The Perfect Rat... Does it exist?

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Re: The Perfect Rat... Does it exist?

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PS - I have no comprehensive knowledge of RAT's, but I have a Jerms '78 RAT clone, and that thing sounds goooooood.
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Re: The Perfect Rat... Does it exist?

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Love my 91-92-ish "big box" reissue with LM308. For me, it does everything requested by OP.

For me, less knobs is better than Inventoboxing the thing. I don't like the Ruetz mod, either, so I don't see improving on the clasic three-knob-and-bypass form.
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Re: The Perfect Rat... Does it exist?

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Saw this on the Fuzzrocious Pedals' Facebook wall... dunno if it's the PERFECT Rat, but it has a whole lot of knobs... which is the traditional ILF definition of "perfect."

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That. Looks. Awesome.
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Gone Fission wrote:Love my 91-92-ish "big box" reissue with LM308. For me, it does everything requested by OP.

For me, less knobs is better than Inventoboxing the thing. I don't like the Ruetz mod, either, so I don't see improving on the clasic three-knob-and-bypass form.

I kinda agree. I feel like you might as well just turn the gain down instead of using the ruetz mod. Having a diode switch on the other hand is really cool and useful.
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Re: The Perfect Rat... Does it exist?

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Well, yeah, I would give diode switching a try.
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I made a couple with the Madbean "Slow Loris" PCB and you could toggle between the regular 1N914, no clipping diodes, and LEDs. With no clipping diodes you get a much cleaner sound so that adds a lot of versatility. I could do without the Ruetz knob though.
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I don't know if anyone noticed this video of that pedal on Fuzzrocious's channel...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOWvUIqC ... nvKeCO-gp6
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