I think if I'd never owned a Tube Driver, the Real Tube may have been ok. An original may run you in the same price range. Buit it's certainly there when I want "That Sound."Īs most know, BK resumed building the original TDs a couple or so years ago.
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My tastes/style have changed since 1993 and I -imo- have better amps these days, so the Tube Driver is not my go-to pedal anymore. Ībout 5 years ago I located BK himself via the internet and he said to send him my TD and he'd fix it for a nominal fee. I retired them both and went to 2 channel amps using the overdrive ch for lead, sometimes goosing it with a booster pedal., just a 'booster,' nothing as radical as a (Tube Driver type) 'distortion' pedal which you typically plug into a (cranked) clean channel and let it take over your tone. same general tone territory, but just not the Creamy-as-in-Cream tones I got from the TD. I bought a (BK Butler) Tubeworks Real Tube to replace it- for more than I paid for the TD! Never bonded with that pedal. It failed a couple years later and I couldn't find anyone local to repair it. I got my TD in 1993 or so used for $75 and went 'wow, where has This Pedal been all my life?!!" Well there are the name players, tone gods like Eric Johnson and David Gilmour who play original BK Butler TDs to get part or more of their basic huge lead tones.
some people feel that there's just too much gain with the 12ax7, robbing you of half your Drive knob.Īnyway, nice one, and I hope to join you in a couple of days!
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Tubes with a higher "break-up" point will give the Drive knob its full range.
Tube Works gear hasn't really become fashionable yet (I'm sure its moment will come), but in my experience everyone goes nuts over the sound if they hear it without preconception.įrom reading around here and H.C., many Real Tube pedal owners only really start liking it once they've swapped out the stock 12ax7 for a nice 12au7 or 12at7. It's weird that it'd only cost another hundred dollars or so so get a rack-mount version of the same unit with two 12" speakers, reverb and effects send/receive thrown in, but that's how it is. yeah, good move, mondo), and I wanted to be able to add that Real Tube sound in a small package. Recently I've graduated to a Swart Spacetone for home use (even though it's louder than the MosValve owing to absence of Master volume. I've always been partial to its sound, and for better or worse I've come to think of it as "my" sound over the years. I've been after one of these for a while, as I have an old Tube Works MosValve half-stack amplifier (purchased in '92) with the Real Tube rack-mount pre-amp built in. Tube Works was Butler's company, anyway, so this pedal is his product. I think that there was a late-'80s version of the Real Tube that preceded the Tube Works, but I doubt that there's much of a difference between them. Butler (I'll track it down in a sec and post a link) in which he states that the Real Tube line was superior to the Tube Driver in some ways, and that Billy Gibbons' favourite has always been the Real Tube (as stated above). It's the version that says 'Real Tube' and 'Tube Works' on the front. I paid too much for mine (it hasn't arrived yet), but it's rare to find one that's already set up for 240V. I recently picked up a 5 Knob, yellow and black, B.K. I saw that very one while I was researching the purchase of another just like it. 18:31 EME Modern board (in progress): Demeter Compulator -> MJM Ulysses Wah -> Pete Cornish P-2 ->. The original stomp switch has been replaced with a quality soft switch.Ha. Blue Tube (Real Tube Enhancer) (Concept & Design: BK Butler) Rack Mount Overdrive/Distortion. The pots, jacks and stomp switch are allĬlean and quiet. This Real Tube is in good cosmetic condition.
Or you can crank the OUTPUT and boost your tube amp into natural Set where you like them, you can set this to unity gain with your dry Turn it counter-clockwise to cut high-end. Turn it counter-clockwise to cut low-end. As you turn the knobĬlockwise, the 12AX7 tube becomes more saturated, and can be easilyĭriven into natural and dynamic tube breakup. These have been on the pedalboards of Robin Trower, J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr, Paul Banks of Interpol, Eddie Roeser of Urge Overkill, and Jeff Buckley. This is on of the American-made versions from This pedal made by Tube Works, now Genz-Benz was designed by BK Butler and is a development of the Chandler Tube Driver he designed to have higher gain OD compared to the Chandler. A real 12AX7A valve gives warm tubeĭrive sound and dynamics. I bought this unit about 5-6 years ago new and I still have the original box and manual. It is aĥ-knob BK Butler Tube Driver circuit.
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