Modest Mike's TS9 Epiphany!

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Our best-selling Tube Screamer has always been the Modest Mike’s Mean Ass TS-9. It has best mods available on the inside, and it has two added toggle switches on the outside. One toggle switch is for a clipping boost, and the other is for a bass boost.
But a while back I got a request from Justin Bell from New York for a special mod. He asked if I could install a standard stomp switch for the clipping boost instead of the toggle switch. He said it would be more convenient than having to stop, and reach down to switch the pedal by hand (I agree).
I said “I’m not sure. I think I can. Yep, I can do it.” So I did it!

Outside:
The stock footswitch works just like it always did. The new stomp switch takes the place of the clipping boost switch. This stomp switch adds two more 1N4148 silicon diodes in series with the stock clipping. This gives the pedal a boost in gain, taking it from symmetrical to asymmetrical clipping (it is a boost and it sounds meaner). And it is nice to be able to control it with your foot, instead of having to reach down to flip a toggle switch by hand.
So I also put a 5mm bright red LED where the toggle switch for the clipping switch would normally be. I chose red because when you hit the stomp switch, the sound is hot! The red LED comes on when you punch in the clipping boost. The check LED is changed to bright blue. Both LEDs are water clear. That just means they are clear when off, and show their true colors when they are on.
I left the bass boost toggle switch where I normally put it.

Inside:
We start with the 808 mods that everyone seems to want. There is a mod that gives this pedal about twice the available gain as before. Another mod helps this pedal to clean up better. 
Several capacitors and resistors are replaced, some with a different value to give this pedal a huge improvement in tone. We use high quality components like Panasonic capacitors and metal film resistors for better tone and less noise.
We replace the chip with the JRC4558D.

So this pedal will sound like our Mean Ass TS-9 in the video clip. But the controls have been relocated on our Epiphany model.  USE YOUR HEADPHONES!  Near the end of the video clip there is a familiar song...it's actually a backing track. It had everything except guitar. I mixed in the guitar using this pedal :)
 
“ We make your sounds…sound good!"

Thanks for looking, and keep rockin!
Mike
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