Sonicake Rude Mouse | The best Rat pedal for under $50? Review & Demo + ProCo Rat 2 comparison!

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This is the Sonicake Rude Mouse – an extremely affordable (€30/$30!) mini pedal take on the legendary ProCo Rat 2 overdrive/distortion/fuzz pedal that we all know and love!

Get the Rude Mouse here:

If you’ve ever seen my channel before you’ll know I am a HUGE fan of the Rat pedal – it’s cheap, it’s built like a tank, and it offers a wealth of usable drive tones, from pushed cleans to light overdrives, to rich, thick distortions and even some pretty gnarly fuzzes. There’s a reason it’s been on the boards of pretty much every top guitar player ever at some point since it first came out in 1978!

And it’s also no surprise that many other pedal companies have done their own take on the Rat circuit; now Sonicake have sent me the Rude Mouse to see how theirs would fare. The Rude Mouse has the standard Distortion, Filter and Volume controls, as well as a two-way switch offering Classic and Hot modes. The Classic is the vintage Rat tone we all know and love, while the Hot mode gives us a boost in volume and brightness.

All this said, the Rude Mouse should offer us everything from light overdrive to crushing distortion and face-melting fuzz, and that’s what we’re putting to the test today. I use my Fender Telecaster (for single coil tones) and my humbucker-equipped Epiphone Les Paul to try the Rude Mouse at all of my favorite music styles – indie, classic rock, punk, alternative rock, metal, and more – and afterwards a few loops where I tweak the pedal’s knobs to show you all the extremes you can get with it.

Finally comes the highly anticipated shootout against the original, the ProCo Rat 2! Here, I run a hard rock loop and tweak the knobs on the two pedals so you can hear how close they get tonally.

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

00:00 Hello!
00:11 Introduction to the Sonicake Rude Mouse and the Rat
01:21 The Rude Mouse’s controls
02:01 Today’s rig and plan

02:36 Clean reference tones and turning on the Rude Mouse
03:18 Classic rock riff
03:34 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
04:10 Groovy classic rock rhythm tone
04:37 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
05:09 Another AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
05:25 Hendrix inspired fuzz riff
06:08 Indie rock rhythm sound
06:37 Indie octave chords
07:06 Kings Of Leon inspired indie riff
07:21 Indie surf pop riff
07:55 Upbeat indie rock barre chords
08:20 Indie rock octave chords riff
08:44 Classic hard rock riff
09:19 Hard rock riff
09:36 Glam rock riff
10:02 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock riff
10:37 Alternative rock riff
11:02 Pop punk riff
11:29 Pop punk melodic lead sound
12:00 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
12:29 Nirvana inspired punky grunge riff
12:55 Punk rock power chords
13:09 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
13:41 Modern rock chunky palm muted power chords (Drop D)
14:05 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy rock riff (Drop D)
14:37 Metal chugging riff (Drop D)
15:08 Hardcore punk riff (Drop D)
15:23 Lead Sounds
15:48 Classic heavy metal/sludge riff (Drop D)
16:22 Rude Mouse as boost into a dirty amp

17:03 Fender Telecaster indie rock loop with Rude Mouse tweaking
19:07 Epiphone Les Paul classic rock loop with more Rude Mouse tweaking
21:50 ProCo Rat 2 vs Rude Mouse loop

24:04 My thoughts – the Rude Mouse does the Rat thing!
24:20 What I like: tones and versatility
25:47 Price, quality and practicality
26:19 It doesn’t squeal!
26:55 What I don’t like: that typical Rat problem
27:58 Who’s the pedal for, and should you buy one?
28:25 Other Rat pedal alternatives
29:11 Final conclusion and goodbye


You can watch my full ProCo Rat 2 video here:

Get the ProCo Rat 2 here:


My setup was as follows: I ran the Rude Mouse 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: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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