OVERDRIVE- T-REX Diva Drive ...nearly 10 years old, but nearly gone?

$130.00 USD

T.REX DIVA DRIVE

The company have been around forever. They seem to have started up as more of business in pedals than the more prevalent route of a hobbyist that designed pedals and turn that into his trade. T-Rex tended to hire others to design pedals or even to license pedals. Over the years the company has changed hands and just as well as some in the past appear to be perhaps a bit less than honest to the designers, lol. In any case from time to time T-Rex would be the one wearing the Crown for hot pedal of the era.

The Diva has been around for just under 10 years. Like hundreds of OD's it started life with the Tube Screamer topography. The secret ingredient was a mix control to blend in clean sounds. Oddly enough all ts pedals leak a some cleans back into the sound so it may have been a "What if?" idea.

The layout is Volume, Gain, Tone and Blend. A switch on the right hand side 

adds either a Mid or Fat boost.  

 

CONCLUSION ____

The clean Mix is the pixie dust for this pedal as it can add more definition to the sound or act like a transparent pedal by bringing a guitars natural sound through. Especially on a Strat . 

If you want that Strat chime just put it back in. 

A Tube Screamer is like a hammer in your tool box. It is always 

handy to have but you need not spend a lot or have the

'Cork Sniffers ts of the Week'. The parts on the best selling

basic Ibanez TS9 are current and not pricy. 

A $35 Caline Emerald Night can use them.

 

 

the fine print

According to Sweetwater it only recently was discontinued. T-Rex are famous for  discontinuing a pedal and then bringing it back 

every few years. It will be back, guaranteed. The good news is their still a few everywhere left. I would not stop looking until you 

find a price of $100 or less. I saw one new on Reverb for $70.