T-Rex Room Mate Reverb

This will be brief. I used the pedal over a weekend as a loan. I am trying to decide if I want to use it to replace the reverb in my Lexicon MPX-1 and go to all stomp boxes

This is my main reason for writing this review, which I normally wouldn't do for something I don't own. I am trying to counter the 1 rating this was given. This is an excellent sounding reverb. My Lexicon processor was well over a thousand dollars new, not including control pedal. Although this does not have the large number of presets, the fundamental sound quality was superb. I used it with a 67 blackface Deluxe Reverb which is completely original including tubes (a closet classic), a Savage Rohr 15, a Mesa Express 50, Gibson Goldtone, and a Bogner Shiva, all amps I own. It worked well with all of them, even the Bogner which can be really picky. No noise issues and excellent tone. My point is that there must have been a problem with the unit for one of these to rate a 1. When I encounter something like that I assume that the piece is bad, perhaps question QC (or UPS) and don't rate it. I think there are too many 10's on this site but a 1 for this piece is silly.

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I am probably going to go ahead and purchase it and a stereo delay pedal and let go of the Lexicon. I love the sound of the Lexicon but am tired of the complexity. For basic reverb, I actually prefer the sound of this piece.

Very easy to use.

Best sound that I have heart from a reverb pedal.
Very nice for solo's that need to be boosted with extra volume.
Also the hich cut feature is usable to warm up the leads more

It seems well built.
But extra care is needed for the tube inside, but that's logic to me.

Not have dealt with them

Mine came with a special adapter, that is usable for this pedal only.
Other adapters don't work on this baby.
Great for leads that need some volume boost and hich cut.

Plug and play like most boxes, but the mode button needed an extra sticker to explain what it does.

As far as being a stomp box, it is useless. It makes a massive noise when you click the button. Not stageworthy at all. Only option is to turn it on and leave it on. But what kind of stomp box is that?

The reverb sounds really good, if you ignore the horrible buzzing noise the box makes.

I'm guessing it has to do with being 12 volts where every other box on my board is 9 volts. But can't really say.

I get the buzzing noise if I just plug the adapter into the power strip I use - even if the T-rex is out of the signal chain.

And if it is in the chain the noise is much louder.

It has a tube that you cannot replace. If it breaks you are screwed. Tubes are glass. If you've been on the road you figure it out.

Since this box isn't even useable I'd say it is unreliable from the git go. Don't have the option of zero - never worked well enough to use.

The company is from Denmark, and does not have an 800 number. Their suggestion in their pamphlet is to call your local distributor - which I did and they are completely clueless about this box.

All they could do was get me a return authorization number.

This is not a $400 pedal. It is a piece of junk.

I've been playing guitar for 28 years.

Very simple to use.

If you are looking for realistic, basic reverb sounds, than it's hard to beat this pedal. It sounds better than any digital reverb effects pedal I've ever owned or tried. However- it is not offer a lot of different reverbs nor can they be tweaked too much.

Seems well built. But anything with a tube is prone to potential failure (I have not tried to change the tube yet).

Excellent pedal, but limited range and expensive. If it were stolen I would buy it again.

This pedal is very easy to use, there are four types of reverb/effect.
1. Classic Plate - a vintage medium plate reverb.
2. Warm Hall - a bigger sound with a natural warmth.
3. Bright Hall more crisp detail reverb.
4. Chorus with Warm Reverb - very nice chorus - I really like it a lot.

I find I mostly use the 'Warm Hall' reverb with the mix at about 3 and the level at 7.
I noticed the high cut barely changes anything unless you are playing through a bright amp with single coil pickups.

There also is a stereo out - I tried it once at home with two amps and it is nice and full but for me hardly worth the bother of bringing two amps to a gig with extra cables, not to mention all the other stuff I have to set up.

The reason why I bought this reverb pedal was because of the tube, T-Rex claims it acts a tube pre-amp when it is not even turned on.
I am a professional with about 150 gigs per year.
I play mostly acoustic fingerstyle guitar and some electric jazz at my gigs.

For my acoustic - I use and AER amp and I find the reverb much better that the AER stock reverb (so I just don't use the stock AER reverb anymore). I like a dark and warm reverb, so for me - The T-Rex nails the sound I was looking for - warm tube pre-amped reverb.

I have a handmade Clark Beaufort ('57 Deluxe) tube amp that has no reverb so this pedal goes right in front of the Clark and it sounds great.

Someone else complained about the hissing noise on this product.
I heard it once... when I used this pedal at my friends house. It must have been the power there, because I haven't heard it anywhere else and I've played tons of gigs in many places. It may not like noise in the line voltage causing some sort of 60 cycle hum or even RF - I really don't know, so I shouldn't comment on such technical matters.

I'm giving this pedal a 9 in sound quality only because the noise thing happened but once yet still could rear its ugly head in another future situation.

I've had the pedal for 6 months. I don't have a backup.
I think I would like to have another so I can keep it with the other amp.

It appears to be built very well with clean graphics and a little window to have a peep show of the tube. Kind of an 'Eye-Candy' thing really.

So far the pedal has been 100 percent reliable so I will have to give it a 10. Anything else wouldn't be honest.

No comment - never called them for Customer Support.

For me, this pedal does exactly what I wanted it to do - and it does it exceedingly well.
So I will rate it a 10 as I haven't found anything better in a reverb pedal at this price.

Very easy to use, no need for a manual.

It is the bestsounding reverb-pedal I have heared so far, very natural sounding warm plate, hall and room- sonds, it also gives the tone a kind of "tube factor" , you can even boost your signal by turning up the level, killer!

I have used it for about 80 shows without a backup, no problems so far.

I never had any problems, so I don`t know.
I have met some of the T-Rex guys at the Frankfurt music fair, they were very friendly.

It fits to all guitarstyles where a reverb is necessary, sometimes I even use it for a slight tubeboost without using the reverb by turnig down the mix.I like it more than the reverb of the Hughes&Kettner Replex,I have the Replex ,too, but I replaced it by T-Rex Replica and Roommate.It`s more versatile and the Reverb is better.

It couldn't be easier.

I don't have the facilities to A/B it next to every reverb out there but, after comparing the Room Mate to the spring reverb in my Fender Deluxe and to the Boss RV-6 I've got, the Room Mate found it's way to the top. Of the three, it was the best.

Sorry to see that one reviewer had a bad situation with this pedal. That can, and has, happened to all of us (don't get me started on DigiTech...). I haven't had any problems with the Room Mate. The pedal has worked well from the moment I plugged it in.

I've bought a few pedals from Super Sound Music. Brian knows his stuff. I'm sure if a problem arises, he'll handle things for me with the manufacturer.

Looks good, sounds good, built well. That's what I was looking for, and that's what I got with the T-Rex Room Mate.

Very simple straight forward controls.

I have played with many reverbs and this one seems to be lush and very quiet. I love mode 4 with the chorused reverb. It's great

I have had no problems with mine and I have had it for about 4 months. It does have a tube in it though.

Never had the need for support

I think it's a great reverb! Sounds great with any blackface Fender.
I highly recommend it!

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This is where things get interesting! I purchased my FIRST (this is important later) T-Rex Roommmate from a music store in NY (I purchased online). I received the pedal a few days later and for some reason it made a horrible hissing noise, almost like wind through a tunnel. Apparently, according to the store, T-Rex KNEW about a bad batch of these pedals with this defect, yet couldn't pinpoint it down. FINE. Send me another. T-Rex sends me a completely new Roommmate 2 weeks later. TOO BAD THIS ONE IS BROKE TOO! The second one was worse than the first one. The tube WOULDN'T EVEN COME ON! NO SOUND WHATSOEVER! I wrote the music store that I purchased this item from and requested they immediately ship this GARBAGE back to Denmark where it belongs. I will never, ever buy another pedal from T-Rex as long as I live and neither will any of my colleagues. I should've known better than to buy a pedal from a company that endorses Michaelangelo Battio. Screw him and his four-necked guitar. That's three necks too many.

If you talk to a T-Rex representative they will immediately inform you that all of their products are garbage. I'm not totally sure of this, but I'd almost bet that this is true.

T-Rex and their cheap pedals and worthless Quality Assurance department can kiss my ass. I'll buy digitech POS pedals before I buy anything from these arrogant turds again.

Very easy to use. Hardly had to read the manual. They could, instead of just numbers on the 4 part control knob, put the names "hall", "spring" , "plate", "chorus+plate" on the box. It's a little bit stingy considering the asking price. It's not that many letters to fit in.

It has replaced the onboard spring reverb on my amp. However, no one should BS me that the tube is essential for its sound. That could be solved with modelling today, or the same character could be obtained otherwise. Tube imposes a fragility in terms of reliability and actually heats up the unit unnecessary. They should have incorporated a pre-delay unit at least on some of the 4 patches, maybe two of them, or rather a know which controls predelay from 20 ms to 120 ms at least.

However, the timbre and character is very useful for electric guitars and you can get a twang reverb out of it without the boinginess AND noise of an onboard spring reverb. The chorus mode is so and so, useful sometimes, but actually gets fatiguing on the ears after a while, something that the "tube" and "warmth" are supposed to remedy in most other cases, but doesn't. It has true stereo mode, and it's there where it shines, but using as I do, replacing an onboard amps spring reverb, it has to resort to mono. The silence and dynamics of this unit are very cool. You can lean in and before it cracks up, the tube takes care of the cracking dynamics, whereas on a complete digital unit it may compress it first in order to keep it from digital unpleasant distortion.

The other 3 reverb settings are not as fatiguing on the ears, as the chorus one, and you can basically keep it on forever. The reverb algorithms decided for use here are exceptionally well sounding, but niched and narrowed down to use for electric guitars only, it seems. There's a plate/spring character to all reverbs in it, but without the resonant and chill frequencies. I wouldn't be surprised if amp manufacturers tried to license it and incorporate this reverb - with the tube - inside future amp models.

The main thing with this unit is how it handles explosive attacks from picking hand with reverbs. Then the tube - and maybe high cut filter - can come in and show how it mellows everything out from becoming to shrill and annoying. And when playing smooth dynamics it seems to "open up" a bit. Just as if someone is raising the treble inside the box! And when hitting hard on the strings, someone is turning it down...well, without compressing it! Ok, well, that's the closest description I can get. A very daft explanation, I know... :-)

Its sturdy, but has a tube in it. It's only a matter of time when it starts to burn out. Manual says 10 years. Well, so be it. 10 years is 10 years nonetheless. Other than this it holds up. See above caveats about the tube in it. Anyhting with a tube in it, imposes a fragility.

Haven't dealt with them. Haven't needed anything yet.

Suitable for all kind of guitar music. The main thing is that you can use a lot of distortion with this unit, as well as crystal clean sounds. I don't think an onboard spring reverb is THAT suitable in all areas. I wish it had pre-delay. Maybe a clipping indicator cause you have a control input on it. If it was stolen or lost, I won't even know if there's some similar competition at all. So I would buy another unit. It is a tad expensive, due to the tube, but if this works so be it. But, I can't help to think that the tube is put in there just to give it a "boutique" vibe, or hype it like "anything with a tube in it are bound to sound good".

I can't help to think, that they would've been able to solve this without the tube. Just as well. Get's a little TOO warm, the box and the unit.

A delay before this unit, and - maybe - a compressor, would boost this unit into a value of 10 and above.