Today we’re comparing three more of my favorite cheap Rat clones – the Mosky King Rat, the Sonicake Rude Mouse and the Tone City Mickey – against the real thing: the iconic ProCo Rat 2 overdrive/distortion/fuzz pedal!
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Get these pedals at Thomann: https://thmn.to/thocf/c5u5r6dvfz
At Sweetwater: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/EKDYme
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So many FX pedal companies make their own versions of the legendary Rat circuit, but the three pedals taking on the ProCo today all offer you at least two Rat versions to play with, while being cheaper than the real thing too.
The ProCo Rat 2 will set you back around $90/€90 in 2024. It’s rock solid and built like a tank, and offers just three knobs – Distortion, Filter and Volume – with you can use to dial in all sorts of drive sounds, from a clean boost to light overdrives, thick, rich distortions and even some pretty gnarly fuzz!
The Mosky Audio King Rat (which costs about $40-50/€50) has those three controls, plus two extra controls for additional Rat goodness. First off, there’s a four-way Mod knob, which lets you switch between Dirty, Vintage, Turbo and Fat modes. These all relate to different ProCo Rat variants: the You Dirty Rat, the classic Rat, Turbo Rat, and the Fat Rat.
The different Rats have different tonal options, different clipping modes, and so on, that you can use to manipulate the tones. But the King Rat’s not done yet! You also get a two-way switch to choose between LM308 and OP07DP modes. These are both chips that have featured in Rat pedals.
The LM308 is the legendary chip that was built into earlier, USA-built Rats, and which is prized today, whereas the OP07DP is used in contemporary Rats. I don’t think the King Rat has both chips in it – I looked inside and you can’t see the chip(s) – but it certainly gives you even more Rat-type tones to play with.
The $30/€30 Sonicake Rude Mouse might be an extremely affordable mini pedal, but it’s nice and solid feeling with it. Alongside the standard Rat controls, you get two modes here: Classic and Hot.
The Tone City Mickey (this one costs $40-50/€50) is mini in stature too, and this one also has two modes: one gives you asymmetrical clipping, and the other symmetrical. The Mickey is also the only one of these pedals to have a Tone control which – unlike the usual Rat Filter control – gives you more high end the more you turn it up, as opposed to less!
At the end of the day, then, these pedals are clearly all Rats, but they’re cousins in the same family, with price, size and tonal differences – and hopefully this video will help you decide which might be the best fit for you! In the video, I play two loops – one on my Epiphone Les Paul’s bridge humbucker, and the other on the bridge single coil pickup of my Fender Telecaster – and this gives me the chance to really tweak the knobs and settings on all four pedals to hear how they compare. Let me know which one you think sounds best in the comments!
Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:
00:00 Intro and what we’re doing today
01:04 ProCo Rat 2 specs and info
01:32 Mosky King Rat specs and info
02:50 Sonicake Rude Mouse specs and info
03:39 Tone City Mickey specs and info
04:52 Today’s rig and plan
06:16 Epiphone Les Paul modern rock loop
14:51 Fender Telecaster indie rock loop
My setup was as follows: I ran the pedals into the front end of my Hughes & Kettner AmpMan Classic pedal amp, then went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That’s it. No post-processing on the sounds was done. Oh, and I used my Boss RC-10R to record and play the loops. Here’s some links to those bits of gear:
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AmpMan Classic at Thomann: https://thmn.to/thoprod/512777?offid=...
At Sweetwater: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/q4vkVO
Boss RC-10R: https://thmn.to/thoprod/470055?offid=...
At Sweetwater: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/daq4J2
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Check out the ProCo website to learn more about the different types of Rat pedal they make (and which influence the different modes offered on the three Rat clones here): https://www.ratdistortion.com/categor...
Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.
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