Blanket over TS9.... how to remove????

[AC30Dirty]

hey guys I modded up the TS9 i got for free and for some reason I feel like there seems to be a blanket over the tone. It's not as transparent as i would like it to be. Are there any capacitor changes I might have missed or don't know about??? i changed the mid cap to .1uf, did the more/less overdrive mod, the 808 mod, changed the electrolytic 1uf caps to metal film, and thats pretty much it. I was wondering if i need to mess around with the .020 cap next to the cap that controls the mids???

[GibsonGM]

Looking at the standard schematic (Jack Orman's), I would think messing around with the .22 uf cap in the tone stack might help you out....maybe make it smaller. 
Next would probably be the stock .047 cap in the opamp feedback loop to Vref....that value might have something to do with the 'blanket  effect'.

Last but not least, input and output caps.   I wasn't too clear which caps you've altered, since you didn't link to a schematic (and there are a few out there of the TS-9!).  But hope this helps....

[blanik]

i never seen a TS that sounds transparent to start with... i prefer BD-2 or BOR/SHO boosters for transparency... the TS is designed to shape your sound with mids making all the strings from low E to high E sound equal in volume and "space" on the freq spectrum making any guitarist using it stand out in a live or studio mix...
my opinion 

[aron]

What? I thought the TS is supposed to sound like a tube amp?

[MartyMart]

Try reducing the 0.22uf to ground off pin 1 ( 1st output of IC ) to a 0.047uf, instant "Blanket removal"
Done !
Marty.

[AC30Dirty]

It's a Ibanez TS9 reissue pedal and I used the mods I found all around the web. I changed a cap that was labeled 203 to a .1uf and it seemed to help. Martymart is this the cap you were refering to?

[MartyMart]

It's a Ibanez TS9 reissue pedal and I used the mods I found all around the web. I changed a cap that was labeled 203 to a .1uf and it seemed to help. Martymart is this the cap you were refering to?

There's two on a TS-9, ( both small tantalum caps ) one is part of the tone control and comes off the wiper ( middle pot connection ) via
a 220 Ohm resistor to ground.
The one I'm refering to, comes off a 1k resistor from IC pin 1 and connects to ground, this is before the tone
pot's connections, so it's between pin1 - 1k and a 10k to Vr - tone pot.
If forms a roll off with that 1k r/0.22 c and for me it's a bit too much !
Trace the connections and you'll find it, from memory I think it sits at one edge of the IC, when looking down on
it, at the bottom near pins 5 and 8.
Changing it to a 100n may do, I went with 47n
Marty.