With it’s strange chassis color, highly colorful knobs, and LED bulbs signaling what’s happening it looks like something Mr. The Tube Drive looks like something off of the original Star Trek television series from the 1960s. This can lead to a whole other realm of experimentation for your guitar playing! The really cool part of the pedal’s design is that you can switch tubes inside the unit to give the pedal different styles of distortion. By starving the tube of voltage and controlling what low voltage it operates at, you can force the tube to distort at much lower volume levels than what is traditionally possible in guitar amplifiers. Inside the pedal, the tube is set to work at only 12 volts (much less working voltage than what tubes are hit with inside a guitar tube amplifier) in what is referred to as “Starved Plate” voltage. The IC chip overdrives your guitar’s signal and then sends it to the tube to “color the sound” identically to tube overdrive. If you know the sound of turning your tube amplifier up and getting the tubes to sag and create distortion, then you’ll understand the general concept of this pedal. Basically, when you run your electric guitar through a Tube Driver to your amplifier of choice, it is essentially acting as if you are running through a small overdriven tube amplifier and sending its overdriven tube signal to your guitar amplifier.
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