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Please check the fields highlighted in red. Yes, that's correct Do not update. Tube Driver. I noticed that I actually prefer Eric Johnson's settings for his Violin type tone.

Just a suggestion for anyone interested. Something I'm yet to try, once I get my own tube Buffer. Have you yourself tried this? In my experience the TD is extremely sensitive to what pedals you place before and after it and even further out in the chain. Also, the TD is a demanding beast that really needs pickups and an amp that can handle it.

The Double Trouble and Tube Screamers in general has a lot of mid range, which on some amps may sound a bit muddy and lack that crisp top. The Tube Driver is very transparent and clear. I might be wrong but from experience the Tube Driver tend to get harsh and just too bright in those combos. Hi Bjorn, I got your message about suggesting using a Boss BD-2 over a the tube driver on a laney cub Would you suggest The BD-2 to be modded?

If so, which mod, keeley? The modded versions are warmer, smoother and has an overall more sophisticated tone. The Keeley is a good choice. First of all, Thank you for this websitethanks for update it whenever you can and give us this valuable information to improve every day and getting a little closer to the legendary Sir David Gilmour tone.

Seriously, congratulations. I have a Fuzz Pedal not very good brand. So want to change it. One of our favorites, and is preferred by listeners Echoes, Pompeii version.

When I do the introduction Violin , excessive noise sounds, guitar sounds good, accompanied by a nasty noise. While all the other pedals activated together make no noise, the Fuzz makes a shocking noise when activated individually. I want to know what you recommend? If the EH Big Muff or other fuzz of another brand, that is not too expensive. Analog is the Sun Face is amazing. But the price is out of my hands. And congratulations on your new daughter Bjorn!

Just wanted to ask a quick question. Hi Bjorn, hope that the new year is going well for you. Depends on a lot of things like your pickups, EQ settings on the amp, how the other controls on the TD are set, what other pedals you combine it with and what pedals that are placed before and after it in the chain in regards to buffers etc… I always keep the volume at 2.

This produce a volume boost but also smooths out any harsh overtones. The more you increase the gain, the more you need to roll off the treble as well. Hope this helped : — Bjorn]. Just got a Laney Cub Stack, very much enjoying it. Great review man!! I think that older sounds little warmer but it makes a huge different what amp is used. It must be really crazy for guys who try to get sound of certain artist and get the same gear, but play in the bedroom level and it comes sounding bad.

What you doing is beyond words. I consider myself lucky to even stumble across your website!! Thank you from bottom of my heart, Bjorn!!! TubeDriver sounding great through them even at low levels is ultimate proof!!! You have to listen YouTube videos of Andy Timmons with his LoneStar and Stiletto rig, they are ultimate tone factory and anyone looking for great Clean and nicely Overdriven sounds must see them.

Anyway just wanted to share my experience. Hi Bjorn, thanks so much for this amazing resource! Advice would be much appreciated, cheers!

Hi Bjorn. I just wonder if its best for me to buy a The Chandler Tube Driver even if i just play at home, but im thinking to play outside soon. The TD is a quite demanding pedal. But why? My equipment should be able for that…. Your rig seems fine but the Muff might not suit your rig… — Bjorn].

On the previous Gilmourish website you wrote that it is quite suitable for most Gilmour tones. Plug the guitar straight into the amp without any pedals and tweak the setting until you get the tone you want.

Try not to touch the amp settings. Add the rest of the pedals and see how they effect the Muff. Several Boss pedals will make the Muff slightly brighter even if the Boss pedals are off. Perhaps not the pedal for you if you had another tone in mind. Also, the Muff will change dramatically when you combine it with other pedals so always check the tone without any pedals in the chain. Let me know if you need more help.

I almost came to the decision that have to remove the MUFF. If I do more, I get an immediately noise feedback from the cabinet. How is that possible? With an EQ? I just picked up a Tube Driver from BK himself. I still have the stock tube in mine too.

Do you notice a different in your modulation pedals when running them after the TD? I notice the effects seem stronger after the TD, than with my muffs, and other overdrives. All pedals will behave differently with different pedals. The Tube Driver has an aggressive character with a typically scooped mids tone, which will make the modulations sounds brighter and more focused. Muffs with a warmer tone and more mids, will make the modulations sound smoother and not as dominating.

Ttry different setups and combinations and see how that affects the tone. As ever… Fantastic site. Its amazing how many references to gilmourish I come across when bouncing round the net reading stuff. So recently I began my search for the Gilmour tone and I have got myself a BK TD with bias, I already had a boss cs-2, phase script 90, EHX Deluxe Mistress, ge-7, vox wah and digitec delay its never let me down so will decide later if I need to replace that one.

So when researching the TD, reading lots and listening to stacks of YouTube clips rightly or wrongly I decided that this was for me. However reading this article I am not sure I have made the best choice based on my setup. I mainly play at home and in a practise studio with some pals using my Marshall solid state mdfx This will traded in very soon but I am not sure what amp to go for. I defo want a tube amp and have reasonable budget.

Would you recommend the Fender super champ? Also I am interested in the lunar module and royal beaver simply because of its versatility. Can you please offer any advice? Any help would be great. Thanks a lot for your kind words! Check out the Peavey Classic 30 as well and the Laney Cub amps — great value tube amps. One question though; which model of the callaham bridges do you reccomend?

Thank you Bjorn. That helps me alot. It is good to know it is not beause of my pedals. I also found out that some tubes were broken in my amp.

That also expelains many things for me. I am getting your point. I f I would not frustrate you : , again one another thing…. When I apply the same settings at the your web site with same effect pedals I understand that the tube driver should boost slightly i mean there should be an increase in the volume as well. However, when I turn on the the tube driver, the voulme decreases remarkably amd the collor of the tone becomes muffy.

So I adjust treble and bass knobs as to make no difference in the collor of the tone when I turn it on after P1. So in order to get that slight increase in the volume, I have to adjust the volume of the tube driver more than it is mentioned.. Could there be a problem or is it normal? The Tube Driver can sound quite harsh and boomy on some amps and Boss pedals etc makes it sound bright and spiky. However, there might be instances where you might want to use both TDs.

I would stick to the rule of thumb and have all gain pedals arranged by tone. This way you will keep the chain tidy and always be sure you combine the right pedals in the right order.

The settings for the tube driver for comfortably numb is listed as below at your web site. And it is being used after P1. The drive settings are too high. When you use it together with P1, there becomes a hell of noise. Should it be used with less drive? Having that much gain on both makes, as you point out, too much noise.

Set the TD slightly above unity level but not too high. Add the amount of gain you need but keep in mind that the Tube Driver should act more as an EQ rather than a booster. I have a quick question. The Tube Driver is placed after the Muff with an equally mild setting with a slight crunch and the volume slightly above unity with the amp.

This way he adds tone to the Muff rather than to boost the volume. Hope this helped. How is the bypass signal of the Tube Driver? He did a diagnostic on mine, and it turned out that the Bass EQ knob WAS totally broken, and engaging the pedal was sucking all the bass away. He fixed it and sent it back, since then its been amazing! Simply gorgeous. I keep the tube drive level as far down as I can without hurting the bass tone so its mostly clean , and run it with a Boss CS2, TC corona chorus with the warm toneprint , and some reverb and delay from a TC Gmajor in the effects loop all of this running through a GCS switcher.

Tone heaven. I also just got an Eric Johnson strat which perfectly completes the picture. Thank you, best regards from Germany! The Albert Hall version of Shine On starts with a clean tone with compression and delay and for the solos and rhythms he adds the TD with a mild gain setting.

I think the problem with both these clips is that the volume is too low. You really need to crank your amp to get that smooth open tone from the TD. As I said the Blackstar is aggressive. So is the HK in the last clip. These will make the TD sound more fuzzy but again, if you crank the amp it will sound better. I also suspect that the DD7 in your rig messes up the signal. Once I realized that I got the tones I wanted.

Do a test where you compare the sound you get from your normal set and what you get when you plug the guitar into the TD and then into the amp. The amp settings is crucial as well. Use only the clean channel on your amp if it has two. I usually keep the treble at on mine for overdrive stuff and around for clean boost. Any higher the pedal will sound like a fuzz. I play in a small valve amp Blackstar HT Blackstar amps are aggressive. Even if they appear to have lots of headroom they have a dark saturated tone that will make overdrives and distortion sound heaver than on other amps like a Hiwatt and similar.

Pickups obviously plays a huge role and you should also be careful with placing the TD next to any Boss and other buffered pedals. These will alter its tone making it brighter and harsher.

Arthur here again, thanks for your info that was a very good help. No the chandler is jst one of my other option. Now do you see anything wrogn with that set up? Me again. Any thought between the chandler tube driver vs the hermida zendrive? Have your tried both? Im in the position to aquire a chandler tube drive from a friend with a 12ax7 tube in it.

I was wodnering if the chandler is able to aquire that tone. And would it be a good idea for me to get that pedal. Hey Bjorn The music sounds awesome. In regards to the tube switching…. There are several models of the 12AU7. Anywhere from silver pin to gold pin. Does this even matter? Hi Bjorn, you might have heard it many times but again, what a great site!

I am a PF fan and after a long break I start to build my gear. I did modify myself the CS3 with only few items like some metal film capacitors and resistors and few other things. With the actual set it is hard to find a nice balance between the muff and the OS2! Probably the boss are a bit noisy in general and also the OS has a to shy overdrive.

But also, I use in concerts the amps that are already set there so it can be usually bigger and tube based amps such as twin reverb etc… so it makes maybe sense to invest in tube overdrive? Then of course, BK. Glad you enjoy my site : The Tube Driver needs the right amp or it will sound harsh and thin. The OCD is perhaps more versatile though. It has a bit more gain and bass than the TS. However, the OCD also feature an additional tone switch that allows for more presence scooped mids and gain.

Very versatile. It has a warm creamy tone with lots of mid range and medium gain. The Tube Driver has a built in tube and has a much more transparent tone. I ran a 12AT7 in it which was OK, but it just never really blew my mind. I tweaked that poor thing to death but I never could find a sound that was right for me. A couple of days ago I was going through my tube box and I found an interesting tube at the bottom. It was a 12DW7 which is pretty fascinating. Well folks, personally I found my tone.

It growls and screams. It can chunk like a Rectifier really! Hi Bjorn and all , I just discovered this site recently, and it is an amazing resource, thank you! I actually got it used on evilBay should have just bought a new one direct from BK. The owner says that he actually checked with BK and gave him the serial to confirm is authenticity, it was produced back in , under the Chandler name, but still says BK Butler Audio on the front.

Again, not the typical setup that you are probably all used to using the TD with, but its clean channel is quite Fenderish and stays super clean to very high volumes. This occurs even when the Hi and Lo knobs are turned completely off. Even then I still lose some bass, and the sound is harsher and thinner.

I was expecting fat thicker bass response, and a slight attentuation of the treble frequencies. One clue could be that the top yellow cap on the top of the treble knob was knocked off at some point in this pedals history, I wonder if the eq was damaged at all.

As you point out neither the amp nor the guitar fit a typical Gilmour setup although you should be able to get some decent and powerful clean tones with the amp.

Humbuckers will sound different from a Strat no matter how you tweak the amp or pedals. But you know that already. Quite the opposite of what you describe. There might be something wrong with the pedal but you can easily do a test. Plug your guitar straight into the amp without any pedals and set the amp up for a desired tone. On a clean amp with humbuckers you should hear a slight increase in the volume and lots more bass with a mild crunch.

You might want to roll off the treble to around Boss and other buffered pedals makes the TD brighter and thinner in the lower ends. It seems to be the nature of the pedal. In these cases its better to perhaps give up the fight and consider something a bit more versatile like a Tube Screamer TS9 or or the excellent Boss BD Keeley version.

Both will provide easy to tweak Gilmour and Johnson tones. Hi Bjorn , Gtrat sound , thank You. Thank You very much. You might be experiencing to much saturation… Blending a Tube Driver and a Fuzz Face is tricky and you need to find the sweetspot for the pedals where they function together.

Thank you, specially for the great website. I have the same issue only when Tube Driver is active. I think Tube driver behaves better with less treble and bass upstream mostly using it with low mid frequency , and then you can bring up those two areas downstream. I own the Boss BD2, but I prefer the sound of the Boss Super Overdrive, mainly because I like a warm, barely saturated, thick and clean tone, if that makes sense. Check out this article for details and some tips. This thing is the cats socks, and it rawks!!

Best investment so far. Really very very happy with it! With my US Fender Blues Deville 4X10 variant , at one and a half, with the master all the way up on the PB, you literally can not be in the same room with it.

I have yet to get the Fender past 2. I will be venturing outdoors with it in the next 2 weeks, and will really drive the hell out of it. I can not recommend this pedal enough. I know that it seems steep, but it is more than well worth it. I took my 12AX7 out, and put the 12AU7 in. Very sweet sounding, but hardly no drive.

Have you tried this one?? Anyway, just wanted to share my last three nights with the Colorsound PB, and to say thanks for helping me to discover this pedal. Also to back up that this pedal is a must for larger tube amps. Anthony was awesome, and the shipping was fast. I am interested about your experience with the 12AT7, if you have had any yet.

If not, you should give it a whirl. I definitely will! I was very frustrated with the 12AX7 at first and used the AU7 for some time but after countless rearrangements on my board I refitted the pedal with a AX7 and are very pleased with it now.

Rarely use it for cleans so the roughness is just right for my tones and it goes very well with my new Reeves amp. Nicely compressed and very smooth. Rolling down the treble to around on the TD with the gain at around does it for me. Hi Bjorn, I agree that people run to 12AU7 to seek rescue from the drive blast of 12AX7 but with higher mu tubes than 12AU7 it just needs more tweaking and once it is achieved, it has more character. With 12AU7, I ran my upstream pedals compressor, etc. With this tube, I had to set my upstream pedals Boss CS2, etc.

I control the tone knob just to maintain some of that high frequency for transparency. I think the key to get a smooth overdrive tone from tube driver is to not reveal the high-mid frequencies in the drive unit or upstream of that too much, rather deal with getting a smooth drive tone out of tube driver, then deal with adjusting the frequencies downstream of the tube driver.

How the Tube Driver, and other pedals, ultimately sound, depends on the voicing of the amp and your pickups… mostly. The Tube Driver is an extremely versatile pedal and the tone controls are easy to tweak for what ever tones you need. Hey Bjorn, on the song you posted from your band great track by the way , are using the Tube Driver at the beginning at about of the video or do you use up until the near end when the sound is dirtier? Odd little twist of events here — I was very unhappy with the sludgy sound I was getting from my Tube Driver with my Strat.

On a whim, I broke out the Tube Driver and tried it again. Rolling back a tone knob on a guitar goes against every fiber of my being, but sure enough, rolling off the EXG all the way got rid of the sludge that was making the Tube Driver sound awful.

Rolling off the top can do wonders. Having a tube the Tube Driver is extremely sensitive to the slightest changes including settings on your guitar, amp and other pedals.

You need to see the whole picture when you use this pedal not just the four knobs that are on the acual pedal. I have the rack version of tube driver. Tube Works RT, i heard from an old Tube Works engineer that it is virtually same as the rack Chandler tube driver.

So my questions concerns all two rack versions. Before the beginning i am not happy with this unit. First it was so harsh and boomy and not very well compressed. Then i changed the tube to a mullard 12au7 and now i have less drive, little bit more compression. If i open the master volume it becomes so huge and not compressed. Also the treble and contour pots are really really tricky. Treble is too much and contour makes boomy. Do you have any recommendations guys?

I had similar issues as you with my BK pedal. It sounded harsh, boomy and very hard to use. I tried different tubes which worked pretty well but I changed it back to the stock 12AX7 because I needed more gain in after all. I nearly gave up on the pedal but it slowly started to grow on me and upen up really good as I forced my self to use it.

Keep in mind though that this is not the pedal for all kinds of music. It can sound wonderul on some setups but horrible on others. I got mine with this mod and it allows you to go from dark and splatty to bright and tight and everywhere in between. Bjorn, same as every other section on this site, you have outdone yourself! Bravo and excellent job! I had my eyes on a Chandler at Guitar Center for a few weeks now, and your site pushed me over the edge.

I had to buy it, mind you my amps are the Marshall Class 5 5 watt tube , the solid state Crate halfstack, and the combo. I had my reservations, but had to by the TD. Suffice to say, and believe it or not, the Marshall and the TD sound incrediable. Thanks for all of your hard work here, and recommendations!! The TD works on some smaller amps yes. It can be tricky to get the right sound if you set the amp for a clean tone but if you allow some crunch from the amp the TD works really well. Not a typical Gilmour setup perhaps but nevertheless.

At about in he talks about distortion and uses the Tube Driver to demonstrate. My question is what kind of amp is he using, the pedal sounds nice on that amp. Im starting to dig your band, you guys are really rock! I hope you make more albums in the future. Great little practice amp! Glad you enjoy our music! Check out this article for more info on replacements. Relating to my question above. I also have a rickenbacker that I bought from a friend ridiculously cheap, lovely guitar and great sound but very limited range of sounds, Both the strat and the rick sound great on the VOX, I do love that amp.

I got an HSS strat because I wanted to have some versatility in sounds. Teh best combo would be a loud and fairly clean tube amp with single coils. Same goes with the Powerboost as well.

Both pedals demands the right setup. It also works great with a Bjorn, I am a huge Pink Floyd fan, but also like other bands and want to build myself a versatile pedalboard. In general however I like smooth creamy sounds and am not into metal sounds at all.

For the most part I am happy with my effects, such as electric mistress, mxr dynacomp, EH memory man, big muff, I really like also the visual sound liquid chorus have you tried it? I love it , also am quite happy with my line6 verbzilla that I use to get harmonized shimmer tones think the Edge and with the line6 echo park that I use both for delay and for its fantastic synth-like swell sounds, that stuff just makes me melt.

However I have had trouble finding the right overdrive, I like light overdrive that nonetheless have a complex sound, and what I had tried just did not work for me.

Currently I have a boss sd-1 and I find it harsh, but I like the smoothness of a tube screamer. SO, what I just did was two things: I just ordered myself a BK tube driver That I think I will probably use as a boost and I ordered the kit to modify my sd-1 to tube screamer specifications The monte-alums mod SD , the thing is that I find symmetric clipping a lot smoother than the sd-1 stock asymmetric clipping oh why did boss have to put that diode there….

Anyway, do you think the combination of SD and the buttler tube driver and my big muff can get me good Gilmour tones and at the same time be versatile enough for more modern sounds like some of my other favorites: Radiohead, Pixies, Muse, Stone Roses, The Verve, Sonic Youth and so on ,? Love your site! The Tube Driver is a bit demanding and works better on big tube amps. Line up is Dyna Comp. Great site this is.

Keep it up please. Sounds like a great setup! Is this your chain? Try placing the Muff after the Dyna with the Monkey after it : Cheers! Not sure where to go to ask a general question…Anyways, I was wondering if youve had any experience with the computer program Guitar Rig by Native Instruments. Its supposed to sound very nice and I was wondering if youve had a chance to check it out. The Tube Driver is pure overdrive with a scooped mids tone, loud as hell with much more balls. I want to say sorry for asking so many questions.

I hope it is not an inconvenience but you are one of the best resources I have come across, in addition to you r site, and I want to learn as much as I possibly can. One thing I have been wondering for a while that I havent come across is how should the amp 3 band EQ section be set?

Because adding another EQ later in the chain will be further modifying the amp tone but after its passed through some overdrive circuitry. And why is the amp EQ not enough to compensate for the desired changes that will be achieved through something like a ge Do you know what I mean? Check it out. I always recommend that you base your sound on your amp and then add pedals on top of that. Set the amp up for the purest and most powerful cklean tone possible.

This should be the basis for your pedals. Additonal EQ should only be used for a specific reason — not as a general tone enhancer. Stuff like that. He kicks in something at about and comes up with one of the most heavenly tones Ive ever come across.

I only really know the basics of that hes using the white 54 strat and that he is using a whammy pedal for those octave bends but other than that I am kinda clueless. Care to take a shot at it? Pretty basic but the essence of the tone is the original pickups and the Tube Driver. Yeah that did help. I must say it is nice to be able to talk with someone that knows so much about his tendencies and preferences as well as just knowledgeable about effects in general.

Its so frustrating listening to what he does and just wanting to be able to play like it so badly! Im sure you know what I mean. However, do you think something like a analogman bd-2 is anywhere in that area, rotating speakers aside.. I can hear what it sounds like but I am just not experienced enough yet to know what basic things he is using. So is that solo basically just an overdriven tone? Given my basic set up what do you think is my best bet to get close to something like that.

Of course not nearly as beautifully refined as his. For instance, a fuzz face would probably be no where near that so what do you suggest. Most of the album is. Hard to describe the differences because you have some overlapping but overdrive is basically a crunchy tone, warm, creamy and mild, while a distortion or a fuzz is much more saturated, no clean tone that bleeds through and generally more sustain.

If you listen to stuff like Time or Echoes, you can hear an overdrive tone on thr rhytms and fuzz or distortion on the solos. A fuzz would be a bit overkill for stuff like Wearing. You also need an overdrive with more mids than a BD2. What I am basically looking for, that I was having a hard time articulating, is an overdrive similar to the outro solo on Wearing The Inside Out from The Division Bell.

I really love Davids sort of sweet overdriven tones similar to that. Please correct me if I am using the wrong terminology as my relationship with effects is just beginning. I see that you listed he is using a either a chandler or a bk TD, dont remember exactly, but I am wondering if a modified bd-2 will pull it off. Im using a MIM strat will callaham bridge and an ssl-5 in the bridge. Learn More.

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