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Description
Elevate your live performances and studio sessions with the Radial Engineering Tonebone JX-2 Pro Switchbone—an ingenious ABY amp switcher that seamlessly bridges the gap between your guitar and two amplifiers. Designed for the discerning musician, this pedal ensures that your tone remains pure and untainted, eliminating noise, hum, and unwanted coloration. The Switchbone allows you to effortlessly toggle between amps A and B or combine them for a robust sound experience, all while maintaining the natural essence of your instrument.
The secret sauce? An exclusive Drag Control feature that maintains the authentic relationship between your guitar pickups and amplifiers, ensuring your sound remains intact even with long cable runs. Housed in a compact, pedalboard-friendly design, the Switchbone is a marvel of engineering that combines practicality with performance. Its Class-A circuitry is free from chips and op-amps, offering an unparalleled audio fidelity that is cherished by audiophiles and professional musicians alike.
The JX-2 Pro Switchbone also features a variable Power Boost circuit, enabling you to dial in gain and mid-boost settings for those soaring solos. With intuitive LED indicators, a separate tuner out, and options for ground lift and polarity reversal, this pedal is a comprehensive solution for any guitarist seeking versatility and excellence in their setup.
Key Features:
- Class-A ABY amp switcher
- Noiseless switching between amplifiers
- Unique Drag control for load correction
- Built-in Power Boost with mid control
- Transformer isolated outputs to eliminate ground loops
- Opto-coupler assisted switching for silent transitions
- Separate tuner output for on-the-fly tuning
- Compact, rugged construction for gig-ready reliability
Videos
Pete Thorn
2 AMPS, SWITCHING INTO ONE CAB! RADIAL VT TUBE AMP SWITCHER
Reviews
4.5 out of 5
Based on 1 Review and 5 Ratings
41029
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.
41029
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.
41029
3rd party wall wart has developed a buzz/hum.... grrr
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At 5:20 In this video interview from Premier Guitar, Robert Randolph talks about his ToneBone JX-2. “The ToneBone kinda helps you get the whole polarity thing going, then allows you to be able to create this midrange over here. You see you can get into that and then you can get gain on the midranges, which for pedal steels, it’s important to have the high mids and the mids-mids. It’s really what it’s all about. Derek Trucks figured it out so that’s why he’s sly, he gets the creamy sound when he’s got his amps tweaked out too.”
According to Premier Guitar's rig rundown, Osborne uses Radial JX-2 Switchbone.
The Switchbone is an essential part of my live rig with Gregg Allman and in many of my session dates.
In this vid, at 0.11 you can see his pedalboard. It is a pedalboard for both guitar as bass
He talks about this pedal to switch between mutliple heads and use the phase invert switch to get the phase in order
In an Instagram post by Jeff Gorman on November 1, 2024, the Radial Engineering Tonebone JX-2 Pro Switchbone is clearly visible among the effects used during the recording of Illiterate Light's album 'Arches.' The post was made by Jeff Gorman (@jeffsgorman) and includes the caption: "Released a new @illiteratelight album today called ‘Arches’ • will share more in the coming weeks. For now I’ll just let the music speak ✌🏼".
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