All user reviews for the ProCo Sound RAT 2

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UTILIZATION

Configuration is a snap. The knobs respond dynamically, and the sound is easily found!

SOUND QUALITY

I am very surprised by the quality of this pedal.
The RAT 2 ... What up!

The benefits that I will give are:

- Easy to use (you can easily find its sound)
- Versatility: the possibilities of sound in one small pedal! I am fan of Hendrix and I really take my foot with the grain that is at the crossroads of warm overdrive and a fuzz soft depending on the settings (although I am aware that it is not at all a fuzz! such as the fuzz from all over the place but that is kept more easily control the sound), short for a good walk is the blues! It can sing his Strat what happiness!
- Compliance with instruments and play the guitar: amazing! I hear the rough grain of the RAT to land gently on the grain stored in my Strat (CS 69) and my amp (an old transistor amp of course but I love: Fender Performer 1000 and that sounds much better than some lights!). In short there is not one or the other elements take over. Chapeau! In addition the dynamics of this pedal is awesome, it respects the game of musician who can then truly awesome sound.
- The price! When you see the Fuzz Face to 170 € (legendary pedal I do not criticize! Is my favorite with the RAT!), We say that does not care Procosound not us.

OVERALL OPINION

A buy eyes closed!
Very versatile and inexpensive!
I have a TS9, a Bigmuff States, a fuzz face and I do not think anyone can be disappointed by the RAT unlike some pedals to the more marked (eg fuzz, bigmuff). Everything is a matter of taste!

See below ...
In any case, it is compact, robust, indestructible even, and it is a pleasure to shove vritable a good kick to make it scream!

UTILIZATION

Simple. It is very simple to find her son ...

SOUND QUALITY

What a nice surprise! One word: versatility! is in the overdrive has a little dirty in hard rock well biencouillu.Elle also a good fuzzy characters, while remaining prcise. I use a strat lonestar (with humbucker seymour duncan pearly gate) and I am more than satisfied. I tried lots of overdrive and distortion of any kind ... Proco Rat is the blow of my coeur.Onpeut do everything with a!

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a year and I do not change it for anything. A real killing. I bought OCCAZ for very little. If you are looking for a versatile distortion with ducaractre, go for it.

This is Distortion/Fuzz style effects pedal. There are only audio and power hookups, no midi, usb or other type of connections. This is an analog pedal. The only audio connections available are a 1/4" input and output.

UTILIZATION

There are only three knobs on this pedal for manipulating your sound, Distortion, Filter, and Volume, so yes, I would say that is pretty simple. Setting up this pedal is a breeze if you have two standard guitar cables and either the power supply (mine has a male power supply tip as opposed to the standard female) or a 9 volt battery. I have never seen or desired to see a manual as this is a very easy to understand effects unit.

SOUND QUALITY

I use this pedal with just about everything. I now run my guitar effects chain in my aux channel on my mixer. This way I can run all my instruments/samples/ and whatever else into the effects. I particularly love this pedal for Synthesizers. I also use it for Guitar (of course), Rhodes, Clav, and also on plain old audio tracks to give them some nasty grit. I also really like it on vocals too.


OVERALL OPINION

What I like most about this pedal is it is relatively versatile. I have friends who actually use this in there Jazz band guitar rigs. They sweep a lot of frequencies out via the "Filter" knob and get a pretty nice warm tone reminiscent of Wes Montgomery. I personally use it more for the "Screaming" distortion aspects which this pedal is wonderful for. Again, I love it on Synthesizers and my Vocals too. It's a bright enough (when dialed in to be so) distortion that when used even heavily, won't mud up your sound beyond recognition. The only thing I can see being a hassle is the strange male power supply tip. Luckily I have a VooDoo Lab Pedal Power 2 which came with a male tip adapter. So thankfully I don't have to go to Radioshack and dump $25 + on a new one. The sound quality in this pedal can range from smooth distortion to screaming fuzz/hiss. I love it. I have used a lot of distortion pedals including Ibanez Tube king, Damage Control's Distortion and Ibanez TS9. I use both the TS9 and this together to get some excellent distortion tone. I got this unit for a really good price ($50), if I find another at that price, I will buy that one as a back up.
Also I should mention this thing is built like a tank. It's made of solid, heavy metal material and weighs a little more than you would expect.

After my tests, this is what we get ... we have after the amendments made by MSM Workshop 2 switches with 2 positions and 1 to 3 switch positions, they provide a wide range of sounds no less than a dozen sounds from ... Clean sweet / bluesy heavy a Disto, through the Crunch, an overdrive, a mushy fuzz and saturation in the bunch, my neighbors ... the one who does not find his SON is also invited to the flute ... (lol) The pedal restores and more widely respected all my guitars, each of my amps, the sound is clear, moreover modified this pedal made me rediscover my gear on the one hand and the other character even more true than in the original version of my amp it sounded even better than Sovtek usual, excellent before moving to recordings of new songs! Tests; the 3 knobs are at noon ... otherwise we'll be here all night so the possibilities are enormous! 3 + Switches positions of knobs = infinity setting the switch 3 positions on the left (Vintage Rat) provides a sound ranging from clean to crunch by light guitar and microphones used, the volume of the sound is more than reasonable but already allows quite a lot by playing with the other 2 switches that increase / decrease the gain and the other switch on the rear to increase / decrease the treble The switch 3 positions on the right (hot Rat) allows a range crunch to distortion more or less spicy depending on the different settings, there's plenty to explore and find your sound easily, it is simply excellent! The switch 3 position in central position, so there it grows! the sound can become HUGE! Bass love these as I say more ... that all new components produce a real plus for her, that we are dealing with a pedal which has several (12 possible combinations) This pedal can work really ITS is very intuitive, you spend hours with great happiness, we have fun, you discover new sounds from vintage rock to rock's heaviest ... for you to discover! Modified to make absolutely invaluable to use the quintessence of this pedal! A big THANK YOU to MSM Workshop ... Guillaume for his patience and kindness I actually did change my Boss DS-1 by MSM and it's also a mega slap! myspace.com / dominiquevassart myspace.com / phaesis

- Distortion pedal

3 knobs:
- Distortion "cramer" sound
- Filter: benefit low or high frequencies
- Volume: practical, but use sparingly, AC blows !!!!!

Basic input / output jack, visibly analog transistor


UTILIZATION

- Config very simple pedal easy, fun and editing sounds more qu'aisée, must turn the knobs and try lots of different combinations.
She is not ugly and more like big boiboite pavement.


SOUND QUALITY


Used with a keyboard Korg DW 8000 chain-end effects:
Practice what knob volume to boost the case,
I also use a slight distortion filter with 7-8am, just to thicken the sauce.
It's a pedal that is always engaged, to give a distortion effect on my organs, so Hammond B3 with zipper, it's pretty convincing.

Upstream must say I have a énoooooormmme Fuzzz, which acts distal cracra destructive ear

With a guitar:
want, but it sounds serious c't'affaire!

OVERALL OPINION

- Bought last year:
I wanted a distortion not too expensive for my keypad was one of the few to respond correctly.

The metal box, nyet, nyet the Boss OD the rat: Yeah!

With the volume knob, you end up with a pseudo preamp ':
- The only real problem: what is it breath!
is the ugly duckling of my chain.
Thank you the noise suppressor

But I do not regret my choice, it gives a true + to my config 'keyboard!

pedal distortion of expensive "Proco sound" analog.
small size (a bit wider than a boss), looks great, indestructible steel housing.
3 knobs: volume / distortion / filter.
connectors: a power supply in one or a mini jack (the flat)
was therefore a robust pedal, nice shape, nice and a pleasure to turn to the low roar it (yes yes, I use it on bass!)

9 / 10 because the mini jack, which requires an adapter.

UTILIZATION

simpler, you die! 3 knobs, one that fits you rate distortion, one for the volume pedal output, another to switch between its edge to a more round (well there I summarizes other reviews explained better now than I) .
I had no manual and I see no point.
I use it on LOW!

10/10 perfect

SOUND QUALITY

while there, I took a slap MO-MEN-NU-TALE!
the sound is impressive, very scooped, it's really a hell. it has a typical grain of Proco and is ultra versatile! we just get a bit of a crunch cradingue a huge distortion to the garage rock (not metal, but almost!) it sounds very energetic and quite aggressive with a pick, finger it is more "velvety". it has a fuzzy character as well, his little dirty side, I like. but still very controllable and not by c ***** on harmonics (like another pedal much bigger than everyone knows: p (but I also appreciate that since I ^ ^)
it keeps the low frequencies very well and I think it's one of the only distortion pedal for guitar in a field as broad spectrum.
can I get sound justin chancellor in the song "H" tool (it uses a turbo rat) to get an idea of ​​the sound that it can have.

In summary, a distortion pedal exelente works flawless on bass.

10/10 super-mega-awesome

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a few days.
I essailler other models (although most expensive) but Proco is a stroke of heart (and I'm not alone in loving him so much!)
I got it for 78 Dollard, knowing that my dear 95 euros calf favorite reseller, so Q / P EXCELLENT!
I do it again this election infinite foix it falait it, but because it is indestructible ...

10/10 a single fault, the PSU mini jack, otherwise faultless.

So nothing to add features, it is a distortion (analog) legend or testing youtube for novices, we understand right away what it is.

I put 8 for features:
- I love this pedal format, with the connectors on top, on an ideal type Pedaltrain Pedalboard for the cables without taking up too much space;
- Quality (housing, knobs "sensation bath oil" components) is there;
- The look is great, or at least unique.

3'5 jack for power supply is a false problem, you just think to take a visual sound adapter when ordering. This jack disconnects less easily than a standard Boss, less risk of false contact me I prefer.

UTILIZATION

True bypass, very reactive knobs, everything is very traditional but very well done.
She did what we asked, we can find a good sound, it is essential, so I put 7.

SOUND QUALITY

I play in the style Blues / Funk / Rock / PopRock.

I use it with moderate gain enough (say around 9 am-9.30), the Tone at the whim of the moment, and the volume adjusted to maintain an almost constant sound level that is selected or not. And I like the booster with an overdrive pedal, it gives another dimension, richer, more gain, more harmonics.

For rhythm I confess with my Stratocaster, I do not like the sound, say it is not my "style", too rough and acute, but I understand that some like.

For the solos: in this record that I love, it's sublime instrument, very expressive, we feel we can do anything with. The single-string guitar (wah) - (OD)-RAT-delay-amp (clean) allows all the solos from the classic Rock 80 '.

It is also the sound-M-(Machistador, I say love) for fans like me!

Not long ago, I stuck to him the famous chip LM308. I must say that I prefer, I think its a little more organic, less right, less typical modern, more expressive. I'm easily blues when it was not too much the case before the change. I think in a more wicked rock / metal, we prefer to keep the original chip, a matter of taste.

I met (only) 7 because I like the sound less rhythmic, and I find the perfect lead sound ... after changing the original chip.

OVERALL OPINION

It works well with everything (all the sounds of my strat VG, with a wah with an overdrive on a clean amp as saturated, etc., etc.). I do not think the sound is "versatile" is especially assemblies that can be done with other effects pedals that make it versatile in my opinion.

I love the setup, the look, sound solo, quality manufacturing, the legend (!) And adaptability (I prefer the term "flexibility" for the move).

So I give it 7 in a good overall because it is not perfect either.

And she is not too expensive compared to competition, demand that the people? Good stuff

The ProCo Sound Rat 2 is a distortion pedal that is designed for use with electric guitar. The pedal is an analog one and has the standard make up of two 1/4" connections for input and output and has an easy pull off battery compartment for powering it with a nine volt battery. The pedal isn't rack mountable as it's a stomp box.

UTILIZATION

If you've ever used a distortion or overdrive pedal before, you should be able to use the ProCo Sound Rat 2 pretty easily right from the start. It's only got three knobs to control your sound, but this will give you a good amount of varying tones. There are knobs for distortion, filer (tone), and volume. These are pretty much the three parameters that you'll find on most distortion pedals, so this make up isn't anything out of the ordinary and for this reason I don't believe a manual is necessary.

SOUND QUALITY

The ProCo Sound Rat 2 gives you a super thick distortion sound that in my opinion is best suited for heavier forms of rock. It's pretty much the same sound that you'll get with the original Rat pedal, although I haven't had a chance to shoot the two of them out side by side. I've mostly used the pedal for tracking rhythm guitar with a Gibson Les Paul Studio guitar. I don't own it, but I've used it in the past at a studio I used to work at. It's not the kind of pedal I would personally use on every song, but it did work at bit here and there for me when I was looking for a little bit of extra gain...

OVERALL OPINION

Overall, the ProCo Sound Rat 2 is a very solid little distortion pedal. It's certainly not the most versatile distortion pedal out there, but for what it can do, it does a great job. It's also cheap enough where pretty much anyone can pick up one to have around, even if it's not going to be your main distortion pedal. I think that the Rat 2 is the perfect compliment distortion, but wouldn't be my main one...