Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
There’s no getting around it, through hole components have long been on the way out and being replaced by SMD. I’ve had several clients I do board design work for either going full SMD or at least a hybrid with SMD for resistors and a few other components, and TH for caps. This RAT layout … Read more
Something like this have probably been done before… Yes, Fuzzdog added a 3-band Marshall style tonestack to a Rat a while ago. Oh, and there is Idiotbox Blowerbox, a Rat tuned for bass with less gain with a James tonestack…. This one is quite similar to the latter but has more gain on tap and … Read more
Now this is mainly for my own purposes, as I doubt anyone else will want to build a Rat this way & I only plan on making one. Just a standard Rat, built on 0.15″ vero and I’ve prioritised looks of build practicality (or at least what I think looks good anyway). I have built … Read more
Pretty much a stock Rat with two additional switches. The clipping switch selects between the stock silicons and a assymetric MOSFET/Shottky pair. A Earlier units is supposed to have a 1N270 germanium diode in place of the Shottky The Fat switch toggles between stock mode and Fat mode by adding a 6,8uF cap at one … Read more
This is a request. Fuzzdog tweaked a the classic Rat circuit a few years ago. It includes the “Reutz mod”, a diode selector switch for assymetric silicon/LED clipping and a Marshall 3-band tonestack. The output buffer is tweaked into a gain recovery J FET stage to cover up the lossy tonestack. For a Sunn/Supergroup tonestack, … Read more
The humble Proco Rat – a staple of distortion throughout the 80s, and then later rediscovered by people that couldn’t afford expensive pedals or just liked the sound. By the way, I refuse to acknowledge the Rat as a fuzz pedal. Others may, but not me… Excellent analysis on Electrosmash if you have somehow missed it – link here The … Read more
It’s a Rat… and of course you can build any version of the Proco Rat using this point to point layout. Pop the Earthquaker Devices Tentacle in front of it and a boost after it, and now you have a Sunn Life pedal. PROCO RAT – POINT TO POINT LAYOUT PLEASE NOTE: … Read more
