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Well I recently picked up one of these Thrashmasters in a metal enclosure [early 90's 1st edition soundtank] and I must say it sounds superb. The name is rather unfortunate though..
It can cover ALOT of ground, from relatively low gain overdrive to Marshall shredmaster without sounding muddy or inarticulate. Plenty of mids too. Its become my favorite distortion box in a short time,bumping my MIJ DS-1 off the board. Anybody know what this pedal is based on?
Its got a single jrc4558 in it and sounds kinda like a real hot tubescreamer,but thats just my hunch.Its more articulate than a TS though with alot more gain, but its still in the overdrive/distortion camp...not Thrashmetal!

By the way, the 'sample setting' in the brochure is hilarious!
Its a very bright pedal and I've got my trebel rolled all the way off...even after modding it for more bass! With the trebel and gain maxed [like the 'sample' setting] it would sound kinda like a mic check feedback moment where everyone is covering their ears...

The TM5 has as much in common with a TS as an ocean freighter with a cruise ship. Do not be fooled into the TS conclusion by seeing a 4558. The TM is loosely based on a ProCo Rat:
http://www.dirk-hendrik.com/ibanez_thrashmetal.pdf

Thanks Dirk! Yeah its similar to my MOOER Rat come to think of it. But I'm prefering it to the Mooer,a Crunch Box and Shredmaster clone for distortion duties. I was so plesently surprised that I just won a metal box 'Classic Metal' after seeing its related to the 250/dist + on your outstanding Ibanez page.[Thanks for taking the time to put that together,very cool!
I've also got a soundtank tremolo on my board. Last one I'm looking for is the Soundtank compressor and I'm done...honest!

Well...a metal box 60's fuzz would be cool too!

I used to have the CrunchyRythym back in My late teens ( It was the cheapest dirt pedal I could find !) - It really was pretty woeful.
Sort of slightly dirty boost with crappy synthetic sounding fizz on top.
However , I later discovered that it was really good on drum machine - Almost worked like an Exciter of sorts.
Kind of wish I still had it just for that purpose.

Well my 'Thrashmaster' title was close but no cigar...maybe this thread wasnt meant to show up in search results!