If youre using a rack tuner after a series of effect pedals, that might make it harder to tune. On the right are my settings to replicate the high gain 911 tube driver sound. Also, i just got a pedal board, and i read how a lot of people just have pedal compressors. The chandler tube driver is a real tube based overdrive guitar pedal. The tube driver is a boosteroverdrive pedal with a simple vacuum tube driven preamp circuit inside. It became a very popular pedal among guitarists for the next 35 years, and onwards. This is a classic overdrive pedal used by professionals such as by eric johnson, joe satriani, david gilmour and many others.
The first, original, one was the bk butlerchandler tube driver. If i get a rack mount compressor, i will have to get another rack. View all results for tube driver at sweetwater the worlds leading music technology and instrument retailer. This is a little different than the bk butler tube driver im told. The rack version had the tube bias knob and they were both very close. I have not the slightest clue about effects racks except that a lot of great. Rackmounted effects may be one, two or three rack spaces high. Heres your limited chance to get an original tube driver.
The knobs shown on the photo are not included in the kit. That would add to my pedal board repertoire, further justifying my purchase of the pedal board. It is on par with the pro audio units one would find in a rack at any professional recording studio, but in a compact pedal format. I actually got it used on evilbay should have just bought a new one direct from bk. It was 9v powered, like most pedals, making it more marketable to a larger crowd. When i acquired the hamstead odyssey intergalactic driver shortly before christmas, i initially bought it because of its superb sound quality and enormous versatility. But not every engineer or guitarist for that matter has experienced the variance in sound between pedal overdrive and amp overdrive. Is the real tube basically a tube driver with the addition of the midrange control to the tone stack or are they completely different. Even today, with all the great overdrive pedals around, i still think this is a good pedal for strats. In this article we cover the tube driver modification sold by pedaldoc of burgos, spain. If it says tube driver on it as a model name, its one way or the other supposed to be under the auspices of or royalties to one mr. This is not to say that all tube amps are sonically superior to pedals, in fact, if you are looking for a more compressed guitar sound a pedal may be the ticket.
Chandler tube driver rack mount real tube overdriveboost. Dec 08, 2014 every guitarist knows the legend about how tube amps break up. Questions about the fulltone ocd obsessive compulsive drive pedal. Find great deals on ebay for butler tube driver and butler tube driver car amp. Compare bias pedal virtually design your guitar pedal component by component, share or download thousands of guitar pedals from tonecloud, and integrate it with bias fx. Even with the tube drive set down at like 1 12, there was still enough output to give me a volume boost along with the mild overdrive. Another criticism of tube pedal designs is that, in many of them, the tube is essentially just decoration. Why would someone use a rack mounted effect when they could just use a pedal. Pedaldoc specializes in the production of kits to convert standard guitar pedals into boutiquetone stomp boxes, in most cases just by changing a few components. Depending on the pedal, such as those by tc electronic, mxr, and electroharmonix, you can get anything from a warm, rich overtone to a harsh and. But for effectaholics, nothing beats buying a pedal, plugging it in, testing it out, and if you dont like it, switching it out. Vintage chandler rack tube driver 12ax7 overdrive rackmount effects.
I own a tim pedal, butler tube driver and a dunlop fuzz face and think the physical pedals are all far superior. Chandler tube driver schematic help diy do it yourself. Chandler tube driver vs tube works 911 telecaster guitar forum. Save tube driver pedal to get email alerts and updates on. Guitar pedal x gpx blog 12 of the best ocd style pedals. The tube driver was one of the first tube overdrives to enter the effects pedal market. It is quite different from the original 4 knob pedal which i bought in 19867 but traded in a year later for the rackmount version. About as close as you can get to the original chandler tube driver. With a pedal td, you go through one dual opamp, two tube gainstages one 12ax7, and then to the output. Each pedal takes me several hours of my personal time. Sansamp the sansamp technology captures the warm, rich, natural tones of the most soughtafter tube amplifiers. It can also be dialed down to a light, fenderish tube overdrive for blues or.
Sweetwater s sales engineers are regarded as the most experienced and knowledgeable professionals in the music industry, with extensive music backgrounds and intense training on the latest products and technologies. Feb 20, 2020 cant say ill never go back though and im not selling my tube drivers. I have the real tube pedal and was hoping you can you shed some light on the differences between the real tube and the tube driver pedal. This includes the physical layout of my gear to best conserve space and accommodate workflow while still remaining comfortable. Ill stick a compressor pedal, two drive pedals lie a tube screamer. Its strong point is to add a bit of oomph to an overdrive channel. Its a great time to upgrade your home music studio gear with the largest selection at. Some used 4knob tube drivers marked chandler are not the original design by bk butler. Tube dirt pedals al have a varying amount of noise and my favorite of the four tube drivers was also the noisiest. You know what it is the you tube link is the actual unit you will be receiving. Tube driver pedals, real tube overdrive, tube works, etc. Forgot i also have an old chandler butler rack mount tube driver.
I then doubled all of that note by note with ebow pedal steel guitar going through a distorted amp. Generally speaking, tube amps tend to have a more gradual, organic compression and a more natural, less harsh clipping than solid state effects pedals. Chandler tube driver vs tube works 911 discussion in the. Differences between tube driver and real tube hi bk. For greater savings check out our used chandler tube driver rack mount effect pedal and get a great deal today. Pedals for overdrive tones july 14, 2016 8 comments the quest for tone can take you to many places, and when it comes to overdrive, the ideal tone may reside in a specific pedal, amp, or a combination of both. Essentially, bk is the designer of the tube driver. It uses militarygrade, subminiature tubes and an optocoupler to produce sweet, warm compression and gentle. Distortion and overdrive effects guitar pedal with tube amplifier simulation and blues guitar tone with level, tone. All tubes, whether itas your amp or a pedal, need some time. With this kit you can build both variants written in the docs.
With tube overdrive pedals, its important to understand that most of them run the tubes at a much lower plate voltage than they are designed for. The ones ive included here are those that are readily available off ebay. The tube drivers are emulating the preamp section of a guitar amp so. I was wondering if anyone has a schematic for the chandler rack mount tdr101 tube driver. The core of the pedal is a handselected 12ax7 tube which gives you a lovely sort of fuzzdrive sound than can sound amazingly smooth and textured in the hands of masters like david gilmour who still features 2 of these within his rig. Pedals with separate ac power supplies or wall warts are not original and. Boss ds1 tube driver mod from pedaldoc guitarkitbuilder. The tube pedal is often just a marketing gimmick because pedal manufacturers know that if they drop a tube in there, we are all going to go gaga and buy the shiny new tube box. But, occasionally, i needed something for a gig that a rack had, but my pedals didnt a certain multitap delay, harmonizer, thicker chorus, etc. Chandler marketed his product for a while using their name. Are they just using stompboxes or are they using rack reverbs.
Tube pilot overdrive stompboxes guitar tc electronic. Butler tube driver the core circuit design on the 2000s reissue 911 tube driver is similar to the original 198587 versions, but there were several component value changes across the circuit that affect the way it sounds, as well as different pots. Rack effects are still being used, and there are some that far surpass pedals in both sound and value. Second, how do reverb stompboxes compare to inexpensive reverb rack units. Chandler tube driver vs tube works 911 telecaster guitar. A tube is not included in the kit, you can select it suitably to your project. Im trying to setup a tube driver vst to come close to the chandler pedal. The tube driver was one of the first tube overdrives to enter the effects pedal market in the late 1970s. I have a real tube pedal with an nos rca 5963 12au7 in it and love it. My questionwho has directly compared the 3 knob tube works version to the 4 knob version. Within the parameters of each models particular design, the controls provide you with access to specific tone shaping characteristics within the tube amplifier sound spectrum. Pedals with separate ac power supplies or wall warts are not original and do not sound the same.
Butler vs chandler tube driver by elswan64 20110401 chandler tube driver by elswan64 20161122 chandler tube driver with guitarsystems sam. Alternatives to the tube driver sound the best alternative to the popular 4 knob tube driver is actually the 5 knob real tube pedal, model 901, made by tube works and designed by bk butler. Imo, as a pedal in front of a clean channel it sounds notsospecial. Another pedal that is very close to the tube driver sound is the electroharmonix hot tubes overdrive. Can millions of marshall and fender players be wrong. After chandlers trademark on the name tube driver lapsed in 1993, butler started making them again under his tube works brand. Tube drive and distortion pedals function much like a tube preamp, and typically use the same 12ax7ecc83 type tubes, so obviously a pedal with one little 12ax7 in it cannot possibly approximate the tone of, say, a quartet of raging el34s. Demeter has been making a rack mount bass preamp, the hbp1, for what must be decades by now. They then decided that they were the owners of the product and. I have one from the days when i thought it would be cool to. I messed with that thing for a while 2 or 3 years and for some. Buy behringer to800 vintage tube sound overdrive instrument effects pedal, lime green. Modular mania all things eurorack and modular synthseffects.
Well i got my bk butler tube driver wbias mod today and ive fiddled with it for a few hours and im still well in first impression territory but i have all too much to say about this pedal, so sorry for the short storybook im about to write. Tube works valve distortion guitar bass keyboard pedal overdrive bk butler blue. Utilization the general configuration of the tube driver is really easy to follow, and it is easy to get a good sound from this. It is also a good substitute for davids 1970s power boost tones. I do not like the pedals in the rack, i need to constantly tweak them and this is the best solution ive found. Mar 28, 20 ive got the bk tube driver with the bias mod. Below is an interview with bk that explains the whole butler vs.
And while im at it, what about rack mount preamps vs. I bought this unit new from guitar crazy in portland, oregon back in the day. Tube works and chandler tube driver s have been on the market at different times, and in different versions. The modern thought is that pedals sound just like overdriven amps. There is absolutely nothing like a real tube overdrive circut. It is made in the usa has a 14 inch input and output and i believe is has a 12ax7 type tube. This kit is a creation by th custom effects in cooperation with. Sounded great with my tube screamer, octafuzz and it stacks so well with a compressor. I found the schematic for it but dont know how to read itlolim trying to find what eq settings to use to come close to the pedal. Many people will glom onto 34 or 810 of their favorite pedals, and that constitutes their sound. Mar 23, 2015 with tube overdrive pedals, its important to understand that most of them run the tubes at a much lower plate voltage than they are designed for.
I spent some time with a vintage 4knob butler tube driver and it rocked soo fn hard with my mark. Signal chain paul reed smith custom 22 brazilian ltd chandler tube driver orange dual terror mesa 4x12 rectifier slant akg c414. The tube driver is an overdrive with real tube sound. Trying to learn the difference bt a rack mounted effect vs a pedal. All the other pedals had less volume engaged than bypassed when i had the distortion set where i wanted it. The ability to reply to and create new discussions. The resonator uses a pickup inductive string driver feedback circuit, including. Rigtalk view topic tube driver question 3knob vs 4. Nov 22, 2016 im not a fan of modelled overdrives on the helix or anything else i have tried. I am playing a les paul plugged directly into the instrument input of the tube driver and out of the instrument output into the tweed deluxe clone.
I have a rack mount chandler, chandler pedal with wall wart and a new issue butler tube driver. I also have a real tube rack version 901 i think and love it as well. Xact tone solutions builds products and provides services designed to deliver on both tone and dynamic feel with professional performance, extraordinary quality, and outstanding value. We are confident this unit will be a welcome addition to your tube. Our guitar fx pedals are musical, working with your instruments and amplifiers to produce classic and modern guitar tones. With the rackmount, the bypass still goes through a couple of fets, so its not as transparent as the pedals are. Used chandler tube driver rack mount effect pedal guitar. Butler tube driver rackmount, by tube works, and it is the 9v. If anything goes wrong during that period, just send it to me and ill fix it. Of course some people say there is no difference, so your thoughts could be entirely different to mine after you run the tests. It is a classic, featuring a tube preamp section as well as a fully parametric eq on both the low band, covering 40 hz to 440 hz and the mid band spanning 440 hz to 4. Pedaldoc specializes in the production of kits to convert standard guitar pedals into boutiquetone stomp boxes, in. I started looking into this after doing some makeovers to a couple of joyo pedals i had.
True vacuum tube overdrive pedals thetubestore blog. Dean markley overlord to b k butler tube driver so, ive got one of these and ive got to admit i agree with the advert its ugly as sin but it does sure cook an amp nicely, but it could be better. This rack is an updated and more costeffective design from the originator of the tube driver concept, b. Make offer bk butler tube works tube driver 12ax7 overdrive effect pedal valve 3 knob. Sansamp products are designed to work seamlessly in both recording and stage environments.
Well, more like over 200 so far, and hopefully well find more to add to the list of effect pedal clones. Butler tube driver famously used by david gilmour, eric johnson, billy gibbons and joe satriani to name a few. An effects unit or effects pedal is an electronic device that alters the sound of a musical. Dec 01, 2010 there are many options for modding this pedal. Jan 20, 20 i spent some time with a vintage 4knob butler tube driver and it rocked soo fn hard with my mark. In my endless quest for tube tone throughout the past 3 decades, the countless chip overdrive pedals just left me cold and bitter. Order here and get a real bk butler handmade tube driver. The tone kings full behringer pedal cross comparison chart. This tube driver was a lower cost, entry level version, housed in a smaller enclosure. The circuit is a bit more complex, but bascially the same design as the 911 tube driver only with a mid range knob added. Bk butler tube driver by tube works overdrive effect pedal it is in good overall condition with some cosmetic wear from use. The two pedals sound different, especially with the same eq.
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