a RAT with enough low end?

Jam Pedals Rattler Bass.

Rat Pedal with a clean blend. Even has the LM308N chip.

Rattler Bass - JAM pedals

 

Even with a clean blend I find fuzzes and distortions suck out too much Lowend. I would stack your rat with an inexpensive EQ pedal to run together to add in what’s missing.

 

Maybe move this to Effects & Pedals for more visibility?

 

MXR Bass Distortion is my choice for a Rat with good low end.

 

Check out the Helios and the Aphelion. They have a number of distortion pedal board, many are set up for popular mods with details in the documentation.

DIY Guitar Pedal Projects - build your own clones of popular circuits

 

Original Volt Thrower by Dunwich Amps.

 

I use a Whiteface Reissue Rat with an LS-2 to blend my clean signal in. It sounds amazing!

 

What about the Rat/Cat Tail from Fuzzrocious? It has enough low-end for me but maybe I'm in the minority on that?

 

No you're not. The MXR Bass Distortion is basically a simplified Cat Tail and it's got plenty of low end.

 

Ive been using a Dunwich volt thrower for a few years now. I havent tried a cat tail from fuzzrocious so im not sure how they compare. But the volt thrower powered by 18 volts looses very little low end and it has a built in 2 band eq so you can boost the lows up and dial back the treble a bit and get a really strong low end. Ive tried lots of distortions over the years and the volt thrower is my favorite. Though they can be a little harder to come by than a fuzzrocious pedal as he doesnt build nearly as many pedals.

 

Cheap - MXR Bass Distortion

Fuzzrocious Cat Tail w/clean blend

Dunwich Volt Thrower

Earthbound Audio Iron Pig

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Rat with a blend loop pedal -ie Damnation Audio Bloop

 

Simple mod, 2 parts. Change the input and output caps to 220nf.

 

That was my first thought.

 

FatRat = Rat + Fat

 

The idiotbox blower box or the landphil might be good choices for that.

 

Dunwich Volt Thrower

 

You should buy a separate eq pedal just for your rat and deploy it to not influence the other pedals.

 

+1. A great RAT with a built in high and low EQ

 

The Aftershock has a pretty good RAT engine and you can tweak it in the Neuro app with the awesome eq that it provides until you find it suitable to your taste, and then still blend the clean signal for better definition and tone retention.