Thinning out the herd a little. Taking a road trip tomorrow and i need gas money! Yikes! i hate to let go of this one but she gotta go. I want to sell this TODAY. like i may take it down tonight if it hasn't sold, 'cause i like this little jewel. In great shape cosmetically and mechanically! 310.00 + Shipping is what youll pay for it new! Paypal only I'll cover the fee and the shipping. theres your deal of the day! Email me directly if interested! (jdmahaffey@gmail.com)
heres a description from mr. sarnos website
The Steel Guitar Black Box™ is the ultimate tone enhancer for amplified musical instruments. It is a simple device using a single vacuum tube, yet it has a profound effect on just about any instrument signal that you pass though it. The SGBB is a true, audiophile quality, vacuum tube pickup driver (buffer/impedance matcher) especially designed for enhancing the tone of steel guitar pickups, yet has proven to be equally effective with acoustic instrument pickups, electric bass & guitar pickups, electronic keyboards and drum machines, and much more.
When used with steel guitar, it is placed directly after the pickup and before the volume pedal. This pickup/tube relationship is at the heart of the SGBB's intended purpose. By having the pickup directly "see" the tube, all of the benefits of the tube are maximized, and all of the potential of the pickup is captured. The Black Box's output will easily drive just about any device without subjecting your sound to tone-killing capacitive loads or inadequate input circuits as found in many effect units. Even though the Black Box runs clean, there is a subtle amount of natural harmonic distortion created by the tube which adds a warm, sweet and musical smoothness that you just can't achieve with the use of transistors or digital modeling devices. This natural tube characteristic is at the heart of the Black Box's ability to bring out and enhance the richness of an instrument's sound.
For years there have been impedance matching devices for this purpose of conditioning or buffering the pickup's signal so that it doesn't suffer tone loss as it works its way thru volume pedals, effect units, long cables, etc. on its way to the amp's input. The biggest complaint over the years seems to have been that when compared to tubes, transistors lack the harmonic and dynamic richness and warmth that steel players desire. The SGBB is the first product available specifically tailored for steel guitar pickups to provide this active preamp stage by using a vacuum tube. The SGBB has found its home both on stage and in the studio whether it's driving an amp or a direct input. When used with acoustic pickups, the Black Box does an amazing job of taming that typical hard, brittle, crispy high end, and turns the sound into something much more natural, sweet, and musical. The end result is an acoustic instrument that sounds much more like wood and strings, and a lot less like a pickup.
Unlike so many tube products out there today, the SGBB is designed like audiophile or high-end pro studio gear. The 12AX7 tube is run extremely clean with a robust 300V B+ supply as well as a humless DC heater supply. The Black Box is not an overdrive unit. The circuit uses only the finest, hi-grade components to preserve and enhance the richness and complex overtones generated by stringed musical instruments. Handmade exotic film and foil capacitors imported from France, a NOS Allen Bradley carbon comp plate load resistor, and Dale/Vishay metal film audiophile resistors help contribute to the warmth, sweetness, and high performance of the SGBB.
Pictures are also from brads page.