TS9 Silver

[GonePhishing46]

Anybody know what mods are done to make it a "Silver"? Not tone-wise, but what components

[fulltone1989]

I think that the upper harmonics and mids are emphasized more? Warmer maybe?

[Poster]

way off. actually has mids clipped out.

[picture_of_nectar]

from the horses mouth
http://www.analogman.com/ts9silv.htm

The silver option has less of a mid range hump than a normal tube screamer. While I love the classic TS-808 sound, this mod takes it a step further, making the pedal even more transparent, with less of an effect sound. It has improved low end without the tone-degrading qualities that come with the common low-end enhancement mods you can find on the web, which are simply adding a larger capacitor (the other modes on the TS9DX are like this). Our silver mod does not have nearly as much low end as the + (2nd) setting on the DX, see our TS9DX MODE MODS page which shows that even the hot and turbo mods that we do, have less low end than the + mod on the unmodified DX.

[patrickstefanski]

I recently replaced my TS9's with a Analogman King of Tone.

So far I'm pretty happy with the change.

[IamWILSON]

I really prefer the original ts-9s from the early 80's.  I would love to get my hands on the King of Tone, and I've tried the OCD and the Keely modded tubescreamers (one of which I use as a backup, and sometimes use it when I want a little different tone) but there's just something about the originals that I can't ever remove both of them from my chain.  I think they're more responsive to dynamic playing and achieve the vintage sound better (maybe because they are actually vintage and all the parts in them have been used for years and are all aged together).  Maybe I'm way off on my "logic" but I don't really care because I do know what I like.