You Dirty Rat

[patrickbrose]

This is the first pedal that I have built in about 9 months    I took a bit of a building hiatus to work on a few guitars, but once the weather turned grey, it felt time to get the iron out and do a few builds. So this is the first. It is a Rat Clone (Slow Loris PCB by the bean). Did it in the mammoth textured black enclosure (very cool finish btw) Red hardware and the 2 little LEDs are clippers for the "turbo" setting (I like watching them flicker as I play). No on/off LED yet, just haven't gotten to it. I love the way this thing sounds. It does't really like my active EMG85 pickups (glitches out and sounds overloaded when the pups are up full, but when I back off the guitar volume to about 80% it works fine), but with passives it sounds great.
I was looking at the voltage on the Jfet, and I get a reading at the source of 6.75v, which seems a bit high (most references state it to be about 3v, but go on to say anything above 3v is good, so I dunno     ) At any rate it screams! Enjoy.
-P

[Ettore_M]

Nicely done! Super tidy! 

Hector

[hoodoo]

Looks great mate, love the vero idea for the 2 LED's, never seen that before, all the best, Matt.

[fendman]

Hey Hector, nice build glad I saw this now..this is one of the boards I got from Brian today.

I like the the idea of the leds on the outside..cool. Its always good to see builds that you are about to start..thanks

[wolfingsworth]

This looks great! Very nice guts...

[nzCdog]

This is great!  Nice use of red on black... I bet it looks mean with those clippers lighting up

[MattOcaster]

Awesome stuff!
Simple and classy!
Really dig the red on black.