Original 1989 Woodcutter Rat vs Pedals it Inspired

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[00:00:00] Hey, I’m Emily from get offset. And today I’m having a rat party. I heard there was a skudge of bubonic plague going around. So it seemed like a good time to bust out the rats, but in all seriousness, Andrew loaned me his entire bass board, which features this wood cut rat. And I thought it’d be fun to take it through the other rat base pedals that I have.

Starting with the 1981 D R V by Matthew hoopes. yeah, so I have my Tunatone Teeny Tuna, my transit lab cable, going into the rat, going into the 1981 DRV and going into the stream and everybody I’m around B no gain, a smudge of a room reverb for my other AB videos. I’ve done to use the, a big shot AB Y switcher by radial.

But the rat seems to absolutely hate that and just doesn’t respond. So I know that some people are gonna poohpooh this whole fun video, just because I’m not using a Swisher to those people. I say I tried really hard. So. I don’t care what you think. All right. So, this, get, this party started check levels.

so I have both the, volume and gain at. Knew that I’m going to put the I at a, about actually nine. O’clock going to set the filter slash cuts at noon.

Okay.

so the DRB extra sits out a little to my ear. A little bit more gang. I got stage let’s turn up the gain on both of these guys to, to Nim, just have everything in the middle.

[00:05:00] That’s some sustain

now let’s mess with this filter slash cut. Nah, I’m just going to sweep around while playing each one. Yeah.

all right. The DRB was supposedly made to sound better than a rat at low gain settings. So let’s test that theory out.

Yeah, I think it sounds better than one location settings and then the rat does. I also think that overall, it sounds a little bit more articulate than the rat, but, I don’t know. Tell me what you think in the comments and we’ll move along to the next video. All right. All right. Next in our journey, across the world of Ratish pedals.

Is the Greer amps, guerrilla warfare. Mark two was the famous Ellen three of any chip on thing. Maybe they all have that. So

so it was kind of, kind of take it a similar way. I’m going to start with the gain at nine and the volume at noon and the tone slash filter at noon.

so the Greer pedal definitely seems to have more gain at the same kind of knob setting.

maybe like 15% more. I don’t know, let’s take the game to noon. I’ll probably have to adjust the volume some on the guerrilla warfare.

[00:10:00] all right. Let’s Go all the way with the game and why or why not? Why is the short

A suit to town slash build periods.

okay. Finally, let’s see. Let’s see which one sounds better on low gain settings.

Neat. So they’re definitely very similar. I still think I, I kinda like the overall wellness of the gorilla warfare. I don’t think either of them sounded like ideal at low game, but they’re not really made for that. The DRV was specifically made for that. so that’s why that kind of pushes that over the line a little bit.

in my opinion, I would love to know what y’all think. So I have one more for ya. So stick around.  welcome back. You made it to the end and I have last, but certainly not least the athlete named woodcutter by a big year of pedals based out of Nashville, Tennessee, run by grant. And Karen two lovely humans are wonderful as are their pedals.

So let’s just do the same. I think y’all have the gist of it by now.

[00:15:00] yeah, that’s sounded the same. All right.

So this is another pedal that seems to make up for the five breaths. It doesn’t sound as good. the raw original rep doesn’t sound as good on low gain settings by just making the low game more gain, which is I think a great way to get around that. No bad sounds in the bottle, you know?

Al.

let’s crank that gain. All the way

Woo. I liked them both.

[00:20:00] and finally, low gain might need to do some adjusting on this one.

I am.

All right. Well, that’s all of them. Then I have to say, I think that the big year wood cutter is maybe the closest match. That I played today, the Greer guerrilla warfare was awesome. And I think it may have even had a little bit more gain to my ear. I would love to know what you think in the comments. And the DRB is very rat Lite, but really is its own pedal.

I think my favorite way to play the DRV is less gain. I just think it’s one of those pedals. That’s a high gain panel. It sounds really good with low gain. And I think that’s hard to do, But, yeah, so those are my thoughts. I would love to know what y’all think. Please leave a comment. And also please like subscribe, check out the podcast, check out these builders, use the shop link in the show notes to help support the channel.

And until next time I’m Emily goodbye. Oh, and the, what does it say? This reverb kills fascists.