ProCo RAT 2 vs Wampler Paisley Drive
The ProCo RAT 2 and the Wampler Paisley Drive are both pedals sharing low gain, bright, gritty. The ProCo RAT 2 leans fuzzy and full. Current prices: $88 vs $149.95.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.35% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Metal
- Rock
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- low gain
- bright
- gritty
- dynamic
- transparent
ProCo RAT 2
Proco · pedal
Wampler Paisley Drive
Wampler · pedal
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$88via Reverb
$149.95via Reverb
The ProCo RAT 2 is a classic hard-clipping distortion pedal whose circuit dates to the late 1970s, built around an LM308 op-amp and silicon diode clipping. Its three controls are Distortion, Filter, and Volume, with the distinctive Filter knob acting as a reversed tone control that runs from bright and cutting to dark and warm. Capable of far more than its name suggests, it spans gritty low-gain overdrive, thick midrange distortion, and nearly fuzz-like saturation while keeping notes present and clear even at high gain. It is a staple of punk, grunge, garage, stoner, doom, and alternative rock, and has been used by players from Jeff Beck and Thom Yorke to countless heavy and experimental guitarists. Dynamic and harmonically rich, it cleans up with guitar volume and stays articulate rather than overly compressed.
The Wampler Paisley Drive is Brad Paisley's signature overdrive, a versatile, transparent-leaning analog drive that ranges from dark and brooding to bright and punchy. It lets the guitar voice come through while shaping the grit, covering Paisley's on-the-edge country twang through to heavier, harmonically packed gain, always staying punchy with less compressed dynamics than many overdrives. It runs from a transparent boost to rich, articulate distortion, cleaning up well with the guitar volume for everything from a subtle country push to bluesy crunch and aggressive rock. Designed to Paisley's brief of staying clean but getting crunchy with beef, soloing fluidly, adding hair, and providing flat-out gain without wrecking the tone or sounding like a pedal, it has spread far beyond country onto boards in every genre, though it is not intended for heavy metal distortion.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Alternative Rock
- Experimental
- Punk
- Grunge
- Hard Rock
- Blues
- Country
- fuzzy
- full
- saturated
- sustaining
- mid-forward