Years ago a borrowed a BK Butler tube driver for a week while I was at the National Guitar Summer Workshop (4 knob version, no bias adjust knob). I used it into a little 30 watt solid state amp with a single 12' speaker and it sounded like god almighty. I gave it back when I was done (I tried to buy it but my friend was planning to be buried with it) so I went back to my own rig and didn't look back.

Now I find myself missing that sound and thinking about picking one up off of Fleabay, but I see that there are several iterations of the pedal (original version, current new version, with bias adjust, etc). So my question is, does anyone up here like / use this pedal, and if so do you have an opinion of which to get?

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I also see that folks are messing with changing out the tube, so any recommendations there would also be good. I can't believe how expensive these things have gotten!

Lot of $$ for a fairly simple pedal, but it does have that sound so what are you going to do. This will be a long post. I used them for years and years.

I posted somewhere what I think each one does but I'll try to recap in a minute. Here's some things I seem to have found out about them at this site. 1) You said you tried it on a solid state amp.

My main amp is a Fender 100 watt solid state amp. For my amp it's awesome. I love the pedal with my SS amp. Yet, from what I read from others on this site, it seems that those who use tube amps don't seem to like them too much. It's seems to be to fizzy and fuzzy for them. 2) People say it's more like a distortion/fuzz because the voltage is starved or something like that.

I never noticed that until a couple of weeks ago and I think I have to agree with that - I think. I just A/B'd my Real Tube pedal with a new Crunchbox I just got and I when I compared the two I could hear what people where saying. The Crunchbox was more distortion into overdrive while my Real Tube was more distortion into fuzz. Now, I know a lot of people like to crap on SS amps but I like my Fender. I like the clean sound on it.

I can only get overdrive with mine though. If I want distortion I need something and the Real Tube pedals add the sustain and grind for many years. Today, there are a lot of boutique pedals that I'm looking at (but can't seem to afford) but back then I had to get something from the main companies like Boss, MXR, ProCo, Ibanez, and B.K.

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Which was boutique compared to the other big companies. Now, I'll try to give an overview as best as I can. If I'm wrong or someone has something to add I'm sure they will correct me. A) If you want an overdrive into distortion pedal then look for an old Chandler Tube driver (4 knob). My favorite when I tried it in the store back in the 1980s and the reason I wanted a Tube Driver in the first place but I couldn't afford one. I wish I had this one but still don't.

It is suppose to be the most overdrive sounding and even if you roll off the gain all the way you can get a warm boost. B) If you want a little harder overdrive into distortion then get the 1990's reissue B.K Tube Driver Model number 911 (4 knob). If you turn down the gain all the way no sound comes through unlike the Chandler.

There is no warm boost. Plus, I guess the tube used has a harder grinder sound compared to the Chandler.

I have this pedal and it's more overdrive/distortion compared to the next two I'm going to mention. Although this one has nice 'open' sound to it where the next two doesn't. The sound seems to breath more if that makes sense. C) If you want distortion into a fuzz area then get the 901 Real Tube pedal (5 knob). Tube amp players find this one too fuzzy from what I gather but for my amp I love this one.

I used this one from 1990 until 1995. I loved it so much for my personal amp that I retired it to protect the tube at the time. Get a USA made if you can.

I also have a foreign version and it's real noisy and real bad. D) There is a high gain 3 knob model number 910 but it's real fuzzy and high gain. If people hate the 901 Real Tube with their tube amp I would think they would want to toss this one out the window. Again for my SS amp it's cool but even too fuzzy/buzzy for my taste. So, there's really three versions of the 'Tube Driver' out there, one version of the 'Real Tube,' and one version of something called a 'Blue Tube' overdrive pedal I forgot to mention. This pedal is blue and they tried to make it a soft overdrive pedal made for tube amps. A lot of tube amp players seem to have good things to say about his model from what I read on the net.

A lot of people also like to tame the pedal by putting in a different tube like you said. They don't like the fuzz/high end of the distortion and they try to make it like a tube overdrive with their tube amps. The main tube they put in is a 12au7 tube and a lot of people love the pedal when they do. I don't know much about tubes so I can't tell you which one too choose.

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One last thing. I never tried the new model Tube Driver that is being made right now. I have a few and this new one is way too expensive. The bias knob is suppose to let you go from soft 12au7 tube sound to hard 12ax7 tube sound without finding and replacing tubes. It sounds like a great idea but again I can't afford the $300 price.

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