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Hello, Justin here again
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for another pedal review.
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This time I am going to review
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my latest addition to my
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distortion pedal collection
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which is the T-Rex mudhoney pedal.
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I got it mainly the
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some good guys, some really good guys,
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who use it, John Mayer, particularly.
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Really nifty little pedal,
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pretty versatile,
a lot of goods sounds in this
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a couple of things I'm not keen on,
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but mostly,
it's a really really good pedal
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and it's got some great sounds
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otherwise,
it wouldn't be in my collection
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so, uh, let's get a close up of this thing
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and checkout exactly what this thing does.
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Well, here we are for a look at
the T-Rex Mudhoney pedal
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um, pretty straightforward configuration
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on/off sort of switch here
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nothing too exciting
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with that,
good quality metal switch though
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we've got a gain control, as usual
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controlling the amount of distortion
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we've got tone which is obviously kind of
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doing our treble and bass boost,
that kind of effect
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and we have got a level control.
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Usual LED light,
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it's also got a boost control
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which boosts the amount of gain
going through it.
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I found that the boost switch
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is the one thing I'm not massively keen on
the sound of the boosted sound
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the pedal sounds fantastic by itself,
without the boost button down
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but that was the only thing that I kind of
found was a little weird about it
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if we flip it over, you can see that
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you have got the two outputs,
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uh, two sockets rather,
an input and an output
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and next to it you have got your
9 volt power supply
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which is definitely a good idea
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flipping over the back of it,
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there is one thing that I am definitely
not keen on
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is that this is the battery compartment
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to get into if you have got to
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kind of lever this down, and flick it open
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and I have already screwed up
my finger nail twice
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trying to get this thing open
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i'm really, I'm not keen on that
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and I'm not gonna
screw my fingernails up again, so, um
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yeah I'm not keen on that
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everything else about this pedal though is
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pretty cool, and the sound of it is great
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so, let's just patch it in so
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we will get the old power supply in there
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plug the guitar in and the amplifier, okay
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so, the first thing that we have to do,
of course
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is turn the volume level down
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first of all, (guitar playing)
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there's your clean sound
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put the pedal on,
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(guitar playing)
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check, (guitar w/o effects)
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it's clean
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(guitar w/effects) now dirty
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so, let's have a look at the tonal
possibilities for this
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so, the first thing
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we are probably going to want
to have a look at is just the
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(guitar playing)
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tone control
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(guitar playing)
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you can see we lost most of our
top-end there
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if we put it right round the other way
(guitar playing)
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it is really bright
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so this has got quite a nice top end boost
here
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somewhere around here (guitar playing)
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is kind of where for me, it kind of sounds
nice with this particular amp
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(guitar playing)
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it's quite nice, it's a little bit rounder
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again, as I mentioned before in
other reviews
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I tend to like my sounds a little brighter
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so, I tend to have it that way
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but, generally, again, your tone control
is this kind of place
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you don't tend to go really extreme
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that way or the other way, it tends to
sound a bit naff
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so, we are after that kind of position
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(guitar playing)
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that sound.
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So, let's have a look at the tonal
possibilities here for you
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(guitar playing)
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If we knock our gain right down
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probably boost the level a little as well
(guitar playing)
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(guitar playing)
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we turn it off
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(guitar playing)
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that's the clean sound
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here is the...
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(guitar playing)
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quite a nice, just vague crunch
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which I really like in this pedal,
these low gain settings
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it's quite...
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(guitar playing)
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It's kind of distortive,
but it's not real distortion
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it's just like a
it sounds to me
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a bit like a valve thing
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you know, it's quite valve-y
compared to other pedals
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um, if we just boost the gain
around just a little bit more
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(guitar playing)
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we start to get those nice overtones
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the distorted overtones
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(guitar playing)
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good, really good,
I really like the sounds in here
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turning the gain up now, a little bit more
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(guitar playing)
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the thing I like about
this sort of distortion
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is it's not so distorted,
to muck up your note
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often, if you get too much distortion
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(guitar playing)
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you can't pluck out the individual notes
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but here...
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(guitar playing)
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you can here it quite clearly
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it also seems to clean up it well,
these pedals
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(guitar playing)
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if you play a little bit softer
you get the
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(guitar playing)
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if you play harder
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(guitar playing)
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it reminds me a little bit
of these effect amplifiers
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called Dumble amplifiers
where the harder you pick
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the more distortion you get
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and that's a really nice thing
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we'll turn the gain right up
and just have a listen
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(guitar playing)
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really good, really like
the sounds on this
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even with this much distortion
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again if we play a bit softly
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(guitar playing)
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it's quite clean
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(guitar playing)
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the harder you pick,
the more broken up it gets
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(guitar playing)
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good, really good effect there
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so, the big winner for me with this pedal
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is the variations in the gain
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I do like it quite back
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(guitar playing)
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it's got a really good, little,
just kind of a crunch thing
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now, the boost button here
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(guitar playing)
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take it off
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(guitar playing)
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its adding, a discount level,
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(guitar playing)
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just adding kind of a fatness to the sound
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not so much more of a gain boost
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(guitar playing)
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but like a "fat" button
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(guitar playing)
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that's pretty handy
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what I didn't like,
was right up here
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(guitar playing)
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where it's already pretty distorted
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(guitar playing)
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the bottom end really breaks up, so
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I'm really not digging the boost button
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when the gains up
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but I'm digging the boost button,
when the gains back
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and, (guitar playing)
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it's just fattening it up
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(guitar playing)
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off,
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(guitar playing)
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it's a little bit more of an EQ change,
than a boost button
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in a traditional kind of "boost" sense
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as you will see on some of
the other pedals
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like they've got a different kind
of boost effect
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so um, really really good sounds
in the old Mudhoney
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great for that "not too distorted" thing
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when you want just a little bit of crunch
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yeah, a really really great sounding pedal
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I'm glad to have that in
my collection of pedals
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so, yeah you'll definitely want to go and
check it out
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the other good thing with it,
the old T-Rex brand
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is that they're kind of what's called
a boutique pedal
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which is kind of hand-made
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sort of "posh" pedals
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a bit more expensive
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but these ones aren't that much
more expensive
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than your regular kind of Boss pedal
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but they've got a lot more of the
boutique-y sound
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a lot more, kind of, expensive sound
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if you like
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yeah, definitely worth a checkout
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their whole range of stuff is really good
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but, particularly this pedal,
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it's a particularly cool one
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okay, I hope you enjoyed my review
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of the T-Rex Mudhoney distortion pedal
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um, like I said, really really good sounds
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great for the kind of, you know
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not too distorted kind of sounds
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it's definitely not a heavy metal pedal
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if you are into kind of your blues,
and kind of Rock-y, not too heavy rock
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you know, the John Mayer sort of tones
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really, really good pedal for that
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yeah, a good one, go and check it out
in a store near you
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don't forget, go and check the website
for plenty more reviews of gear
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and guitar lessons and stuff
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um, yeah I'll be seeing you around
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for another review very soon
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see you later, bye bye