ProCo Rat: the distortion pedal on every top player’s board since 1978 | 5 reasons you need one NOW!

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So many amazing guitar players have used the ProCo Rat distortion pedal over the years. But I’d never had one… until now!

At Thomann:
At Sweetwater:

I’ve only played my new Rat 2 for a few hours, but it’s already changed the way I feel about distortion and overdrive pedals, and I now understand why people like Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys, James Hetfield, Graham Coxon, Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain, Nuno Bettencourt, David Gilmour and Thom Yorke from Radiohead (and so many others!) have used them. This video is your warning not to make the same mistake I did… so watch my demo, hear my reasons, then go try a Rat as soon as you can!

There's lot of playing samples here, so here's links for all the different parts, as well as the speaking bits at the end:

00:00 Intro riffage
00:30 Hello!
01:23 Today's rig
01:44 Switching on the Rat and first tonal tweaks (in coil split mode)
03:02 Classic rock rhythm sounds with the Hendrix chord
03:50 Classic rock tones
05:19 Indie rock chords
05:50 Rolling off the guitar's volume knob
06:06 Kings Of Leon-inspired indie rock riff
06:21 Arctic Monkeys riff
06:44 Indie rock barre chords
07:25 Garage rock riffs
08:34 Mystery alt rock riff - anyone recognize it?!
08:45 First chug test
09:11 Punk rock and pop punk test
10:08 Alt rock riffs in Drop D
11:07 Progressive rock riff
11:48 Hardcore punk riff
12:05 Using the Rat to push the amp's dirty (Lead) channel
12:41 Classic rock sounds (now in humbucker mode!)
14:14 The Darkness riff
14:45 Nirvana/punk-inspired power chord riff
16:09 Kings Of Leon riff
16:46 Testing the Rat's Filter control (classic rock riffs)
18:13 Heavy rock and fuzzy sounds
19:12 Fuzz on the neck and bridge pickups - garage rock
19:48 Humbucker test in Drop D tuning - alt rock
21:09 Sweeping the Filter while chugging
21:37 That massive intro riff again
22:14 Hardcore punk riff
22:32 Doom/sludge/Black Sabbath-inspired riff
23:18 Why you need to try a Rat now!
23:48 Reason 1 - sounds
25:29 Reason 2 - price
26:22 Reason 3 - join the Rat club
31:22 Reason 4 - choice
32:16 Reason 5 - don't make the same mistake I did
32:42 Negative points 1 - older Rats are better?
33:16 Negative points 2 - where the best tones are and tweaking
33:58 Negative points 3 - knobs hard to read
34:33 Negative points 4 - makes my expensive overdrives seem tame
35:00 Negative points 5 - it's addictive!
35:19 What other Rats should I try?

This is the That Pedal Show Rat episode I mentioned:

I used my 2014 Epiphone Les Paul Traditional Pro for this demo. The guitar went into the Rat 2, which went 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.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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Epiphone Les Paul (well, current ones... they don't make mine any more!):
H&K Black Spirit 200 head:
Focusrite 4i4 (the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they also don’t make any more!):

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Enjoy!



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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Controlled Distress - Biz Baz Studio.

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