by Gone Fission » Sun Aug 14, 2022 10:28 am
Like Blackened Soul, I was initially disappointed with the Rat. My teen into early 20s sonic hunt was looking for a smooth, liquid sound, and the Rat isn’t about those things, at least not on it’s own. Run it into a squishing compressor and some serious delay (and if you can into an amp where the output transformer is saturating at least a bit) and it’s not incompatible with those goals if maybe not the ultimate thing. Wanting smooth I would overdo it on the filter, which is a bit meh. The beauty of the Rat is the jangle/edge/hash, that bit that makes notes stick out even when you’ve got a shit ton of gain or dense delay and/or reverb going on. So my advice for newbies is to open the filter more than you initially dialed it and see how it sits.
Oh, and at low gain with the filter up it’s like a treble booster that’s magic for power pop and such.
(Still on a 91 or 92 big box “Vintage Rat” with factory LM308, all stock. I’ve thought of making the mild tweaks and getting tantalum caps in it to make it pure vintage, but I’ve decided not to fuck with a good thing.)
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