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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
40997
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.
40997
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.
40997
3rd party wall wart has developed a buzz/hum.... grrr
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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 only two amps. It has such a warm boost that I have in there now just for the boost so that when we use that, which is something we kick on very often, it's not like a lot of other boost pedals that add a lot of top end to them. This keeps kind of a transparent sound," explains Dan Auerbach's guitar tech about the Tonebone Switchbone JX-2 Pro.
00:49, at 2010 Tour in Russia.
Full routing
- Boss Chromatic Tuner,
- T-Rex Luxury Drive booster
then the signal goes to the pedalboard, apparently to
Overdrives/distortions:
* Ibanez Tube Screamer TS808,
* Digitech Bad Monkey Tube Overdrive,
* T-Rex Møller.
Chorus/Phasers/Flangers:
* T-Rex Twister Chorus & Flange above
Reverbs/Delays:
* Boss FRV-1 '63 Fender Reverb by his side,
* Boss Digital Reverb RV-5 below,
* Electro Harmonix Holy Grail reverb by his side,
* Line6 DL-4 Delay Modeler outside the pedalboard.
Amp switcher: * Tonebone Radial JX-2 Switchbone AB amp switcher + booster.
As he seems to select which amp he goes to (there's the both option too; maybe he just uses it as a final boost for both amps), I imagine he doesn't use the effects loop of the amps, or maybe the reverb/delays part goes through the effects loop of only one of the amps?
After going crazy I found this great work by a japanese that saved me from searching the Holy Grail (don't think I'd had identified it) and the Delay:
This image comes from an article from Austin City Limits where they outline some of Jeff's gear. You can see a Radial Switchbone on top of his Vox AC30.
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 my tone. The mid boost is the coolest feature. I turn it on when I need a lead to sing and sustain without thinning out my sound. If only I had this pedal 20 years earlier!
"I run both of the heads into a Radial Tonebone Switchbone and that allows me to plug both heads into one cabinet."
"The Radial Switchbone sounds great! It is the best ABY box that I have used and the transformer isolation makes it easy to combine any two amps without noise." - Holdsworth about Radial Switchbone.
At 4:53, you can see the Tonebone Switchbone on Seth's pedalboard. He uses it to switch between amps.
The Radial Tonebone JX¢2 Pro Switchbone is an exceptional AB-Y switcher. It allows you to drive 2 guitar amplifiers at the same time without introducing noise, hum, or coloration and to switch between amplifiers without problems. It employs the class-A circuitry from the acclaimed Radial JD7 Injector for exceptional audio performance. The compact pedal has been optimized for maximum, yet simple, performance.
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