T-Rex Creamer

I wanted to replace my amp's built-in digital reverb with something more advanced, yet reasonably priced. While not aiming for Strymon territory, I sought a decent unit offering some customizability without overwhelming options. As a blues player, a good Spring reverb was essential, along with decent Room/Hall/Plate reverbs for diversity. After considering several options, I discovered the Creamer. Here's a brief overview of the alternatives I explored:

TC HOF2: Initially appealing due to its reputation and TonePrint app compatibility. However, its higher price and reportedly weak spring reverb led me to pass.

TC HOF2 Mini: Considered for its simplicity, but ruled out for the same spring reverb limitations as its larger counterpart, and the fact that I don't want to bother with apps to switch and "beam" effect types.

EHX Holy Grail Nano / Neo: Praised for excellent spring emulation, but the single-knob control seemed too limiting, and offering too much reverb even at minimum setting.

JHS 3 Series Reverb: Great sound, but lacks true spring emulation, has only a general/room-like reverb.

Oceans 11: Too many options and a higher price tag. The Hall reverb sounded unnatural, and other modes were less convincing.

Oceans Pico 3-verb: Expected improvements over the Oceans 11, but still fell short in spring and room reverb quality.

The T-Rex Creamer delivers my desired three reverb types with impressive quality for its price. Despite Chinese assembly, the build quality is excellent, with a sturdy body and high-quality pots. Sound-wise, the Spring reverb has the twang and "boingy" character I sought. The Room setting genuinely conveys a smaller venue feel, while the Hall places you on a much larger stage.
The pedal offers sufficient settings to fine-tune blend and decay, plus a tone control to adjust the effect's character. A minor issue reported by some users is a slight boost when activated, but I find this negligible.
Overall, I'm extremely satisfied with this reverb pedal. It's unfortunate that it doesn't receive more attention in the market.

I have 2 amps a blues junior and a solid state copy of one by Session, both good amps both have same reverb tank which is fine except the reverbs tail is a bit too long for my liking. I only use reverb as an always on effect and the TREX is perfect for this. It allows me to have an amp style reverb but able to control the decay and tone. The reverb knob mixes the effect with you guitar tone so beware that if you turn the knob above 11 or 12 you will start to drop a bit of volume as more reverb takes over the tone. You can compensate this with a clean boost pedal. There are 3 types of reverb Room, Spring and Hall. My favourite is the Spring as it has that bit of splash you want on a single coil guitar and its better than the amps built in verbs. The Room is very usable as well and especially when you want just a bit of the effect. The Hall is ok but dont expect Ambient shoe gazing sounds to come from it or neither do it do the drip you would want for surf music but it does get you in the ball park for that twang with the spring setting. Like I said I bought it to use instead of my amps built in ones. So over all I am happy with it another bonus is its small size but not so small that it tips over when you stomp it. The switch feels nice and there is no audible click in your speaker when turned on I think because it has a buffer in in I'm not sure. If it does have a buffer it does not effect the tone to me Its my first Trex pedal and I will get more based on the quality of this one.

All in all super, does what it says on the tin.

I decided to purchase this pedal following the purchase of another T-Rex pedal, the diva drive, and after a great experience with that, I decided to give this one a try. I'd been looking for a reverb pedal with spring, but versatile enough to use as a good all rounder at the end of a chain of 4/5 pedals, as I don't care for too many on the board (for now, at least!) So it's the first reverb pedal I've been playing consistently with.

It performs great, well built of course - really brightened up everything on the chain in a very nice way and adding plenty of room and - can you call it(?) - 'cream' to the sound, playing hard rock but also great for surf sounds and more bluesy cleans. It really wins on the clean tones and if you're amp reverb just isn't going to cut it or you want some extra versatility of this crucial musical ingredient at your feet.

There are of course some reverb pedals out there with more features but if you're looking for something very straightforward and easy to use - it does what it does it does very well and gives you a very good range from very subtle to cavernous reverbs when the decay and the reverb knobs are up high. Most of the time though, I find it's better bringing it in on softer settings, particularly if you like playing with buckets of gain.

The best thing I really do rate about the T-Rex pedals is the Tone knob, so you can mix the amount you need in with your clean existing analogue signal. This is must as it really keeps it subtle and it doesn't have in any way a digital feel to it when you engage it, in my view. That is the feature that I like the most about this pedal.

All said - I'm very pleased with it - would recommend - bravo!

I think it's reasonably best choice for the 80 quid. There's TC Sky twice as cheap but you will get twice as short the reverb. I guess, the more you pay the more reverb you get 😄
Pros:
- nice warm room reverb. Usually I'm not a fan of room reverbs but this one is quite enjoyable and IMHO the best of three
- analog bypass. you get dry signal + reverb, not your signal mixed together with reverb.
- springy spring reverb. other reverbs does not have that distinct spring sound. I know it's a gimmick but still nice.

Cons:
- somehow there's a signal amplifier so your signal sounds louder just going through that box, even in bypass mode