So, I can't help myself. I see a pedal I know nothing about, I want to break out a shovel and dig till I know it inside and out. Found this thing via memes, basically. Yuki of the band D_Drive is an excellent guitarist, and her little instagram vids and youtube clips frequently make the rounds of imgur and reddit and what not.
Her rig is pretty bloody simple. A Boss GT-1000 multi-unit, and an overdrive, run into a marshall half stack.
Its the "TDC-008 Mild Blues" by TDC-YOU. As far as I can tell this is a Japanese brand for the Japanese market pretty much exclusively, so can't find a damn thing about it in english.
http://www.tdc-effector.com/008.html
Things I know:
-Current draw of 8.5mA according to their page
-Has a 4558 chip
-Germanium Transistors(? not sure if this statement was about this pedal specifically or the companies pedals in general, I don't speak japanese)
-5 knobs: Volume, Gain, LF, Mid Freq, MF, HF
-35,000 yen price tag (~320usd)
My first guess, as always, when presented with a mystery overdrive, is assume its a Tubescreamer. Entirely possible here, 8.5mA is in the right range. The name of the thing made me think Bluesbreaker or maybe a BD-2, but current doesn't really match either of them (Bang on for the Bluesbreaker 2, but why would anyone remake that thing?).
![](https://i.imgur.com/Q3VdNoB.jpg)
Anyone ever heard of this thing?
Her rig is pretty bloody simple. A Boss GT-1000 multi-unit, and an overdrive, run into a marshall half stack.
Its the "TDC-008 Mild Blues" by TDC-YOU. As far as I can tell this is a Japanese brand for the Japanese market pretty much exclusively, so can't find a damn thing about it in english.
http://www.tdc-effector.com/008.html
Things I know:
-Current draw of 8.5mA according to their page
-Has a 4558 chip
-Germanium Transistors(? not sure if this statement was about this pedal specifically or the companies pedals in general, I don't speak japanese)
-5 knobs: Volume, Gain, LF, Mid Freq, MF, HF
-35,000 yen price tag (~320usd)
My first guess, as always, when presented with a mystery overdrive, is assume its a Tubescreamer. Entirely possible here, 8.5mA is in the right range. The name of the thing made me think Bluesbreaker or maybe a BD-2, but current doesn't really match either of them (Bang on for the Bluesbreaker 2, but why would anyone remake that thing?).
![](https://i.imgur.com/fRFDdGC.jpg)
![](https://i.imgur.com/Q3VdNoB.jpg)
Anyone ever heard of this thing?