Starving a Rat

[BeZo]

Anyone ever sag the voltage to a Rat pedal? Does it behave like a fuzz, or something different?

When I used to play with fuzz, I always starved the fuzzes to get that splatty tone and weird decay. I kinda like it. That's why I ended up at Zvex fuzzes, because they all have that feature built in (mostly). Does that work with distortions too? Which distortions would fall apart like fuzz when the battery dies?

 

[Music&Chaos]

Anyone ever sag the voltage to a Rat pedal? Does it behave like a fuzz, or something different?

When I used to play with fuzz, I always starved the fuzzes to get that splatty tone and weird decay. I kinda like it. That's why I ended up at Zvex fuzzes, because they all have that feature built in (mostly). Does that work with distortions too? Which distortions would fall apart like fuzz when the battery dies?

I just love bias knobs on fuzzes and the like to alter voltage. I have not tried this with a RAT but I am following the logic and think it could be a lot of fun.

 

[Music&Chaos]

Sold a buddy of mine a power supply that had knobs on some of the input to change voltage going into the device. Pretty cool feature.

 

[griff10672]

I just saw a add somewhere for a pedal that does the 9 volt sag ....

Fuzzes run off transistors ... they'll do funky things when you mess with the bias voltage

The rat runs off of a single op amp IC ....

Not sure you'll get the same effect .... but who knows ... I think it will just work till it dies

 

[BeZo]

I just saw a add somewhere for a pedal that does the 9 volt sag ....

Fuzzes run off transistors ... they'll do funky things when you mess with the bias voltage

The rat runs off of a single op amp IC ....

Not sure you'll get the same effect .... but who knows ... I think it will just work till it dies

Yeah. Upon further research, it doesn't work as well with OP Amp circuits. I still wanna try it, but I'm tempering my expectations.

What distortion circuits would work with the voltage sag trick? The OCD is OP Amp too, right?

 

[griff10672]

OCD is dual op amp based ...