I nabbed a ProCo Rat off eBay hoping it would be the dirt pedal of my dreams, and while I was able to get some solid tones out of it, I've decided it's not quite my cuppa.
It's only about 2 months old and is in dead mint condition, so I thought I'd offer it up in the hopes of breaking even.
Does $60 plus split shipping to the lower 48 sound good to anyone?
Ty if you're interested I heard Keeley has a nasty mod for these! If my brother ever gives me mine back I may send it in! Who knows?
I love both of my proco rat pedals. I use a vintage Rat and a Deucetone rat. They are awesome, but I don't use them now with my new amp much, although I haven't tried them with it. I may have to do that. Very good pedals IMO. Anyone that would want to pick this pedal up will be doing good by me! 
way over rated,there's just so many boxes that wll do what you really want these days why settle for less?........ i sold mine to a guy in a touring band,who had his stolen the night before,he was siked,i had more beer money& everyone rocked all night long,a happy ending-
I had noticd my Toneport Gearbox had a simulated Rat effect and really liked it.When I got a Blues Jr. I new I would need a little extra raunch and was kinda lost and overwhelmed by all the many options.I was talked into a Marshall Jackhammer,which has a overdrive and a seperate distortion channel and it is a good pedal,but was not what I was looking for.When I got a Celestion Greenback I got a Rat and that was the sound I had in my head.I love Brian Setzers live sound(some shock huh?)Anyway I read about his Bassman having v30's with Tube Screamer and not sure about his delay,but that was not important.I wanted my own sound,but with a certain rawness and growl that I think comes from the fender/Celestion mix and the Rat really added that.I got a demo dd3 delay and although it was not what I thought it would be I have warmed up to it.I rambled a little beyond the subject,but my point was The Rat IMO really gave me a great versatile raunch without coloring the amp.I've hardly ever had the distortion past the first mark.
Is it a Pro Co Rat or Rat II? Just curious.
If it helps, Otter, the serial sticker on the back of the pedal says: The Rat RT-305755
Johnny - Agreed. I found that anything past the first mark was way to heavy for my liking, and trying to dial in that perfect amount of dirt in the bottom 1/8th of the pot's rotation seemed elusive. It's apparently working great for a lot of guys like you and Wenzel, but I just couldn't quite bond with it. To each his tone, I suppose!
And I just realized that I accidentally posted this here in Other Equipment instead of Garage Sale like I intended to. Unless someone wants it, I'll probably throw it on eBay tomorrow instead of posting it twice.
This is the Rat.
This is the Rat II.
I love the RAT II. I loaned mine to a kid who was in a garage band in our neighborhood. The kid moved away without returning my pedals. I've missed it very much.
So sorry Otterbean. PM me your address, I'll send it back to you.
I tried RAT II from a friend. It rocks.
Back in the mid-80's when I started playing I had one amp (an old 60's Premier solid state amp with tremelo), and one pedal - a Rat (which looks like the Rat II in the picture above, without the LED in the "A"). Both are long gone now.
I liked the Rat a lot, though I really didn't know better either. I know it was built to survive a direct hit by an A-bomb.
I'm told the newer Rats are not the same as the one I had in the 80s.
Otterbean: Gratzi for the pictures. In that case, it's a Rat II with the red LED in the center of the A.
And Buffalo's dead right when he says these things are built to survive nuclear war. Full metal housing that just screams "Step on me!"
Prego. I had the one without the LED light. It could be a pretty hard driving pedal. It gave a stratocaster a real dose of thick growl.
When I got basically put on the spot to find a dist pedal and a delay pedal in 5 minutes I was DUH,DUH how about this one.I went with a dd3 because I had a ddsomething back in the late 80's/90's and loved it,but I did not have a clue as to what the hell it was really about back then.I luckily got a demo model,but I should have done more homework on both pedals.The dd3 is doing what it needs to and I can dig it until some body shows me a better one and then I'll be like "damn".THey did not have a Rat at GC,so against my beter judgement I got a Marshall Jackhammer.It's a good pedal with overdrive and distortion on 2 seperate channels and you can get a helluva lot of different sounds from it.A lot of Marshall sounds that is.It was not what I was looking for at all,specially with a Fender BJ.I thought I wanted a Tube Screamer and probably would,but the Rat,Celestion Greenback,BJunior and dd3 are really starting to get exciting as I learn and play with the settings.The Speaker is slowly starting to get broken in too.The RAT is surprisingly close to the simulated one on the Gearbox toneport plug in.IT seems to be pretty versatile with different guitars.It will certainly serve a HARD style,but can give a good dirty rockabilly punch.The HS filtertrons can get downright Nasty if they need to.I think back on those old crunch pedals and remember winding up with at least 2-3 after a drunken all night jam.I always wondered what the hell those guys got cheap crunch pedals to use with Marshall Stacks for.
