Any fans of the Ibanez SD-9 ??

[stephen sawall]

I picked up a Maxon Sonic Distortion SD-9 on Friday. I have a Boss DS-1 here. I am going to do a side by side.

The serial number looks like about 25 years old. It looks like no one ever used it. New condition.

 

[griff10672]

I picked up a Maxon Sonic Distortion SD-9 on Friday. I have a Boss DS-1 here. I am going to do a side by side.

The serial number looks like about 25 years old. It looks like no one ever used it. New condition.

cool ...... let me know what you think .... I'm always looking for new circuits to do ..... I totally forgot about this one .

 

[DanTravis62]

cool ...... let me know what you think .... I'm always looking for new circuits to do ..... I totally forgot about this one .

the SD-9 is a really interesting pedal. It takes some seriously wild settings to wrangle good tones out of it, but they are there.

If you mess around with it, the biggest gripe people have is having to set the EQ in outlandish ways. Bass and Treble or even a full tone stack would make it so much better.

Also, the range in the gain goes from zero to murder way too quickly, and you lose out on a ton of usable settings.

It might be a good idea to have a switch or something to have two different gain/distortion/fizz "levels"

 

[griff10672]

the SD-9 is a really interesting pedal. It takes some seriously wild settings to wrangle good tones out of it, but they are there.

If you mess around with it, the biggest gripe people have is having to set the EQ in outlandish ways. Bass and Treble or even a full tone stack would make it so much better.

Also, the range in the gain goes from zero to murder way too quickly, and you lose out on a ton of usable settings.

It might be a good idea to have a switch or something to have two different gain/distortion/fizz "levels"

interesting ..... I'm gazing at the schematic right now .... there is a whole slew of things I could do to this thing ...

I've been considering adding two separate gain structures and a footswitch for them to a lot of circuits ....

Like I did to the Japetus .... I can do that to pretty much any overdrive out there ..

anyone think it would be practical to have a 2 channel SD-1 .... or a 808 ... or a Klon for that matter ... I think it would shine there ... a Klon with two footswitchable gain settings ...

 

[DanTravis62]

interesting ..... I'm gazing at the schematic right now .... there is a whole slew of things I could do to this thing ...

I've been considering adding two separate gain structures and a footswitch for them to a lot of circuits ....

Like I did to the Japetus .... I can do that to pretty much any overdrive out there ..

anyone think it would be practical to have a 2 channel SD-1 .... or a 808 ... or a Klon for that matter ... I think it would shine there ... a Klon with two footswitchable gain settings ...

Yeah the klon would be a good one - people either run it with almost no gain (which, then the vaunted chip isnt in the circuit) or with all the gain, with no inbetween

The SD9 is one of those pedals that's askin for it though. It's got so much potential but feels like such a miss because its so clunky.

 

[JohnnyGtar]

TWA SH9. Scott got together with the man who designed the original and they tweaked it. It's badass.

 

[griff10672]

TWA SH9. Scott got together with the man who designed the original and they tweaked it. It's badass.

yup .... that sounds pretty dam good !

 

[GuitarVacation]

The SD-9 has been my cheat code for the thick dark liquid fusion type thing. The trick is the tone knob has to be all the way down.

It can go up a smidge but anything approaching 9 o'clock starts letting a bit of the ice pick fizz in.

Scott Henderson, Michael Landau, and Tim Miller all used the good old Maxon SD-9 for a long time. Henderson and Landau both have their own boutique versions now. I haven't tried either.

The latest Ibanez version posted earlier in this thread is the one I'm currently using. Switch on left adds a gain stage, gobs of distortion switched on. Switch on the right adds a pronounced mid boost.

I don't use either switch activated, but I like this version because there is a lot more volume above unity available. Some of the old Maxon's were too quiet and had to be used the the volume wide open.