Rats! Foiled Again.

[KingsXJJ]

I have a love/hate relationship with RATs. Just the bit of harshness in the upper mids annoys me in some amps. But using with an eq pedal can help though.

Agreed and thanks for your take. For me it was the slight wooliness (very slight) in the low end and a bit of prominence of those frequencies when I had the gain and filter where I otherwise liked it. It sounded like a bit of my neck pickup was slightly added to the bridge pickup I was using.

This is a very slight criticism and only my personal taste involved. I think this pedal could make a smaller practice amp sound huge or at least bigger. I wish my Fender 68 Champ was at my current location. I think it would probably be a great match.

It’s going back to help pay for another LPD pedal. I recently discovered LPD and I’ve heard nothing that sounds as good as these pedals to my ears. IMO these “Artisan” hand-built USA made odes to various Marshalls are simply stunning. I could use all sorts of words to describe them but I suppose you have to try them and hear and feel for yourself. I have (and have had) many dirt and MIAB pedals but these are in a different league than anything I’ve tried. Barber, Cusack, Caitlinbread, Wampler, Fulltone, Keeley, Neunabor, Carl Martin, Lovepedal and so many, many others. Lots of various clones as well.

Just to finally find LPD.

The best way I can describe what I hear and feel is… excellent tonal characteristics in the preamp voicing with a “baked in” tube power amp edge of breakup sound as the foundation for the preamp. So much touch and feel available. The harmonics are fantastically present without being exaggerated or artificial at all. I’ve bought four LPD’s as of today.

87 Deluxe
JMP 78
Seventy4
Sixty8 Deluxe

I’m super pleased.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Agreed and thanks for your take. For me it was the slight wooliness (very slight) in the low end and a bit of prominence of those frequencies when I had the gain and filter where I otherwise liked it. It sounded like a bit of my neck pickup was slightly added to the bridge pickup I was using.

This is a very slight criticism and only my personal taste involved. I think this pedal could make a smaller practice amp sound huge or at least bigger. I wish my Fender 68 Champ was at my current location. I think it would probably be a great match.

It’s going back to help pay for another LPD pedal. I recently discovered LPD and I’ve heard nothing that sounds as good as these pedals to my ears. IMO these “Artisan” hand-built USA made odes to various Marshalls are simply stunning. I could use all sorts of words to describe them but I suppose you have to try them and hear and feel for yourself. I have (and have had) many dirt and MIAB pedals but these are in a different league than anything I’ve tried. Barber, Cusack, Caitlinbread, Wampler, Fulltone, Keeley, Neunabor, Carl Martin, Lovepedal and so many, many others. Lots of various clones as well.

Just to finally find LPD.

The best way I can describe what I hear and feel is… excellent tonal characteristics in the preamp voicing with a “baked in” tube power amp edge of breakup sound as the foundation for the preamp. So much touch and feel available. The harmonics are fantastically present without being exaggerated or artificial at all. I’ve bought four LPD’s as of today.

87 Deluxe
JMP 78
Seventy4
Sixty8 Deluxe

I’m super pleased.

TS9/SD-1 -> Rat.

 

[DrewJD82]

Nuno runs his DSL's with quite unique EQ settings.

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Fairly similar to how EJ runs his Marshall heads.

 

[newholland]

ya know.. i used one for bout a year in the 90s and found it grating after a while too. its distinctive, but i always found it too mechanical and angular. it has a thing, but in the end i gave over to using a butler real tube, which had a similar grind to it without the square edges and kept that around for years even despite its stupidly small sweet spot.

i know tons of folks who do get great sounds outa rats though.

 

[KingsXJJ]

It’s not my style but I wanted one in the arsenal. Returning the Rat 2 for a Magus Pro. The 3-way switch looks useful.
It’ll save $36 and be close enough for me.