The Rat - Distortion kit

Musikding

The Rat - Distortion kit

Item number: 846

Category: Distortion

Enclosure: + 9,90 €+ 7,00 €

starting from 28,00 €

Final price incl. VAT, plus shipping (mitttel)

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Shipping time: 3-7 Working days

Description

The Rat is based on one of the most popular distortion effects of the 80s. It features a good mixture of distortion, sustain and punch.

This kit contains all parts you need to build a fully functional effect pedal.

Not included in the kit, but also very good to have:

Aluminium enclosure: select one above.
9V battery or DC power supply
3 nice knobs for the pots, 6.3mm shafts, for 6.3mm shafts
Decal, transfer or transparent sheets for labeling

Instrument:	Guitar
Effect-Type:	Distortion

Sounds

That´s the Rat sound:

Build documents

Installation guide: Installation guide

Schematic and pcb: Schematic

Parts list (BOM): Parts list

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2 from 2 Customers found the following product review helpful

Great, rich sound, quick work

A great starter project for a rainy afternoon, with not much to fail. Almost solderable by numbers.
Great sound. Low noise. Surprising versatility.

Still there are some annoying things:
- is hard to bend the resistors to correct pitch (theyre bent so close to the body that the bending gauge is practically useless - with the next kit I am making myself a custom bending gauge) - But I understand this, as all the projects are very space saving
- I would be very happy to have a list of individual components with values somewhere - it is annoying and time consuming to search for each and every components value in the schematic. I know you dont support soldering by numbers, but I also dont see a point really in this. It wouldnt do any harm really if you sent a print of instructions with the kit.
- there are some resistor numbers omitted and it is not documented anywhere - It was not until I finished the soldering to PCB that I was sure, I didnt omit something.
- It would be great if you posted an idea /illustration for less experienced makers how to suit all the stuff in the (quite small) chassis
- on the PCB there is no indication of the transistor orientation (there is it on the wiring diagram, but not on the PCB - but you can figure it out from the schematic) - for the builders, its a D (not a C)

what I changed:
- used 1nF Mallory, 33pF and 100pF mica caps (probably a straight overkill)
- used ribbon cable (solid) for the pots (much less mess around the PCB)
- LED is amber (red is soo generic)
- for the output I used insulation washers so the only grounding contact with the chassis is at the input
- output is grounded straight to input, not to the pcb
- header pins for the DC in (+ and gnd)
- connected LED with color coded female jumper wires
Jernej K., 16.06.2015

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As always, it works!

I like the range of its sound and the way it work.
Natxu B., 31.10.2016

1 from 1 Customers found the following product review helpful

Good distortion

Here is another good product from our friends das Musikding easy to make and a explosive result. This is my third pedal that I make and still no disappointment. I think I become addicte
MICHEL F., 19.02.2017

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Integrated in my guitar body
Sounds fun !
David F., 22.05.2017

Ça envoie !

Pédale très orienté métal simple et efficace, réglage tone et drive qui donne une bonne polyvalence
Emilien Q., 01.07.2017

Sounds great

This Rat sounds really great. Easy to build, so good for newbees.
Johan H., 09.10.2017

Super Kit

Super kit facile à fabriquer. sonne super bien.
bref je suis ravis
Matthieu L., 04.12.2017

du bon, du simple

franchement nickel ça sonne, cest pas dur a monter et en plus ca permet de comprendre un peu les bases du true/bypass.
Milon M., 16.01.2018

WOW

Best distortion pedal I have ever heard by far. Really awesome lead sound combined with the bluelay delay pedal.

The kit was very easy to assemble, not too many components and everything fit really nice into the enclosure. I did not get a pcb for the 3pdt footswitch like I did with the other kits I purchased. Im not sure if it was left out accidentally or perhaps there is reason it was not included due to the wiring arrangement of the volume pot connecting to one of the pins on the footswitch, not a big deal really, but those PCBs for the footswitches are genius. Look forward to building more of these kits.
Shaun I., 26.03.2018