All user reviews for the ProCo Sound RAT 2

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SOUND QUALITY

I have prciser right away that I do not possde loriginale this pedal but i manufactured Clone that I even alone as a great. (I ralise the most of my effects even myself: Fuzz Factory, Tube Screamer, Tremolo, Equalizer)

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I have to say than before pluger of the components on my Board Dessai, jtais some septic because i tried many distos without being really satisfied. I look for a Marshall typ his 70 year ../ stratovolcano .possdant a Valvestae 8080, long t i lass its distortion floating mediums too my taste.

So I've had occasion dessayer in my quick tests on Board: Guvnor (floating mediums such as 8080, Vol poop pushed) MXR distortion (too acidic), Fuzz Factory (uh TRSM solo singing rhythm but this is porridge) simulation 18watt marshall JFET ..; .. blah ..

Then i played on any short-amps: Crate lamps and simulated digital (blah), Mesa Boogie F30 (sound too modern for me), VOX AC15 lamps (have reverb industrial shed poop, her yuck .. i may be wrong model essay ..) JCM2000 + 4HP: Ahh this is the bug ca SAINT GRAAAAAL.

Well this PRO CO RATE my bluffVRAIMENTCest the best DISTO THAT NEVER TRIED IN JAI 17 YEARS OF GUITAR !!!

A well rounded, beautiful hamoniques in low waouwCa sounds .. MARSHALL !! my ca reminder on my tests the same typology of its JCM..vraiement

This is the first time that I can play on the distortion of the strat neck pickup (that of ht), and that the sound drooling pastrs balanced on the heads true cordesdu Hendrix! For example you can make arpges (intro AC-DC hells bells) and sounds good net heads notes !!! same high gain.

We can do the kind Loverdrive Stones Completion its very heavy Annes 70trs typs Marshall Guns by exempleLe Tone knob to correct nickel.

Really, this pedal 80 is given.

Oh, I have a prciser choseje havent put the original post saturation diodes, 1N914.comme throughout my pedals I put spcialesvintages diodes that soften the sound died and are never used in the pedals for distortion but rfrenceca this is my little secret (price ever lide?)) .. with a strat this is paradise

In short, his love of Vintage typ Marshall with grain, rockailleuxsautez this pedal !! This is the bomb!

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I was looking for a pedal that could get married with my Telecaster pickups mounted with Lollars. As the character is strong but is not intended for the big distortion at the base had to be typed but powerful pedal. Rat meets this criterion.
The pedal is really solid and heavy. On a pedalboard that remains in place. I plugged into a power supply, I have not used the battery 9v.Enfin turn knob accurately.

The Cut filter is perfect for managing acute sharp cutting of the Telecaster. Actually going to the right gradually cut. The Cut allows you to find a good balance of frequencies: precise bass and treble precisely dosed.
The gain is a means to an overdrive distortion fuzz that turns toward the end of the race. I plugged mainly on Tubemeister H & K. By boosting the pedal type with TS have a little on his perfectly intelligible and powerful on a solo. I approach a sound Gilmourien adding a little delay. Around 12 am we obtain good sound thick with vintage touches.
Overall gain is gradual and does not disintegrate at an end.
This pedal is revealed with the right equipment with him and knows when to use it. Many people judge without knowing the material REALLY operate and that is unfortunate.
Note that the first versions seem better but the difference is not obvious either.
In short a pedal that teams well with single coils and Telecaster in particular. On humbucker we pass in a fatter register for big beats.
No blame if we know why we research.

Distortion pedal. Turn off, left distortion, filter and volume in the middle right. Super solid case except the power button I farted once (in 3 years) rather recurring problem from the service department. hum.

UTILIZATION

POINT NEGATIVE: the power supply. These idiots have screwed a standard jack Allim end. What a crock.

To use it is very simple, the knobs are very sensitive and react quickly, which allows you to find THE perfect setting. Pure happiness. Rock 80's, 90's thoroughly.

SOUND QUALITY

Looking for a pedal that sends? A unique and recognizable among its 40,000 pedals? Let's go ...

Since I bought it is simple, I said bye bye to my boss and my mxr, even my harmonix elec I bought before ... be careful Proco Rat distortion is to have a its very distinctive have to be careful with what pedals bind ... but Joy Division Radiohead fiddling we come to have the same type of "grain".

Basically love it or hate it, being a fan of 80's rock I'm in my element.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had 3 years and I've never found the equivalent in the type of sound I wanted.

I'm the type to buy the pedals on a whim so I have a sacred collection. Since I have it I sold my other distortion. When you have the top at home why go elsewhere ...

The feature I like least: the hot and the. audio jack, rather sucks when your pedals are plugués on a typical boss Allim garland style headphone ...

I do it again this choice without hesitation. Besides, I'll try to convince my bass player ... Then like us, it has a sacred mouth !!

A Super OD which turns to distortion with a small modification see TIP AF ^ ^ and as said in previous reviews the fuzz when you put a background.

this is analog with cheap but super effective components. For me 3 1 effects and quality very correct.

UTILIZATION

Using simple volume, filter, and Disto, volume tone 12h to 12h-13h and distortion according to your desires.

in short it is just plain know how to turn a knob.

SOUND QUALITY

Talking about qualitée OD is a very typical OD, there are the sounds of M and Black Desire for a distortion to 13h beyond what is OD Green Day, California rock and sending good background a slight fuzz, good is far from a Hendrix or ZZTOP but we are in a single pedal several effects that we can work with others to complete.

Anyway I find it very nice when we couple with a small cruch upstream personal TS9 I stick him just before, as said in other reviews, lightweight, for a given equilibrium because the EQ Filter (Tone) and limited and has trouble finding a clean TS9 therefore shows a beautiful OD EQ.

OVERALL OPINION

This is a very good OD pedal to start because it has a great price / quality ratio and we have, if we tinker a little 3 effects 1 OD / DISTO / FUZZ what the good life

Given the price made yourself treat yourself tested there and at worst it sells very well in Cygnus so there will be no regret.

I personally have one and I pensse in aquérir for another verse and give me more possibilities.

Analog effect could not be more simple.
Not too big and solid as a tank.

UTILIZATION

Very easy to use.
As usual in this kind of pedals, 3 knob settings.
Suddenly no need for manual!!
We quickly found the right sound, and then this pedal so tested on the net that it is not hard to find examples.

SOUND QUALITY

Large range of sound underfoot, you can go use boost filter with the fuzz and distortion.
Like it promises.
For me it is an essential pedal should not hesitate to put in his pedalboard.
Whether with humbuckers or single sounds great on my Fender.

OVERALL OPINION

For me this pedal is the reference distortion, I've tried tons or made a few.
Every time I come back to it.
To further improve the potential mods are very numerous on the net and very simple to make as long as we know how to hold a soldering iron.
Next step I intend to put him LM308 fitted to the original rat sounds better to my taste.
Perfectible one point that I found is the power supply jack.

Analog format distortion pedal for guitar. a 9v power supply format mini jack (not practice), three knobs, one volume one tone (upside down, pay attention to the treble and bass left to right), and a drive. A jack in a jack out and roll youth. All this in a solid shell appearance, although I would have preferred a big metal shell (history search for defects).

UTILIZATION

It's simple, what a distortion, not to panic, nothing is superfluous in this effect. Only the lack of an eq instead of a tone put me 9/10.

SOUND QUALITY

Welcome to a world of distortion, overdrive the researchers did not find their happiness. At least we have a tough quelquepeu warm distortion given the little switched gain. In this amount gradually gain knob, you arrive in grunge land, the sound of Nirvana and others is not far ... And the tone is fuzzy in the final laps, but is still sufficiently accurate. Pure distortion, selective but excellent.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 2 months on my rig, but I've been a big user studio before, his only fault is the power supply to the format mini jack, and if you are a fussy 3 band eq we would, but for this price ... It is already excellent. I remake that choice without hesitation, and in passing I will buy other Proco!

Solid in his little metal case: it has a pure sound that goes a great crunch to fuzz galore.
LED dens placed on top of the "A" RAT is the most beautiful effect when switched.

UTILIZATION

Simple to use:
The knob "Distortion" is used to set up a crunch first quarter, then it goes into distortion up to half of the race. After it leaves fuzz ...
The knob "Filter" adjusts the tone.
The knob "Volume" ... volume (amazing right?)

SOUND QUALITY

The sounds are great crunch and diso. I love this pedal. I note that all guitarists who have even regulate such (filter 1h, 2h volume, distortion: in). I never use the distortion with the last half of the race knob.
Losque I want to spend the mix solo, I simultaneously activates my overdrive Biyang OD-10. As a result, the cascade of two pedals gives me full of harmonics.
on the other hand, it is proper to "my" pedal, but once in ten volume output rises or falls during concert ... while the pots have not changed position. In these cases, I replace it with a distortion Biyang DS-10 that I keep "just in case" time to finish the concert.

OVERALL OPINION

I have my ProCo RAT years. It is well suited to the sound I like. It is far sounds Boss, Digitech. It is a distortion that ballad of OCD to the Big Muff (it is only my opinion).
If she lets me one day, I replaced it with the same fail.

distortion analog true bypass
very robust housing
all types of instruments

UTILIZATION

no need for manual
the distortion knob allows the first quarter of the race to get the sound of a TS9 type drive in less creamy and where TS9 stops, the rat flew to the 80's rock distortion and then half way back into the metal to finish 3/4 by the very large dito slightly fuzzy.
SRV to RATM.

SOUND QUALITY

First the seven years I found coarse, I played on es-type 335.
Since 2006 I rediscovered thanks to my strat us ssh twin rev laughed.
with all single coil sounds are possible, simply switch to double to go solo.
I also regale with my Jazzbass it sublime.
to my ear is the best after the distortion of the amp laney vc 100 I had (sniff boo) there is a decade.

OVERALL OPINION

MA is distortion with it a octave and delay, I am the master of the world! very versatile and faithful to the intent of the game if you know how to use its main feature: the sensitivity of the input level. otherwise (for example with a micro config too punchy it turns against you, you lose half of the light spectrum settings.

Distortion Pedal by ProCo
1 volume
1 distortion
1 filter
True bypass pedal
9v power jack mini
mine has a serial number below 300,000 which is apparently a sign of quality according to experts
it is also equipped with the famous LM308 chip

UTILIZATION

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SOUND QUALITY

it's going to drive the distortion / fuzz, it is not a high gain pedal but there really is almost sound palette can do a good punchy rock to hard rock well with old school made on the other hand for the metal it will lack sharpness, the fuzzy side can quickly make rough it must be dosed the distortion and filter what I like to do it is to boost it with a TS9 or a clean boost, it goes the bass and lower midrange where it kills far we are in the big sound very thick, with a config Ceramic I think it makes it less though with Alnico question of presence ...

OVERALL OPINION

no regrets especially considering the price 70 € occasion is a classic essential for fans of vintage pedal

typical of an overdrive / distortion

UTILIZATION

you just need to keep in mind that the settings differ depending on the type of guitar and amp used

must also take into account the interaction between the different settings: for example, add drive adds fréquances acute so you have to compensate with the tone / another example, the lack of bass can be overcome by boosting the output level

short, there is no single setting and it should be taken into account as soon as you change the config or change style

SOUND QUALITY

For me, what is most striking in tone, it is the presence at the media typically reminiscent marshall, which is rare for this type of pedal (which are usually dug at this level)

to talk of gain, you must know that this pedal is between distortion and fuzz: the level of drive is huge and pulls something deliciously muddy in extreme settings (great for a lead but less happy on a rhythmic)

on a clean channel, the result is quite honest even if it is in this case the lack of bass is most felt, if you set your amp channel between clean and crunch, bass and reappearing this will crescendo (it takes blow down the drive pedal to compensate)
the overall dynamics in this configuration remains correct if we do not abuse the drive

on a drive channel, you must seriously drive down the pedal and you get a very strong boost and deep enough that complies with the characteristics of the amp (in my experience anyway, to marshall and orange)

OVERALL OPINION

I realized the Ruetz mod and now I do not use the overdrive pedal in position

this mod is magical: we win lots of bass and this lowers the overall gain (which is astronomical origin), the overall dynamics is also greatly improved

I suggest very strongly that this mod does wonders for an investment and ease of implementation ridiculous

I recently compared a few pedals (boss bd-2 blues driver, fulltone ocd v4 and ibanez ts-9 tube screamer): For me, the best overdrive on the clean channel is Proco Rat Ruetz mod 2

Briefly, this pedal deserves its mythical reputation (unlike other references like the boss ds-1 distortion)

See other reviews. Small and sturdy construction. It is heavy for its size.

UTILIZATION

Very easy to use. Not need a manual. The filter is upside down.

SOUND QUALITY

Gain: in the beginning of the course is to overdrive the "muscular" or distortion as guitars. End position is fuzzy at will, very heavy but different from the Big Muff.

Filter: versatile, ranging from dull to sharp and is well qualified, darken, clarify the desired sound.

Volume: a good margin.

So sounds usable and versatile despite appearances. The Rat is primarily for rock, punk and hard rock. Was it not Mr Black Sabbath?
Correct answers to the guitar playing and his respect thereof. Good momentum.

OVERALL OPINION

Pedal interesting because it has its own personality, it changes the other classics: EHX, Boss, Marshall.

The +

Potential
And small solid
personality separate
Access to the battery

The -

Food: mini-jack

Distortion pedal very simple: volume, distortion, and a button "filter" kind of tone (in reverse)
The input jack are at the top (why not). It is a little wider than the boss and is looking very strong.

I'm not 10 power supply input for exotic (a jack for a power supply ...) that requires an adapter.

UTILIZATION

It could not be simpler. No need for manual
It goes from crunch to fuzz

SOUND QUALITY

Then the sound. In summary, I would say that this pedal has character. Some prefer distortion very smooth, although other drooling. The ProCo for me is well balanced between the two. It sound to it, I really like.
When I said she has character, is that I think she is not "neutral" as the can (be a Boss DS-1.
It adds a texture.

With my telecaster is a great mix.

OVERALL OPINION

With experience, it is ultimately the more I play by its sound that bothers me. Other distos are smoother, but the grain of the Proco I like it.