Wampler Ratsbane | ProCo Rat 2 shootout + Telecaster, Stratocaster and Les Paul tones! Review & Demo

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This is the Wampler Ratsbane – Brian Wampler’s take on the beloved ProCo Rat 2 distortion/overdrive/fuzz pedal we all know and love!

In this video, I run the Ratsbane through my Fender Stratocaster, my Fender Telecaster and my Epiphone Les Paul to see how it handles the different guitars and pickups. As usual, I play a bunch of riffs in my favorite styles on all three guitars – indie, classic rock, pop punk, alternative rock and more – and afterwards I do a loop on each guitar where I tweak the Ratsbane’s knobs to show you all the extremes you can get with it.

Then comes the shootout against the ProCo Rat 2, where I run a rock loop and tweak the knobs on the two pedals so you can hear how close they get tonally – and what extra options you get with the Ratsbane’s different modes! Which pedal do you prefer? Let me know in the comments!

Get the Wampler Ratsbane here:

Get the ProCo Rat 2 here:


Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:46 Introduction to the Wampler Ratsbane
02:04 The Ratsbane’s controls

03:56 Clean reference tones and turning on the Ratsbane
04:56 Indie rhythm sound
05:47 Upbeat indie barre chords
07:05 Indie rock octave chords riff
08:33 Ratsbane as dirty clean/edge of breakup boost
09:24 AC/DC inspired classic rock sound
10:15 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
11:06 Groovy classic rock rhythm tone
12:25 Classic rock riff
12:59 All controls on 10! Fuzzy classic rock riff
14:01 Airbourne inspired hard rock riff
15:05 Classic hard rock riff
15:59 Glam rock riff
16:43 Foo Fighters inspired rock tone
17:34 Alternative rock riff
18:18 Punky grunge riff
19:01 Pop punk riff
19:40 Pop punk melodic lead sound
20:28 Punk rock riff
21:11 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
21:55 Hardcore chugging riff (Drop D tuning)
22:38 Mastodon inspired metal riff (Drop D tuning)
23:09 Hardcore punk riff (Drop D tuning)
23:54 Classic heavy metal/sludge riff (Drop D tuning)

25:33 Fender Telecaster punk rock loop: here I loop a punk rock riff and tweak the Ratsbane’s Distortion, Filter and Volume controls, and the Gain and Voice switches, to show you all the sounds you can get with the Tele and the pedal

27:13 Fender Stratocaster indie rock loop: here I loop a riff again and tweak all of the Ratsbane’s controls to show you all the sounds you can get

28:56 Epiphone Les Paul classic rock loop: and here I loop yet another riff again and tweak the Ratsbane’s controls to show you all the sounds you can get with the pedal and a Les Paul

31:45 ProCo Rat 2 vs Wampler Ratsbane loop: here I run a hard rock loop while I tweak the Rat 2 and the Ratsbane to see how they compare!


36:18 My thoughts and a quick review on the Ratsbane – size, build quality, etc.
38:09 Sounds – the Ratsbane is... a Rat!
38:44 Versatility – two pedals in one?
40:05 The Ratsbane with the different guitars and pickups
41:15 The Ratsbane vs the ProCo Rat 2
42:31 What the loop showed
43:19 Mini pedals are cool!
43:54 Other Rat pedal alternatives
44:45 Plague doctor design – historical fact warning!
45:16 Final conclusion and goodbye


Watch my full ProCo Rat 2 video here:

My setup was as follows: I ran the Ratsbane straight into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. That went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done. Oh, and I used my TC Electronic Ditto Looper to play the loops.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 head:
TC Electronic Ditto Looper:
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!):
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Enjoy!


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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Dusty Fingers – DJ Williams.

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