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Ballew's Music sells guitar effects pedals from brands such as:
BBE Effects, Option 5 Effects Pedals, Diamond Pedals, Boss Pedals, Vox Effects, Robert Keeley Effects Pedals, Cesar Diaz Effects, Electro Harmonix Effects Pedals, MXR Effects Pedals, Fulltone Effects Pedals, T. Rex Effects Pedals, Visual Sound, Vox Pedals, Marshall Effects Pedals, Boss RC-2 Loop Station, Boss Effects and lots more!
T. Rex Effects Pedals at Ballew's Music - Carrollton, GA - Full line of T. Rex Effects like the Room-Mate, Replica, Viper, Alberta, Mudhoney and Moller
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T. Rex Effects Pedal History
T-Rex was founded as a private company by Lars Dahl and Sebastian Jensen back in 1996. These two guys was thrilled by the MIDI standard and MIDI technology. They believed, that they could build some of the best MIDI control gear. And they did.
The first issue of the T-Rex BigFoot MIDI board was yellow. The board could control more MIDI units. Later came the T-Rex Mac1 MIDI controller build for the 19 inch rack. Lots os loops, VCA control, mixer etc. Using the BigFoot, you could now control the Mac1 placed in the rack, which again controlled almost everything mounted.
This MIDI setup (Mac1 and BigFoot) was sold to a lot of danish professional guitar players, back in the nineties. Most of them still use it. But the time for rack gear was running out. Players were buying more and more effect pedals. Everybody was moving away from the rack towards pedals.
T-Rex builds the Alberta, Room Mate, Replica, Mudhoney, CompNova and Tremster pedals. They were vintage effect pedals for guitar players. Professional quality for medium money. Some of the best basic pedals around.
This was where the funny names came in.
- Mudhoney comes from "muddy", fuzzy distortion. Honey is soft and smooth. Could be your friend, partner or even girlfriend.
- CompNova comes from "new style of compression". It is very transparent for a compressor.
- Tremster comes from the word tremolo and the car type "Sportster".
- Alberta is a womans name, but not someone we know. The pedal is blue because it's a blues pedal.
The T-Rex effects logo with the dinosaur, which is now history, was hot in the 80's - until the movie Jurassic Park came along. The logo was changed in 2005 introducing the circular shaped T-Rex logo. It looks like something from the 50's and 60's, which it should. Like "ESSO", "Chevrolet Corvette", "Bultaco" etc.
After the 4 basic pedals came the worlds best delay pedal, the T-Rex Replica. It was really a struggle for both Lars and Sebastian to build this pedal. Inside there are components from other industries. The sound is extraordinary for a digital delay pedal. It sounds like it is analog. Usually people wont believe it's digital.
The T-Rex BetaVibe completed the guitar line of pedals. A chorus pedal with a touch of vibe. Many players called it "The stray uncle", because it didn't really fit the other pedals purity. It really didn't. Now the pedal is discontinued.
Steen Meldgaard joined T-Rex in 2002. There was no export at that time. T-Rex never had a booth at any show. So T-Rex attended MusikMesse Frankfurt fo the first time in 2002. After that, distributors in Europe, USA and Japan signed up and T-Rex started growing.
Now T-Rex effects products are exported to appx. 30 countries. The company is well run. There is a substantial increase every year. And the company releases appx. 4 new products every year.
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