This is the Shnobel Tone Ratatouille Distortion: a ProCo Rat-inspired drive pedal from Roman at the legendary Shnobel YouTube channel!Ratatouille at Shnobel Tone:
I’m sure you all know the Shnobel channel – Roman is one of the founding fathers of guitar gear YouTube, having made over 2700 videos since 2010, and I’m sure we’ve all spent money on pedals after watching his videos in the past. I know I have!
As well as being known for his tonal tweaking skills and his tasty guitar chops, Roman is also a vastly experienced musician and modder of gear, and on his Shnobel tone website he offers a number of pedal mods. For the last few years, he’s also been building pedals, and this is where I come in.
As a huge Rat pedal fan, when I saw (and heard!) the Shnobel Ratatouille, I knew I had to try it. Now, after meeting Roman in person at the 2024 NAMM Show, I finally have a Rataouille to show you all!
It looks a bit like a Rat, and it’s named like one… but it’s actually an original circuit. Roman based his circuit ideas on the Rat, but ended up with some totally different – so this is no mere Rat clone. The Ratatouille has the standard Volume, Filter and Distortion knobs, though, and it comes in a classy, minimalist black enclosure. Made in the USA, it’ll set you back $269 as of early 2024.
Now, Rats are wonderful for their spiky clean boosts, their rich crunches and their mad fuzzy distortion sounds – and in this video, I put the Ratatouille through its paces in as many musical styles as possible to see how versatile it truly is. That means everything from country, folk and indie, to pop, rock, blues, punk, metal and more. I use my Fender Telecaster for single coil tones, and my Epiphone Les Paul for humbucking sounds. There’s even a couple of loops where we really twist the knobs of the pedal, and a direct comparison with my ProCat Rat 2.
Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:
00:00 Hello!
00:21 Introduction to the Ratatouille
02:02 Pedal controls and features
02:41 Today’s rig and plan
Pushed Clean Tones
03:47 Clean reference tones and turning on the Ratatouille
04:22 Ringing open indie pop chords
04:49 Country lead sound
05:01 Blues progression
05:24 Ascending droning indie chords
Light & Medium Overdrive Sounds
05:37 Fat indie rhythm chords
06:07 Southern rock picked arpeggios
06:27 Upbeat indie barre chords
06:51 Kings Of Leon inspired riff
07:03 Indie rock octaves
07:29 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
07:43 Hendrix inspired riff
08:00 Airbourne inspired rock riff
08:12 The Darkness riff test
08:31 Fuzz rock riff
Higher gain drive sounds
08:55 NWOBHM riff
09:15 80s rock riff
09:35 Hard rock melodic lead
09:57 Glam rock riff
10:12 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock riff
10:30 Alternative rock riff
10:54 Nirvana inspired grunge riff
11:07 Pop punk riff
11:33 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
12:00 Punk rock power chords
12:13 Less Than Jake inspired punk riff
12:24 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
12:40 Hard rock palm-muted power chords (Drop D)
13:05 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy riff (Drop D)
Heavy Distortion sounds (all in Drop D)
13:23 Metal chugging riff
13:40 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang
14:04 Heavy metal lead sound
14:19 Hardcore punk riff
14:34 Rammstein inspired industrial metal riff
14:48 Classic heavy metal/sludge riff
15:28 Ratatouille as boost into an overdriven amp
16:19 Fender Telecaster indie rock loop
18:55 Epiphone Les Paul hard rock loop
21:05 Ratatouille vs ProCo Rat 2 shootout
24:20 My thoughts
24:40 Things I like: sounds and versatility and… is the Ratatouille a Rat?
26:51 Loads of headroom
27:11 Rataouille vs ProCo Rat differences
27:52 Build quality, looks, Roman
28:26 What I don’t like so much
29:00 What other similar pedals are out there?
29:50 My conclusions on the Ratatouille and why you should buy it
Make sure you sub to Roman and check out more of his Ratatouille videos here:
My setup was as follows: I ran the Ratatouille straight into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. That went from the amp’s 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 Boss RC-10R to play the loops.
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