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Proco White Face RAT Original 1985 perfectly working in excellent condition and never used, except to test its functioning, even today before selling it.

Purchased in the late 90s in the USA (taken from a Showcase in a shop - ex demo) and always kept in a showcase in my house away from humidity and dust).

I have other original RATs from the 85s but I am selling only one.

The Iconic White Face.

Just a little history that many ignore about this iconic distortion/Fuzz:

In 1984 ProCo had a choice to make and they needed to make it fast. With the world's top pedal brands like BOSS, Ibanez, DOD and MXR all being produced in enclosures half the size of the RAT’s Big Box enclosure, sales began to dwindle. As a result, the RAT was nearly sent to the chopping block. In an effort to get attention back on the product and boost sales, the RAT was moved to the Small Box format. The first version of this is best known as the “White Face” RAT. The name comes from the new RAT logo that is essentially a white filled block logo with black text inside of it. This effect was achieved by screen printing white graphics on the surface of the enclosure as a logo and leaving the text un-screened to be seen as black within the white block.

This is, hands down, the most coveted RAT pedal on the used market. Former RAT production supervisor Kandy recalled weeks when she and the other builders would literally pull all-nighters to meet the demand for “White Face” RATs.

This myth is one of the most frustrating as a pedal designer and as someone who has studied the circuit in great depth. The RAT circuit is effectively a simple op amp boost that sends its amplified signal across diodes that shunt to ground. This creates the sound known as hard clipping. One of the many unique things that the RAT has going for it is that the op amp is actually run at such a high rate of gain that it distorts before the hard clipping distortion is ever started. This gives a rich distortion tone that has lots of complex harmonics.  This approach to design is actually due to a mistake that Scott Burnham made by accidentally placing a 47 ohm resistor where a 470ohm resistor should have gone.

This small but wonderful mistake led to the RAT’s trademark sound.

Basically the White Face RAT was produced between 1984 and 1985, inserting the same circuit of the Big Box RAT in a smaller box. This was to resist the competition of historic brands on the market. The choice of the White Face Logo, in negative compared to the previous Big Box boxes, lasted only 2 years and precisely because of the difficulty of having a clear painting that did not have white paint smudges. In 1986 the RAT Black Face was introduced without the Sound Inc. writing.

This is why the White Face RAT is so Iconic! Produced for only about 2 years, it was the edition that allowed the RAT to arrive to the present day with dozens of variations, until a brief parenthesis in 2010 that celebrated its conception by producing a Reissue of 1985 (as the last year of WHITE Face production), building it in a very faithful way and that sounds great! The Reissue serial number appears as WFR (WHITE Face Reissue).

So we can say, without any mistake, that 2025 is the 40th and 41st anniversary of the Proco WHITE FACE RAT! Now a very rare pedal for collectors.