T-Rex Mudhoney REVIEW (Guitar Lesson GG-203) How to play

Hello, Justin here again

for another pedal review.

This time I am going to review

my latest addition to my

distortion pedal collection

which is the T-Rex mudhoney pedal.

I got it mainly the

some good guys, some really good guys,

who use it, John Mayer, particularly.

Really nifty little pedal,

pretty versatile,
a lot of goods sounds in this

a couple of things I'm not keen on,

but mostly,
it's a really really good pedal

and it's got some great sounds

otherwise,
it wouldn't be in my collection

so, uh, let's get a close up of this thing

and checkout exactly what this thing does.

Well, here we are for a look at
the T-Rex Mudhoney pedal

um, pretty straightforward configuration

on/off sort of switch here

nothing too exciting

with that,
good quality metal switch though

we've got a gain control, as usual

controlling the amount of distortion

we've got tone which is obviously kind of

doing our treble and bass boost,
that kind of effect

and we have got a level control.

Usual LED light,

it's also got a boost control

which boosts the amount of gain
going through it.

I found that the boost switch

is the one thing I'm not massively keen on
the sound of the boosted sound

the pedal sounds fantastic by itself,
without the boost button down

but that was the only thing that I kind of
found was a little weird about it

if we flip it over, you can see that

you have got the two outputs,

uh, two sockets rather,
an input and an output

and next to it you have got your
9 volt power supply

which is definitely a good idea

flipping over the back of it,

there is one thing that I am definitely
not keen on

is that this is the battery compartment

to get into if you have got to

kind of lever this down, and flick it open

and I have already screwed up
my finger nail twice

trying to get this thing open

i'm really, I'm not keen on that

and I'm not gonna
screw my fingernails up again, so, um

yeah I'm not keen on that

everything else about this pedal though is

pretty cool, and the sound of it is great

so, let's just patch it in so

we will get the old power supply in there

plug the guitar in and the amplifier, okay

so, the first thing that we have to do,
of course

is turn the volume level down

first of all, (guitar playing)

there's your clean sound

put the pedal on,

(guitar playing)

check, (guitar w/o effects)

it's clean

(guitar w/effects) now dirty

so, let's have a look at the tonal
possibilities for this

so, the first thing

we are probably going to want
to have a look at is just the

(guitar playing)

tone control

(guitar playing)

you can see we lost most of our
top-end there

if we put it right round the other way
(guitar playing)

it is really bright

so this has got quite a nice top end boost
here

somewhere around here (guitar playing)

is kind of where for me, it kind of sounds
nice with this particular amp

(guitar playing)

it's quite nice, it's a little bit rounder

again, as I mentioned before in
other reviews

I tend to like my sounds a little brighter

so, I tend to have it that way

but, generally, again, your tone control
is this kind of place

you don't tend to go really extreme

that way or the other way, it tends to
sound a bit naff

so, we are after that kind of position

(guitar playing)

that sound.

So, let's have a look at the tonal
possibilities here for you

(guitar playing)

If we knock our gain right down

probably boost the level a little as well
(guitar playing)

(guitar playing)

we turn it off

(guitar playing)

that's the clean sound

here is the...

(guitar playing)

quite a nice, just vague crunch

which I really like in this pedal,
these low gain settings

it's quite...

(guitar playing)

It's kind of distortive,
but it's not real distortion

it's just like a
it sounds to me

a bit like a valve thing

you know, it's quite valve-y
compared to other pedals

um, if we just boost the gain
around just a little bit more

(guitar playing)

we start to get those nice overtones

the distorted overtones

(guitar playing)

good, really good,
I really like the sounds in here

turning the gain up now, a little bit more

(guitar playing)

the thing I like about
this sort of distortion

is it's not so distorted,
to muck up your note

often, if you get too much distortion

(guitar playing)

you can't pluck out the individual notes

but here...

(guitar playing)

you can here it quite clearly

it also seems to clean up it well,
these pedals

(guitar playing)

if you play a little bit softer
you get the

(guitar playing)

if you play harder

(guitar playing)

it reminds me a little bit
of these effect amplifiers

called Dumble amplifiers
where the harder you pick

the more distortion you get

and that's a really nice thing

we'll turn the gain right up
and just have a listen

(guitar playing)

really good, really like
the sounds on this

even with this much distortion

again if we play a bit softly

(guitar playing)

it's quite clean

(guitar playing)

the harder you pick,
the more broken up it gets

(guitar playing)

good, really good effect there

so, the big winner for me with this pedal

is the variations in the gain

I do like it quite back

(guitar playing)

it's got a really good, little,
just kind of a crunch thing

now, the boost button here

(guitar playing)

take it off

(guitar playing)

its adding, a discount level,

(guitar playing)

just adding kind of a fatness to the sound

not so much more of a gain boost

(guitar playing)

but like a "fat" button

(guitar playing)

that's pretty handy

what I didn't like,
was right up here

(guitar playing)

where it's already pretty distorted

(guitar playing)

the bottom end really breaks up, so

I'm really not digging the boost button

when the gains up

but I'm digging the boost button,
when the gains back

and, (guitar playing)

it's just fattening it up

(guitar playing)

off,

(guitar playing)

it's a little bit more of an EQ change,
than a boost button

in a traditional kind of "boost" sense

as you will see on some of
the other pedals

like they've got a different kind
of boost effect

so um, really really good sounds
in the old Mudhoney

great for that "not too distorted" thing

when you want just a little bit of crunch

yeah, a really really great sounding pedal

I'm glad to have that in
my collection of pedals

so, yeah you'll definitely want to go and
check it out

the other good thing with it,
the old T-Rex brand

is that they're kind of what's called
a boutique pedal

which is kind of hand-made

sort of "posh" pedals

a bit more expensive

but these ones aren't that much
more expensive

than your regular kind of Boss pedal

but they've got a lot more of the
boutique-y sound

a lot more, kind of, expensive sound

if you like

yeah, definitely worth a checkout

their whole range of stuff is really good

but, particularly this pedal,

it's a particularly cool one

okay, I hope you enjoyed my review

of the T-Rex Mudhoney distortion pedal

um, like I said, really really good sounds

great for the kind of, you know

not too distorted kind of sounds

it's definitely not a heavy metal pedal

if you are into kind of your blues,
and kind of Rock-y, not too heavy rock

you know, the John Mayer sort of tones

really, really good pedal for that

yeah, a good one, go and check it out
in a store near you

don't forget, go and check the website
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um, yeah I'll be seeing you around

for another review very soon

see you later, bye bye