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Hi..I feel like I asked this here before..but I can't find it anywhere..so I'm guessing it's just deja vu..
I've been looking into the Maxon "9" series of pedals a little, as part of my ongoing search for Toanz...they look pretty nice but I'm iffy about the footswitch..
Maxon claims that it's 4PDT true bypass, but it doesn't have the typical TBP footswitch.... I'm confused...can somebody shed some light here?

I don't know if they are true-bypass..

But I always say, don't worry to much about the whole true-bypass story, a few buffered pedals can even have their benefits, I've read somewhere..

They are most def TB.

bdunlap wrote:They are most def TB.

Sweet!
Incidentally..do you have any first-hand experience with these pedals?

Later models are TB. The earlier ones are as good as TB.

Maxon made all of Ibanez's pedals for a long time, and still do make some. They are nice! I had an OD9 that just ripped.

Yea, it doesn't have to have that typical metal stomp 3pdt switch to be true bypass. You're good to be careful though, as many companies have sold non TB pedals as such.

Which pedal are you looking at specifically? I bought an OD-9 Overdrive pedal just before I discovered ILF. It sounds nice, but the switch is tres ennuyeux. It turns on just swell when you stomp it to engage it, but to turn it off, it doesn't switch off when you press down, but when you let up. Not nice. Again, the sound was pretty great, but it was basically a Tube Screamer.

If you want a perfect overdrive, get a Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop.

C

CBA713 wrote:Which pedal are you looking at specifically? I bought an OD-9 Overdrive pedal just before I discovered ILF. It sounds nice, but the switch is tres ennuyeux. It turns on just swell when you stomp it to engage it, but to turn it off, it doesn't switch off when you press down, but when you let up. Not nice. Again, the sound was pretty great, but it was basically a Tube Screamer.

If you want a perfect overdrive, get a Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop.

C

I know you've mentioned my wishy-washyness before...so it embarasses me to admit I'm still debating but it's a bit of a toss-up between three: the SD-9 and the two pedals that only have volume and gain (the soft distortion and the..um..can't remember the name of that other one..but one's yellow and the other one's blueish-green)

I was kinda interested in their modulation stuff (Pure Analog Chorus and VIntage Jet Riser) but it turns out that they're alot more expensive than the other 9-series pedals

Well if you're interested in both the organic od and the soft distortion, you could have both in one. For the most part, the only difference between them is the opamp. One uses a 741 while the other uses 4558, so you could socket it and then be able to swap them. It's likely they are already socketed.

The difference is where the clipping diodes are, moreso than the op amps. You can't swap a single for a double op amp either.

nbabmf wrote:The difference is where the clipping diodes are, moreso than the op amps. You can't swap a single for a double op amp either.

I was under the impression that the diode was in the same place in both circuits? Didn't think about the 4558 being a dual.

Maxon OD-9 is a true bypass Ibanez TS-9. They have a transistor first stage and 4558 dual op amp for gain and tone stages with silicon diodes in the feedback loop of the gain stage.

Both the Maxon OOD-9 and OSD-9 are variations on the Maxon OD-880 Overdrive and Ibanez OD-855 Overdrive II, which used three 741 single op amps (or a transistor and both sides of the 4558 in the Ibanez) and clipping diodes to ground for potentially a harder clipping (more distorted) tone (over feedback clipping).

Maxon deaigned and manufactured all these circuits for Ibanez, and in some cases still do. I'd play them all and pick the one you like the most. The big difference is feedback clipping vs. clipping diodes yo ground. There will be some overlap, but the latter will get crunchier.