It's wednesday and we all know what that means! . . It means nothing... it's just wednesday...
@gibek26004 жыл бұрын
IT'S WEDNESDAY MY DUDES
@forbiddenyasuo63864 жыл бұрын
@@gibek2600 aaaaAAAAAAAAAA
@ascar664 жыл бұрын
It doesn't chug just throw it to garbage basket.
@TheBlackKoma4 жыл бұрын
Its HUMP DAY!
@ryansouthard49294 жыл бұрын
I got my taxes back, bought a Jackson Rhodes V, Orange amp and called in sick. Damn right it’s a Wednesday.
@Trafffic10924 жыл бұрын
Will It Chug: Twin Reverb with no pedals
@DustinAlford4 жыл бұрын
I want to see this lol.
@blindguitarfox4 жыл бұрын
It won’t chug but it’ll peel the paint off the walls...
@annunacky44634 жыл бұрын
It is rumored to achieve time travel via sonic dissolution of nearby musicians. They come back changed.
@FirdausIdros4 жыл бұрын
Yass please
@jovianjanitra54944 жыл бұрын
Rolland jazz chorus with no pedal
@Mr.D344 жыл бұрын
A Swedish wise man once said "it will chug, if you push the strings hard"
@xvor_tex85774 жыл бұрын
otuzdortistanbul I don’t know why it sounds dirty but it does LoL 😂
@JonManProductions4 жыл бұрын
Unless it's that Dime Drive pedal. That failed horribly.
@Travatron50004 жыл бұрын
@otuzdortistanbul This was beautiful^^^ bravo.
@bernardoa.garciah.23163 жыл бұрын
The same one that said "if you want, you can bascially make anything chug with the help of an overdrive"? Yeah, I think I know that wise old man.
@Owen-ne6pe2 жыл бұрын
@@JonManProductions nah
@paulcummins41344 жыл бұрын
Doesn't chug like a tight sounding distortion but still sounds big and fat, definitely more of a doom metal pedal. I loved the way rat pedals sound personally.
@wesleyzimmerman944 жыл бұрын
I'm in a group on Facebook for Doom players and a lot of the guys in the group use it. For DOOM, I suggest using it to push a Big Muff
@HanlonRazor4 жыл бұрын
I player Stoner and Doom. The Rat is perfect for those. It is better to run it into an amp that has a little crunch going on, or use it push another pedal (fuzz is a good one).
@Gin1324564 жыл бұрын
Sounds Megadeth ish to me
@tite934 жыл бұрын
It's more of a fuzz than distortion, to be honest. This isn't really a hi-gain metal pedal, but if you put an OD pedal before it, it does wonders
@misterknightowlandco4 жыл бұрын
If you pair this with a tubescreamer to tighten it up a bit its an old school metal machine.
@fedefrost4 жыл бұрын
Hey Ola! I've been using a Rat for almost 15 years. It needs to be used with a dirty amp; a bluesy crunch. The knobs are quite tricky. Output knob also boosts treble freqs. Filter is a reverse tone control. Distortion boosts mids and turns the Rat into a fuzz box above 60%. Give it another try if you can, I think it can give you some really cool tones.
@ericwoods83402 жыл бұрын
Frrr will it chug videos are always great but I can’t say the rat was done justice here
@ruffryder13 Жыл бұрын
@@ericwoods8340 I concur. He turns the distortion down more on his other reviews.
@lordsludge56784 жыл бұрын
ola-"will it chug" every stoner sludge band-"do we look like a joke to you?"
@reynutz3 жыл бұрын
@Jon Goat You're not qualified to answer that
@Kenneth.W.633 жыл бұрын
...but seems to me, that most sludge bands rely on the bassplayer to make some chug/boom, and that's cool !
@reynutz3 жыл бұрын
@@Kenneth.W.63 No sir. Try downtuning to C Standard or something!
@Patrick-8576 ай бұрын
That's not chugging. That's an impenetrable wall of bass heavy fuzz. A rat will kind of chug if you boost mids going in, to an extreme degree, and then cut them back out afterwards. But anything will chug with pre and post EQ and enough gain.
@miracleman78364 жыл бұрын
I worked there in the late 80's early 90's and had 3 rats and a turbo rat. Employees could buy anything for the cost of the parts only so I ended up getting all kinds of cords, snakes, patch bays for myself and my friends. It was a lot of fun working there at that time. Jeff Beck and Gun's N' Roses were just a few of the bigger names that I remember making stuff for.
@homunculusSZN6 ай бұрын
Just listened to a complete history of Proco today. Thats an awesome story!
@NicuMihai4 жыл бұрын
YES FINALLY! I've been waiting for this forever
@williamdon34423 жыл бұрын
Did you get one ???
@andrei66023 жыл бұрын
Ce faci nicu aicia
@user-rm4ql2vx4i3 жыл бұрын
Actually it's not chugging
@mandreshyp66834 жыл бұрын
James Hetfield used a ProCo Rat with a Marshall in the Kill Em All
He also used alcohol and drugs to kill his career...
@spitefulwar4 жыл бұрын
@@thegoodguy44 Was that before or after the black album?
@NinjaMatt22014 жыл бұрын
@@charlesrocks Hetfield probably didn't use it with a clean amp sound like in this video. Guns N Roses used Marshall's that were modded to sound heavier than they were normally capable. Alternatively, you can crank a heavy amp and crank a distortion pedal in front of it. Of course, these days there are more options for heavy amps. Seether, on their newest record that has a heavier sound than usual, they used a Vox amp for the clean tone, and a Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier for the heavy sound. But that's more expensive than using one amp and a distortion pedal or two. Go back further, and Toni Iommi used a Treble booster to give his amp a little push. The Beatles plugged their guitars directly into the soundboard for Revolution and Helter Skelter. Eddie Van Halen fed his Marshall amps less power than normal to get his sound.
@GOAT-rl2uq4 жыл бұрын
One of my all time favorite dirt pedals. Best suited for the earthquake-y style distortion usually found in doom and sludge IMO.
@BrianBower4 жыл бұрын
I didn't know goats played guitar!
@ZYGTropicals4 жыл бұрын
Your delusional
@GOAT-rl2uq4 жыл бұрын
@@BrianBower It's not easy, but I make it work.
@liamtahaney7134 жыл бұрын
It's also particularly well suited to single coils. I have a walrus iron horse. It's a rat with the original chip and a clipping selector. I highly recommend it if you like rats
@Gabriel-sx8xi4 жыл бұрын
Shit gets serious when the pedal is plugged in the front
@kampfkustomer23434 жыл бұрын
Not every pedal is an MT2, Ola.
@fpsknifer99064 жыл бұрын
The Rat is a great pedal plugged into the front of a clean amp. You just need to adjust your rig accordingly, since it doesn't behave like many other distortion pedals. The EQ curve is kind of weird, and the "filter" knob is mostly useless. It's just a tone control wired in reverse. Turning it up kills off your treble response, but doesn't seem to bring out your bass or midrange frequencies at all. I tend to keep the filter knob on zero at all times, and tame the spikey high frequencies using the tone control on my guitar. Usually, players will leave their instrument tone wide open and adjust the EQ settings on their pedals or amp instead. You need to approach things backwards with this pedal. If you don't want to switch pickups or roll off your tone, you could alternatively run some EQ or pre-amp pedal after your instrument but before the Rat. As long as you keep these quirks in mind, the Rat can sound fantastic as a drive unit plugged into the front of your amp. The "fizzy" characteristics aren't coming from the pedal, really. They're in your tone because you need to roll off some treble frequencies before you hit the pedal - especially if you're using humbuckers.
@vht4me4 жыл бұрын
Run it in front with a flat graphic eq and it tightens up the Rat to MT-2 levels of tightness. That is my setup Jcm900 + Rat + Rane EQ.
@paulandrews3314 жыл бұрын
vht4me I'll just stick with my MT2, lol, actually I have been using a boss ME50, the MT2 built into it sounds awesome with the flanger on but set on 0
@cesaradrianer4 жыл бұрын
Why did everything go downhill when ge plugged it into the front? I thought that was the was the way you made it sound good, not the other way
@timclark54354 жыл бұрын
Couple of RAT notes from a life long user: The RAT is not like other distortion pedals in a lot of it's behaviors, and it can take some time to understand how to use it. First, the center "tone" knob works backwards, with an increasingly aggressive hi-cut, that also seems to move the mid-focus downward. My rule of thumb has always been to set it as far to the left as possible with it getting "hissy" or too prone to feedback. Second, they do tend to get fuzz-like the more distortion you add. I always found it most fruitful to think of the distortion level in terms of how much of that color (and volume) I needed to add to turn my amp's natural OD into something gnarly and mean. On it's own, the RAT's distortion is a bit... dry? solid state sterile? It some how doesn't feel like it's interacting with what you're playing, or with the amp white right. Unless you turn up the volume and add the bonus magic. BONUS MAGIC: I have big love for the Rat on high headroom amps. For years, I played a RAT with low distortion and the volume full out to run a Fender Super 60 (one of the crappiest, flabbiest OD channels ever, IMHO) out of pre-amp head room, and sometimes staged other dirt pedals according to the needs of the moment. The boost range in the volume knob on SOME versions can pummel nearly anything into submission, and it should not be underestimated. They are definitely not all created equally, and a lot of ProCo RATs just don't run as hot. And I've yet to find a RAT clone that has the completely ludicrous volume output of my early 1990s model.
@GearsyGGAA4 жыл бұрын
Tim Clark dude I've had quite a few of these over the years andi always hated them immensely. This was back in grunge days though lol but man once I really figured out it's place and how's to truly use it is a great dirt box. You're absolutely right on all of the points you listed
@darthsmolin4 жыл бұрын
Tim's got the right idea. My favorite application for a RAT is to max out the volume, set the filter to 0, and adjust the drive knob to taste. It's like a Maxon or Tube Screamer with hair and grit.
@lylaznboi014 жыл бұрын
I feel that the RAT sounds good, depending on the amp. I had a client who had a very clean amp and relied on pedals for his sound. It actually sounded pretty good right off the bat. Then there's my lead guitar player for my band. He has a Mesa Boogie Tremoverb. The distortion on that amp sounds sooo much better than the pedal. We did run a few tests on a recording. It definitely lacked the low end when it came to the palm mutes and other reliable frequencies. I tried to compensate that by messing with the amp EQ also. After some tweaking, we just ended up using the amp's distortion with an overdrive pedal. It probably does sound better on amps that have a lot of headroom from what you're saying.
@timclark54354 жыл бұрын
@@lylaznboi01 - This is going to run a bit long, but maybe it'll be helpful. I run two different amps for different applications - The previously mentioned Fender Super 60, and a Blackstar HT Club 50. Neither of these is what I'd call "metal" amp on its own. For the Fender, the catch is that it's a non-master volume amp, and it has to be over the hump for *really* good things to happen in the power section. In my room, it puts out about 115dB at 4. Power amp doesn't sweat until its up around 7. So, on the clean channel, the RAT acts more or less like a super-boost that can get the pre-amp to actually reach a natural breakup a room volumes. For contrast, my EHX Soul Food in clean-boost mode can't get the Fender there even when fully cranked out on output volume. With the RAT into the front, the Fender's OD channel gets tighter and more focused, adds preamp compression, and moves toward what I might characterize as a good hard rock sound that can be run up into some NWBHM and hardcore punk tones by adding filth from the RAT. By running the distortion past noon, and filter up to about 11:00, I start hearing the kinds of fuzz-like characteristics I associate with US doom bands like Sleep from the pedal, which enhance the amps own overdrive channel - usually with the amp gain at less than 2:00. For a 1x12 combo, it's unexpectedly huge sounding, and goes right into Orange territory. The Blackstar has two channels with 2 voicings each. The clean side has one they call the "Boutique" with moderate head room that just reaches breakup (without a boost) with most of my guitars, and a high headroom "modern" voicing that almost never reaches breakup (without a boost). In the clean side, the RAT can help tighten things up in the mid range, and lower the relative headroom, as well as adding grit to taste. However; with this amp the RAT doesn't do quite the same things on the clean side, regardless of how high the output on the pedal is set - the RAT takes over as a tone component, rather like a solid state amp in a box. However, by using the filter knob and moderate dirt, it puts out some really nice blues tones. It's also useful for doing a cleaner pass on multitrack guitars. The OD side of the Blackstar also has two voicings, one that they call "classic" which is more like a crunch channel, and a "modern" channel which I'd characterize as higher gain, with more mid focus, a tighter, punchier low end and more "edge". But neither voicing sounds like what you'd expect from a modern, high-gain metal amp. Which is where the RAT comes in for that rig. It becomes a mechanism to run it into the kind of high gain territory that I think we look for in a metal rig - where I want a lot of filth and sustain, without completely losing the sound of the guitar itself in the dirt. The Blackstar ISF knob is a critical aspect of controlling how the RAT interacts with the amp to this end, insofar as it impacts both the tone stack and seems to impact the interaction of the pre and power amp sections. The settings that I use on the RAT will vary a LOT depending on the amp, the channel and the sound I'm looking for, but it's a reliable one-box 90% solution for getting less than ideal amps to behave and sound the way that I want - and even how I dial in the amp in given situation. Using the RAT effectively is a conversation with the rest of your signal chain, but one that I've found can get me as close to the sound I want (as long as what I want is *more*) without having to stage 2 or more gain devices for anything but coloration.
@timnordberg72042 жыл бұрын
I did an 80's rat in to a '67 Fender Dual Showman (like a Twin in a head with no reverb) for years. I'd pull two tubes from the Showman to run at 42W and turn it up as loud as I could get away with. Absolutely killer and very reactive to wood and pickup choices. Did everything from EVH to EHG with the right guitar, and a really killer Sabbath Bloody Sabbath-era Iommi tone.
@DilettantResistanceStudios4 жыл бұрын
Yes! Love the RAT! It reacts very differently depending on the amp (and settings) you're using. Also the controls are very sensitive to each other. Usually less gain will sound better, and if you're using an already slightly broken up amp sound, the volume control on the pedal can really push it into a heavy overdrive without too much fuzz (unless you want it to :-)
@Coffee-Stain-Music Жыл бұрын
The Rat is incredibly versatile. You can use it got a good garage band sound, classic metal, punk, or grunge. I've done everything from Neil Young to Alice in Chains with this.
@georgetheodor1124 жыл бұрын
5:08 And all the doomers go like "Yeaaaahh! That`s the sound!"
@ilikepotatoes13454 жыл бұрын
It really do be like that lmao
@jasonwotring60453 жыл бұрын
Yeah pretty much
@Bbh45354 жыл бұрын
New you tube series “ Ola Does Fuzz”.
@westernfilet4 жыл бұрын
The sound of doom! Possibly the best pedal ever!
@HearthVader4 жыл бұрын
brb listening to Goatsnake
@lennarthyland6664 жыл бұрын
Yep. My first reaction as well. The gorgeous sound of doom
@joeyjo-joshabadu96364 жыл бұрын
RAT and BIG MUFF!
@marvintimke39783 жыл бұрын
@@Rr0gu3_5uture Yes and no, he used the rat to boost the plexi, i think. A lot of the tone probably came from James modded Plexi, which Kirk also used in the studio.
@nialld26383 жыл бұрын
I love this comment lol
@putridabomination4 жыл бұрын
The new signs look great. The entire set up is much more appealing. That Rat Distortion is awesome.
@slipspectrum92534 жыл бұрын
80’s Florida death metal bands would argue that this pedal will certainly chug, and when used with a 7-string, may cause satanic possession.
@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic4 жыл бұрын
*God of Emptiness slowly fades in* 🤘😏
@professorpedropontes44024 жыл бұрын
Satanic possession? I kindda like that...
@howler91712 жыл бұрын
Obituary has used the Rat for decades
@clowncorpse72304 жыл бұрын
The Rat was the sound of Florida death metal in the old days I remember Allen West of Obituray used one as did Trey from Morbid angel so being set properly I think they ran them through a JCM900 😀🤘great video as always
@clintn66774 жыл бұрын
Obituary uses 800's and rat.with the bass on 10, 0 mids, and treble at around 6-7
@clintn66774 жыл бұрын
Trey is also still using 900's at a rack unit rat. I love that the old school guys never change
@2free2snakes4 жыл бұрын
If I am not completely mistaken, Proco RAT was the choice for early 90's black metal also. They got that shrill buzz happening with these pedals and E standard tuning. I bet I am going to get a few guys saying that "gear didn't matter" back then but whatever.
@clintn66774 жыл бұрын
@@2free2snakes haha black metal guys sometimes try too hard for things to not matter sometimes.
@7James774 жыл бұрын
@@2free2snakes nah, they were using a Boss pedal
@dionr11684 жыл бұрын
This was used on Kill 'em All.
@dylanm.30474 жыл бұрын
Dion R and master of puppets, ride the lightning, as well as justice for all
@dionr11684 жыл бұрын
@@dylanm.3047 actually, a Tube Screamer and a JCM 800 was used on Ride the Lightning, a Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ plugged into the power stage of a Marshall was used on Master of Puppets, and I think a similar setup to Puppets was used on And Justice for All. I believe the Rat was highly unnecessary with those rigs (keep in mind that Kill em All was recorded on a Plexi).
@MrDragonkarp4 жыл бұрын
DS1* by kirk into a marshall
@dionr11684 жыл бұрын
@@MrDragonkarp James used the Rat though. And sadly, the whereabouts of the amp used on Kill 'em All are unknown, as it got stolen at a gig on the subsequent tour.
@Loogiz3 жыл бұрын
@@dionr1168 the mark iic++ was only slaved into the marshall for some of kirk's solo on mop, great info though!
@xvor_tex85773 жыл бұрын
I loved the sound when he put in front of the amp, yes it doesn’t sound like a traditional but it’s so chunky I love it
@nothingislogical4 жыл бұрын
The ProCo Rat is one of my favorite pedals. Awesome fuzz. Works great as a straight distortion. And it's not too shabby as an overdrive either, although at that point, it's kind of like having a sports car and driving it at 10 mph everywhere. Mine has been on the fritz a little bit lately so I'm looking at getting a replacement.
@shredward6664 жыл бұрын
3:02 sounding like a Weedeater riff. Stoney.
@TheSumfuck4 жыл бұрын
yes this is a pedal more design for stoner/doom/grungy tones
@groblezep55484 жыл бұрын
@@TheSumfuck Sludgey
@Sticky_Tea4 жыл бұрын
Time for another kitchen cover "there's a rat in my kitchen, what am I gonna do?"
@PooNinja4 жыл бұрын
Chug bro chug
@Kris_P._Bey_Ken4 жыл бұрын
Are you gonna fix that rat? 🎵 are you gonna fix that rat?🎵
@gregalon4 жыл бұрын
Wait... is this a UB40 reference on a Will it Chug video??
@JeffBarberDigideus4 жыл бұрын
Play that pedal through a Valvestate head and instant Obituary! Its more like a fuzz because its an old circuit like the old Muff pedal so theres no refinements to the tone stack. I love my Rat for that old school sound, although the frequency sweep is fairly unusuable at its extremes You should do a Muff pedal at some point. Plug that into an Orange or a Laney head... Doom it up and worship the riff!
@JosephPerumal4 жыл бұрын
Preach Digi !
@kiwar1934 жыл бұрын
Definitely worth redoing with a Plexi or JCM style amp for sure :)
@tommygunrva4 жыл бұрын
The RAT is best demonstrated on Carcass' "Necroticism" and Obituary's "Cause Of Death". In both cases, it was used as basically an overdrive-on-steroids, in front of dimed Marshall JCM's. An 800 for Obituary and a 900 for Carcass, if memory serves.I have used RAT's and Turbo RAT's in front of Marshall's and old Mesa/Boogie Coliseum heads in the studio on occasion, and got awesome results (specifically for death metal).
@ami2evil Жыл бұрын
Shure yhew did, Shitdick, shure yhew did...
@mattwalsh94132 ай бұрын
Obituary tone... is fucking killer.
@flooptydoo11784 жыл бұрын
I still run my Rat purchased in '86 through my Mesa Mark IV with a screamer.
@FEAROWNAGE4 жыл бұрын
The Mark IV doesn’t need either of those, though.
@Lalairu4 жыл бұрын
They work really nice with an overdrive
@gonz92784 жыл бұрын
Same dude, mines a newer rat though.
@gonz92784 жыл бұрын
@@FEAROWNAGE the rat needs the mark iv.
@emilioperez87394 жыл бұрын
Yeah, if you own a Mark IV, unless you get an overdrive pedal for a boost, it doesn’t need a distortion pedal 😂 But I can see why One would want a ProCo Rat pedal. I believe Metallica used them for Kill Em’ All. I managed to dial in a similar tone on my Mark IV straight from the amp. Just gotta sit down and dial it in. I recommend Class A, Triode, Harmonics🤘
@faustoarellano24163 жыл бұрын
5:12 yeah, that's the Sunn O))) sound, you can see it sounds really good with long/droney chords
@SteelBridges4 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite pedal to use as a boost on a high gain amp with medium output pickups. I set it up about 9 - 12 - 3 (clock positions). Some guitars likes it better than others, but when it's a good match, it's hard to beat!
@r.edward57013 жыл бұрын
I just ordered one. Stoked
@BassofDeath4 жыл бұрын
Trevor from Obituary uses this pedal! And man, that shit chugs....
@PooNinja4 жыл бұрын
Obituary 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
@reyokay4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, Obituary.
@nordicomsystems88414 жыл бұрын
That's his whole board... tuner, Rat, gate = chuggage
@dylandonis45904 жыл бұрын
Their live show is still freaking unbelievable
@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic4 жыл бұрын
@@dylandonis4590 Agreed, I saw them last year and I think they ripped the flesh off my face, and also broke my neck/spine 🤘😂
@floreavictormihaigeorge69624 жыл бұрын
5:04 - Ola discovering what sunn o))) is all about
@jacksmith44603 жыл бұрын
....almost the chord did not last 3 years though
@BxCx6664 жыл бұрын
Rat sounds just unique! Mix of a fuzz and distortion but not a first nor a second. I like it very much.
@jlsdomine7634 жыл бұрын
The rat was (is) the distortion pedal that made the jc-120 the early metal sound of Metallica. From the quintessential 80's clean chorus to full thrash metal chug, it was a garage band holy grail.
@DroctorKloebner4 жыл бұрын
"It didn't chug" *Morbid Angel has left the chat
@Tomislav_B.4 жыл бұрын
Hmmm... Morbid Angel and chug? Not really, imo, there's a lot more going on in MA song structure, chugging is usually in the back seat, Trey Azagthoth uses a lot of different strange lunatic shit and chugging doesn't have a big role there, sometimes it is not even present.
@doommantia69253 жыл бұрын
@Curly Que palm muting isn't the same thing as chugging
@geo__metro13184 жыл бұрын
I was hoping for this to happen and it did, a demo of the rat.
@aiden_macleod4 жыл бұрын
I've been trying to get Colin over at CSGuitars to demo one for a few years and he never has, so this is a treat.
@edwardsullivan55304 жыл бұрын
Me too. I’ve been wondering if they chug. I even asked the question in a pedal board group, but all I got was a laugh react. I didn’t know if that meant “of course it chugs”, or “don’t be silly”. Now Ola has read my mind and made a video. Thank you my Swede.
@aiden_macleod4 жыл бұрын
@@edwardsullivan5530 Depends on your entire FX chain, I'm certain.
@wakjob9614 жыл бұрын
Back in the day...it was the go to front of amp boost pedal for metal. Works surprisingly well as a semi-clean boost. That little grit around the edges ;-)
@Jacksonhabib10004 жыл бұрын
Hi Ola, Great video as always. Keep it up! I have one of these and I recommend the following. A Marshall 2203 or something similar that's already driving and then use the Rat like you use a tube screamer. Volume on max, filter between noon and 1pm, and drive at 9 o'clock and adjust to pickups and chug level required. It's an old school chug, but everyone needs a palete of chuggary in their menu.
@LuisVasquezMusic4 жыл бұрын
It sounded awesome into the fx loop and with a boost. This could be a nice way to do something different and not sound like everyone else. Just need to plug this direct to an interface and use something like the torpedo "wall of sound" and you are set for recording.
@daviddidonato97654 жыл бұрын
Me last night: God I hope Bernie wins Texas Me right now: God I hope Ola can make the Rat chug
@Soldano9994 жыл бұрын
Dude they will never let him win. It's rigged Joe Biden will win the whole process was a scam. Wake up the party is rotten beyond repair.
@PooNinja4 жыл бұрын
Just hope for the best
@juno9804 жыл бұрын
@@Soldano999 maybe its time for the states to move away from the whole two party thing and shift more focus on the house and senate.
@hansgrueber81694 жыл бұрын
@@Soldano999 yup, just ask Seth Rich...........oh wait........
@MadJackChurchill1312Ай бұрын
Prophetic.
@yurivincentweber3 жыл бұрын
5:12 is 100% Soundgarden's Fourth of July!
@Im_Not_A_Dad4 жыл бұрын
I’m ready for the series “Can Ola Get it to Chug?” Episode 1: Telecaster>DS1>Twin Reverb
@johnk97623 жыл бұрын
This guy never fails to put a smile on my face. He definitely a character.👍👍
@QSOMN4 жыл бұрын
Obituary's Cause Of Death sound in a box!
@Grindermetalhead4 жыл бұрын
Lol, I hate the guitar tone on that album so much.
@airieshahzad39914 жыл бұрын
James Murphy use this pedal?
@AlexRamosDrTaz4 жыл бұрын
@@airieshahzad3991 Only in the rhythm parts. He used a Tube Screamer into a JCM 800 for the lead tones.
@airieshahzad39914 жыл бұрын
@@AlexRamosDrTaz all this while I think he use Boss HM2 hahahaha
@marvintimke39783 жыл бұрын
@@airieshahzad3991 No, but Trevor Peres
@clintn66774 жыл бұрын
I just got one of these last week along with a Blues Driver. Still trying to find a proper tone with it. The Blues Driver oddly enough got me a tone Im really happy with .
@xNimrod97x4 жыл бұрын
Blues driver kills. Ola should do that one. The guy from All Them Witches used to use a blues driver as a fuzz/distortion. Sounded awesome
@CFChristian4 жыл бұрын
Legit shoegaze foundation
@clintn66774 жыл бұрын
@@xNimrod97x yeah I've always kinda avoided the Blues driver. That pedal can do much more than the name would have you believe.
@birthlifedeath4 жыл бұрын
Try a tube screamer instead!
@davidjameschamberlain4 жыл бұрын
You totally commented about this in one of the facebook groups I'm in
@seanoxton55724 жыл бұрын
Like how your legit astonished at every sound that comes out of your amp.
@FULLmeltHASH2 жыл бұрын
1:10 killed me for about 10 minutes wondering what that reminds me of, then I nailed it… Led Zeppelin, Ten Years After
@jdog112314 жыл бұрын
I'm a simple man. I see Rat pedal, I click.
@guilhermearoeira89004 жыл бұрын
You're a very simple man. I enjoy it.
@budgiecat28853 жыл бұрын
sounds better through the effects loop. Through the front its shit
@Beermaker20004 жыл бұрын
Jame's tone on Kill 'em All was a Rat into a JCM800. So yeah, a Rat will chug
@philarson2974 жыл бұрын
You sir are wrong kill em all was with a JMP
@quagmire78392 жыл бұрын
I’m pretty sure he didn’t use jcm800 until RTL
@henrynegro8397 Жыл бұрын
Adding an overdrive makes any distortion pedal sound better in my opinion. It helps push mids especially with the tube screamer
@nicolauferreira344811 ай бұрын
I like to use a little taste of tube screamer when using the lead amp on my Boss Katana plus reverb or delay, play riff of 80's heavy metal. But if you dont add reverb or delay and change to brown amp you can chug
@919ofak4 күн бұрын
Regardless of the Chug or lack thereof, your testing helped me decide on buying this pedal for the sound i need. Great video!!!
@christiangreen57214 жыл бұрын
This pedal is the biggest part of Obituarys tone. Please do a tone video for Obituary!
@rorbot_SMF4 жыл бұрын
I think Ola is one of the best music-oriented people on KZbin. Anyone else agree?
@kenr.b.8914 жыл бұрын
I owed a Rat pedal by in the 1980's. it is NOT a great sounding overdrive pedal, but it is the best we had in the way of a distortion/overdrive pedals back in the day. Today, there are much better sounding pedals. The Rat is too fizzy and raspy for my taste, but on the pedal, if if you turn down the raspy distortion knob and turn up the volume knob, it can drive the front end of a good tube amp.
@mitchellferre16524 жыл бұрын
Exactly. I will take a BE OD Friedman or a Dirty Shirley over a Rat. Or a TS9 .
@kianhowtan24294 жыл бұрын
What were the other options you had back in the 80s? Ds1?
@mitchellferre16524 жыл бұрын
@@kianhowtan2429 mxr 104 + distortion, tube screamer, DOD pedals.
@Supertzar9994 жыл бұрын
That's pretty much how I've use my Rat pedal for years. Pushed with an overdrive... and I use a tube screamer and it sounds savage!
@stefannita34393 жыл бұрын
6:14 is such a sick tone, crazy that it comes from two pedals that came out in 78-79.
@axjxaxx6054 жыл бұрын
"Reminds me of fried chicken". Exactly, that's what I was thinking : )
@Stretchwreckedem4692 ай бұрын
The RAT sounds even more sick with the gain on the amp set to allow the distortion from the pedal to push the amp a little bit. You wind up getting something that sounds really close to Morbid Angel and it sounds sick.
@celticfury73284 жыл бұрын
The legendary ProCo Rat...the pedal that makes you EARN its chug!
@emeralddreams53414 жыл бұрын
Doom or be doomed.
@wildbilltexas4 жыл бұрын
In the late 70's the Ratt was the nastiest distortion pedal available. It also had a rep for making shitty amps sound good.
@marijuana_memer42064 жыл бұрын
I couldn't imagine playing the bass guitar without a rat.... single best pedal for straight up metal/punk bass distortion
@therocknrollguitarlounge70574 жыл бұрын
Hell yea that pedal chugs.. own one and love it!!! Don't use battery's on it though drains the crap out of them fast! Lower the distortion if not you get a fuzz sound
@PerpetuallyTiredMusician4 жыл бұрын
I have two of these, my dad's old one from like 86 and my own that I bought in like 99. They are very similar sounding but the older one has tighter mid range. I don't find it very " chuggy" but it is one on of my fav distortions. I also find the extra treble/attack from my SSH strat makes it closer to some chug like shenanigans. Anyways a good distortion that every studio and guitarist should have in their arsenal. Ha det bäst!
@SmaustinsMusic4 жыл бұрын
I use a RAT on my bass rig and it CHUGS
@antonycharest47194 жыл бұрын
DoctorQuicksand do you blend it in a wait or is this sucking all the bass?
@AlexRamosDrTaz4 жыл бұрын
@@antonycharest4719 a stock RAT does suck some bass, but it's quite minimal. If you're already using a EQ setting on the amp with plenty of bass and enough of the low mids you should be OK.
@radiogra75 ай бұрын
The Fuzzrocious Cat Tail has knobs to affect the clipping on the high and low frequencies. If you cut the bass frequencies and almost max the high end frequencies into an amp just breaking up it will easily chug. Running a boost into it also makes it chug.
@benpowersguitar4 жыл бұрын
WOW! Haven't a RAT in a long time. Love this channel, you never know what you're going to see.
@SomeJustice19k4 жыл бұрын
If you don't know what chugging is, it's this: CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG
@KP_Tunes3 жыл бұрын
Accurate
@SpecialistGuava4 жыл бұрын
TS>Rat=some of the best metal tones you'll ever hear.
@edward6583 жыл бұрын
Haha nice one :)
@ToddtheExploder4 жыл бұрын
The Rat works best, for me at least, when used with other pedals, like fuzz, boost, and od. As a stand-alone effect, I find it to be somewhat less versatile tonally than what I want in a pedal, plus the overall sound, by itself, feels a bit thin. I have learned that it does bring a certain flavor to my tone that is hard to pin down, but definitely, noticeably there: when used alongside other drive-type pedals in front of the amp, it fills out the sound very nicely. Sort of a "secret sauce" pedal, if that makes any sense. And yet I don't care for nor do I still own any Big Muff pedals, so go ahead and start casting aspersions. That's why they run the races: because everybody likes a different horse. Nice job, Ola.
@elvancor4 жыл бұрын
Always thought of it as a rock pedal. Not surprised it doesn't chug, but I like it a lot.
@blaines88324 жыл бұрын
I've always heard rumors that these were a big part of early metallica sound.
@marvintimke39783 жыл бұрын
Only Kill 'em all. James also used a modded marshall plexi, but it got stolen
@jayseibert39654 жыл бұрын
New show idea: "Will it Fuzz?"
@goathedz883 жыл бұрын
I just bought bought the rat2 and that boss super overdrive! Can’t wait to use it on my orange combo. Ola has helped me max out my credit card and I’m ok with it
@design1of4707 ай бұрын
The first time I went to Sweetwater, I bought a RAT. It's such a great pedal.
@the92project4 жыл бұрын
3:01 Elysian Fields by Megadeth
@TheMasonator7774 жыл бұрын
Sounds really cool with the overdrive in front!
@StupidEarthlings3 жыл бұрын
This guy rules the world. Love the way he always says "4 by 12" instead of just 4 12. :)
@jeffkellogg764 жыл бұрын
I have an original RAT that is in a box made from flat steel that is bent into shape. When it quit working I sent it to ProCo in Kalamazoo Michigan and they fixed it and shipped it home to me with a free t-shirt - RAT STOMP ON IT. It is still prominently displayed on my pedalboard.
@jeremyrafuse53302 жыл бұрын
That got doomish in a hurry.
@bitdevice4 жыл бұрын
Do a video on Mesa Boogie JP-2C, I would love to hear your thoughts on that amp. Or Mike Wead on Coffee with Ola!
@petefaders3 жыл бұрын
My first pedal ever back in 87
@flashoftheblade90462 жыл бұрын
I worked at a screen printing company Impact Label Corporation in Kalamazoo Michigan USA where Gibson Guitars was located (Heritage Guitars which Alex Skolnick plays, was a part of Gibson remains in Kalamazoo.) Impact Label Corporation prints the graphics label for Rat. I printed thousands of these labels with glow in the dark ink black and red. I also printed Gibson labels for the headstocks of Gibson guitars
@jerod2564 жыл бұрын
I watched the video just thinking the whole time "just get rid of the rat and run a TS into the dirt channel of the Randall Satan"
@riffgroove4 жыл бұрын
I'm on my third Ibanez Tube-screamer.
@joe125244 жыл бұрын
Trevor Peres of Obituary uses one.
@ideovidiot6564 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah! I live in Kalamazoo Mi, and worked for ProCo for 8 years before they closed. Charlie Wicks was a great man and a friend to all. I ran a Mazak CO2 laser that cut out the bodies before bending and powder coat. Great times!
@mettall19814 жыл бұрын
I worked for a company in Kalamazoo Michigan Impact Label Corporation that printed all types of labels. I worked in the screen printing department as a Lead Press Operator where we screen printed the control panel for the Rat. First you do the black and then the glow in the dark ink. We also printed Gibson labels Gibson Guitars use to be in Kalamazoo. Heritage Guitars are made there now. Loved to print these labels to further the cause of Metal
@dokterkarel4 жыл бұрын
"will it chug!" Timer starts at 37 seconds.
@luisaucedo3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@luisaucedo3 жыл бұрын
Donnow wai
@Sagerydian4 жыл бұрын
Rat in the effects loop sounds a bit like Slowly we rot. Is that the sound? Or how do I get the legendary Slowly we rot sound?! I want it!!
@2005ttr1254 жыл бұрын
Turn the tone knob on your guitar all the way down, guitar>rat>fx-return on amp
@clintn66774 жыл бұрын
Obituary tone is jcm800 with a rat. Bass on 10, zero mids, and treble on about 6. The rat is distortion on 7, filter one 2-3, and volume around 6-8. I just got a rat last week so I've been researching
@Sagerydian4 жыл бұрын
@@clintn6677 thanks mate!!
@clintn66774 жыл бұрын
@@Sagerydian kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4bTY5KkjMpkrrs here is a rig rundown so it will show you all the details
@koffieverslaafde6274 жыл бұрын
Clint Norwood i suppose you’ll have to adjust the treble with different guitars and pick ups?
@umTeacher013 жыл бұрын
This pedal sounds pretty cool on bass btw
@Kadoogan834 жыл бұрын
When you first plugged into the front of the amp, the sound/tone reminded me of the band Electric Wizard.
@AlexRamosDrTaz4 жыл бұрын
Electric Wizard uses a Univox Super Fuzz pedal. Can't find one? Try the Behringer Superfuzz or the Boss FZ-2.
@fiveways4 жыл бұрын
It chugh's in a Doom way.
@trendkill33334 жыл бұрын
Demo the Randall Century 200 already man, we’ve all seen it on your amp shelf in the office tour
@Diggerdog2nd4 жыл бұрын
My buddy Lance got his in 1980 & still works . I have one in my collection too. They're great.
@jackko212 жыл бұрын
Trey from morbid angel uses this I love how raw his tone is especially on covenent and blessed are the sick
@zachlasseter97884 жыл бұрын
Obituary style..... It will chug.
@NinjaMatt22014 жыл бұрын
To me Metal is a rock sub-genre. I see no reason I shouldn't love Metal as a lover of Rock.
@kenhomeier86294 жыл бұрын
Had a Rat pedal back in the day for years as a staple for heavy down picking riffs. Great if you don’t have a high dollar amp and 4x12 cabinet. Active pickups (EMG 85) work well as a combo with a cheap amp or headphone setup. That pedal served me well and was well worth it. Doesn’t compare to a Boogie, but cheap and tough as hell.
@kosmicwizard4 жыл бұрын
It goes from od, through distortion right to the edge of fuzz. It is a great pedal, and your comment was very apt!