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Sporting five simple knobs, the Tube Works Real Tube overdrive, designed by B.K. Butler, is an intuitive, easy-to-use pedal. The Real Tube has knobs for output and drive, and controls for high, mid, and low boosts. This vintage pedal, designed and released in the '80s, has been used frequently by famous guitarists like J Mascis and others.
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"Real Tube" Tube Works Tube Driver?
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Sep 30, 2009
Ha... I saw that very one while I was researching the purchase of another just like it. I paid too much for mine (it hasn't arrived yet), but it's rare to find one that's already set up for 240V. Stupid Aussie electricity.
There's an interview with B.K. Butler (I'll track it down in a sec and post a link) in which he states that the Real Tube line was superior to the Tube Driver in some ways, and that Billy Gibbons' favourite has always been the Real Tube (as stated above).
I think that there was a late-'80s version of the Real Tube that preceded the Tube Works, but I doubt that there's much of a difference between them. Both are black/yellow five-knob pedals. Tube Works was Butler's company, anyway, so this pedal is his product. I've been after one of these for a while, as I have an old Tube Works MosValve half-stack amplifier (purchased in '92) with the Real Tube rack-mount pre-amp built in. I've always been partial to its sound, and for better or worse I've come to think of it as "my" sound over the years. Recently I've graduated to a Swart Spacetone for home use (even though it's louder than the MosValve owing to absence of Master volume... yeah, good move, mondo), and I wanted to be able to add that Real Tube sound in a small package. It's weird that it'd only cost another hundred dollars or so so get a rack-mount version of the same unit with two 12" speakers, reverb and effects send/receive thrown in, but that's how it is.
Here's that link: Tone From Heaven: B.K. Butler Interview
Tube Works gear hasn't really become fashionable yet (I'm sure its moment will come), but in my experience everyone goes nuts over the sound if they hear it without preconception.
From reading around here and H.C., many Real Tube pedal owners only really start liking it once they've swapped out the stock 12ax7 for a nice 12au7 or 12at7. Tubes with a higher "break-up" point will give the Drive knob its full range... some people feel that there's just too much gain with the 12ax7, robbing you of half your Drive knob.
Anyway, nice one, and I hope to join you in a couple of days!
Ha... I saw that very one while I was researching the purchase of another just like it. I paid too much for mine (it hasn't arrived yet), but it's rare to find one that's already set up for 240V. Stupid Aussie electricity.
There's an interview with B.K. Butler (I'll track it down in a sec and post a link) in which he states that the Real Tube line was superior to the Tube Driver in some ways, and that Billy Gibbons' favourite has always been the Real Tube (as stated above).
I think that there was a late-'80s version of the Real Tube that preceded the Tube Works, but I doubt that there's much of a difference between them. Both are black/yellow five-knob pedals. Tube Works was Butler's company, anyway, so this pedal is his product. I've been after one of these for a while, as I have an old Tube Works MosValve half-stack amplifier (purchased in '92) with the Real Tube rack-mount pre-amp built in. I've always been partial to its sound, and for better or worse I've come to think of it as "my" sound over the years. Recently I've graduated to a Swart Spacetone for home use (even though it's louder than the MosValve owing to absence of Master volume... yeah, good move, mondo), and I wanted to be able to add that Real Tube sound in a small package. It's weird that it'd only cost another hundred dollars or so so get a rack-mount version of the same unit with two 12" speakers, reverb and effects send/receive thrown in, but that's how it is.
Here's that link: Tone From Heaven: B.K. Butler Interview
Tube Works gear hasn't really become fashionable yet (I'm sure its moment will come), but in my experience everyone goes nuts over the sound if they hear it without preconception.
From reading around here and H.C., many Real Tube pedal owners only really start liking it once they've swapped out the stock 12ax7 for a nice 12au7 or 12at7. Tubes with a higher "break-up" point will give the Drive knob its full range... some people feel that there's just too much gain with the 12ax7, robbing you of half your Drive knob.
Anyway, nice one, and I hope to join you in a couple of days!
Ok, so this is the pedal that was actually made by B.K. Butler ( by that I mean he owned the company).
???
It's a Tubeworks pedal, "concept and design by B.K. Butler."
but anyway ... I was also surprised that he said it was superior in some ways to the Chandler version that's more renowned.
I have the one in the OP, 5 knob yellow and black. It is a fantastic pedal.
Does anyone know how to determine the date of manufacture with the serial number?
Thanks
I have the one in the OP, 5 knob yellow and black. It is a fantastic pedal.
Does anyone know how to determine the date of manufacture with the serial number?
Thanks
I used one for years. I found it harsh sounding in comparison to various boutique OD's - it's closer to a gritty distortion than a straight OD.
i've had one for about 20 years. I originally bought it to get a more natural sounding gain out of the JC120 I was playing at the time, and it did a very admirable for what I was playing. It will do a Gilmour tone quite well. I tossed it in a drawer once I traded my JC120 for a mesa boogie, but I broke it back out about five years ago and use it with the gain set to almost nothing for a nice mellow boost (which my boogie won't really do).
I am very intrigued by the idea of putting in a mellower tube to get a more subtle gain. What would be the recommended choice?
I used one for years. I found it harsh sounding in comparison to various boutique OD's - it's closer to a gritty distortion than a straight OD.
I am very intrigued by the idea of putting in a mellower tube to get a more subtle gain. What would be the recommended choice?
i remember it as having a rather weak output level unless the treble knob was set to "0", at which point the pedal gave a nice fat signal boost.
I used one for years. I found it harsh sounding in comparison to various boutique OD's - it's closer to a gritty distortion than a straight OD.
I have one and use with the tone knobs around 9 for TMB. This helps make the sound fatter.
in the very early 90's, went into local Westwood Music asking if they had the blue tube overdrive, owners son looks back and says I need the original pictured one. I used it w/ my first "rig"; a SS Fender sidekick reverb 30 in the FX Loop? Gave it a heavy warm girth to it. I also liked using 12at7 tubes in it as well, I could hear various changes when swapping tubes.
It wasn't very popular because the moment I said I had it someone would say the voltage used on the preamp tubes was very low! Might as well just be a solid state dirt pedal or eq pedal. Check out supposed Seymour Duncan's twin tube pedal(that gave my HIWATT a nice rounder warmth in the cleaner mode).
I know a scottish band called Teenage Fanclub used the rack versions for eq supposedly.
I don't miss mine to be sure, but I likes the tube driver model on my Line 6 distortion modeler and so do others when they first try the pedal!
Now I want to know why the Chandler is regarded so highly compared to this one.
Now I want to know why the Chandler is regarded so highly compared to this one.
I own the five knob yellow and black version and a BK Butler TD reissue. I put a socket in the 5 knob one and put a TL 082 chip in it to replace the 4558 that was in it. I think the pedal sounds better witha JFet chip. BK must agree because the RI had a TL082 in it.
I love the BK Tube Driver pedals for medium gain and find that bright dirt boxes stack well with them as long as you don't crank the treble on the TDs.
I have the Dean Markley Overlord which was also designed by Butler. I've been using it for the last 14 years and it's a pearl.
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