By 1985 Butler was using Chandler Industries to distribute the Tube Driver.
Around this time Butler began offering an option to allow users to adjust the bias voltage to the tube and tweak its response to their tastes. Each pedal was still hand-built by Brent in his home.
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Surprisingly, the Tube Driver has experienced a bit of a nomadic life: This pedal has been around long enough to have accrued multiple pages worth of history so I'll condense it down for you. I finally got around to trying one out and here is what I found: Being hand-built for most of its life and priced accordingly, it was also one of the very first boutique pedals. During its long life the Tube Driver has appeared in many forms. This is a pedal that has been around for over thirty years and has become a long-standing favorite amongst some of the most elite players in the business for its smooth distortion and boost capabilities. Have you ever had one of those guitar items that you always wanted to try but never seemed to get around to? The BK Butler 911 Tube Driver has been one of those items for me.
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GUITAR TOOLBOX BASICS: The BK Butler 911 Tube Driver with Bias Mod I don't know if this 9002 was patterned after the Butler 922 or 924 circuitry or if either.BK Butler Tube Driver Stepping up to a Classic This was the one that Herby Wallace used in his TubeWorks rigs later on up until he passed. Mine got so bad that I had to quit using it.Īfter Genz Benz acquired the Tube Works company, the preamp was named 9002 and the case appeared more like the Butler 922. They had a tendency to get nosiy and sometimes even drop out the sound altogether.
They also have stereo outputs and an fx loop. They were particularly useful for multiple instrument players like me. channel separately or you could stack them together for a 3rd. What was really nice about these units was the ability to use ea. I don't know of any of the 922's that were modded for steel, but there very well may have been. It was designed for bass guitar, so milder, calmer than the 922 which was designed for lead guitar. The 924 Blue Tube II in Brad's reply was the one that was modded for steel.
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GFI Ultra Keyless S-10 with pad (Black of course), Quilter Travis Toy 12 Amp, MatchBro, Cakewalk Sonar and Studio One Pro V4.6 DAWs, MOTU Ultralite MK5 recording interface unit They (in almost all cases) don't really give you a tube sound. They are nothing more than cathode follower buffers rather than a true tube preamp such as Brad's "Black Box". You have to be careful and avoid the "starved plate" (low voltage) tube preamps.
This was also confirmed by Genz-Benz support and required a complete redesign and why the model was discontinued. The second channel (used for steel) had a hum problem as power supply components were located next to the tone control pots and other audio components in that second channel. I tried to get the info from Genz-Benz but they wouldn't give it to me (or factory mod the old original BK Butler models). The mod for steel, from what I could find, mostly just changed the input, on the second input, so a high gain (hot) steel pickup wouldn't overload the input preamp (op-amp) stage.
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