ESCAPE VELOCITY

The fundamental purpose of an overdrive circuit is to simulate the warm and slightly gritty sound of a good vacuum tube amplifier being pushed gently into distortion. A lot of circuits have been developed to recreate this tone, but none is more widely used and copied than the venerable Ibanez TS-808 Tube Screamer. No TS style overdrive is as versatile and rich sounding as the Wattson Escape Velocity. With better bass response, low noise transistors, a variable clipping threshold control, and a "mid hump" elimination switch that provides the flattest bandwidth of any TS clone on the market, this is truly the Tube Screamer that Ibanez wishes it had built.