MichaelW
Well-known member
- Build Rating
- 5.00 star(s)
As hard as it may be to believe, I've never even played through a Rat let alone ever owned one.
I know zilch about the ProCo Rat even though I remember seeing ads for them in Guitar Player Magazine when I was a kid.
But @thewintersoldier told me that I was missing a vital and major food group in dirt sounds, and since he's a healthcare professional I figured I'd better listen to him.
I actually got 2 Rat boards, when I was ordering my MBP compressor boards I decided on a whim to throw in the Runt board on my order without realizing it was a 1590A project. After mulling over whether I wanted to try to build a top mounted jack version on a 1590A I decided to build the Muroidea first.
I definitely get why people love Rats. I don't know how close mine sounds to the ProCo variants but it sounds pretty awesome!
Super snarly and doubly snarly with the bridge P90 on my "90Caster" tele build. Yet it cleans up nice too, backing off on the volume knob or backing off the gain knob gives some nice mid-gain overdrive sounds. That's probably where I will mostly have mine, with the gain knob around 10 o'clock.
I made a couple of substitutions. I couldn't find an LM308 anywhere, so subbed an OP07. I watched a couple of video's comparing the ProCo LM308 vs OP07 variants and any difference is pretty subtle.
I also subbed an MMBFJ201 for the output buffer. I did not have a 2N5458 and my big pile of 2N5457's are all out of spec......sigh......
A bit of the usual "negotiation" with the electrolytic caps to fit this build into a 1590B. Glad to add this to my big pile of dirt.....pedals
P.S. I'm still a bit confused about the whole Star rating for the build section. Am I rating the project itself? My build performance? How the pedal performs?
Whatever....I'm giving it 5 Stars so @PedalPCB can earn his quarterly bonus.
I know zilch about the ProCo Rat even though I remember seeing ads for them in Guitar Player Magazine when I was a kid.
But @thewintersoldier told me that I was missing a vital and major food group in dirt sounds, and since he's a healthcare professional I figured I'd better listen to him.
I actually got 2 Rat boards, when I was ordering my MBP compressor boards I decided on a whim to throw in the Runt board on my order without realizing it was a 1590A project. After mulling over whether I wanted to try to build a top mounted jack version on a 1590A I decided to build the Muroidea first.
I definitely get why people love Rats. I don't know how close mine sounds to the ProCo variants but it sounds pretty awesome!
Super snarly and doubly snarly with the bridge P90 on my "90Caster" tele build. Yet it cleans up nice too, backing off on the volume knob or backing off the gain knob gives some nice mid-gain overdrive sounds. That's probably where I will mostly have mine, with the gain knob around 10 o'clock.
I made a couple of substitutions. I couldn't find an LM308 anywhere, so subbed an OP07. I watched a couple of video's comparing the ProCo LM308 vs OP07 variants and any difference is pretty subtle.
I also subbed an MMBFJ201 for the output buffer. I did not have a 2N5458 and my big pile of 2N5457's are all out of spec......sigh......
A bit of the usual "negotiation" with the electrolytic caps to fit this build into a 1590B. Glad to add this to my big pile of dirt.....pedals
P.S. I'm still a bit confused about the whole Star rating for the build section. Am I rating the project itself? My build performance? How the pedal performs?
Whatever....I'm giving it 5 Stars so @PedalPCB can earn his quarterly bonus.