Ive located a few on ebay but since non of them ship to europe, i thinki. For greater savings check out our used bk butler tube works tube driver effect pedal and get a great deal today. I got a bk butler tube driver several weeks ago and either it just doesnt work with my equipment or ive got a bum one, i was wondering if you guys could help me decide. I actually got it used on evilbay should have just bought a new one direct from bk. Check out these unsolicited customer videos on youtube.
The bk butler tube drive circuit is based on a opamp gainstage driven into two triodestages of 12ax7 tube, using low plate voltage about 16volts there are lot of similar products, such as chandler tube driver, dean markley overlord classic tube overdrive. June, 2006 to deliver the best possible sound quality and reliability in car audio is both. Previous designs generally employed vacuum tubes in impedanceisolated preamp or pre driver stages. Truth in car tube amp designs a schematic comparison a tube bracketed by semiconductors does not nearly comprise a true tube amp. On the new tube drivers, both david gilmour and eric johnson use ei yugoslavia ecc83s.
The original ibanez tube king overdrive was a very different beast than the reissued version in the red diamondshaped box, which seems to be a rather bland, metaloriented high gain distortion. The pcb is pretty accurate to the original, with a few small improvements. Compatible with all electric guitars and amplifiers. When chandler copied the bk butler design they totally messed up the tone stack section all schematics to compare the different versions are here on this thread. Pure awesome sound can overheat if over driven but hard to do. I currently have 4 butler amps in 2 cars each has butler tube line drivers converting to xlr cables. The layout included is for an offboard tube socket not mounted on the pcb. The real tube includes a mid range knob, allowing for a wider range of tones to be dialed in. 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. Bk butler is still making these pedals today and his calls his real tube overdrive the tube driver pedal. The tube driver is a somewhat famous pedal, id guess it to be the most wellknown tube based distortion pedal. Surprisingly, the tube driver has experienced a bit of a nomadic life. It is unkown which circuit was inside the 1980s tube driver, as butler stated shipped david four 911 td circuits in 2005, requested to replace the circuits in his old tube drivers.
He recommends the 5 knob model with the added bias control. Crystal oscillator circuits revised edition robert j. Chandler tube driver vs tube works 911 telecaster guitar. In fact, the original tube kings were just a slight variation on the bk butler tube driver, designed and built by butler himself, for ibanez, in denver. Butler tube driver circuits 1985 circuit on left, 1986 in middle, and 1987 on right. Again from the leading innovator of the modern tube overdrive, b. Please take a moment to look over this brochure, and be sure to send in the owners registration and your comments. Butlers tube driver circuit patent was granted in 1991 patent number. After many unacceptable and aborted complex circuits, a light came on. Heart of the tube driver is a real handselected 12ax7 tube by bk butler himself. Bk butler s tube driver blue technology places the triodes exactly where they should be. He is still handbuilding tube driver pedals, and says he still does the occasional td with the eq points set for bass, as well as with lower gain. Forgot to mention before, if you have a chandler wall mart tube driver you can easily convert it to a authentic tube driver by rebuilding the tone stack section.
Used bk butler tube works tube driver effect pedal. If you know of a tube pedal not listed here, please let me know. Ive looked to compile the best and most reliable for this post. Now butler says that the real tube overdrive pedals made by tube works from back in the day are unreliable. Im trying to setup a tube driver vst to come close to the chandler pedal. If youre wondering how these things sound heres a demo for you. The pcb was dark green on the trace side and had no identifying numbers or letters. Supposedly he gets inquiries to fix them all the time and wont. Butler tube driver famously used by david gilmour, eric johnson, billy gibbons and joe satriani to name a few.
It was 9v powered, like most pedals, making it more marketable to a larger crowd. The b k butler tube driver has been used by several of rock guitars greats david gilmour and eric johnson to name just two. 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. The first, original, one was the bk butler chandler tube driver. In the butler thermionic also called tube driver blue circuitry, high voltages are avoided and the transformer is replaced by currentmultiplying output devices, in this case, sanken multiemitter types. Goes from low gain drive to high gain overdrivedistortion. When the results turned out to sound great, he called it the tube driver, and made a few of them for friends. Bk butler tube driver 910 schematicpot value telecaster. Its a great time to upgrade your home music studio gear with the largest selection at. 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. Bk butler s original hand made tube driver guitar pedal used by. I found that but they only have schematics and a parts list. There are many schematics out there as well as a wealth of pcb projects.
Unfollow butler tube driver to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. I really want a rackmount butler or chandler or tube works tube driver. What other items do customers buy after viewing this item. A bk butler tube driver fabbed board would be great handmade ones suck, really hard to get them right. Real tube by tube works other than one being in super cool enclosure, and the other in a buttugly enclosure, the 4 knob 911 tube drivers and 5 knob real tube versions are basically the same patented b. 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 runs the 12ax7 stages at very low plate voltageabout 9 volts. Some used 4 knob tube drivers marked chandler are not the original design by bk butler. Bk butler s original hand made tube driver guitar pedal used by eric johnson, david gilmour, billy gibbons, joe satriani, kenny wayne shepherd, robbie krieger, and many other pros. Nov 2, 2016 bk butler chandler tube driver current draw. Ive just opened mine up and the circuit board quite clearly reads patented. Never tried an original bk butler tube driver but always wanted to give one a go. Butler real tube overdrive the tube driver is a boosteroverdrive pedal with an ic and vacuum tube driven preamp circuit inside, used by guitarists. After doing some research, i decided to order the parts for two builds. Butler designed tube driver circuit with some component differences. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times.
Mozesz usunac ta wiadomosc i otrzymac wiele dodatkowych mozliwosci. Chandler tube driver schematic help diy do it yourself. Matthys 05k krieger publishing company malabar, florida. In 1965, firth published his design handbook lo on the pierce circuit and the. The mosfet driver is based on the legendary bk butler tube driver. Bk butler tube works tube driver 12ax7 overdrive effect pedal. I wrote to butler s company and a technician there verified it as a genuine butler pedal, as opposed to the chandler fakes. Based on bajamans schematic i created a layout with wiring for the tube pins since i cant imagine a tube socket fitting neatly on a piece of vero board. Dc coupled through the output power devices to the speakers. 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. Bk butler tube driver perf and pcb effects layouts. Butler then had a firm in california manufacture a third version of the circuit board for him sometime in 1987.
Therefore, the tubes are positioned to naturally and actively respond to the dynamic speaker load. Secrets revealedwhats inside this bk butler tube driver real tube overdrive. My tube head repair guy tells me this kmd head has a higher plate voltage than any other. A pair of adjustablebias mosfet gain stages take the place of the 12ax7 vacuum tube, otherwise the circuit is true to the original schematic. Tube driver original by bk butler with bias control. It might not be identical to the tube driver but its in the same sort of area. Others can be used, but sankens have shown extremely good.
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