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"This pedal I used to use as my splitter. It's a great pedal. It does a lot of things. But I used to use it as a splitter when we had onl... more
00:49, at 2010 Tour in Russia. Full routing ============ * Boss Chromatic Tuner, * T-Rex Luxury Drive booster then the... more
"I run both of the heads into a Radial Tonebone Switchbone and that allows me to plug both heads into one cabinet." more
> The Radial Switchbone is a fantastic addition to my rig. It allows me to run my two favorite amps at the same time without compromising... more
almost perfect
This ABY box does its job perfectly. The Radial 'drag' control really lets you tune the buffer circuit (used to not halve your volume between amps) to sound just like your guitar straight in. The switches are sturdy and roadworthy. The boost/mid-boost function sounds awesome in any of the settings. In mute mode the boost button is hand for putting your tone-sucking Boss TU-2 (or 3 or whatever) on the tuner out and still having silent tuning. The only problem with this bad boy is the odd-voltage/current power supply! The Radial wall wart is not sturdy. I have destroyed 3 of them. No one else makes a power supply that will sub in. You cannot hook the Tonebone pedals to your multi-pedal power supply either, they need too much current. If I toured with the Radial again I would make sure to travel with at least 2 radial wall warts.
From Gear Setup:
I found a 3rd party wall wart on the web that's low noise, has the right barrel end, amperage/voltage and si way cheaper. Bought a few of them as backup because even ignoring this pedal's intended function it has that drag control as well as a nice high voltage boost that can do mid only or gain with fully adjustable gain boost trim and 2 settigns for the mid-hump that also effect the gain mode so its like 2 mid-boosts, a gain boost thatc an eb transparent or have 2 different mid voicings. The thing is a swiss army peamp and the fidelity is killer. It can cop a lot of different popular Fet boost sounds including ones form delay units like the EP3 or the Korg SDD3000. So anyway, yeah, there's a company making the right power supply and it works and its not noisey. Still wish I could run it off a big DC power brick like most pedals.
3rd party wall wart has developed a buzz/hum.... grrr