Then we’d sprinkle in lots of clean guitar overdubs.”
Speaking in 1999 about the release of the Foo’s album ‘There’s Nothing Left To Lose’, Grohl said, “Sometimes we’d double a track using an old ProCo Rat, and then hard-pan the parts so that a super-distorted guitar was in the left channel and a grindy guitar was in the right. Rumour has it that the debut Foos album was loaded with RAT sounds. When Grohl swapped his sticks for picks and started Foo Fighters, he needed a sound that would bring his hard rock vision to life. Here is a list of our Top Ten Guitarists who used the famous RAT pedal. From there, during the 1980s, the RAT took over the guitar world with its screeching distortion sounds. He stumbled upon the unique sound when he attached the wrong resistor to an in-progress distortion machine. “Yes, there were literally rats down there” says creator Scott Burnham. The RAT was developed in the basement of the ProCo factory in Michigan, USA in 1978.
