OVERDRIVE- TC ELECTRONIC Magus Pro ...a Rat? with an LM308 OpAmp?

 TC ELECTRONIC MAGUS PRO 

$60.00 USD

Weird? Good ol! has just released a Rat pedal in their budget pedals. Not so strange ...except they make pedals in high volumes and you can not do that and use an obsolete part. The original Rat used as LM308 OpAmp that has been out of production for decades. Yes small builders can find NOS of the part but not on a consistent basis. If the info was not consistent in many ads including Sweetwaters I would think someone got their wires crossed.

The layout has the usual gain, level and tone. A 3 way switch gives you Fat, Classic and Turbo.

The casing is new for the line. It is 3/4 the size of a Boss pedal.

CONCLUSION

Well it is definitely in the ballpark and you get a choice of 

3 voicings. A real ProCo Rat II is only $10 more.

I quite like it! But then I already have a clone of the original and a Rat II so do I need a third RAT? No! 

....but :-)