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GUITARIST NOVEMBER 2015
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T-REX & BOSS
The latest pedal from famed Danish
manufacturer T-Rex, the Fatshuga is a
boost pedal with optional reverb that
promises to deliver “everything that’s best
about the pre-digital world”. When you
engage it, you’ll get boost from the ‘Cream’
knob plus a choice of room or hall reverb if
you’ve dialled any in with the reverb knob,
which you can set and push into the side of
the pedal body.
At minimum, the Cream knob offers
just a slight sound-enhancing clean boost,
allowing the Fatshuga to be used as an
always-on reverb pedal. Turning it up
offers a useful range of transparent boost
and low-level overdrive that sounds great
in front of an amp. Used as a pure boost, it
can add grit to an amp at any volume level,
but we particularly liked it with an
already driven amp to bring in a lead
tone with added ambience from the
refreshingly simple reverb section: there’s
no unnecessary mind-boggling array
of options when a dash of ambience is
all that’s required. So overall, like many
a pedal in the T-Rex pedal range, the
Fatshuga offers a cool combination of
effects that works really well.
[TC]
VERDICT Separate pedals present more options, but
this one offers killer utility and hands-on simplicity
VERDICT Possibly all the reverb options you’ll ever
need in a cost-effective, pedalboard-friendly form
ORIGIN: Taiwan
TYPE: Boost and reverb
FEATURES: FET
buffered bypass
CONTROLS: Cream,
Reverb, Room/Hall
switch, internal, bypass
footswitch
CONNECTIONS:
Standard input,
standard output
POWER: 9V battery
or 9V DC adaptor
(not supplied)
DIMENSIONS: 70 (w) x
115 (d) x 50mm (h)
Westside Distribution
0844 326 2000
www.t-rex-effects.com
The RV-6 joins Boss’s range of compact
pedals, and is all about giving you several
different types of reverb in mono or stereo.
The eight reverb types offered up here
are selected via a rotary switch, with fi ne
adjustment of parameters taken care of
by three knobs that set the effect level
(which can alternatively be controlled
by an expression pedal), tweak its treble
content and adjust how long the reverb
trail lingers. Between those three, there’s
plenty of adjustment to get the exact sound
you want.
Alongside those tried-and-trusted
plate, hall and room reverbs, there’s also
a pretty realistic spring reverb here, plus
more esoteric stuff in the form of reverb
with modulation, a dynamic reverb
that increases as you play softer and a
‘shimmer’ reverb with plenty of lingering
pitched-up sparkle hanging in the air
behind your sound.
You also have a useful reverb-plus-
delay mode, with the amount of repeats
increased via the tone knob. While there
are loads more options than just a simple
splash of ambience, they are delivered in
a totally uncomplicated manner.
[TC]
ORIGIN: Taiwan
TYPE: Reverb pedal
FEATURES: 8 reverb
modes (Modulate,
Spring, Plate, Hall,
Room, Dynamic,
Shimmer, Reverb +
Delay), buffered bypass
CONTROLS: Effect
Level, Tone, Time, Mode,
bypass footswitch
CONNECTIONS:
Standard inputs/
outputs A (mono) and
B, expression pedal in
POWER: 9V battery
or 9V DC adaptor
(not supplied)
DIMENSIONS: 73 (w)
x 129 (d) x 59mm (h)
Roland UK
01792 702701
www.roland.co.uk
BOSS RV- 6 £ 119
T-REX FAT SH UG A £170
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