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ProCo Rat

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mulooga

Jun 30, 2004
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#1
Hola fellow bass dudes, this probably should go in the distortio thread, but i really didnt find much helpful there. I recently bought a Rat. The pedal is great, I love the distortion it delivers, but my problem is the pedal robs me of all of my low end. Does anyone have suggestion on how get my lows back when using this pedal or is there a pedal with a similar flavor of distortion that wont kill my tone? thanks for any advice.

l8r on :D
 
#2
You need to run two channels, one totally clean, the other with distortion. You can either run two amps, get a small cheap mixer or something similar, but that's about the only way to do it. Alternately, you can send it to www.robertkeeley.com and let him modify it to have more bass response.
 
#4
You could send it to Keeley for his famous modification. Other than that, you can check out loooper.com and get a one loooper with blend option to retain bottom end.

If I had my notes with me, I could help you exactly. I did a few small cap mods inside my old rat and it helped tremendously, noticed almost no bass loss. But that's just me.
 
#6
tplyons said:
You could send it to Keeley for his famous modification. Other than that, you can check out loooper.com and get a one loooper with blend option to retain bottom end.

If I had my notes with me, I could help you exactly. I did a few small cap mods inside my old rat and it helped tremendously, noticed almost no bass loss. But that's just me.
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Was it the rat you gave me? Because I did notice a low cut. I'm going to look into a loooper or something because I need to blend fo sho. It's an amazing sounding distortion though.
 
#8
Matt Till said:
Was it the rat you gave me? Because I did notice a low cut. I'm going to look into a loooper or something because I need to blend fo sho. It's an amazing sounding distortion though.
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Nah, I think you got the other one. I had about three at one point or another.

You'd know if you got the one I'm talking about ;)
 
#14
Matt Till said:
I'm sure his famous mod costs quite a bit, right?
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Hallo guys...
I think it's better not to open a new thread just for this stupid noob question...
Could somebody tell me the differences between the "originale" RAT (the "vintage" one, don't know how to call it) and the (newer?) RAT II?
bye!
 

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