You can hear it in songs like Coming Back to Life, Marooned, A Great Day for Freedom, and the live versions of Shine on You Crazy Diamond from Pulse, Remember that Night, and Live in Gdansk. For that Pulse or On an Island era light drive and heavy overdrive tone through a Hiwatt or Fender amp, this is your pedal. Those were the magical combinations heard in Gilmour's work from 1990 and onward.
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On this one (Rattle That Lock), it’s actually pretty much untreated." - David Gilmour from Guitarist Magazine 2015įor the Gilmour sound, I think the Tube Driver sounds best with Gilmourish amps like the Hiwatt Custom 50 (DR504), Custom 100 (DR103), Fender Bassman, or Fender Bandmaster. "The overdrive I tend to use is a (BK Butler) Tube Driver these days, often with a compressor feeding into it. He does not use any with the bias control fitted." - Phil Taylor, Guitar tech for David Gilmour - June 2018 issue of Tonequest We have tried all the variants - Chandler ones with in line PSU, 3 Knob version, rack mount, etc but the only one he likes are the original mains powered 4 knob with "designed by BK Butler" on the top.
"David started using a Tube Driver during recording for the Division Bell album in 1993 and has used them ever since.
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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. He used Tube Drivers extensively for his 2006 album On an Island and the subsequent tour, heard on the Remember That Night and Live in Gdansk concert releases, as well as his 2015 Rattle that Lock album and tour, and his 2017 album, Live at Pompeii. Those same sessions also resulted in the Division Bell companion album, Pink Floyd's The Endless River, which was not completed until 2015. He first used them in the recording sessions for Pink Floy's The Division Bell album. Just be careful with the Master Volume control, because these things have the ability to REALLY hit the front end of your amp hard! In fact, they can drive a speaker as about a 1-watt tube practice amp with GREAT TONE.David Gilmour has been an avid Tube Driver user since around 1993. This one has it's original (and wonderful) General Electric 12AX7's and they still test as better than new in my Hickock TV7 tester.
There has never been a finer, more powerful actual tube overdrive pedal made. Oh, and there's the VERY powerful bass, middle, and treble controls as well as a very fender-like "bright" switch. for a total of FOUR tube gain stages in the Tube Driver it's only one! Plus, these operate at twice the voltage of the original Tube Drivers. These are often refereed to as the predecessor to the "Tube Driver", but they are really VERY different pedals. This model is also the rarest, as it was only produces for a few months in 1981 before loosing the "Boogee" moniker. This one is from 1981, I personally feel this is the BEST model because it's still labeled "Boogee", and it's in the VERY Mesa-Boogie looking black-n-White color scheme. These things are legendary! There is lotsa chatter about these among serious players, but most folks have never even SEEN one in real life.īK Butler made only a few of these by hand from 1980-1981, then Randall Smith (Mesa-Boogie) asked him to use another name and in 1982-84 he made a few more labeled "Audio Matrix". I recently sold my stupidly rare Mini Boogee Pedal, but I made a little demo video before shipping her out.
Hi gang! So this will be, for the most part a video blog. The Rare And Wonderful BK Butler Mini Boogee / Matrix Tube Overdrive Pedal BK Butler Mini Boogee Matrix Tube Pedal
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