By starving the tube of voltage and controlling what low voltage it operates at, you can force the tube to distort at much lower volume levels than what is traditionally possible in guitar amplifiers. Inside the pedal, the tube is set to work at only 12 volts (much less working voltage than what tubes are hit with inside a guitar tube amplifier) in what is referred to as “Starved Plate” voltage. The IC chip overdrives your guitar’s signal and then sends it to the tube to “color the sound” identically to tube overdrive. If you know the sound of turning your tube amplifier up and getting the tubes to sag and create distortion, then you’ll understand the general concept of this pedal. Butler Audio sells its handmade, original Tube Driver direct for $299.Basically, when you run your electric guitar through a Tube Driver to your amplifier of choice, it is essentially acting as if you are running through a small overdriven tube amplifier and sending its overdriven tube signal to your guitar amplifier. I used it on the clean channel of a Fender Hot Rod Deville. It also performs best with clean, high-wattage amplifiers with plenty of headroom (such as the Hiwatt amps that Mr. The Tube Driver is well-suited to tube swaps, sounding mellower and somewhat more compressed with a 12AU7, rather than the stock 12AX7. Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, and Billy Gibbons have also done their part to canonize the Tube Driver's huge, dynamic overdrive and boost tones. The Tube Driver is legendary mostly because of its association with David Gilmour, who has used two of them on his board since the early 1990's and his work on Pink Floyd's Division Bell. The BK Butler Tube Driver has a sordid manufacturing history, having been made at various times and various places under both the Tube Works and Chandler names, before finally being produced in original form again by Butler himself, via his company, Butler Audio. But it's the best tube driven overdrive pedal I've ever used. But you can still get it on Amazon, probably eBay as well. I'm not sure if anyone's making this anymore or not.
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