T-Rex Mudhoney

This isn't a complicated pedal. Gain, level and tone is all you need for overdrive/distortion.

I have used the Mudhoney with my guitar (a standard american Fender strat from 1995, with two Seymour Duncan pickups and a T-Bear humbucker) on a relative cheap transister amp (forgot the name) and Ashdown Peacemaker 20. The Mudhoney sounds excellent on both amps, wether you're playing hard rock or blues.

I haven't played with it on gigs yet.

I never had any problems with it yet, so I wouldn't know :P

T-Rex's Mudhoney is worth every penny. In my opinion, it sounds better than Ibanez's Tubescreamer, and it's cheaper.

Piece of cake to use, easy to dial in at gigs ... and the boost mode makes for some killer Hendrix style riffing. Great box ... turn down your volume and you get a nice crunch tone for rhythm work, turn you guitar volume full up for scorching sustaining leads. Really, this is about the best fuzz/distortion unit made if you know how to use it.

The best ... and I can tell by the crowds reaction at gigs this thing gives up the goods.

Built well ... no issues so far.

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Best investment I have made in a long time. I use this on Hendrix tunes and modern grunge stuff, but I primarilly use it for wicked lead runs with my whammy bar. It hangs onto notes and still has lots of presence to cut through the mix. Wicked cool pedal, but if you don't have good chops you may just make lots of noise with it. I played the original fuzz boxes back in the sixties, and this unit is fantastic compared to the Muffs and Super Fuzzes of that period. Tone to the bone too....

Very easy. 4 knobs including a boost knob.

I use a Fender highway strat into fender blues junior. I use the mudhoney as my main gained rythem sound, then for lead tones i use my black finger compressor, and that does the job.

If you turn the gain knob all the way up its sounds like a fuzz pedal. If you leave in the midgain section (as i do) its sound like an nice cranked old tube amps own distion. It has a very creamy sound. I must say it work best as a lead pedal for me.

had some problems with it while i was using the battery, it sometimes just went dead. Now i have switched to a powersupply and there dosent seem to be a problem at all.

never dealt with them.

i usualy play older rock/blues, like Hendrix, zeppelin, AC/DC, clapton and such.
i also play a lot of stuff like guns'n'roses, scorpions, RHCP and other.
This is almost any rock musician. If you play Death metal or other extremly hard rock, this does not do the trick. it wish it the posibily to press the boost knob using your foot, thats a flaw.
If you like the thick, crunchy sound of vintage overdrive, then this is a good choise!

The mudoney is a verry simple stompbox. There is a tone, gain and volume control. The thing about this peddel is that the volume and gain control kinda communicate with eachother. If you put the volume all the way up the gain is much more raw and dirty then when you sett it at 10:00. But nothing complicated.
It's as easy as the controls on your guitar.

I am using a japanese Stratocaster and a marshall DFX 30.
Thats about is for now, verry simple. So you can really hear what the mudhoney can really do.
First of with the boost turned of. It's is perfect for playing things like Little wing, Villanova junction, Hear my train commin'(acoustic version) by Jimi Hendrix and Yellow Ledbetter by Pear Jam. It is a real warm and kind overdrive. The sound is of a real high quality.
The best thing is when you hit the strings hard, you get a short boost in gain and visa versa. And the volume control on your guitar is transformed in a gain control. So when you turn you guitar volume down you loos allot of gain, wich is great. Because so you have more controle over what your doing.
Turn it up and you have got more gain. Its's is truly the best vintage overdrive there is. Especially for its price.
Now with boost turned on. It has become a fuzz/distortion, and a great one att that. The power chords are really classic, none of that metal crap. But stil as heavy as you whant it. It is perfect for blues and hard rock stuff. The best to describe it is saying it is a tube distortion simmulation.
And it's one of the most noisless pedell out there. It doesn't make a peep.
Maybey it's me, but they could have put a bit more gain in there. Its a little to nice for my taste. It is a really kind peddel.
But other than that it is great. But if you whant a really nasty one for metal or industriel music look else were, because this is the Mona Lisa of distortions.
If you just whant to get a really good distortion and a verr verry good overdrive don't hesitate and just get one!

I only got for about 3 months but it seems to be build sollid enough.

Just bought it as soon as I hed the money, and no help needed since.

Overall it is a great peddal. It takes you back to the good old days. But it is modern enough to for this day and age. If you play Blues, Rock or even Jazz this is a must have. And if you whant to use allot of delays, reverbs, flangers, phasers and that kind of stuff this a great peddel to combined it with. Because it is so well tuned you still get a high quality sound.
Especially if you don't really know what kind of music you whant to play this is THE peddal to buy, because it has got a verry versatile tone. Just a must have.

Three controls: Gain, Tone, Level
Two buttons: Bypass, Boost
How hard can it be?
Still one has to be careful with the settings of the controls, their range is quite extreme. For example I never set my gain further than 9 o'clock, for "boost on" as well as for "boost off". Also you'll damage your ears when you turn the level up too far.
Next to that I don't understand why the boost function can only be switched by hand. I modified my mudhoney so I can control the boost function with my feet.

I've been using this pedal for a year now and I LOVE IT! I have quite a range of pedals and more than one boost/overdrive/fuzz/distortion pedals (fuzz factory, super duper, alberta), but I use this one the most.
This pedal sounds amazing with boost on and off. Boost off results in warm and subtle distortion. Everything I play sounds cool and raw, but with lots of clarity and presence, very transparant. Boost on turns this pedal into a fuzz pedal. Not a extreme fuzz like the fuzz factory, but more an old-fashion fuzz. Warm, singing tones and endless sustain.
Like I said I modified my boost switch to be footswitchable. Now my mudhoney has the same functionality as a Fulldrive and it sounds even better!

No problems yet. I'm confident it won't brake down on me. I don't have a backup with me on a gig.

I play mostly a new-wave kind of music-style, but I love my distorted sound to be old-fashioned. Bluesy overdrive and Classic Fuzz. This pedal can do both for me. The extreme ranges of the controls however make this pedal very versatile.
If it were stolen or lost I would definitely buy and modify it again.
I love the sound of it, it competes easily with more expensive distortion and fuzz pedals like fulltone and is a whole lot better than pedals of boss or electro harmonix. Still I don't understand why they made that stupid boost switch. When you turn it into a footswitch this pedals doubles in value.

Well, it has got the usual three knobs (Gain, Level and Tone) - how hard can it be? Additionally there is a "Boost" button which makes the controlled distortion turn into a creaming fuzz monster. Though, one interesting aspect of The T-Rex Mudhoney is it's flexibility and the "organic" feel to it. It's quite easy to get great sounds from the box but it can, to a certain degree, be a bit demanding on the player in the the sense that it's enormously dynamic and reacts to picking style.

There is off course no way to be objective in this matter, but to me it sounds very good in comparison with other distortion boxes: transparent, dynamic and very flexible. The hiss or noice (other than the noice it's supposed to make) presents itself only slightly with when all knobs are cranked. It covers most of the sounds from light "tubelike" overdrive to massive, heavily compressed fuzz mayhem. It cleans up (when lowering guitar wolume) fairy good. I wouldn't use it for metal distortion but for sounds in the range of rock, blues, jazz and pop it will certainly work. The tone knob has a good sweep from thick warm sounds to a sharp and edgy twang. Actually, in certain it can sound a bit like an overdriven old Blackface Fender Bassman (for you vintage amp maniacs, I said: "a bit").

I haven't tried it with solid-state amps, but it will work wonders with any tube amp. I'll give it an 8 because there are still better sounding overdrive pedals, fatter distortion boxes and wilder fuzz effects, but this one covers them all with goos results.

Can you depend on it? Yes. Would you use it on a gig without a backup? Yes. I havn't had mine for a year yet so what problems the future might present to this little beast is still uncertain. But it looks and feels very solid and I'm confident it will outlive me.

Never delt with T-Rex.

If you're short on cash and want only one OD/Distorion/Fuzz or if you want another well built, good sounding, noice free and good looking pedal to fill out your pedal boord with T-Rex Mudhoney presents a good alternative.

Very Easy to use. 3 Knobs - Gain, Tone, Output, and a boost pushbutton.

Guitars used: Fender Custom Shop Classic Player Strat, Gibson LP standard 92 model W/ Duncans.
Amps used:
2001 Matchless HC30 / ESD 2x12 Mismathed Celestions
2000 Marshall Heavily Modded 1987X / 2x12 Marshall Cabinet W/ Greenbacks.
1995 Mesa Boogie DC5 1x12 W/ 1x12 Ext. Cab. W/ Vintage 30's
Other Pedals:
Fulltone Clyde Deluxe, Fulltone Dist. Pro, Maxon AD900, Fulltone Choralflange, Matchless HotBox(origional Non Script SN 0029).
The first time I plugged this thing into my board I was a little disappointed, I thought ok its just a overderive, very good, but hey
I was looking for a little more. Then Oh No push in the Boost Button
and Ba Boom! What a musical pedal, it makes my HC30 sing so sweetly, I tweaked the controls Gain 6, Tone 7-1/2, Output about 4, and Boost pushed in. This setting really brings out the vocal qualities of single notes (DC30), and even though I have some other great Distortion Devices, I have found a place for this in my rig. I use the HotBox for Medium Gain sounds and Rythym Riffs, the Fulltone Dist. Pro for Cruchy Chord work, and now the Mud Honey For Super Sustain Solos. In fact that is what I would recomend this for,
Although at the extreme settings it can get very ugly (in a good way), Especially on my Mesa, and yet the Marshall sound soars, but these extreme settings actually seem to sound best with the amps maxed out. Its almost like Matching up the Gain on the Pedal to the
relative ouput level of the amp. Not as Dynamic as say the Dist. Pro, but this pedal has the best Vocal like Tone of any transistor distortion I have ever played. The Chord definition is not as good
as the Fulltone, but on single notes 'FORGET ABOUT IT' The Tones that this pedal is capable of are definitely dependant on your amp. Right
now I don't have any small amps ( I will never use anything without tubes period), but I can say that with the equipment that I have it does a very good job. It definitely makes my DC5 Grunt,
and Crunch, imagine a Dual Recto on steriods. The same exact settings through my Plexi 50 (OE Transfromer, Carbon Resistors, NOS Tubes),it pretty much nails the Thinlizzy Jailbreak Sound. But through the Matchless it is beyond words. As most people would agree the C30 is
is a great amp (in my opinion one of the best Class A's ever made),
yet it can be very picky when it comes to Distorion Pedals. The Mud Honey really speaks through this amp in such a smooth vocal way, I don't know how it can get any better.
Quite a few pedals have come and gone for me and now I am
again adding to my pedal boards (Fulltone, Maxon Vintage, T-Rex). I like this pedal so much that I am ordering some of the other T-Rex Pedals as soon as I am done here.

Being a Design Engineer, I had to take this apart to see what Kind
of Quality there is inside. I have to say Very Nice, Beutiful Circuit Boards. Through Hole soldered, very well designed. Dam near Fulltone
in Build Quality, The Std. by what all other pedals can and should be
measured against. The only things that I ever break are strings and
vacume tubes, so no I don't think that I need a back-up, but pedals
can break and it is not a bad idea.

Made in Denmark, In case you are wondering about this.
The Danes Don't make Rockets or Cars. What they do make,
the make very well. Dynaudio, TC Electronic, Scan Speak,
and now T-Rex Effects.
I purchased mine through Rudy's Music in NYC last week
when I was there on vacition, but a word to the wise.
Check out MUSICTOYZ.COM They are now selling them and
they have the best prices. They have the largest selection
of uptown pedals anywhere. I have been in dozens of music
stores and Nobdy has the Selection of REAL PEDALS that they do.
As far as T-Rex goes, I sent them an E-Mail 2 Days ago, and they
returned it this Morning, pretty good, 2 year warranty and for a
pedal thats very good! Hopfully I won't need it...

The thing to understand about this type of distortion pedal is
that it is different things to different amps. As a Rythym Pedal
it is very good, as a solo Pedal Through anything with EL84's or
EL34's it is unbeatable, quite possibly The 'Best of The Best'

Pretty easy to use has usual tone, gain and level knobs aswell as a boost switch which comes in handy.

I'm using an Ibanez RG570EX through a Crate Blue Voo Doo 60 watt valve head and a JCM900 4x12 marshall cab with celestions.

I first heard a review of ths pedal on a CD that came with a total guitar mag, I wanted it so bad since then but I didn't know where to get it. If you want one, contact Midas Distribution as they got hold of one for me, but it was the last one they had as I think they've stoped distributing these pedals.

The pedal sounds great from creamy overdrive to biting distortion. I find it absoloutly amazing to play blues through as well as hard rock. this pedal really kicks ass and also has amazing vintage looks, you wouldn't think it's a modern pedal. When you push the Boost button in this thing kicks in a wall of fuzz and filth sounds which work really well. I generally use this pedal with the boost button pushed in and gain around 12 o'clock and tone all the way up. This gives me a lovely rich distortion for hard rock. Take away the boost and it has an excelent bluesy tube sound, amazing Danish technology at it's best.

No probs yet, really solid!!!

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overall a great buy and would buy again, if i could get hold of one that is, might have to go to Denmark if it was burnt in a house fire. The only let down was the price and that's what caused the 8 but it's well worth it, try it and you'll see why...... hell total guitar magazine gave it a 5/5 for sound can't beat that can you.. (www.t-rex-eng.com)