Famous ProCo Rat tones

[Dr.Mavashi]

I am falling in love with the thing again per TGWIF recommendation, but I wonder who did what well known tunes, with the new versions and original .... I suspect Billy Gibbons used it on some, has that delicious wet chime of his ....

 

[BeeGee]

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Mick Mars from Motley Crue has used one...and i love his tone.

 

[51501984]

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Mick Mars from Motley Crue has used one...and i love his tone.

A :bigthumb: for Mick Mars , love his playing and tone. Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme used one and I`ve read that Jeff Beck used one in the 70s

 

[FAC]

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I have also heard that Jeff Beck used one, but my favorite albums (Blow by Blow, Wired) were pre-Rat. It would be fun to know which albums/tracks he used it on.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

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Jeff used a Rat a LOT in the 80's and on up until he switched to DSL Marshalls...

Guitar Shop is full of Rat...a little TS-9 but mostly rat into a 2 amp set up of a Twin Reverb and a Princeton Reverb...twin set clean princeton cranked...a Strat or a Tele and you're there!

 

[El Dunco]

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Kill Em All from Metallica is a fairly accurate representation. A few songs off of Nevermind from Nirvana as well, like Breed.

 

[St_Genesius]

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I love the Rat. It would be alarmingly accurate to call the Rat one of my favorite AMPS, given the number of times that I have run other pedals into it and then directly out of the Rat into the board.

 

[St_Genesius]

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Speaking of running a Rat right into a board, this is one of my favorite Rat tones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akl3k1kcPvY

I'm not sure if they ran DI on that song or not -- they're more famous for having done it on their first EP -- but I can nail that tone with a pedal-only path.

 

[Rich_S]

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Steve Stevens during Billy Idol's early-'80s heyday.

I have all the parts for a small box clone sitting on my workbench and really want to put it together. I miss my old '85-ish small box since I sold it to Krall a few years ago.

 

[Christopher Caruana]

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Mick Mars from Motley Crue has used one...and i love his tone.

which era of crew did he use it for though? the earlier 'shout at the devil' '80'sdays of later 80's stuff? I personally like his later tone a la 'dr. feelgood' stuff better than his earlier tones

 

[dano8180]

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it's all over the first ugly kid joe cd; i can't remember his name, but the left handed guitarist used it pretty exclusively

 

[jbear]

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JB and Scofield com to mind.