Tele). Never used it with my LP, though. Dunno why!

Rob looks like a proud dad while Lee is shredding on the tone city

Love the TS-9

"Driven Lee", the new signature pedal...

Rob- “okay here comes the pedal” lee- “WHOOOO” 😂😂😂

Great video, thanks. You know Lee, it’s so much nicer and easier to listen to you than it is Rob Chapman. Keep up the great work.

5:51, right hand corner.. Rory is a legend!

Mad Prof just make niiiice stuff.

Still love my original TS9 bought for £32 in 1982

The Keeley TS-9 variant is the Red Dirt. The Super Phat Mod is a modified Boss Blues Driver.

The TS9 wasn't the original Tube Screamer, the TS808 was the original (and still the best).