Where are Effectrode pedals made?

All-Tube Analogue Signal Path JJ tubes are manufactured using the old Tesla tube fabrication machines which were physically moved from the Tesla Rožnov factory, Czech Republic by Jan Jorgo (JJ) to Cadca, Slovakia (some 50km east) in the early 1990s.

What is Tube Drive?

The Tube Drive features an all-tube Baxandall tone stack circuit. Very simply, this gives you more control than a traditional bass-mid-treble knob on an amp. You can either cut or boost with the circuit. This is a powerful feature.

What is Tube Drive pedal?

The Tube Drive was designed to be a no-compromise overdrive pedal. It partners well with simpler, old-style Fender®, Hiwatt® and Laney® amps, effectively hot-rodding them with a very classy second tube gain channel.

What does a tube driver do guitar?

BOOSTING A BIG MUFF WITH A TUBE DRIVER – A Tube Driver can be used as a light boost before or after a Big Muff in the signal chain. Muffs like to be driven hard and like a loud, clean tube amp to sound good, but sometimes that is not enough for lead playing or solos, especially with modern Muffs.

How do I make my solid state amp sound like a tube amp?

If you really want your solid state to sound like a tube amp, upgrade your power transformer, mod your preamp’s tone stack and build your own boutique overdrive pedal. If you fiddle with these circuits enough, you can pretty much get the sound of any tube amp and well beyond.

Do driver tubes need to be matched?

If there is only one bias screw for each two tubes, you need a matched pair of tubes. If each tube has it’s own bias screw, or if you have a PrimaLuna or Mystere amplifier with Adaptive Autobias, there is no need for matched tubes, though it certainly doesn’t hurt.

How much does a London tube driver earn?

For the last financial year (April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020), the basic salary for a full time driver was £56,496. For more news and features about London directly to your inbox sign up to our newsletter here. According to TfL, 3,271 drivers earned this wage, not including bonuses.

How do I become a TfL train driver?

You can apply directly to a train operating company to become a trainee driver. Employers usually expect you to have GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A* to C) in English and maths, or equivalent qualifications. Training can last between 12 and 24 months.

Do tube amps sound better than solid state?

Are Tube Amps Better Than Solid State? Tube overdrive is much smoother and more responsive than solid-state. It can be influenced by adding high-gain pedals to the signal chain between the guitar and amplifier, and this gives players much more control over the sound.

What are the effects of a tube drive guitar?

Low-end contour switch: Active low boost for a warmer, richer sound. Especially useful with single coil pickups to thicken the sound or when playing at low volumes to compensate for loudness. The Tube Drive is also the perfect tonic in today’s digital world where guitar tones can sound flat and one-dimensional.

Is the tube drive an active tone control?

Bax-Stack “active” tube tone control: The Tube Drive is the only overdrive with an active tube tone control. The Bax-Stack is a real treble boost (and cut) circuit with zero insertion loss, unlike passive tone stacks which can only remove frequency content (“tone-sucking”).

What does a tube drive overdrive pedal do?

The Tube Drive™ overdrive contains Three dual triode tubes operating at 300VDC. It is biased to produce symmetrical signal clipping across 6 cascaded gain stages. In practice this means the pedal responds emphatically to pick attack with a smooth and graceful breakup characteristic on low drive settings, producing an expressive warm blues tone.

How does tube swapping affect the tone of a pedal?

Tube swapping: The tone and gain characteristics of the Tube Drive can be drastically altered by interchanging tubes – in fact the pedal is designed for easy access to the tubes for this purpose.