Butler Audio Tube Driver

[adrianlee]

Anyone have any experience with this pedal? As a huge Gilmour fan, this is another pedal I've been lusting after.

Anyone have any audio clips of a low gain, mid gain and high gain playing?

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

FWIW, i have a rack unit tube driver not the pedal version.

its sounds phat and crunchy on drums. you can dial in a nice warmth or overdrive it pretty hard, i dunno if i would call it super hi gain tho but i also put a subtler tube in there. i never used it for guitar tho.

[adrianlee]

Oh, I'm by no means looking for hi gain out of it. Haha, sorry if I eluded to that.

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

na youre good! ha i'm like 3/4 asleep right now

[Gilmourish]

I've always wanted one (especially as a huge gilmour fan myself... look at the username >.>) but have never got one due to the price really...

Nick/Nightraven has one... I'm sure he'll see the title and post his opinion :D

[nightraven]

i have a vintage BK Butler Tube Driver (marketed by Chandler), the model that Gilmour and Eric Johnson all have on their boards.
it's a lovely sounding pedal, very smooth and chimey and fat on chords, works better for the Gilmour sound than for the EJ thing i have to say, lots more of EJ's sound comes from the amp.
i haven't compared it with the one that BK currently makes but i'm sure it's not that different. thing with the TD pedals is that they react totally differently not only to different types of tubes but also to different BRANDS of tubes.
speaking of which, i need to get a new tube for mine since mine still has the original one inside and it's starting to die (which sounds pretty cool, fuzz-like effects on high distortion settings).

[adrianlee]

Could you provide any clips?

Maybe out of a chimey fender-y clean? pleeeassssseeeeeee.

[adrianlee]

May have decided that the colorsound overdriver is more up my alley. 'Thing rips so hard.

[devnulljp]

May have decided that the colorsound overdriver is more up my alley. 'Thing rips so hard.

I have both. Totally different animals, both cool though.
My Tube Driver is a 90s one, marketed by Tube Works, and I use it basically as a dirty channel on my single channel amps. Def doesn't do high gain, it's very amp-like.
The Overdriver (OK, mine's a Power Boost, which is identical except for the pot value) is a real boost, with an almost fuzzy distortion at the high end. Still not highgain metal. I hear David Gilmour just bought another one and is rebuilding his old board...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3EaBth7L8g[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZUpygDKbHM[/youtube]

[adrianlee]

Where'd you read that? VERY interested in that article.

[adrianlee]

Purchased a tube driver from devnulljp.

[adrianlee]

Just got this bad boy in today. So far, it sounds damn incredible.

Next purchases are algal bloom, new delay and a moog murf!

[HereticPride]

always wanted one of these. apparently Jeff Buckley was a fan of it too.

[Blurillaz]

Curt Kirkwood used one.

[edkoppel]

I have one of these:


It's what later became the Tube Driver. This thing is so rich in harmonics and that nice soft, organic Crunch that I use it on most recordings.
It can handle other fuzzes going into it and adds to their character too.

I haven't tried a regular tube driver, but if they are anything like this, then they are amazing.