T-REX Vulture Overdrive Pedal

The Vulture started its life, when Michael plugged in one of the very first pedals we made. That pedal had a certain sound to it that we really liked, but it was a bit grungy in the low-end. We wanted to make a pedal with that sound, but with a tighter, less fuzzy low end and with more gain.
We opened up the pedal and painstakingly measured everything in it, to find out why it sounded so good, and found a couple of resistors that would be better with other values.

Was it modified earlier in life or was this just a very good sounding mistake from when it was made in Lars´ basement way back in the 90´s?
All we know is that the basic sound was cool and we left it at that, and went on to focus on getting the low-end tight - but BIG!
The fruit of our labor is a pedal that has a great, throaty distortion with a nice bite to it but the low end and low midrange can be shaped in many ways, thanks to the low- and fat-boost knobs. This allows the player to dial in almost stupid amounts of lows, but the distortion stays tight, not muddy.
LOW-BOOST AND FAT-BOOST? ISN´T THAT OVERKILL?

Well, we could have left it at a "bass”-knob, but that will only get you so far. The low-boost will add a lot of what we all love about those heavy 4x12 cabs, but that is not necessarily what you need if you are looking for more "body” in the sound, although it can turn that small combo you play at jam-nights into something bigger.

The fat-boost is designed to add weight and punch to the sound, giving the top strings a lot of thickness – almost like you went up two steps in string gauge, and the punch is more of a "punch in the chest” than a "kick in the #?%”.
The secret to the Vulture is to adjust the boost and tone knobs for optimal sound when the gain is adjusted, just like on an amp. It is tempting to turn everything up, but we still remember what happened when we turned the boost knobs off and set the gain above 3 o´clock…”uhm, maybe I don´t need a two-channel amp afterall”.

• Wide range of gain levels 

• Wider range of distortion sounds

• Selected components for better tone

• Huge bottom end available at the turn of a knob

• Highly tweakable with a simple layout and small form factor

• More flexibility, due to the added low-boost and fat-boost knobs

Application:

Bass chorus like the world has never known.

The DigiTech XBC Bass Multi Chorus Pedal is designed especially for bass. The XBC Bass Chorus Pedal lets you morph up to 16 bass chorus voices at once for an endless palette of amazingly rich effects. Built-in voice randomization increases with more voices for an even denser wash of killer chorus. DigiTech includes a 9V battery with the XBC Bass Multi Chorus Pedal.

DigiTech XBC Bass Multi Chorus Pedal Features:

• Designed especially for bass
• Morph up to 16 bass chorus voices at once
• Voice randomization increases with more voices

The MD-2 Mega distortion takes the bottom-heavy distortion sounds heard in today's new-school metal and pushes it to the extreme. The secret is a special dual-stage distortion circuit with an added gain boost-plus new Bottom and Tone controls--for crushing distortion with massive low end. Take your distortion into the future with the MD-2.

• Produces extreme, low-end distortion for modern metal and hard rock
• Gain Boost circuit creates huge distortion and sustain regardless of level
• New Bottom control for bottom-heavy distortion matched to 6- or 7-string guitars
• Tone control adjusts balance between high and low frequencies
• BOSS 5-year warranty

• Compact pedal creates a variety of classic "wah" effects
• Dynamic wah sounds provide variable effect based on picking strength
• “Humanizer" effect creates human voice-type vowel sounds
• Dedicated Bass input for processing bass guitar
• EXP Pedal mode allows wah control via optional expression pedal
• Tempo can be set for pedal control or at fixed rate via Manual mode
• BOSS 5-year warranty

• 10 Stereo or Mono Delay effects
  • Digital Delay
  • Vintage Delay
  • Tape Echo
  • Mod Delay
  • Ducked Delay
  • Band Delay
  • Filter Pong
  • MultiTap
  • Reverse
  • Looper
• Studio Quality Sound
• Instant Program Change
• Real-time control with 10 knobs, MIDI or expression pedal
• Tap Tempo and MIDI Clock Sync
• 40 User Presets, unlimited through MIDI
• True Analog Bypass
• Rugged cast metal construction
• Metal footswitches for instant Preset access
• Mono or Stereo operation
• Guitar or Line Level Inputs and Outputs

Tame your tone with the new Snake Charmer Compressor. The result? Silky smooth, mesmerizing tone that behaves as it should. The Snake Charmerʼs compression affects the ratio and threshold of the signal, smoothing out peaks and spikes. At the same time, the Snake Charmer also increases the Gain level to complement the corresponding ratio and threshold settings so that the overall gain remains constant.

Thereʼs also a Gain Reduction Indicator that gives you visual cues of the results of your settings. And a High/Low Switch lets you choose between two overall levels of ratio. The Snake Charmer is equipped with other controls for Attack, which determines how quickly the gain reduction kicks in, and Release, which determines how long the gain is attenuated. Finally, the High-End Emphasis control fine-tunes the amount of compression applied to the top end of the guitar signal.

• Snake Charmer Compressor CT05
• Connection: Input: x1 (guitar input), Output: x1 (line output)
• Input / Output Impedance: 830 k-ohm / 4 k-ohm
• Tube: 12AU7 (ECC82)
• Power Supply: Four AA alkaline batteries or DC9V AC adapter
• Battery Life: Approx. 18 hours
• Current Consumption: 95 mA
• Dimensions: 168.5 (W) x 155.5 (D) x 64.0 (H) mm / 6.63” (W) x 6.12” (D) x 2.52” (H)
• Weight: 1,007 g (excluding batteries / 1,102 g including batteries)
• Included Items: Four AA alkaline batteries