JHS Pedals Packrat: 9 Rats, 1 Box. 🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀

In 1978, the most versatile and influential distortion pedal of all time was invented in Kalamazoo, MI. Scott Burnham and Steve Kiraly first had the idea after playing, repairing and modifying all the available distortion pedals on the market. They wanted something that didn’t exist in the then mainstream throes of MXR, DOD and even BOSS’s product line; they wanted a pedal that could go from overdrive to distortion and then all the way to fuzz. By 1979 Scott had perfected the circuit in his RAT-infested basement workshop, and the rest is history.
The PackRat is the ultimate tribute to the 40+ years of rodent evolution and its impact on the guitar’s sound. Artists from every genre have used the iconic tones in this unassuming black box to create their sounds, including Nirvana, John Schofield, Pink Floyd, Metallica, REM, the Eagles, Jeff Beck and Radiohead.
Building on our Multi-Mode pedal series that includes the Muffuletta and Bonsai, the PackRat uses the same unique digital runway system to direct the paths of 261 components through 40 individual switches. This means that when you choose one of the nine legendary or rare modes, you are playing fully analog circuits that perfectly replicate that mode, even down to the aging components (also known as component drift). If you purchased these nine hard-to-find pedals on the used market right now, you would pay around $4,000.
When you put it that way, $249 sounds pretty reasonable, right?
THE OG (1979): A perfect recreation of the first production “Big Box” RATs ever made. THE classic RAT tone, sustain and attitude. WHITE
WHT (1984): The first “Small Box” RAT ever produced. Much like the OG but with a different taper Filter control.
TURBO (1989): The first RAT pedal to use LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) in its clipping section. This results in amazing touch dynamics (play light for less distortion, harder for more distortion) and better overdrive tones with the Distortion control turned down.
BRAT(1997): The ultimate “nineties grunge” tone. Adds an input buffer, soft clipping (in addition to the traditional hard clipping) and several capacitor changes. DIRTY (2004): Based on “You Dirty RAT,” this mode gives the most saturation and waveform clipping of any RAT version ever made. Several changes including germanium-style clipping diodes and capacitor changes make this mode as unique as it gets.
DIRTY(2004): What happens when you replace the stock silicon diodes with germanium? It gets even dirtier.
LA (1986): Made by Ibanez in the eighties, it’s still one of the best-modified RAT circuits ever. Instead of relying on hard clipping from the traditional diode configuration found in most RATs, this circuit overloads the op amp and “clips the rails” to produce a very different flavor of rodent tone.
LANDGRAFF MO’D (2005): THE definitive boutique take on the RAT. Based on John Landgraff’s extremely rare MO-D Distortion, a distant cousin of the RAT with tons of versatility and attitude.
CAROLINE WAVE CANNON (2010): Philippe Herndon adapted his Wave Canon Distortion (V1) just for us. It’s a seriously great take on the RAT circuit with all kinds of clever modifications.
JHS MODE: Our classic modification that we performed on countless RATs for over a decade; it’s louder, bigger and has a huge range of tones. Try it for yourself!
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