ProCo Rat: the distortion pedal on every top player’s board since 1978 | 5 reasons you need one NOW!

So many amazing guitar players have used the ProCo Rat distortion pedal over the years. But I’d never had one… until now! At Thomann: https://thmn.to/thoprod/185691?offid=... At Sweetwater: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/75Qg5d I’ve only played my new Rat 2 for a few hours, but it’s already changed the way I feel about distortion and overdrive pedals, and I now understand why people like Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys, James Hetfield, Graham Coxon, Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain, Nuno Bettencourt, David Gilmour and Thom Yorke from Radiohead (and so many others!) have used them. This video is your warning not to make the same mistake I did… so watch my demo, hear my reasons, then go try a Rat as soon as you can! There's lot of playing samples here, so here's links for all the different parts, as well as the speaking bits at the end: 00:00 Intro riffage 00:30 Hello! 01:23 Today's rig 01:44 Switching on the Rat and first tonal tweaks (in coil split mode) 03:02 Classic rock rhythm sounds with the Hendrix chord 03:50 Classic rock tones 05:19 Indie rock chords 05:50 Rolling off the guitar's volume knob 06:06 Kings Of Leon-inspired indie rock riff 06:21 Arctic Monkeys riff 06:44 Indie rock barre chords 07:25 Garage rock riffs 08:34 Mystery alt rock riff - anyone recognize it?! 08:45 First chug test 09:11 Punk rock and pop punk test 10:08 Alt rock riffs in Drop D 11:07 Progressive rock riff 11:48 Hardcore punk riff 12:05 Using the Rat to push the amp's dirty (Lead) channel 12:41 Classic rock sounds (now in humbucker mode!) 14:14 The Darkness riff 14:45 Nirvana/punk-inspired power chord riff 16:09 Kings Of Leon riff 16:46 Testing the Rat's Filter control (classic rock riffs) 18:13 Heavy rock and fuzzy sounds 19:12 Fuzz on the neck and bridge pickups - garage rock 19:48 Humbucker test in Drop D tuning - alt rock 21:09 Sweeping the Filter while chugging 21:37 That massive intro riff again 22:14 Hardcore punk riff 22:32 Doom/sludge/Black Sabbath-inspired riff 23:18 Why you need to try a Rat now! 23:48 Reason 1 - sounds 25:29 Reason 2 - price 26:22 Reason 3 - join the Rat club 31:22 Reason 4 - choice 32:16 Reason 5 - don't make the same mistake I did 32:42 Negative points 1 - older Rats are better? 33:16 Negative points 2 - where the best tones are and tweaking 33:58 Negative points 3 - knobs hard to read 34:33 Negative points 4 - makes my expensive overdrives seem tame 35:00 Negative points 5 - it's addictive! 35:19 What other Rats should I try? This is the That Pedal Show Rat episode I mentioned:    • The ProCo RAT Distortion & RAT-Alikes: Kin...   I used my 2014 Epiphone Les Paul Traditional Pro for this demo. The guitar went into the Rat 2, which went straight into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. That 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. Here’s some links to those bits of gear: ----- Epiphone Les Paul (well, current ones... they don't make mine any more!): http://bit.ly/RWMEpiLP H&K Black Spirit 200 head: http://bit.ly/rwmBS200 Focusrite 4i4 (the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they also don’t make any more!): http://bit.ly/rwmFR4i4 ----- Enjoy! ----- Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Controlled Distress - Biz Baz Studio. #ProCoRat #DistortionPedal #EpiphoneLesPaul #RichWordsMusic #ChristmasPresent