I have a warm place in my heart for Pro Co. I had and “OG” back in the day and the Rat was my only pedal at that time, going into a clean amp. It was a set it and forget it pedal and everything from there was happening at the Volume on the guitar. My beloved RAT was stolen at a gig and I was devastated. I wrote a letter (remember those?) to PRO CO. Telling them my story and how much I LOVED my RAT. Well, they sent me a brand new RAT and two Pro Co. cables so I could get out there and gig again. To this day, I am deeply grateful to Pro Co. for their kindness and generosity to a working musician. Oh, and I still have the pedal.

"oh josh made an episode about a pedal he actually made!" the episode is actually about how cool another brand's pedals are, and at the end he tells you not to buy his pedal. love this company

I hope that someday someone does an biography on Josh, and puts as much effort, attention to detail, and zaniness that he does into his articles, videos, and pedals.

I cannot explain the amount of joy I feel from seeing and hearing the "He has the box" jingle. EVERY. TIME. I love it!

17:00 - oh, *next* week is the deep dive on Rats. I was wondering why this 39 minute thing on Rats was so cursory. Glad you'll get into the details next week.

I can only think of one improvement that can be made to the Pack Rat, Josh. LEDs in the eyes for the power. This needs to happen. I'll even promise to buy the first one.

Despite all my rage, I’m still ordering this Rat from the JHS page. No, seriously, I have a JHS modded Rat and I still want this.

The rat is the pedal that got me into building pedals. I was in Jr high in about 95 and couldn't afford a rat so I found the schematic, went to radio shack and got the parts and after a ton of reading and trial and error I finally had a rat 😁

I've known Grape for years. Great guy, very intelligent. He also done some really great amp circuit designs. Thanks for giving props to him Josh, Grape deserves it! I hear now he's building robots.

I am consistently impressed at what a great guitar player Josh is. He could have easily made a living as a guitarist, but apparently decided he would rather make actual money ;-}

Josh, you’re a gift. As a lover of guitar gear AND history, your content is so valuable, engaging and will live on. Can’t wait to order my Pack Rat!

The digs at Rhett Shull are awesome. I love how he just casually mentions it quick and moves on… classic

We all know Josh has a huge stompbox collection, but that's still an incredible number of RAT pedals!

I don't know what it was, the mixing, the pedal, the arrangement or what but that first jam when it first dropped into the groove it really inspired me. This is coming from a person that hasn't felt inspired by music in 6-9 months. Great job guys -- superb. Really.

Josh normalizing pedal hoarding is literally saving my marriage!

“YOUR MOM” I’m at work and busted out laughing when I heard you say that… that’s so 90’s. Love it. Thanks for the laugh.

Very nice rat overview and mini ProCo history lesson. Thank you Josh and everyone at JHS that made it possible. Really too bad Mr Scotty Burham didn't want to participate he could offer much more insight into the earliest days of Proco and rat history. I'm not sure he fully realizes what his efforts did for the rock music scene. I'm sure Steve Kiraly RIP would have been happy to participate. Anyway, It was great to meet you and Nick and dust off some of the old neural pathways. Very nice all of your kind words but, funny I really don't feel much like a super hero, thanks all the same. All the best, Your friend Grape :^) PS feel free to send me one of your RP pedals and i'll figure out a way for you to make it for under $20 Hahahahahaha

Thank you for this pedal, conceived in Rat-Lore! I worked at ProCo in 1988, and a year or two later I was in a band with some other employees. "Uncle Steve" Kiraly let us practice at his house. Absolutely a good guy! ( and glutton for punishment 😀)

You can’t go wrong here. Great sounding pedal- I wonder if JHS realizes how much of a treasure he is to this industry and musicians in general… very inspiring individual. Buying my first JHS pedal- the PackRat. Can’t wait!

God I love this Josh mans playing, takes me back to all the elements of the 90's I crave...

The "Another Rat on the Wall" Jam was Epic guys!! Nailed it!!! Probably one of your most awesomest jams ever!

As a synth guy watching these videos it's wild to me that guitarists and synthesists expect low-pass filter knobs to operate in exactly opposite ways. On a synth, the more I turn the LPF knob clockwise, the more open the filter gets, and the more upper harmonics come through--it gets brighter. So they put a perfectly normal LPF knob on a pedal, and all the guitarists want it to operate in exactly the OPPOSITE way? Wow.

If this is even a fraction as useful as the bonsai on my pedalboard it’s gonna be my favorite distortion pedal ever made. I ordered one before I even heard the first playing sample. JHS just keeps killing it more and more lately.

Three of my favorite pedals are the Muff, Tube Screamer, and the Rat. And now you've completed the set. Just beautiful.

Really love the "friend" setting on these multi-format JHS pedals. Creative and I think speaks well to the JHS brand

I'm so glad to see someone giving props to the Brat pedal. I'm a bass player and I purchased the Brat sometime in the late 90's and it has been my main distortion ever since.

Seriously, this is your most technical flawlessly spoken video I've seen. It's insane. Cap has been doffed.

i absolutly love this channel for not only doing advercations for the JHS pedals but also show quite literarly every single other pedal ever produced like you can talk about a pedal like oh this one is really rare and valueble and they only ever made 3 of them and id wanna play it and hear it and josh will go: "yeah i have 57 of them and the box here's how it sounds👍"

Sad Mouse is one of my favorite emulation jams you’ve done. So short and so spot on with the guitar and bass lines. And nick plays drums right

Could do a limited run in purple as a tribute to "The Grape". Your my favorite history teacher Josh, thanks to JHS and crew for existing and figuring out new ways for me to spend my money. Much love from Michigan.

More phenomenal content from Josh and the team. We're lucky to have you.

I have to admire Josh's ability to make every pedal sound so good. Whenever I play pedals, amps and IRs I feel like many of them just don't give me what I want to hear. But Josh just makes everything sound like him and just honestly sound great somehow.

Big Sad Mouse sold me on this pedal. Also, the drumming and production is so awesome. I love JHS. Thanks, Josh!!!

For whatever reason, over my many years of playing and purchasing pedals I have never owned or even wanted a Rat pedal. Having the 9 different circuits packed into this one pedal is quite cool, and it sounds good too. This is one I do want.

Only Josh would take time out of (let's be honest) an advert for his own products, to advertise a competitor's products. And that stops this from feeling like a cynical commercial. This is someone with a genuine love and passion for this stuff, who also happens to be making a living from it. Honestly it's kind of inspiring ❤

I’ve a couple pedals with the “Built during Plague” stickers. One is, I suspect, one of the last RAT mods you did. That “no diodes” option just SCREAMS. Love it.

That 2nd "Pink Floyd" jam you did with the whiteface was really good. Sometimes you guys jam out some seriously awesome music. Y'all otta do something about that.

This is actually really cool! Hope you guys work something out with thomann or some other EU based retailer so we can get our hands on one haha.

"I won't watch all this, got stuff to do" Then. "RIP Stuff, I watched the whole damn thing" Awesome pedal and potted history.

Josh, I so love your completely nerded out history lessons about pedals. I’ve watched so many that I feel I at least have a bachelors degree in pedal history. Also, you are the best guitar player of all pedal designers I’ve heard play. You sir have CHOPS.

Sounds excellent, well done on this one! Having taken 9yrs to design & develop a lot of time and energy has gone into this one. I would think many of your staff probably hate building these though having over 260 components to build it.

JHS honestly makes the best content. Just all around informative, creative, funny, and easy to digest.

This pedal finally came in today! I started on the JHS mode and just left it there it just sounded so good from the start! My favorites are the JHS, landgraff, dirty, and turbo. Actually just all of them 🤩 I really appreciate the KZfaq channel! LONGER EPISODES PLEASE! I love you all over at JHS stay cooooool

Best RAT vid EVAR. Thank you, Josh & crew! We all really do appreciate the time & effort you put into this stuff. It shows in the end product. It's absolutely fantastic! Thanks, brother!

thanks to all of you on jhs for the whole package: great humour and playing, and hunger for a new jhs-pedal. (i already own a proco rat, so nothing's chewing on my conscience.)

Rats rule! Just discovered them a year ago! After 30 years of playing!

This and the Bonsai would be a welcome addition to any board. Endless drive combos!🤯🤘🏾👊🏾

I can't describe how much I love this, going to buy one immediately.

True story: My very first pedal was a Turbo Rat. Bought it from my Van Halen guitar playing friend who first got me playing back in the 80s. He sold it to me for like $25. It was missing its back. I punished my parents with that, the Cort Effector guitar that they bought me for Christmas, and a no name solid state 10 watt amp for a little while before I started my GAS forced upgrades. Anyway, I ended up selling the Turbo Rat in the mid 90s and always missed it. I bought a new one off Reverb last year. I still love that little bastard. I got the Rat 2 as well. They make me happy.

I feel like Josh's playing between the pedal info has been getting so much more appealing lately!! Also when's he gonna admit he's gene ween's little brother? 😂

G'day Josh, received my PackRat about a week ago and wanted to personally thank you for sitting up late one night and making mine. I owned a "white" back in the 80's, lost it, whatever, and have always hankered for another. This pedal is a one stop shop, humbuckers, single coil, all the dials have such range... incredible. BUT, what I get the most out of this video are your terms - Mode Circuits, asymmetrical clipping ,schematic, my mates think I'm some kind of genius as i use these words randomly in a sentence. Cheers mate, love ya work

Love this! Thanks for the hard work in showing us the history of how things came to with this vermin pedal we all love

I have your RAT mod and the Tube Screamer bundle and both are spot on, if I didn't already have all the distortion and overdrive I'd ever need in those 2 pedals, I'd pick this up no question. I can't think of another pedal company that has as much integrity as you guys do, really innovative and high quality designs at prices that make sense even for hobby players like myself.

Just watched Emily Hopkins demo of this and it rocks!

The article is a magnificent piece of work; scholarly and entertaining. I'm not a massive fan of the RAT but I'm impressed by the amount of work that's gone into the article and this new JHS pedal. I hope it does really well.

loved this history/shameless plug. going out on a limb only the tiniest of smidges, preloving next week's vid as well. GRAPE

My dad went to New york (we are from Iceland) many many years ago. He could not know any more less about guitar stuff. But he somehow got his hands on one of these Brat pedals. I still have it somewhere but in peaces…..maybe i will try to bring life back to it

Just waiting for you to make a 9-mode Klon! ; )

Your pragmatic approach is a welcome relief from others that push whatever equipment they might be paid to. I need to buy your pedals. ❤😂🎉

Love everything about this episode. The two albums mentioned in the end are amazing. Super inspired by the tones in this episode.

Two things. 1) I know what Papa wants for Christmas. 2) Your videos are awesome and I love watching them with my sons. Not only for your amazing ability to dork out in extreme depth on this subject, but also for your sense of humor, refreshingly healthy display of emotion, and complete lack of chip on your shoulder. Like it or not, you're a good role model for tha yoots, thank you.

I have put a blanket ban on me even looking at another guitar pedal until I actually PLAY guitar more than I look at pedals to buy online, but I gotta say, the vibe of the JHS company, the good natured and just amazing collegiality of Josh and co just makes it so damn hard not to support this. We just have to show other companies that you can succeed by actually being a nice company.

I’ve just been given a Packrat! Wow. What a pedal. Thought I’d better rewatch this vid and learn something about what I’m getting into. Amazing!

Nicks drumming with that mask is what’s really impressive

Two years ago I put a comment on this video saying how much i love this pedal and now I'm finally able to build a pedalboard with the packrat. I can't wait until I get to use it in a live context. I love this pedal!

You need to do this with the Blues Breaker circuit and Klon circuit.

Seems as good a place as any to share my rat story, I had only been playing guitar for a little while and was feeling discouraged that I didn’t sound like the rock stars I heard. My dad had dug out his old 86 Rat and his Ibanez Delay pedal and hooked them up to my little Crate practice amp… when he started playing, my jaw hit the floor! I was amazed by the sounds he could get and I’ve been in love with the Rat ever since.

Speaking of RAT love, Luke Bentham of The Dirty Nil’s rig is literally LP Custom -> Rat -> another Rat -> Amp. Super simple and a great rock sound.

This is the greatest youtube channel of all time

Emily beat you to it lol Pls hire her. Make her the official demonstrator of JHS pedals.

Instant legend. Thank you for this great history lesson and amazing technical design. Don Carr's demo of the PackRat had so much love and sold me on this. Condolences on the loss of Cliff Smith. RIP 💔

I would buy an entire concept album of floydian jams from you guys!

I’m a wee bit late, but I just snagged a PackRat. Our very own Josh Scott has made me fall in love with the fuzzy little guy. Man is a walking Rat trap!🪤

The big question is: Does the art on the PackRat glow in the dark like the logo and knobs do on the current RAT2?

Been playing for 18 years. Recently just got a new rat off reverb for about $50 can’t believe I went so long without having one. Totally under appreciated, they sound amazing.

I love this pedal! 👊🏻 Besides, 9 Rat pedals in 1... It’s the History of the Rat ... I’d say it needs to be placed in tne Smithsonian. It’s almost Free ! Where can you buy a Rat for $28 a pedal? That’s 2 cups of coffee ! How did you teach a horse how to play drums ??? I’m mind Boggled !

I honestly don't know how anyone can give you grief about pedals when you are an expert at making pedals, your word is as good as gold. I know Mick Thomson from Slipknot uses a RAT, I wonder if he will ever pick up your PackRat. I would also love to get hold of one because you have such a wide choice of distortions in one pedal. What an awesom job!! Thank you for the vdeo!

I can't tell the difference between rat models at all. Maybe they feel different when you're actually playing them, but when I hear collectors go crazy over a special variation that was only produced for X amount of years I can't help but wonder wtf they're hearing

I hope your pedal is a huge success, your hard work deserves it. Apart from that Im genuinely greatful for such a great Rat history lesson.

It's annoying that Josh is a great pedal designer, entrepreneur, on-screen presence, and guitar player. Seems like a good guy too. Annoying.

As a rat (animal) owner and a rat (pedal) owner, I very much appreciated this video.

This looks and sounds awesome! One concern: since it has so many components in a regular-sized box, will this be the kind of pedal that a tech will refuse to work on (in the unlikely event that a component fails someday)?

I did the Ruetz rat mod in middle school and snipped the wrong part.. Was honest with proco and they sent me a new pedal, and a t shirt! Not only is it one of my favorite pedals but the company was so awesome to me.

I just hope Rhett is watching this and hearing what real slide tone is. Watch and learn, Rhett. Ps tubescreamers rule!!

I used to work at Impact Label Corporation in Kalamazoo. We screen printed the control panels for the RAT with the glow in the dark letters with the clear red in the “A” for the LED. And we printed the TURBO RAT label. I worked there from 2000-2005. We also printed the Gibson label.

Hi Josh, I picked up the PackRat today 26/6/24 after noodling for 20mins at my local guitar store. I’m very impressed… Just wanted to say a quick thankyou for the work you and your team do. You have a passion which is unmatched in the industry and it shows through in both the pedals you have created and the clips in which you demonstrate them. Well done, I appreciate you. 🫡

Nerd question for Josh - is there a LM308 in the PackRat for the early OG and Whiteface modes? edit:- the answer is No, sadly. Also a Fat Rat would’ve been good for the Fat setting.

My 90s Rat ll pedal has never met a guitar or amp that it doesn't get on with. Still my favourite pedal. It just works.

MAGIC OP AMP: If the op amp is clipping, it ain't no myth. If it isn't, then, maybe , but there's other factors. I made a distortion that's just an op amp, no diodes. Gain of 10,000. We "rolled" a bunch of different op amps. The better the op amp the worse the sound. The 741 sounded best because of its crappy bandwidth. Higher frequencies get less gain...... If the op amp isn't distorting there's also a question of how the output Z of the op amp interfaces w the diode(s). Some op amps Z is < 1 ohm. The 741 is 150 ohms. So that might be important. In general people who can't hear any difference, think that those who can are only imagining it. Now maybe all op variances are still close enough so there is no difference, but I definitely think the conformist thinking " they're thinking differently, they must be wrong" dynamic is at work whether by chance it agrees w reality or not.

I thought I wasn't really interested in Rat pedals and then I heard so many sounds I loved for years here! This was fun, thank you! This is advertising at it's best. You tell me about your pedal and I learned things 🙂

Wow! These are true Rat tones! This is definitely my next distortion pedal. I've used Rats on and off since the 80s, always loved them. One of the best things is how they can make a Fender style amp sound grittier. In fact, I prefer Rats with Fender style amps over Marshall style. I also find that Rats sound amazing if your ax is loaded with a DiMarzio Super Distortion. It's just a magic combination.

I have a old rat pedal I've had for a very long time. Thanks to this video I now know it's a version 2 from 81-83. Thanks for that info.

You are amazing Josh. I bought 3 pedals since I first saw you in youtube. I love your pedals because you love pedals so much.

I'm buying it for the White Face. Not surprised Scott became an engineer. When I 8-9 years old (1961-1962) I lived down the street from Scott in Kalamazoo. We were always building stuff. He had a great immagination.

Wow! Recordtime: the RAT on Coldplay Parachutes….this blows my mind. Great video!!!

right around 2013 a buddy started a very similar idea, packing a rat full of options. I helped him do some layout and art work for it. It turned out very cool, but it was just a fun passion project. this just brought back some memories

The PackRat is back! Shipping to dealers worldwide 👉 www.jhspedals.info/packrat-release

I opened the box and there was a Woodstream Corp Snap Trap welcoming me - these guys are nuts! ...love the pedal also

Amen- Walking After You is one of the best Foo Fighters tracks and it NEEDS more love

I recently put together a new board, and it was REALLY hard not to deck it out with only JHS pedals... These videos have me hooked for life. God bless!