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T-REX PEDAL ROUNDUP £149£179

We dig up four new stompers

from the Danish pedal co, with

overdrive, distortion, delay and

octave top of the agenda

THERE

must be something in the

water in Denmark: two of

the effects world’s biggest brands hail from

the land of Lars Ulrich, and like their

countrymen at TC Electronic, T-Rex's

engineers are dedicated to improving guitar

tones across the globe. Founded in 1996, the

brand made its name with pedals such as the

Alberta overdrive, which featured an

uncompromising approach to every detail,

from capacitors to potentiometers, jacks to

switches. This year has seen the arrival of a

range of stompboxes that cram T-Rex’s

decades of tonal know-how into compact

MXR-sized enclosures, with the company’s

FET buffered bypass switching for pop-free

operation. The four on test span distortion,

overdrive, delay and octave effects, but will

they make the rest of our pedalboard extinct?

T-REX VULTURE £149 T-REX DIVA DRIVE £149

An awesome display of power Got a fever for the Diva

BASED ON one of the first pedals

T-Rex’s engineers produced, the Vulture

gives you tight high-gain distortion,

from Page-esque crunch to JCM-style

beef. What sets it apart from the flock is

its pair of boosts: low boost channels

the thunder of a 4x12 running at

trouser-flapping volumes, while the fat

boost dials in lower-midrange honk,

perfect for helping a small combo cut

through a mix. Combine that with the

organic, responsive drive textures, and

finicky distortion fans with money to

spend will be circling over the Vulture.

AS WELL as packing the legendary

JRC4558 op-amp – as found in vintage

TS pedals – for juicy, mid-boosted gain,

the Diva Drive boasts a mix control for

blending the overdriven signal with your

clean tone, while a three-way low-end

boost control tailors the bass response

to your guitar. The mix is handy for

retaining clarity with extended chords,

while the low-end switch is an easy win

for filling in the gaps in your sound. It’s

pricey, but the Diva Drive is one of the

best and most versatile TS-style

overdrives we’ve heard in ages.

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Summary of content (2 pages)

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ROUND-UP T-REX PEDALS T-REX PEDAL ROUND-UP £149-£179 We dig up four new stompers from the Danish pedal co, with overdrive, distortion, delay and octave top of the agenda THERE must be something in the water in Denmark: two of the effects world’s biggest brands hail from the land of Lars Ulrich, and like their countrymen at TC Electronic, T-Rex's engineers are dedicated to improving guitar tones across the globe.
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GEAR ROUND-UP T-REX REPLAY BOX £179 Shut up ’n’ Replay yer guitar THE REPLAY Box is a stereo digital delay, and while it doesn’t have any other delay types, it has tap tempo and subdivision switches. T-Rex has voiced the RB just right, with a slight taming in the highs ensuring repeats don’t sound too piercing, while the tap tempo and subdivision switches work well together to access quarter notes, triplets and dotted eighths.