Butler Tube Driver?

[DankStar]

Re: Butler Tube Driver?

Didn't butler or another company (was it tube works?) make the same circuit and call it something else at one point? (hence cheaper since it doesn't have the "expensive" name)

Found this on the net, not sure how true:

"The Tube Driver was repackaged as the Tube Works Real Tube for a while and later picked up briefly by Genz-Benz."

 

[idsnowdog]

Re: Butler Tube Driver?

Dean Markley also had a tube overdrive called the overlord.

 

[DankStar]

Re: Butler Tube Driver?

Dean Markley also had a tube overdrive called the overlord.

I used to want that so bad!

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: Butler Tube Driver?

yes i remember using an overlord back in the early 90s, but i was also using a marshall stack at the time so extra crunch was kinda unnecessary.
The hammond player in our band was a total tube and tube amp nut. He had a few vintage plexis and old tweed fenders. His stage rig was a marshall major half stack for the bottom, his own 12 tube preamp all built with crossovers for each tonal range of his hammond, and as hand built leslie spinning horn in a cabinet that looked like a set from mad max. Anyway he was always trying out differernt tube drives before he built his own preamp and i played with them all too. The overlord from memory was cool tho.
Re: rivera amps...no im defintely not looking to change amps. I like the fenders im using and i like the marshall i have for recording, i juts want something to give my twin more of a tweed bassman like edge for some stuff. The clean sound on both my fenders are superb and i dont want to compromise on that. I might end up juts keeping using the fulldrive and wait until a used 240v v twin pops up on ebay.