Japhet Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Bought a T Rex Diva drive from Thomann. Nice and cheap (£60 ish). Bought it for electric guitar but it sounds great with bass too. It has a kind of 'voice' switch which gives you Normal, Mids or Fat but also has a blend control so you can mix in your dry sound. Think it could be a cracking pedal but won't really know til I can try it out at a gig - if that ever happens again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbowskill Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Looks interesting. Is it Tube screamer based? Please update when you have had a "in the mix" blast 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbowskill Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 (edited) Just read reviews comparing it to the sparkledrive.... If so ace, I love the SD as a low gain Edited August 2, 2020 by danbowskill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japhet Posted August 2, 2020 Author Share Posted August 2, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, danbowskill said: Looks interesting. Is it Tube screamer based? Please update when you have had a "in the mix" blast 👍 I guess you'd describe it as TS based although I don't particularly like TSs but I do like this. TSs get a bit too 'thin for my liking but this maintains the bottom end really well, especially with the 'fat' option selected on the side switch. I also particularly like being able to blend in as much clean tone as you want. I bought it to fatten up the sound of a Strat (which it does really well) but then tried it with the bass (admittedly at low volume) and have found that to be a sound I really like as well. I'm not into heavy distortion and I'd only really describe this as low to moderate gain, but it does a really nice full but gritty sound on both 6 and 4 strings. It also cleans up really well if you roll off a bit of volume on the guitar. No idea when I'll be able to give it a proper blast but I'd say it's well worth checking out. I'll be very surprised if it doesn't nail down a place on my pedal board. Edited August 2, 2020 by Japhet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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