Figured I'd resurrect this beeacht for a short report on my NPD...
My Yellowcake Furry Burrito arrived a couple days ago. Haven't been able to turn it off. Not that I'm eating all my words, I've gotten bored with rats a long time ago, and still think they're picky with amps/guitars...
But after hearing my buddy's proco rat through his old Marshall JMP...
I just had to look for my own rat-type pedlol. My pedal collection hasn't been this big in ages, and still I didn't have anything that qualifies as a 'distortion'. Everything's either a true fuzz, or a clear and open sounding od, or a cheap old bees in a jar death metal type pedal.
So yeah, *any* decent distortion pedal was welcome. Don't have a stock Rat to compair the Burrito to, but it's definitely darker, which I like A LOT.
The harshness and fizz is one of things I disliked about my old rats. I don't really see why I'd want two seperate controls for the same basic thing though. The differences between the 'gain' and 'drive' sections are subtle enough to blend in one single control impo, it's not like you get an actual fuzz effect and an overdrive effect or anything. The filter control is also a bit too limited to rely on for actual auto wah type of effects. It's kinda subtle and only really noticeable when you play single notes in a...auto wah kinda way, if that makes any sense at all...
Anyyway, all that matters to me personally: More gain/grit and more low end than what I remember from my old proco rats. The Ruet'z mod didn't add this much bass to my rat, and it killed a ton of gain, turning the pedal into a low gain overdrive, instead of a high gain distortion. And I know I get both all the low end I need, AND enough gain so I don't need to tap dance or use a looper for a Rat+Muff combo or anything...
I might hang on to this one for a while