JAM Pedals Rattler

The dudes at Greece’s JAM Pedals have a reputation for building gorgeous handmade effects, with custom paint jobs and premium, sometimes rare components. Their take on the RAT, dubbed the Rattler, doesn’t stray far from the vintage RAT design, using a new-old-stock LM308 chip and featuring the standard trio of RAT controls. Where this pedal really stands out is in its amp-like responsiveness and superlative tone, which really nails the fuzzier characteristics of the original RAT circuit. The Rattler doesn’t have a bad sound in it, and the gain is addictively thick and creamy. JAM might just have built the best-sounding RAT clone there is. It rules so much that Nels Cline uses one!