I remember seeing these pop up one after another in Guitar Player Magazine and in the guiitar shops. Some of these versions were distributed through a handfull of companies including Ibanez.
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In response, Chandler created their own unauthorized Tube Driver knock-off with Butler’s name removed from them. Around the same time, Butler ceased the distribution relationship with Chandler. After he left Dean Markley, the company created their own knock-off of the Tube Driver called The Overlord. Here's when things get funky: Butler left Dean Markley in 1987 and started his own company, Tube Works, to build and market the pedal under the Real Tube name.The next year Brent decided he needed to put his name on his pedals so they were properly labeled “Tube Driver®, Concept and Design: B.K.For the first time the Driver took on the familiar tan and black colors and form, though it was labeled with the Chandler name. The pedals were still hand built by him at home. By 1985 Butler was using Chandler Industries to distribute the Tube Driver. In the mid-1980s BK went to work for Dean Markley Industries.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. In 1979, Brent started his own brand under which to make the device.
Somewhere along the way one got into the hands of a guitarist. When the results turned out to sound great, he called it the Tube Driver, and made a few of them for friends.
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 Shame, though.BK Butler Tube Driver Stepping up to a Classic I have a very strong feeling that nothing is going to change about the fuzz/dist stomps in the future. Adding still more sarcasm: This in a company who haven't implemented more of the expression pedals functions, because they don't want to use a way that may look as if it is coming directly from the 80s.
this might, however take a couple of years to dial in (as long as it took for the KPA family to come up with half a decent vibe tone). Let me be a bit sarcastic here: with the right combination of the KPA's fuzz or distortion boxes, a proper pre stomp and post stomp eq and a well chosen shaper stomp you can simulate almost any pedal there is on the market. Gilmour has 3 of these with him live and as a coinaisseur of tone he might do this because the pedal gives him something amps alone don't give him. Would like to see that in the Kemper, even though I understand that the Kemper may not be meant as an all-in-one box in the same way as Helix and other products.Ĭongrats. Helix seems to have this and even a Klon-model, which is one of the more popular types of pedal these days. Saw Gilmour in Royal Albert Hall last week, and now I'm wanting it even more.
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