Radial Tonebone Classic Review
Here are some good reviews of Radial Engineering’s Tonebone Classic Tube Distortion.
Terry – harmony-centreal.com
I bought this for heavier classic rock sounds like Allmans and Santana. I wanted that singing violin single note tone for certain songs. This box gave it to me. It makes the Fender and Music Man amps I like so much for their clean sounds really sound thick. I hate to say the ToneBone Classic is a “Marshall in a box,” it isn’t, but it sounds great at Marshall-type sounds. Fattens up the single coil guitars I usually use too.
Lots of great sounds in this box, nothing too clean, even with minimal drive it does color the sound considerably.
The tone and drive controls are VERY sensitive, even small adjustments make big changes.I like how it interacts with my Analogman modded TS9. I keep the TS9 pretty much as slight overdrive then use the Tonebone for distortion. If I want the Spinal Tap “extra push over the cliff” I use both together.
ohiowa – harmony-central.com
It simply sounds great. Everything from slightly broken up to full on saturation. I play a ‘64 Fender Jazzmaster into not so common high headroom tube amps with 6550’s (‘74 AIMS dual twelve, ‘68 Sunn 200s). I love this pedal, i can get completely throaty usable tones without having to open my amp up the whole way. Great chord sounds with the low gain setting and the gain knob at 2:00. This thing makes me love playing guitar. I’ve run a Rick 4003 bass through it and got some very cool sounding fuzz bass tones for recording.
Price Check
$189.95 – Amazon.com
$199.95 – zZounds.com
Radial Tonebone Classic
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