T-Rex Mudhoney II

Solidly made and robust out of the box with a really quite straightforward front panel considering it offers two channels or voicings.

I'm a little unsure as yet whether this simplicity is a good thing or whether it could use a little more sound sculpting. But rather like a tubescreamer its often a case of matching the tone to your guitar and amp and then seeing what feels right in terms of gain.

Its at this point the Mudhoney really excels. While labelled a distortion pedal it can provide an outstanding transparent warm overdrive that pushes your amps natural tone nicely. But set one (or both) channels to "boost" and you've got a snarling beast on tap.

It sits really well in front of my Orange Head and has that "british classic" feel to my ears.

The sound is hard to praise enough. It oozes warmth but has some real teeth with some fuzz creeping in on higher gain settings. Plenty of oomph and bottom end. Highly recommended.

A very nice and musically sounding overdrive/distortion, with a great sustain, that is in fact 2 times the same pedal in 1 enclosure. It can be used as a booster with very low gain setting or it can give you sounds from very pleasing crunch to harmonically rich distortion with much depth (allthough not the typical modern metal sound) and works perfectly with my amp's (Laney Lionheart) natural breakup sound and reacts very well to dynamic playing (the harder you play, the more saturation you get). The only con is that the plastic tone knob is maybe a bit close to the footh switch for people that get carried away by now sweet tone of your guitar. Very versatile super sounding stompbox at an incredible price. Highly recommended!

Watch my full demo and review on YouTube: is a great quality pedal from a boutique manufacturer on a very decent price point. It sits in between a distortion and a fuzz with a thick bottom end and loads of sweet harmonic content. Normal mode offers great feeling and dynamics, while Boost mode has more gain, compression, and sustain. I set one side on Normal and one side on Boost. It sounds killer with single coils and humbuckers and into darker or brighter amps. Differently from most dual drive pedals that offer boost/drive/distortion, the Mudhoney is not very flexible nor fully featured, but it really nails in the fuzzstortion area and has a very unique and special voice! Ohhh, and it's yellow!

I bought it as soon as its price dropped in February 2019 and delivery took some 3 months because stock was in-and-out all the time. Now Thomann seems to have a more steady supply of Mudhoneys... go get it!

Like others have said, this is an incredibly versatile distortion pedal and one that is unbeatable at this price point. It's a very musical sounding distortion that can go from open, sparkly low-gain drive to a think fuzztortion that would transform your clean channel into a whole new beast. Have one channel for raw, ringing overdrive, the other for a huge wall of sound, or set them both at the same type of drive (boost/normal) but with different level of volume or distortion to give you that push where needed. It really has many uses.

I say this as I mostly play it in the clean channel of a tube amp, and that's where it shines and sounds most organic. Playing it in a solid state amp clean channel sounds great as well, only don't try to push a distorted channel with it. It doesn't do well pushing other pedals but it takes overdrives in front of it like a champ. I've put in a Tubescreamer 808 before and it gets me to ultra gain when both are engaged, which is amazing for thick solos or heavy Drop D - Work.

And the best of all: top mounted-jacks ! T-Rex were way ahead of their time :) The only complain I have is the tone knobs are flimsy and seem like they could break if you're not careful, otherwise A+++!