- DISTORTION
Trimode
The Trimode™ tube distortion takes you from slight overdrive to full-on distortion. Think Mesa-Boogie in a pedal and switch instantly from rhythm to lead.
Classic-V9The Tonebone Classic-V9™ is an ultra-responsive distortion pedal that lets you precisely adjust and focus the intensity of the distortion to suit your playing style and develop your own musical voice.
PlexitubeThe Plexitube™ delivers five generations of Marshall in a box. Triple gain stage delivers fat, harmonically rich tones that let you switch from rhythm to lead.
- Overdrive
Texas-Pro
The Texas-Pro™ is a compact but extremely powerful dual-function pedal, providing a versatile overdrive circuit as well as a high output signal booster.
RegencyThe Regency™ is a new type of pedal designed specifically to pre-emphasize the gain stage of today's high gain amps.
North-StarThe North-Star™ is both an overdrive and a high-output power booster combined in one versatile and compact pedal.
- Buffers & Boosters
ELEVATOR
The Elevator™ is a unique class-A multi-level power booster and buffer that provides the guitarist with a degree of customization to better match their playing style.
DragsterThe Dragster™ is a super-compact load correction device that lets you adjust the load on your electric guitar pickup to make your instrument sound natural in the PA or when recording.
Stagebug SB-15The Radial Stage Bug SB-15™ High Performance Signal Buffer lets you drive guitar pedals without added noise and also powers 15V Tonebone pedals.
SHOTGUNThe Shotgun™ is a compact guitar-level signal buffer designed to drive up to four amplifiers simultaneously and fit nicely on any pedalboard.
SGIThe Radial SGI™ is a high performance line driver that takes an unbalanced guitar signal and allows you to drive it as far as 100 meters (300ft) without noise.
- EFFECTS
Twinline
The Radial Twinline™ is a unique device that enables a guitarist to share effects pedals between two amps when using the amplifiers' built-in (rear-panel) effects loops.
VocolocoThe Voco-Loco™ is a foot-controlled effects loop that enables the lead vocalist, sax or trumpet player to incorporate guitar effects pedals into the signal path, just like an electric guitarist adds effects for soloing.
MIX-BLENDERThe Mix-Blender™ is a multi-function pedal that lets you mix two instruments or effects together and then send the combined signal through a mixer-style effects loop for processing.
- SWITCHERS
Cabbone
The Cabbone™ lets you switch between two speaker cabinets using a single amplifier head. You will not believe how changing the cabinet can affect your tone!
LoopboneThe Loopbone™ is a high-performance effects-loop switcher that enables the guitarist to insert, remove and combine pedals via two independent signal chains
HeadboneThe Headbone™ is a specially designed switching device that lets you toggle between two different guitar amplifier heads using a single speaker cabinet.
Switchbone V2The Switchbone V2™ may well be the ultimate ABY/C guitar amp switcher. This device lets you switch and combine up to three guitar amplifiers without introducing distortion, switching noise or hum into the signal path.
Twin-CityThe Twin-City™ is a class-A ABY switcher with Drag Control that delivers your guitar tone without introducing harsh sounding artifacts. Ground isolated to eliminate hum and buzz from gournd loops.
HeadlightThe Headlight™ is a unity gain guitar amp selector designed to easily integrate on a pedalboard and allow the artist to seamlessly switch between as many as four amps using a single footswitch.
BigShot ABYThe Radial BigShot ABY™ is a compact ABY switcher that enables you to either switch between two amplifiers or combine the signal when you want both amps to play at the same time.
BigShot EFXThe BigShot EFX™ is a true-bypass effects loop switcher that lets you set up two separate effects loops and insert them into your pedal chain at will.
BigShot IOThe Radial BigShot i/o™ is an easy to use instrument selector that lets you quickly transition between any two instruments and send out the output signal to your amp.
BUMPERThe Bumper™ is a unity gain instrument selector that lets you connect up to four instruments and progressively advance through each input using a sequential footswitch.
JX-42The JX-42™ The JX-42 is a compact guitar selector that lets you instantly switch between four guitars and two amps on stage.
BigShot SW2The BigShot SW2™ is a two channel universal remote control that can be used to replace the two amplifier foot switches and combine their main functions with a single pedal.
JX62The Radial JX62™ is a guitar and amp switcher designed for both wired and wireless guitars in a live concert touring environment.
JD7The Radial JD7 Injector™ is a guitar signal splitter that is able to drive as many as seven amplifiers at the same time and do so without the noise that often plagues most systems.
JX44The Radial JX44 Air Control™ is a guitar signal manager designed for the most demanding professional concert stages where wireless guitar systems, acoustics, effects and multiple amplifiers are used simultaneously.
- PREAMPS
PZ-PreThe PZ-Pre™ is a power-packed preamp that lets you switch between two acoustic instruments and feed the PA with a built-in Radial direct box. Piezo optimized for orchestral instruments.
PZ-Deluxe™The PZ-Deluxe™ is a studio quality instrument preamp that jam-packs a full array of features into a compact pedal for live stage use. Ideal for all acoustic instruments.
Bassbone ODThe Bassbone OD™ is a bass preamp with two instrument input channels, each of which is fully equipped with a level control, super powerful passive-interactive EQ and a low frequency filter to help eliminate resonance.
PZ-SelectThe Tonebone PZ-Select™ is a unique pedal designed to work with today's new breed of electric guitars and basses that employ both magnetic and piezo pickups.
Bassbone V2The Bassbone V2™ is a power-packed bass preamp that combines on-stage efficiency, amazing tonal control and superb audio performance in a compact box. This makes it the ideal front end for both live and studio recording.
AC-DriverThe AC-Driver is a compact acoustic instrument preamp designed for use on stage, with helpful features to streamline your performance and ensure the best possible tone from your instrument.
- Load Box & Amp Sim
JDX Direct-DriveThe Radial™ JDX Direct-Drive is a unique and powerful device that emulates the sound of a guitar amplifier while doubling as a direct box.
JDX-48The Radial JDX 48 Reactor™ is a direct box designed to capture the explosive dynamics and warmth of an electric guitar amplifier by connecting between the guitar amp head and speaker cabinet.
Headload ProdigyThe Headload Prodigy™ is a combination load box and DI that lets you drive your guitar amp at a higher output in order to maximize the tone, yet produce a lower stage volume when needed.
- Headlight
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The Radial Headlight™
compact amp switcher.
The Radial Gold Digger™
featuring radio-style switching.
Drag™ Control Load correction
retains your natural tone.
Transformers on the amp outputs
help eliminate buzz and hum from
ground loops.HEADLIGHT™ DEVELOPMENT
Today’s more innovative guitarists are always searching to either optimize their tone or trying to find new ways to spur on creativity. For some, merely switching between different amplifiers and effects can trigger a shift on the fretboard which can lead to a new scale or chord arrangement. Then there are those that record using multiple amps in the studio, either playing each on its own or several in combination. Although Radial offers a number of head and amp switchers under the Tonebone umbrella, none have addressed the need to bring the power of controlling up to four amps to the pedalboard.
Size does matter!
With pedalboards, being small is huge! Musicians are traveling as light as possible in order to cut transportation costs and improve set-up efficiency. The first goal with the Headlight was to keep the footprint as small as possible. Instead of having four switches to select between amps, we borrowed a trick that we developed in the Radial Gold Digger™ that switches one device on as it switches the other off. Think of an old-fashioned car radio where you push in the switch and it changes radio stations. We modified the design so that in this case, depressing the select footswitch will turn-off one output and turn on the next. By incorporating switching jacks on the outputs, the Headlight selector switch only rotates through the outputs that are connected. This, for instance, enables two or three amps to be used, while ignoring the last output. Once we got this figured out, we then decided to add a 'set & forget' switch that can change the left hand footswitch from mute to all on. This enables the Headlight to be used as an ABY or allow as many amps to be on at the same time as you would like. Internal jumpers are used to set specific configurations.
Great tone and low noise
Tonebone is legendary for its quality construction and relentless pursuit of a quiet, noise-free signal path. When using multiple amplifiers, the best way to eliminate stage noise is to isolate each amp from the other using transformers. By first carefully buffering the signal to ensure optimal signal quality and then adding Drag™ control load correction, you can be sure that the signal path will be as natural sounding as if connected directly using a cable. Inserting a transformer into the signal path allows us to add a ground lift switch and 180° polarity reverse. This means that when you connect all those amps together, the Headlight will eliminate the dreaded hum and buzz that seems to always be present when all of your amps are on at the same time. Using the polarity reverse switches, they can all be set to the same relative phase.
Performance enhancements
There is no room for mistakes on a busy stage. To help reduce confusion, five full-size LED indicators – all with different colors - provide instant visual feedback showing the active output or mute function. One glance and you will quickly know which output is active or that you can quietly tune without aggravating the audience. As with many Tonebone pedals, a dedicated tuner output is always on for quick on-the-fly adjustments. You can also set the left-hand footswitch to mute all of the amp outputs for quiet on-stage tuning. Finally, with more and more pedalboards now using power bricks, it only made sense that the Headlight employ standard 9V powering. This makes it easy to integrate the Headlight into a pedalboard without having to use a dedicated supply. (Note the power supply is not included!)
- PREAMPS