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IMPORTANT NOTICE:

We’re sorry, but we are not offering new Rat pedals at this time. We’ll still mod your Rat, though, no matter when it was built.

We will still mod Rats with serial numbers under 300,000 (pre-early 2008) for $65. If your Rat's serial is over 300,000, we'll mod it, but we have to charge $99 because of the extra work these units require.

The basic Rat mod of ours requires drilling the case. We add a switch to make the unit more of a tone buffet! This is a must-have for people that need their Rat to be much, much more of an overdrive, tube amp pedal! New (May, 2003) Rat pedals ship with a chip that sounds horrible and has a bad sounding distortion to it, added to the top as a strange fizziness. Not our pedals! We found a stash of the correct ICs. These are fast becoming rare and we have the heavy duty LM308 Metal Can version! Your Rat will sound incredible!

We only change the chip if yours doesn't have the LM308, and if your rat has the LM308, then there is no need to change.

We also do a cap upgrade to improve the overall bass response. This is what happens when a Rat mutates with a Tube Screamer and a Clean Boost! $65 to mod a pedal you send in. Rat II pedals get a blue LED.

All Rat pedals get an tone upgrade as well. Caps are doubled in most cases to give you a little more bottom end meat to the sound. For the guy into pro DISTORTION, this is it.

Yes! Regular Rat, PHAT Rat, and the super clean, mucho volume Mighty Mouse!

ATTENTION OLD RAT FANS!!!! Hey, they don't make them like they use to. Heck, they don't make like they did last year, so if you are hoping our Rat mods will make your pedal sound like the one you remember 10, 15 years ago.... might not be the thing to hope for! These pedals have changed so much over time, and only the Name Badge is the same. They act very differently. So, if you had favorite settings, etc., buy an old one and check it out. Some folks say ours nail it perfectly, others hear some nuances in the old one they are just addicted to.

Our mods include about 12 changes! All of the coupling caps and bass repsonse caps are changed!!! This makes for some much improved sound quality. The toggle switch is where it all takes place! The toggle switch really makes it three pedals! Sounds are completely different, giving you a huge tool to carve tone with!

How do you know if you are going to be a RAT pedal fan? If you like a real cutting type of tone, one that sounds like a British type stack of amps and speakers, then the Rat is for you. Delivers classic tones as heard by Jeff Beck, John Scofield, as well as many Heavy Metal groups! Wide Range! Well, the Rat takes some fine tweaking! The controls are sensitive, but once set, it can be tonal Nirvana! Some of our most excited customers are Keeley Rat owners. Also, some folks just don't get it. (Hey, no fault right?!?! Not every pedal is for every person!) I can say, though, that the RAT and TS9 make a power dual pedal setup. For something that has a super sound combined, try your Rat and TS9. Experiment with the order of the pedals. These pedals sound completely different when one is put before the other, and vice versa. Are the magic settings Apocryphal? Yeah maybe a bit! But when set right... ahhhh you've found the golden needle in the hay stack, mate!

	$65 Rat II -- 3 Way - We Mod Yours Rat II -- 3 Way - We Mod Yours with a three-way toggle, giving you the Mighty Mouse boost and tailored bass responses. ONLY UNITS BELOW SERIAL NUMBER 300,000
	$99 Rat II -- 3 Way - We Mod Yours (serial over 300,000) Rat II -- 3 Way - We Mod Yours with a three-way toggle, giving you the Mighty Mouse boost and tailored bass responses. THIS IS FOR UNITS OVER SERIAL NUMBER 300,000
	$15 LED on Vintage Style RATS $15 We add a signature Keeley BLUE LED to your vintage RAT. This is only available if you click the $65 mod for a Mod your own Rat pedal above.
	$15 Barrel style DC jack add on for RATmod $15 This is only available if you click the $65 mod for a Mod your own Rat pedal above. We drill and install a Barrel style DC jack. This is the same type you will find on all BOSS, IBANEZ, and Keeley Effects. Compatible with the pedal power units!
	$30 International Shipping Charge, 1 Unit $30 International Shipping Charge. Please click this for all sales outside the US. Pedals will be shipped USPS Express Mail (EMS).
	$45 International Shipping Charge, 2-3 Units $45 International Shipping Charge for 2-3 pedals. Please click this for all sales outside the US. Pedals will be shipped USPS Express Mail (EMS). Required for multiple pedal purchase of 2-3 units, new or mod.
	$60 International Shipping Charge, 4-6 Units $60 International Shipping Charge for 4-6 pedals. Please click this for all sales outside the US. Pedals will be shipped USPS Express Mail (EMS). Required for multiple pedal purchase of 4-6 units, new or mod.

Product manual
- RAT (PDF)

More info


Our mods work with the Vintage style and RAT II units only. We cannot work on the new Deuce Tone Rat. With the Rat mod you have a three-way switch. (The DC jack is left intact, to add the new style Barrel DC jack is $15 extra.) One position is stock (with a little bass response added because of the caps we change). A second position is what we call Phat Rat. It is thicker, has more harmonics, a tiny bit less distortion, and more volume output. The middle switch position is what we call Mighty Mouse! Tons of volume output! This is a clean boost, with a lot less distortion; this is perfect for driving amps into natural overdrive. It will still get distorted, just with an incredible natural sound to it. It’s very similar to an amp were breaking up under power tube distortion. Very tube like too because only half the signal is being clipped, and the other half is passing through. We replace many of the caps in the circuit to capture lost low-end bass response. Lastly we change the power LED to blue for a very cool look if you have the RAT II.

*** If you have the Vintage Rat style case, with no LED, we can add it! The foot switch needs to be changed and an LED bezel added. The cost for that is $15 extra if you want an LED on your Vintage Rat.

***If you want the Boss style DC jack instead of the standard small little mini-plug they use, that is a $15 extra charge for us to drill and install that heavy duty jack. Then you will have the barrel type connector commonly used on most pedals.

The mods are $65 for the RAT II or Vintage Rat, and that includes return shipping. The turnaround time is usually 3-4 days. After we get the pedal, then we use Priority Mail shipment back to you with tracking numbers.

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Andy Most, player on the clip, is just a great treasure to listen to... Rat fan or not, check it out guys!

Here's what he said in our last email exchange...

"I totally dig the pedal and just posted a brief example of it. This pedal has a lot of gain and this is with the gain down doing my quasi-fusion thing. Anyway, there will be more with the gain cranked."

Here is his site with the clip posted if you'd like to check him out.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/5/andymostmusic.htm

And there is more....! Just today, 1/31/04, I got a new 2nd clip from the MOST Meister! This one is a more cranked, gained-up Rat showing off all three positions of our Rat Mod at various points.

MOST wonderful, I had to pick up my guitar and figure out some of those killer phrases! ;-)

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How About Buzz Campbell!!!!! Here is what this legend had to say!

"Robert,

I just got back from the road today and discovered that my new rat pedal had arrived. I immediately plugged it in to see the difference. AMAZING!!! Sounds similar to the rat that I use daily, only better. Much fatter, warmer tone with more options. I tried all 3 switches....all very usable sounds. My only problem now is to decide which one to use...there all great!!!

I really like the mighty mouse sound....perfect for Rockabilly.....really natural overdrive by increasing the amp volume, but with just a hair of that great rat pedal breakup added.



Congratulations on perfecting an already great pedal. I am selling my two other rat pedals because yours is the one!



As I told you before, I am with Lee Rocker (Stray Cats) and also Shanana (Woodstock, TV show 1970's, and Movie "Grease") as well as my own group, "Hot Rod Lincoln"."

COOL EH?!?!?!

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WHAT ABOUT BASS GUITAR and the RAT?

Hi Robert,

Just wanted you to know that when I got home from my gig I found the box that contained my new modded Rat II, and I’ve spent the last hour and a half setting up my bass rig and giving it a good workout. I must say that I’m totally impressed. It’s exactly what you said it would be…the sound of a vintage Rat with a bit warmer low end. I love the different sounds you can get with the 3-way switch. What makes them so good is that you have the different degrees of distortion and boost with the 3-way switch but with whatever setting you use it still sounds like a Rat. And the blue LED is also a cool touch. There’s no mistaking whether it’s on or not with the blue LED! But it’s the sound that’s really important, and this thing certainly delivers. It definitely takes the edge off losing my vintage Rat. I’ll be guarding this one with my life.

Thanks for the extremely quick turnaround time. Because of that, I can finally get back to recording my album. A job well done, sir. Thanks for everything and best of luck!

Jimmy

Andy Most, Buzz Campbell, Gary Griffith, live sound engineer for many jam bads and jazz greats, said, "I have had to put it through its paces. I have found it to be a very versatile and wonderful distortion box...,"