So im not suprised if you get the best results with that tube, even if its an Ecc81.
#When to use bk butler tube driver driver
These tubes are made with the same specs as the old Telefunken Ecc83 flat plate. Tube Driver Review BK Butler Guitar Effects Reviews Ultimate-Guitar.Com. I wouldn't call it high gain by any means, maybe medium gain. On the new Tube Drivers, both David Gilmour and Eric Johnson use Ei Yugoslavia Ecc83s. The gain range goes from semi-clean to moderate overdrive. At low drive settings, you get a warm, complex, bluesy grit, hendrix/SRV blues. This pedal is the gain stage that most players wish their tube amp had. I'm using it with a fender deluxe strat with duncan antiquity custom bridge pickup, and custom shop '69 neck/middle, and a blues jr. It sounds pretty sweet with a 5751 or 12au7 in there. In a word, the sound is brilliant from this pedal. I do wish it was a bit smaller, but I guess I have overpacked my board (which is why I am selling mine).Īs others here have said, you can change the tube to a 5751, 12at7 or 12 au7 for differing tone and gain structures. Surprisingly, the Tube Driver has experienced a bit of a nomadic life: Around 1975, keyboardist Brent Butler created a tube overdrive for his organ out of an old tube phonograph preamp housed in a Radio Shack enclosure. It is easy to get those liquidy lead tones. I found the Tube Driver to be very fun to play. However, it sounds great and remember that most of our favorite sounds have come from (even solid state) pedals like the Fuzz Face and Tube Screamer. The pedal uses an Opamp as a gain stage (volume boost) to overdrive the tube which is running at a low voltage.
#When to use bk butler tube driver serial
It looks like an older model, 3 knobs and 9v ac adaptor with 12ax7 tube, hand scribed serial on back. Both the bias and non-bias versions I have had sounded identical and I ran both in the regular bias setting for maximum punch. I got my hands on a BK Butler Tube driver. These two extremes represent classic examples of micro- and macroevolution Aimpoint Micro S-1 reflex optics are powered by a single CR2032 3V lithium battery that lasts for 50,000 hours of continuous use. The bias control sags the sound a lot, and in my opinion is not really usable very far outside of the "stock" non-bias knob settings, especially if you use it to boost your amp. Those sound different and will not get you the classic EJ and Gilmour tones.īoth new ones I have had sound great. After that they produced their version along with a rackmount version.
Chandler merely distributed the early ones (must say B.K. BK Butler has specifically stated that those were faulty copies of his original design. The Chandler ones with the wall wart end are different sounding. Learn more about Andy Timmons using BK Butler Tube Driver distortion & overdrive effects pedal by undefined. I've had a handful of new and vintage Tube Drivers.