ProCo Rats!  They’re awesome.  You dont wanna admit that a plain old “distortion” pedal can be so cool, but fuck it is.  These are the same simple circuit as the original rat of the late seventies using a single op-amp gain stage, silicon clipping diodes, and a FET buffer on the output.  They sound shitty and gritty and the tone stack is a wild fucking mule and all of it rules.

The one in gold is for Dann Miller (Weird Party, Black Congress, and formerly The Jonbenet) and the one in copper is for my shelves, at least until a taker comes along.  One of these was my 150th pedal built, but I dont know which.  Go me.

Credit to the klippinest klop, the most practically black, Will Adams, for the post title!!!