Just be careful with the Master Volume control, because these things have the ability to REALLY hit the front end of your amp hard! In fact, they can drive a speaker as about a 1-watt tube practice amp with GREAT TONE. As stated before, the BK Butler Tube Driver is available once again. It’s kind of like having a section of your amp right in a pedal. This one has it's original (and wonderful) General Electric 12AX7's and they still test as better than new in my Hickock TV7 tester. The Tube Driver houses a preamp tube and it generates distortion by overdriving the tube rather than conventional pedal methods. There has never been a finer, more powerful actual tube overdrive pedal made. Oh, and there's the VERY powerful bass, middle, and treble controls as well as a very fender-like "bright" switch.
For example, I consider the Tube Screamer pedal to feel and sound soft. Although the Reactivator isn't an exact remake, the character of the attack is present from the Tube Driver. As for the newer Butler - I put a GE 5 star 5751 tube in the new Butler version, and it does help. There is a special attack the BK Butler Tube Driver pedal had. They sound more 'Vintage' if you can believe it. for a total of FOUR tube gain stages in the Tube Driver it's only one! Plus, these operate at twice the voltage of the original Tube Drivers. I have a New BK Butler Tube Driver one as well as several older Chandler versions. These are often refereed to as the predecessor to the "Tube Driver", but they are really VERY different pedals. This model is also the rarest, as it was only produces for a few months in 1981 before loosing the "Boogee" moniker. This one is from 1981, I personally feel this is the BEST model because it's still labeled "Boogee", and it's in the VERY Mesa-Boogie looking black-n-White color scheme. These things are legendary! There is lotsa chatter about these among serious players, but most folks have never even SEEN one in real life.īK Butler made only a few of these by hand from 1980-1981, then Randall Smith (Mesa-Boogie) asked him to use another name and in 1982-84 he made a few more labeled "Audio Matrix". I recently sold my stupidly rare Mini Boogee Pedal, but I made a little demo video before shipping her out. Tube Driver Review BK Butler Guitar Effects Reviews Ultimate-Guitar.Com. Hi gang! So this will be, for the most part a video blog. 4-String 5-String or More Short Scale Left-Handed Fretless Acoustic Bass Vintage Bass Guitars Acoustic Guitars.
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