I might be in the minority, but I’ll take a great distortion pedal any day over an overdrive. Why? For one, I love the sustain and saturation, and furthermore, by simply rolling back the gain or my guitar’s volume knob – voilà, I have overdrive. It’s not that complicated.
What seems complicated, though, is that it took nearly three years to create the TWA SH9 Scott Henderson signature distortion pedal. The intensive collaboration between jazz/blues fusion guitar giant Scott Henderson and creator of the legendary Tube Screamer, Susumu Tamura, has yielded the TWA SH9 – a massive improvement and pronounced mod of the classic Ibanez SD-9 Sonic Distortion (also a Tamura original) and reissue Maxon SD-9 Sonic Distortion pedals.
