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The Butah pedal has controls for Drive, Level and Tone. Footprint of a Boss or Ibanez and has a bright blue LED and True Bypass.
The Buttah effect is a low gain OD that sounds like an old tube amp being pushed to a slight amount of grit. It really lets the natural tone of your guitar come through and can also push your tube amp into OD when pushed.
Butah is dead quiet with hardly any noise.
Posted by theguitaraddict on 24th Mar 2011
The conventional discourse for a mild overdrive would be the slew of Ibanez Tubescreamers out there- take your pick. This option would give you lots of creamy drive voicing which everyone desires because it had been the industry's proven standard. But the Butah here offers a different take on the term 'mild'. If you wish for another take on the aforementioned Tubescreamer then you'd best look elsewhere because the Butah drive sits on top of your favourite clean tones & not driving it through & through. So in addition to hearing your jangle, you hear the Butah at work- simultaneous pleasure. The Butah is an alternative to those of us who wish for some spike in the conventional Tubescreamer cream, it's also saturated enough to function convincingly as a stand-alone unit. I'm largely an intense distortion fan but the Butah does it for me on days when I need to sound menacing while running on tamed drive.
My only gripe here would be the Butah's rather exclusive appeal to single coil applications. It still sounds influential when coupled with humbucking guitars but it's not as outstanding. Nevertheless, after hearing it in action, you'd understand & accept this application. A joy to play, this one.
