ProCo Deucetone

very easy to use. I did get a manualwith mine and it is layed out very well. A lot of useful options with this pedal.

I use a Lone Star strat through a Super reverb. As several reviewers said a good clean tube amp is a great partner for this pedal. I have a great clean tone with just the super reverb...I set up chanel B on dirty rat mode with the distortion around 9 oclock and the filter on 3 oclock for a nice {pretty overdriven} blues tone...I set chanel A on vintage with the distortion at 11 oclock and the filter on 3 oclock for a killer marshall tone then I can cascade them for a slight boost and a little extra gain for leads. I am in four channel heaven with one pedal, Unbelivable, I have a closet full of boutique distorton and overdrive pedals and this blows them all away hands down!

Don't know yet, Only had it for a couple weeks. I have had plenty of problems with other pedals that cost more. This seems built better and is definately heaver than any others I own. I have however played a lot in the two weeks that I have had this and had no problems so far. I will post on this in a few weeks.

no contact yet, I have had good response with the problems I have had with some of the other pedals from other companies. I assume Pro Co will be the same after looking at the other reveiws. We'll see?

I give it a 9 due to not knowing about the reliability and service yet. As far as the features, ease of use and the sound, I totally love it. I play Rockin Blues mostly and this works perfectly. I Played New years eve at a house party and loved it. Had many compliments from the band and people at the party. Haven't played out with it yet but will soon. My set up is: Strat, Mayer/vox wa, Duecetone, phase 90, tc electronics chorus with a leslie mod, chandler ecco to black face super reverb. This pedal works with a wa much better than any other distortion pedal I have ever used or heard. It also does as good of job of maintaining you're original tone as any of the boutique pedals that make that claim. The difference is that most of those pedals that really do a great job of maintaining you're original tone don't do that great of a job getting that marshall type distortion. This does both extremely well. It is truly unbeliveable to me as I have been doing the perverbial search for years and I am finished now. I have never really felt this way after any of the other pedals I have purchased over the years.

Well its set up like all rats, 3 knobs with a 3dpt switch(true bypass). Its relatively easy to use. In my opinion its really easy to get a good sound out of. I shoot for the radiohead type distortion. Johnny uses a rat, as well as a marshall shredmaster(jcm800 in black box) well this is pretty much the marshall shredmaster in a slightly bigger box with more options tone wise than you can shake your stick at.

I would like to point out something. one of the previous reviews claimed that this was good for light rock sounds, but absolutely horrible for heavy distorted sounds. now im not claiming i know more than this person, but you sound pretty stupid to me. not only did you downgrade a rat, but you then claimed that the BOSS Metal Zone had a better claim to heavy distortion than this. I belive most people will agree with me that this is in fact blasphemy.

Back to the pedal, the sound quality is very impressive, models the other rats incredibly well. the reason i bought this was because i like to run pedals together to create a blend effect, an example would be my overdrive. I use a jekyll and hyde od and ds pedal strictly for my overdrive. what i do is i switch to the clean setting on my amp and turn on both parts of the pedal. The od side is tuned to a nice light overdrive sound, while the distortion is used as a non transparent low gain boost. not a volume boost though, just a boost for my amp for extended overdrive from my all tube head.

With the rat, i tend to run both sides at once, utilizing different patches and settings to create a unique sound. Definetly a ten on the sound quality.

ive gigged with it for a bout a month now, 5 or 6 big shows with my group. But its only been a month, so theres no telling what time will bring for this rat.

Haven't had to deal with proco

I play radiohead, and a lot of acoustic with my group. Been playing for too long to remember, and if it were stolen id find the theif through the location tracking device id put in all my gear(warning to all you gear thieves) and then i'd drive to the location, along with a wooden baseball bat. You know what happens next. I hope this review helps you guys make a decision if your deciding on a distortion pedal.

Features already discussed.

Gibson LP to Deuce to tube amp. Very quiet except when diming the distortion and volume knobs - no surprise. Folks often say that Rats are a bit "fuzzy" and don't do well with intense palm muted crunch. It's true that Rats can get fuzzy (in a good way). But cascading one rat into another yields on this pedal gives a boost and provides great palm muted crunch with some wicked overtones and harmonics - really nice. The tone guide always suggests chaining the higher compression modes into lower compression (e.g. Dirty => Vintage, Vintage => Turbo, Turbo => Clean, etc.). My favorite is Vintage into Turbo...this really gives a convincing hot rod marshall crunch and sustain, with some extra nice harmonics. I searched a long time for a "Marshall in a Box" and I've definitely found it in this pedal. After cascading the two modes, I no longer use them individually. Overdrive? Hmmm....I'll stick to my TS-9 for that stuff. But Marshall Crunch and sustain? This pedal is it for me.

Sound rating says it all. This pedal actually gives you alot of control and for me, made playing screaming Marshall playing really fun again. I play all styles of music, but when the tunes get heavier, this pedal has a very satisfying tone and attack. It makes playing actually easier with all of the sustain.

There's lots of good info here on its sound. A few people have dissed the Clean RAT but I wanted to make a quick note that the Clean RAT can make an excellent transparent boost. I dial the volume on full, the distortion only on the tinniest bit (just to the first little red dot) and the filter at about 1 o'clock (I find that position is neutral). I then use this channel to boost both my clean amp sound without it breaking up for clean solo/lead and again I can use it cascaded with my distortion settings on Channel A for a dirty solo boost. Works great for me, but if your a pro you might be pickier. The ideal would be to have a volume boost knob and footswitch with my amp, why don't amps do this??? Losts have gain boosts and separate channel, but more usuful would be a volume boost at the amp. Anyway for this use the Clean RAT is pretty good and is better than the boost setting on a MARSHALL Blues Breaker 2.

Reading about the features I knew I had to try it. Easy enough to use!

I loved the clean rat. The rest is too fuzzy. You CANNOT get metal type sounds out of it. Somebody stating the opposite dont have a clue or wasnt trying. I am not too much into playing metal but trying to get a good full distorted sound out of the deucetone, it failed! The notes arent coming out clear. The light overdrive tones are superb. The clean rat is the THING, baby. Cant use only that though. Went for a GT8, has a rat also. Sold the deucetone.

wouldnt ever break

Wanted the manual per email - did it within a day. Thanks a lot!

If you are into light overdrives: try it. Harder distorted sounds wont be easy to get out of. IMO its a typical CAN-DO-ALOT-BUT-NOTHING-RIGHT-effect. For blues stuff use the BluesDriver BD-2 (BOSS), harder distorted stuff, get something like the Marshall Guv'nor or the MetalZone!

Its darn simple to get a good sound of this pedal, what can I say just 3 knobs for each channel how complicated can that get? I dont know if it does usually come with a manual but mine didnt, but I could easily get it from the Proco page. The only reason why I gave it a 8 and not a 9 or 10 is because I took a little time to actually get it to work, the way you route the cables is indeed really special as this pedal is literally 2 RATS in one as each channel has its own input and output jacks. So 2 guitarists could actually share this pedal at the same time. But for me I use it for 2 channels one set on an overdriven tone and the other on a heavier distortion with more bottom end. One more thing like many others have said the cascading feature the deucetone is a little tricky to get used to but after some time of tweaking it becomes second nature to cascade your two channels.

American Deluxe Telecaster through DeuceTone, GCB-95 Cry Baby, Digitech Whammy, Boss HF-2 Flanger to Crate 15 watt amp.

Generally I dont find it noisy at all, with decent cables. Even with my single coils there doesnt seem to be much hiss,hum,feedback. But I worry about it at a high volume though. But easily solved by not standing too close to the amp.

I have never got a RAT in my life before and this is the first one I got and I must say it gave me a great impression of Proco RATS, the versatility is there, you could get Clean pop sounds to Blues overdriven tones to Heavy california style distortions. Even with a crap Crate amp I have it sounds great I wonder what it could do with a higher grade amp?

I listen to and play alot of early 90's grunge/post grunge/hard rock/blues rock music for example Stone Temple Pilots, Creed, Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine. The DeuceTone just fits right in to the sound I want, I was just playing Plush with the setting reccommended by Proco's site for 90's hard rock, I must say at some points during the song I could not differentiate my guitar's sound from the music blasting out of my speakers. It is that good and that easy to replicate your fav sounds. Takes some time to get your own original tone though but its never impossible with the DeuceTone.

Ok you can definitely depend on it, its real sturdy and I think you could probably use it as a weapon to bludgeon someone in the head easily with. The only reason why I gave it a 9 is that my DeuceTone was a little tough to get my 9V batt in and the batt holder broke because I used too much force.

I would definitely gig without a backup. No questions asked.

Never dealt with Proco and I doubt I will ever have to.

As I said above my influence is mainly 90's grunge/post grunge and it matches with my playing style like a suit made to measure. I have played for probably 2-3 years now, I own various other boss pedals and a Yamaha DG-stomp. For guitars I have a 40th anniversary mexican strat, PRS Santana SE, Am Deluxe Tele. If it were stolen or lost I would run down to the shop and grab a new one in a heartbeat. I love the tone and the quality of make that the DeuceTone is.

The only flaw I find now is the damn battery holder, but well its fine with it broken off anyways.

Favourite feature for me definitely has to be the cascade feature, trust me it is no trick pony or marketing ploy. It really works and you could get a real original tone out of it.

I initially wanted to get the MXR Doubleshot but after reading reviews and hearing people talk about it I immediately looked for another pedal and came across the DeuceTone, it had everything I needed on a distortion pedal, 2 channels, versatility, cascade feature what more could I ask for.

I wish the 2 footswitches were a just a little bit closer.

If you are looking for a 2 channel distortion with versatility and quality you have just found it, I highly reccomend this overdrive/distortion pedal. For this price it really is great. Oh and did I mention the DeuceTone is really 6 rats in one, they should have named it Proco DeuceTone 'RATS'.

This unit takes a little bit of attention span to get your sound if you are partigcular about what you're going for. The most challenging part is when you cascading the two units together. Generally, the most compressed setting should be in front meaning you should set Dirty Rat before Clean, Vintage before clean, Turbo before Dirty. The tone setting guide is helpful but if you were going after experimental sounds, it would take some experimentation and time.

Using with an LP STandard into a Fender tube amp. This unit is low noise with high quality cables. I've recently purchased the Vintage Rat, then went for more versatility with the Deucetone. I have to say, this unit is much smoother/warmer then the Vintage Rat when ABing against the VRat setting on the Deucetone. Overall, more high fidelity. The Vintage Rat reissue pedal seems to have harsher highs and a slight unpleasant metallic "clink" when cunking out rhythm chords. The reissue also seems to choke the bass a bit. Not so with the Deucetone.

The real surprise is the Dirty Rat setting. I'm finding that it is very versatile and able to do soft overdrive clipping (not exactly like a TS-9 style overdrive, but more transparent for humbucking pickups) as well as medium gain classic rock (e.g. Aerosmith, etc.) It can do wonderful fuzz tones too, but I don't really use fuzz in our band.

I use this rat as two separate pedals - channel one using the Dirty Rat (distortion at 10 o'clock) for the overdrive, classic rock tones and channel two for the massive Marshall crunch sound using the Turbo Rat setting (distortion at 2 o'clock). Proco says this pedal uses a germanium diode - I don't know if this means the other pedals don't and I'm not sure what impact this has, but this pedal sounds outstanding.

This is my only distortion pedal now in the chain. I have all the bases covered with this unit. My advice is if you're thinking of a Rat, go for the Deucetone instead of the standalone units.

Too early - can't say...I've only had it 6 months but fine so far.

Proco responds to querys via email - usually in a few days.

It's tough deciding on OD/distortion pedals since there are about a million out there. I've tried all the Boss units, and some boutique units as well. This it the first pedal for me that hits the mark on the range of OD/distortion I like. Of course, your ear will decide what is right for you. But, I think this pedal represents alot of value and as a bonus has true bypass as well. If this thing disappeared or got crushed I'd be on zzounds in about 10 minutes. Check this pedal out - you won't regret it I think.

It's pretty easy to get the tone you are looking for, only has two sets of three knobs, volume,distortion, and filter. Each of the rat units have its own three knobs. Doesn't come with a manual, but it's pretty self-explanatory.

Ha ha I'm a bassist and I shred with this unit. My guitarist also uses a RAT 2 sometimes. I love the sound that the DEUCE produces with the bass, it's very growly, and really mean sounding, perfect for metal. My set up is ESP F 254-> Deucetone-> Peavy Max Bass preamp-> BBE 362-> Korg DTR-2 tuner-> Carvin DCM 1500 power amp->Ampeg SVT 810-E. My rig is ungodly loud, but so is my band. The Deucetone holds it all together with sick growl. If you any bassists out there are thinking about buying that peice of shit Juggernaut, don't do it, get the deucetone I promise you will not be dissapointed, if your looking for a hardcore sound. If you want to know what it sounds like with bass, listen to Zao.

Are you kidding me, you can kill somebody with this thing, its so heavy and thick, nicely built. It's better if you use a external power source with it, because it kills batteries quick. If this thing got stolen, I would get a new one quickly. It's nice to have other effects, but this is my main distortion.

Never had to use it.

Again this stompbox is perfect for metal. Works sick with the bass, don't let a guitar player tell you any different. It's easy to use when you figure out the settings you want, you just got to mess with it for a while.

The DT Rat has zillion possible tones and they are very easy to use. It is you who need to remember how the settings are set for that particular tone. Manual is available on the website with various setting guides. It could be the mother of all distortion units if you spend time to paly with it. I am pleased with this unit. I had TS-9, Turbo TS-9DX, Boss DS-1, and this DT Rat for home practice. I used a Boss line selector to switch between effects and I have to say DT Rat can duplicate those units easily. For gig, I just bring the DT Rat. It has all the tones I need.

95 Reissue 59 Strat, Boss line selector connected to various effects and to various amps; Roland Cube 30, to Music Man 130HD, to Fender Acoustasonic SFX.

Not noisy unless you push the limiter and distortion levels to max.

You can get very close to the sound of the artists if you use setting guides from Proco (available on line). For example, Brian May's solo on many Queen's top hits.

It is built solidly and the unit is enclosed with a real thick metal cage. It can not possible be damaged by normal usage.

I am very pleased with the services I received. My unit developed some funny sign although it works OK. Mind you, I work overseas so I wrote an e-mail to ProCo at their website, the sales manager responded and gave me the address to send the unit back for repairs. No questions asked as how long I had it, or what I did to the unit. I sent the unit back.

Subsequent mails and telephone were ensued to see when the repair was completed. I had it back yesterday after 8 weeks but I am happy. The delay was because UPS didn't accept the unit to be sent to APO military and ProCo has to wait for me to tell them what to do. It turned out that a trip to US Postal office solved that (ProCo only uses UPS to pick up their packages at their shop).

By the way, the problem is that one of soldered wire came loose for some reason. And it was an easy repair for the technician. He did include a note explaining what he did and expressed he was sorry for the trouble. It can not get more personal than that.

I think in terms of services, that is number one in my book. The people I dealt with personally were courteous and helpful and the unit was repaired with care and speed. And it costed me nothing except for the postage I paid sending the unit back to ProCo.

I play almost anything; classical, Brazillian bossa nova, rock, some country, some punk rock, blues, and Jazz. I have been playing steadily for about 20 years and I own most of the brand name stuff (Fender/Music Man amps, Fender & Washburn guitars, effects of various manufacture (I still have a Maestro phaser I bought in 1978 and it still works perfectly).
If it were stolen, I would try to look for an used one (can't afford another $165). I like the features on the units as is. I did compare this DT Rat to other products under 'Ease of Use' up there.

it has 2 channels which you can cascade them together. its very easy to use each channel itself as the each channel has only 3 knobs which are distortion, filter, volume. however when you cascade them its quite challenging to produce the tone you want.

i use epiphone les paul and ibanez rx450. for amp i use marshall avt 150h and 1960b. and also i use boss ds-1, ge-7, and dd-6 together.

firstly deucetone itself produces such a nice tone. each channel has 3 different rats. for channel a, there are turbo, vintage, dirty rats and for chanel b, there are turbo, vintage, clean rats.

to make heavier sound(eg. metallica) i usually cascade two channels. but its pretty hard to make nice tone so you will need to spend some time to get right sound. and sometimes i use them independently like i play hard rock or alt.rock. and one of other channel i put clean rat to boost. its very nice

built like a tank.

5-year warranty

no idea

5-year warranty

i play the guitar about 5 years and i reckon its one of the best distortion pedal on the market.
if u looking for versatile distortion the deucetone is the one.