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Proco Rat Distortion Pedal

June 13, 2006
Proco Rat
The Proco Rat Distortion Pedal is another classic distortion box. Usable tones range from a smudge of dirt to full-on piles of absolutely filthy grime.



Features:
  • Distortion, Filter, and Volume controls
  • On/off switch and status LED
  • 1/4-inch input/output jacks
  • Runs on 9V battery or AC adaptor
Check out the Proco Rat Distortion Pedal page.

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Humbucker Testing

By: Frank Hillier (not verified)
Humbucker Testing? Why don't you use a humbucker equipped guitar on the bridge pickup like 90% of people would use it? Stop doing chug chug riffs on a single coil, neck pickup.
Fri, 2007-04-27 22:51

^^^ What?

By: Anonymous Coward
^^^ What?
Tue, 2007-07-03 23:01

Same Guitar

By: Rick Marshall (not verified)
Hi. I really enjoy the stompbox walkthroughs and think you do a very good job of demonstrating the various functions of each pedal. My one suggestion would be to use the same guitar when demoing the same type of pedal made by different manufacturers. I watched three videos to compare three different distortion pedals and each was used with a different guitar (Tele, Gretsch, and Ric), so while I did get to see/hear the different functions of each, it was difficult to make an accurate comparison. Otherwise, keep up the good work and keep testing those pedals. Thanks.
Fri, 2007-10-19 21:05

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DAN AGOSTO: Hi. Welcome to Gearwire.Com. We’re taking a look at the Pro Co RAT. It’s a very popular distortion pedal. So let’s take a look in the box.

All right. Get the pedal. Well, so, registration online and let me see if I can get this manual out of here. All right. Actually, this is a catalog, just for the different types of Rats that they have. And also on the back you get the Deucetone RAT and the Juggernaut which is their bass distortion.

Okay, so take a look at the RAT. On the bottom, we got a little Allen piece that you would just unscrew. Battery would go in there. You could also use a 9-volt adapter. Got your standard 1/4” in and out. And as we can see we got three knobs: Distortion, Filter, Volume. Bypass switch. And that’s the Pro Co RAT, out of the box here at Gearwire.Com.

Hi. And we’re back with the Pro Co RAT distortion pedal. We got it plugged and ready to go. I’m playing a Telecaster. It’s an American Standard from Fender. It’s going through Marshall JCM2000 half-stack. It’s mic’ed up with a Shure SM 57. Let’s see what kind of a sound we get with just the guitar and no pedal.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH THE MARSHALL JCM2000 HALF STACK WITH THE PRO CO RAT BYPASSED]

All right. I’m going to bring the pedal in. We got everything pointed straight-up midnight.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH THE MARSHALL JCM2000 HALF STACK WITH THE PRO CO RAT ENGAGED]

So you see, we got a lot of distortion out of this pedal, a good amount of gain. Good amount of sustain. Let’s see what the distortion knob does. We’re going to turn that down a bit, compensate with a little bit more volume.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH THE MARSHALL JCM2000 HALF STACK WITH THE PRO CO RAT ENGAGED]

All right. Let’s try the distortion up a bit. Also bring down some volume.

[DAN AGOSTO TWEAKS SETTINGS THEN STARTS PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH THE MARSHALL JCM2000 HALF STACK WITH THE PRO CO RAT ENGAGED]

So, it works very well as either a rhythm sort of a chuggy sort of tone or a solo as well. Versatile sound. That’s why it’s so popular. And now this filter knob right over here kind of works differently from tone knob that you usually see on distortion pedals. It actually, when you turn it up, it will sort of mellow-out the sound, give you less high end. So basically, it’s filtering more. So, let’s see what that sounds like.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH THE MARSHALL JCM2000 HALF STACK WITH THE PRO CO RAT ENGAGED]

And if we turn it down, you’re going to get a more biting sort of tone, more high end.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH THE MARSHALL JCM2000 HALF STACK WITH THE PRO CO RAT ENGAGED]

So, that’s the Pro Co RAT. Thanks for checking it out here with us at Gearwire.Com.

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