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Just got my rat 2 in the mail. Any recommended settings?

Settings are going to sound different with different rigs.
Go twiddle all the knobs you can (pedal, amp, guitar) and have fun finding settings you like

My first suggestion, after having just gotten a Rat2 myself this week, is to change the op amp. You can go with LM301, which is way cheaper than a 308 and also sounds the same (to my ears).

Did you get both already?

I like having my gain at around 10:00 and filter around 11:00, and when you stack them like that, it gets awesomer.

I've got a 20-ish year old big box reissue, and there aren't particularly "wrong" settings for the knobs on that, although I hear others are more finicky. Twiddle away. And don't be afraid to completely rethink the Filter knob setting at different gain ranges.

I'll use this also as a future reference to my favorite overdrive setting on my Rat2 (since I'm going to be sending mine off to theavondon tomorrow).

Distortion: 9:00
Filter: 1:30
Volume: 11:15

When I had a Rat2, I liked the gain low-ish (9-10:00), the filter around noon/one and volume set just a tad above unity.

That being said, I wasn't particularly happy with the Rat, so I designed the Propaganda Overload.

modernage wrote:I'll use this also as a future reference to my favorite overdrive setting on my Rat2 (since I'm going to be sending mine off to theavondon tomorrow).

Distortion: 9:00
Filter: 1:30
Volume: 11:15

So excited!