Based in the town of Vejle

Vejle

Vejle is a town in Denmark, in the southeast of the Jutland Peninsula at the head of Vejle Fjord, where the Vejle and Grejs Rivers and their valleys converge. It is the site of the councils of Vejle Municipality and the Region of Southern Denmark...

, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

, T-Rex Engineering was founded in 1996 by friends Lars Dahl-Jorgensen and Sebastian Jensen.

Their first product was the T-Rex BigFoot MIDI footboard, followed by the T-Rex Mac1 MIDI-to-analog controller.

The first line of guitar effects consisted of 4 pedals: the Alberta, Mudhoney, Comp-Nova and Tremster. After these initial 4 pedals came the Replica delay pedal. Their sixth pedal was the BetaVibe chorus pedal. Released in 2003, the BetaVibe was ultimately discontinued.

In 2002 the company was joined by Steen Meldgaard Laursen as a managing director, and Lars and Sebastian became Development Director and Production Director respectively.

Alongside its product development, T-Rex Engineering offers Scandinavian distribution of products for GeorgeL's (cables, plugs, and strings).

Amplifiers

In 2004, T-Rex introduced the BigTone series of guitar amplifiers. Hand-made, like all their products, these amplifiers incorporated EL84

EL84

The EL84 is a vacuum tube of the power pentode type. It has a 9 pin Noval base and is found mainly in the final output stages of amplification circuits, most commonly now in guitar amplifiers, but originally in radios and many other devices of the pre-transistor era.It was developed to eliminate...

 EH power tubes. The BigTone series consisted of 4 products: a 45 watt head, a 30 watt combo with 2x12 inch Alnico

Alnico

Alnico is an acronym referring to iron alloys which in addition to iron are composed primarily of aluminium , nickel and cobalt , hence al-ni-co, with the addition of copper, and sometimes titanium. Alnico alloys are ferromagnetic, with a high coercivity and are used to make permanent magnets...

 speakers, a 2x12 cabinet, and a 4x12 cabinet. The production of the BigTone series has since been terminated.

Effects pedals

• Replica

Their most famous model in production, the Replica, is a digital delay pedal. The Replica is used by a number of popular artists, including David Gilmour

David Gilmour

David Jon Gilmour, CBE, D.M. is an English rock musician and multi-instrumentalist who is best known as the guitarist, one of the lead singers and main songwriters in the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a producer for a variety of...

 , Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend

Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who, as well as for his own solo career...

, John Mayer

John Mayer

John Clayton Mayer is an American pop rock and blues rock musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He moved to Atlanta in 1997, where he refined his...

, Steve Morse

Steve Morse

Steven J. "Steve" Morse is an American guitarist and composer, best known for his work in the hard rock band Deep Purple since 1994. He began his career to form the unique styled instrumental rock band Dixie Dregs in the 1970. Morse's musical inspiration comes from country, funk, jazz fusion, and...

, Andrey Makarevich and was used by Gary Moore

Gary Moore

Robert William Gary Moore , better known simply as Gary Moore, was a Northern Irish musician from Belfast, best recognised as a blues rock guitarist and singer....

. It has been awarded Guitar Player

Guitar Player

Guitar Player is a popular magazine for guitarists founded in 1967. It contains articles, interviews, reviews and lessons of an eclectic collection of artists, genres and products. It has been in print since the late 1960s and during the 1980s, under editor Tom Wheeler, the publication was...

magazine's Editor's Pick award.

The Replica provides up to 2000ms of digital delay at a 200 kHz sampling rate. Its controls consist of four knobs — Echo, Repeat, Level, and Tempo. It also has two footswitches — On/Off, and Tap Tempo; and two miniswitches — Brown, and Subdivision. It includes a "tap tempo" footswitch. The pedal can be made to mimick the sound of older delay equipment by engaging the Brown circuit which enables a high-cut filter which muffles the sound.

• Reptile 2

Reptile is a delay

Delay (audio effect)

Delay is an audio effect which records an input signal to an audio storage medium, and then plays it back after a period of time. The delayed signal may either be played back multiple times, or played back into the recording again, to create the sound of a repeating, decaying echo.-Early delay...

 pedal and was introduced as a "baby brother" to the Replica. Its connectors and controls consist of input and output, one on/off footswitch, three knobs — Echo, Repeat, Level, and Time. The pedal also features a Flutter section with Tone, Speed, and Width controls, which mimics the vintage "warble" sound of tape-echo. In 2010, the original Reptile was upgraded to Reptile 2 with the addition of a Tap Tempo footswitch.

• Comp-Nova

The Comp-Nova is a compressor. Its connectors and controls consist of input and output, one on/off footswitch, and three knobs — Comp., Level, and Attack.

• Alberta

The Alberta is an overdrive/distortion

Distortion

A distortion is the alteration of the original shape of an object, image, sound, waveform or other form of information or representation. Distortion is usually unwanted, and often many methods are employed to minimize it in practice...

 pedal made to mimic the sound of the classic Ibanez

Ibanez

is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki. Based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as well as the first brand of guitars to mass produce...

 TS-808 tube screamer

Ibanez Tube Screamer

The Ibanez Tube Screamer is a guitar overdrive pedal, made by Ibanez. The pedal has a characteristic mid-boosted tone popular with blues players...

 pedal of the late 70s.

• Tremster

The Tremster is a tremolo

Tremolo

Tremolo, or tremolando, is a musical term that describes various trembling effects, falling roughly into two types. The first is a rapid reiteration...

/vibrato

Vibrato

Vibrato is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch. It is used to add expression to vocal and instrumental music. Vibrato is typically characterised in terms of two factors: the amount of pitch variation and the speed with which the pitch is varied .-Vibrato and...

 pedal designed to mimic the sound of tremolo

Tremolo

Tremolo, or tremolando, is a musical term that describes various trembling effects, falling roughly into two types. The first is a rapid reiteration...

s in vintage tube-driven guitar amplifier

Guitar amplifier

A guitar amplifier is an electronic amplifier designed to make the signal of an electric or acoustic guitar louder so that it will produce sound through a loudspeaker...

s. Its connectors and controls consist of input and output, one on/off footswitch, three knobs — Volume, Depth, and Speed, as well as one miniswitch — Mode.

• Room-Mate

The Room-Mate is a tube

Vacuum tube

In electronics, a vacuum tube, electron tube , or thermionic valve , reduced to simply "tube" or "valve" in everyday parlance, is a device that relies on the flow of electric current through a vacuum...

-driven reverb

Reverberation

Reverberation is the persistence of sound in a particular space after the original sound is removed. A reverberation, or reverb, is created when a sound is produced in an enclosed space causing a large number of echoes to build up and then slowly decay as the sound is absorbed by the walls and air...

 pedal. It can both be used for guitars as well as line-level studio equipment. Its connectors and controls consist of mono input, stereo output, one on/off footswitch, three knobs — Mix, Level, and High Cut, and one rotary switch — Mode. The pedal features a window through which its 12AX7

12AX7

12AX7 is a miniature dual triode vacuum tube with high voltage gain. It was developed around 1946 by RCA engineers in Harrison, New Jersey, under developmental number A-4522. It was released for public sale under the 12AX7 identifier on September 15, 1947. The 12AX7 was originally intended as...

 tube

Vacuum tube

In electronics, a vacuum tube, electron tube , or thermionic valve , reduced to simply "tube" or "valve" in everyday parlance, is a device that relies on the flow of electric current through a vacuum...

 can be seen, illuminated by a red LED

LEd

LEd is a TeX/LaTeX editing software working under Microsoft Windows. It is a freeware product....

.

• Mudhoney & Mudhoney II

The Mudhoney is a distortion pedal that offers everything from mild distortions to all-out, extreme fuzz. Its connectors and controls consist of input and output, one on/off footswitch, three knobs — Gain, Level, and Tone, and a Boost button.

In 2010, T-Rex introduced the Mudhoney II, a twin-channel version of the classic Mudhoney. The Mudhoney II offers two separate channels of distortion, each with its own Boost and Tone Controls - allowing the player to easily switch between three distinct tones (Clean, Channel 1, and Channel 2).

• Tonebug

The Tonebug Series is a growing line of pedals that combine the classic T-Rex tone found in the company's higher-end pedals with intuitive, uncomplicated controls - and are offered at lower price proints than the rest of the T-Rex line. The Series currently includes 10 pedals: Reverb

Reverberation

Reverberation is the persistence of sound in a particular space after the original sound is removed. A reverberation, or reverb, is created when a sound is produced in an enclosed space causing a large number of echoes to build up and then slowly decay as the sound is absorbed by the walls and air...

, Overdrive, Distortion, Phaser

Phaser (effect)

A phaser is an audio signal processing technique used to filter a signal by creating a series of peaks and troughs in the frequency spectrum. The position of the peaks and troughs is typically modulated so that they vary over time, creating a sweeping effect...

, Chorus

Chorus effect

In music, a chorus effect occurs when individual sounds with roughly the same timbre and nearly the same pitch converge and are perceived as one...

/Flanger, Sustainer, Fuzz, Booster, Sensewah and Totenschläger.

Power Supplies

T-Rex manufactures a line of power supplies for guitar pedals called FuelTank.

• FuelTank Classic

Features eight 9V DC outputs (500mA total), one 12V DC isolated output (500mA), and one 12V AC isolated output (500mA). Voltage selector allows operation at 115 or 230 volts.

• FuelTank Chameleon

Features six isolated outputs (300mA each), five of which can be used simultaneously. The user can switch between 9V DC, 12V DC, 18V DC and 12V AC output. Voltage selector allows operation at 115 or 230 volts.

• FuelTank Junior

Features five 9V DC isolated outputs (120 mA each). The latest version has a voltage selector and allows operation at 115 or 230 volts and comes with a voltage- and a current doubler cable (18V/240mA), which combine two outputs into one.

External links

• T-Rex Engineering's Official Site.
• A collection of videos showcasing the pedals.