In modern wiring, the black wire, white wire and ground wire are all wrapped up in a single cable. It is basically 3 pedals in one booster, fuzz and equalizer. First i set the mxr for unity gain, and then tried switching on the tube driver. Line 6 drive if we could go back to the 60s and be a part of the fuzz revolution, this is what wed design. This fuzz pedal is a blueprinted version of the old sola sound colorsound vox tonebenders that had three germanium transistors and a tone knob. I would never include that pedal in gilmour rig, remove at once. As with all good tube drives, it has the lovely compression and sag that we associate with. I get preamp tubes in a preamp, but ive found it difficult to find a clear explanation of what the driver and input tubes are actually doing, and their relative importance to the sound of the amp. Several people reported that the tone stack reacted different on the new version vs. The power boost was first released in 1970 by sola sound colorsound, the house brand of the macaris music store on charing cross road in london, who also created and marketed the tone bender variants check out my deimos and phobos projects. Schematic colorsound overdriver back to index of schematics. Driverinput tubes i need somebody to either explain or steer me to an explanation of the 12ax712at7 tubes purpose in my jolida jd502p power amp.
I have a colorsound power boost but didnt want to gig with it, so i. The circuit is not exactly the same and the pots are different. With a subtle twist of the knob, you can really transform the pedal. Here we have the nondick denney version of the colorsound fuzz, with the adjustable secret wheel setting colorsounds term not ours. I like the idea of a knob for quick, nondistracting bass adjustments.
Please school me about the colorsound overdriver the. Schematic colorsound one knob fuzz back to index of schematics. 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 does sure cook an amp nicely, but it could be better. The tube driver has been davids main overdrive unit since 1993 to present. Colorsound 3knob tone bender with pnp germanium transistors positive ground. The pedal officially becomes macaris sola sound tone bender fuzz. The circuit is a bit more complex, but bascially the same design as the 911 tube driver only with a. I used a bk butler tube driver for years but as i went from that mid. Analog mike had a nos astro tone fuzz back in the 90s, here is a copy of the manual that he saved.
Madbean sprout based on the colorsound one knob fuzz duration. David gilmour of pink floyd was seen using two 1980s tube drivers in the studio and on tour in. At the time colorsound launched the first batch of their new booster units, the most commonly used boosters would be probably dallas arbiter rangemaster and electro harmonix lpb linear power booster. Inspired by famous guitar overdrive pedals, driver is capable of everything from light overdrive to fullon distortion. Butler started making the 4 knob tube drivers again as a production model under the tube works brand around 199394. This is a short fast video with dslr microphone for the colordriver colorsound overdriver the legend pedal of david gilmour,nirvana and many more knobs. Od pedals can be used to boost a solo or to push an. Alternatives to the tube driver sound the best alternative to the popular 4 knob tube driver is actually the 5 knob real tube pedal, model 901, made by tube works and designed by bk butler. Sola sound tonebender 3knob the softer side of the tonebenders the sola sound 3knob tonebender is another famous installment in the tonebender line of pedals. The most significant differences compared to the new ri edition are. Colorsound power boost 18v effects pedal element14. Old bk butlerchandler tube driver vs new 2007 bk butler tube driver do they sound any different.
Waves one knob an intelligent treble booster that adds brightness from the midhigh range on up, brighter is perfect for brightening up a track or make it cut through the mix. These are known as mkiii and mkiv versions, also known as thin case tonebenders. Hell sell you a box with one transistor, one knob, and a few diodes and claim that it. This time, the end result was a circuit that produced an overall softer fuzz, especially when compared to the. Hi andrea, i have the bk butler tube driver with bias mod as well, i use a nos yugo real tube tho 12ax7. David had previously used other boosters, such as the colorsound power boost. Analog mans first new pedal of 2010 is the astro tone fuzz. When i recently built an exact clone of the chandler 4knob tube driver actually 5 knobs since i added a bias controli seriously bbk replacing the entire tone control circuit with 1 a baxandall tone control circuit, 2 a variation of the tone woeks on the colorsound power boost, or 3 perhaps a 5 band eq. Do you know what the bias knob does as you take it from 1 to 10. His collection of tube drivers includes several 1980s originals, several 911 tube drivers, a gold tube works 911 tube driver, and the five knob real tube version from tube works.
It seems that each of the four knobs on the tube driver are a different and separate effect. Another reissue colorsound from the fine folks at macaris. It boosts bass in general even to my insides, which i dont want to be bassy as hell. For the bias control my favorite settings are maximum for gilmour tones and 10 notches below maximum for my original tones, which is roughly 2. The goal is to provide a simple interface and enough power to let the user draw schematics, boardchassis layouts. This is an analog di that can be powered by a nine volt battery, an ac adapter, or by phantom power. The bling colorsound one knob fuzz has been getting all of the fuzz play lately. Colorsound tonebenders 3knob general guitar gadgets.
The colorsound power boost and tube driver are very similar. Now, onto the circuit, there are 3 schematics for this pedal, the first 2 are 18v circuits, the last one is a 9v circuit that was designed for the american market, the name was also changed to the overdriver for the 9v version. Overdrive pedals make these rich sonic complexities and overtones available in other situations, like lowvolume practicing and bedroom recording. Featuring a simple twoknob configuration, no led and a ninevolt battery, the.
New lovepedal dover drive discussion in the stomp box started by cajunpicker316, feb. Rare audio matrix mini boogee 1980 pretubeworks tube driver, bk butler. Although tube driven and sonically closer to a early marshall jtm type of amp, the tube driver and power boost do have some similarities and david often use the tube driver similar to how he would use the power boost both for boosting and overdrive. This pedal is based on the 1960s sam ash fuzzz boxx and astrotone fuzz made in new york city in 196668 by the astro amp company. Butler tube driver 5 knob w bias control youtube eric johnson interview guitars amp effects on up close album part 3 of 3 duration.
One of the main differences between modern wiring and knob and tube is that the black and white wires are run separately and are spaced several inches apart in knob and tube wiring. If you investigate the colorsound and similar, you might have a look at the basic audio futureman and the black arts toneworks black forest overdrive. It wasnt long before it found its way into the rigs of such legends as david gilmour and jeff beck. The version i decided to make was the first early version. Built primararly to be a direct interface, which it does well, it goes well beyond the scope of any normal di box.
When it comes to amps, overdrive is the warm, natural distortion that comes from pushing the tubes to break up with the gain and volume controls. Designed by gary hurst it was the british response to the american made gibson maestro fuzz tone fz1. Dam colorsound one knob fuzz vs jennings on knobber duration. Sola soundcolorsound oneknob blue fuzz modded by guitar effects pedals. Circuit breaker panel upgrades, knob and tube wiring. Colorsound tonebenders 3knob here are the 3knob tone bender versions that can be built on the pcb for this project. Fwiw the firebird and the sg classic are the easiest to play, so that might contribute to them sounding better, too. Knob 1 thresholdsignals below the threshold are routed to path a. I dont really use it that much but its featured on one or two songs and occasional ambient parts. I have used other pedals where each knob only sounded good at one specific setting, and the whole pedal only sounded good if all the knobs were in the exact correct position. No ones arguing that you can put a big knob up against an avocet or any other high end monitoring system. David started using a tube driver during recording for the division bell album in 1993 and has used them ever since. Diy layout creator diylc in short is freeware drawing tool developed with help of a large online community of diy electronics enthusiasts. As promised here is the schematic of the early tube driver traced from the guts posted on this thread.
It clearly says so on this beautiful blue pedal, that is an original design of dick denney, based upon the original pedals dick handmade for colorsound in the nineties and put together according to the actual hand drawn circuit diagrams dating from the. In the days before dedicated drive pedals and hot pickups, treble boosters were a hit. Smitty pedals makes a killer colorsound od and boost, the smittydriver. With all the threads about marshall sounding pedals,the colorsound nails the plexi tone in front of a relatively clean amp. Electro harmonix hot tubes distortion 1970s version. Spider v series model list spider v line 6 community. Hes asking for a solution in the dunlop rotovibe wah wah buffer 1 compressor pig hoof big muff colorsound powebooster clone ehx soul food bk tube driver ehx electric mistress strymon rotary earnie ball jr vol. It features one tone knob, one level knob, and one distortion knob. There is a tad bit more drivegain on the older td when set to 10 than the newer td. Gilmour used a colorsound for a long time before the tube driver. Known the world over for creating the eric johnson violin tone and as one of two main pedals used by david gilmour. Where the earlier version of the one knob is firmly in fuzz face territory, this variation is warmer and syrupy almost ampy at times. Both of these models were very simple, minimalistic, one knob designs.
This time around its the legendary one knob fuzz box. Line 6 helix effect models list with all effect models in helix. Contains the names in line 6 helix and the real effect pedal they are modeled after. Damcolorsound one knob fuzz vs jennings on knobber.
Plasma colorsound overdriver clone pcb aion electronics. Colordriver based on colorsound overdriver guitar pedal. From light overdrive to fullon distortion, oneknob driver is not just for guitars. My idea, though, was to make the midrange knob on the deluxe behave like the midrange knob on other blackface fender circuits that have a midrange control. I believe it uses three bc109 transistors, its amazing. Butler tube driver famously used by david gilmour, eric johnson, billy gibbons and joe satriani to name a few. The grey one mkiii was made in 1973 and can be seen on some live pictures with jimmy page. Reading an touching an lcd 3 levels deep isnt something i like to do while im driving. If you want to match the model to the actual amp, set the model between 6. Its also great to push a clean amp into natural tube overdrive. The rat is one of the earliest distortion pedals, arriving on the market in.
On the new ri version it increased from 2,2k to 22k. These schematics and pcb layouts carry no guarantee or warranty. Sola sound ltd tonebender mki hornby skewes zonk machine dam fz673 the sola sound tone bender mki was one of the first fuzz pedals available in the uk. Chandler tube driver 4 knob and the newly updated tube driver itself with the bias mod. Gibson produces first ever fuzz pedal the maestro fz1 fuzztone. Using a combination of peak limiting and lowlevel compression with automatic makeup, oneknob louder effectively makes tracks louder, increasing rms by up to. It can produce a thin, light, snappy distortion up to a heavy and harsh sound. It incorporates many ideas that came from people using older versions of the application. Bananaboost is a replica of the legendary 18v power boost by colorsound. See more ideas about treble booster, guitar pedals and pedalboard. In other amps, tone controls gets invented on a peramp basis.
Tube driver bias with yugoslavia 12ax7 and tube driver chandler sylvania jan 12au7. Line 6 distortion completely saturated and over the top, line 6 distortion is massive and totally crazy. One pioneering user of this type of effect was jimi hendrix. 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.