Wrote a review on another forum, sharing it here;
My review;
I use it on the clean channel, it prefers open+sweet sounding fendery tones with preferably not an edgy sound. The switch and tone helps with darker amps but then the fuzzy element of the sound get too apparent (which can also be preferred by some).
9v mode; Lower headroom compared to OD's I tried on regular 9v, but one's who prefer picking relaxed would really enjoy it. The official video is in 9v mode, the gain range from the volume pot really is insane. The guitar pretty much doesn't need a treble bleed, its that good. Cause of the low headroom, using it as a boost your fingers will fly around the fretboard but the cost is since it doesn't bleed the clean sound you might feel its taking over your amps feel a bit too much (depending on the pedals gain knob position). The breakup might sound too loose for some specially with humbuckers.
18v mode; The more vintage sound area, here you get the buzzy sounds from vintage amps but of course its not the same thing still great feel though, the headroom increases a lot and one really wants to dig in with the pick. The breakup is really tight and the pick control of tone is a joy. It gets darker quicker when the volume is rolled down (or atleast feels like it) so using a mild boost before it made more sense to me.
I read many enjoyed but I didn't like my ts9 as a boost for it, infact sold it. But a clean boost with slightly rolled off highs works great with the glove (just like with the official video with the crayon), my guess is cause of the fuzz element in the sound it likes some bass before it. The volume pot with a clean booster is much more effective at 18v mode.
After experimentation period, I set it up just almost like the official crayon video with a clean boost (the clean boost its pushing its gain to around 1 o'clock). I guess personally I'm a (mild breakup) distortion guy with its gain knob passed 1-2 o'clock. After that (probably cause I'm not a fuzz user) the fuzzyness gets more apparent depending on the amps eq setting you use, which is also a great sound but just not my thing.
As I feel confident with it, I'm happy I bought it. Wanted low gain sweet tones on a clean amp and got exactly what I hoped for. As it doesn't cut much bass like a tubescreamer and having plexi-like drive, it can be a great alternative before the soundcard/processor for those who are into software amps. If not for the tone, the feel on 9v mode will be closer to using a real amp.
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This post has been edited by Mertay: Apr 7 2017, 01:13 PM