Rat kits... Which one?

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Rat kits... Which one?

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I want to build a Rat for myself.

Which kits are you guys liking? BYOC? GGG? Others?

Curious. The BYOC is appealing because of all the different modes.

Def. looking for the older 308 sound.
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BYOC is the best kit maker out there, I think. And their Rat project is the most comprehensive in terms of mods (and has the best documentation by FAR). But I've found that, at least for me, when I have 20 options for something like a dirt box, I end up using one or two 99% of the time.

But I guess if you play a ton of gigs in vastly different sizes and types of venues, it would be good to have all that the BYOC can do.
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culturejam wrote:But I've found that, at least for me, when I have 20 options for something like a dirt box, I end up using one or two 99% of the time.


Yeah, that's the same for me. I do a lot of recording with other bands though, so I was thinking having all those other options might be fun in the studio.

I mostly want that compressed feel of the original (which I have).
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You could also mod the shit of an existing Rat.

Here is one I did:
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And this one has four clipping options on an internal DIP switch bank:
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