Today’s guitar players are blessed with about 26,844 distortion pedals to select from, offer or take 2. Back in the late ’70s the choice was much more restricted, with stompboxes like the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff (which some would still call a fuzz system), MXR Distortion+ and Boss DS-1 leading the method when it came to easily offered items from prominent business.
In 1978, a reasonably little sound support business called ProCo Sound in Kalamazoo, Michigan, silently presented their own distinct take of an op-amp-based distortion circuit integrated with diode clipping and called it “The Rat.”
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