ProCo Rat 2 vs Wampler Ratsbane vs Mooer Black Secret vs Greer Gorilla Warfare! A Rat for any budget

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The ProCo Rat is one of the most legendary overdrive/distortion/fuzz pedals of all time. It’s pretty cheap, it’s built like the proverbial tank, and it sounds amazing. The Rat will do everything from a pushed clean sound to light overdrives, powerful distortions and thick fuzzes – and everything in-between. No surprises, then, that so many top players still swear by this pedal over 40 years since the original came out!

It’s also no surprise that many other companies have made their own versions of the Rat over the years. Today, we’re taking a look at three of them, and shooting them out against my trusty ProCo Rat 2.

We’ve got a Rat for every budget under the microscope too, from the $60/€50 Mooer Black Secret to the $70/€80 Rat 2, the $150/€160 Wampler Ratsbane and the boutique $200/€225 Greer Gorilla Warfare… but which one is best? And can any of the competition beat the Rat at its own game? That’s what we’re going to find out!

Get the ProCo Rat 2 here:
Wampler Ratsbane:
Mooer Black Secret:
Greer Gorilla Warfare:

Here, I play a couple of loops, the first on my Epiphone Les Paul, the second on my Fender Strat, and I simply test out the various sounds each of the four pedals offers. Let me know which one you prefer in the comments, and if there’s any other Rat-type pedals you’d like to see me try, then let me know!


Here are some links to the various parts of the video:

00:00 Introduction and what we’re doing today
02:18 Humbucker loop with the four Rat pedals
09:02 Single coil loop with the four Rat pedals
13:32 My thoughts and why I love my Rat 2 so much
15:10 Wampler Ratsbane
17:08 Mooer Black Secret
18:26 Greer Gorilla Warfare
19:44 Which one should you buy?
20:29 Final conclusion and goodbye


My setup was as follows: I ran the pedals into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. The amp 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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