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Mooer Black Secret Distortion Pedal

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A compact pedal that captures the legendary "Rat" distortion tone.

The Black Secret Distortion pedal captures the classic "Rat" tone made famous in the '70s and '80s. The pedal features two modes: Vintage and Turbo. Both modes are very different ...

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Daniel Spack

You can just make out the Mooer Black Secret Distortion Pedal underneath Daniel's bass cables in this Instagram post.
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Vernon Reid

At 15:30 in this video Vernon shows his Black Secret stating that is "kind of like a Rat".
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Paolo Alpiani

ho god te RAT is here! the great last distorsion in the pedalboard
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Molly Rankin

In the second photo can see the Moeer Black Secret in Molly's pedalboard, next to Boss TU-3
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Description

A compact pedal that captures the legendary "Rat" distortion tone.

The Black Secret Distortion pedal captures the classic "Rat" tone made famous in the '70s and '80s. The pedal features two modes: Vintage and Turbo. Both modes are very different with vintage delivering a raspy thinner distortion that doesn't over power your tone. The Turbo mode on the other hand really thickens up the tone giving you a beefier modern sound.

Like the other micro pedals in the Mooer family, this pedal will fit on any pedal board with ease. Its full metal casing makes it durable and road ready, and like most great effects pedals it has true bypass.

Specifications

2 Working Modes:Vintage/Turbo
Vintage: A warm, smooth, vintage distortion sound
Turbo: More than twice the maximum output of the vintage mode, more powerful distortion sound
Full metal shell
Pedalboard friendly

6 reviews

yessicayeti

175

My better RAT. Oberdrive and Fuzz in one.

The smaller and more versatile RAT. Love it. I use it on nine o'clock as an overdrive to push my driven amp and on 2 o'clock as an Fuzz "Lite". Not that brutal as an usual Fuzz, with more bass, nice and warm. Enough Fuzz for me. Enough Fuzz for a Black Key Riff. Enough Fuzz for a David Gilmour Solo. My better RAT.

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over 1 year ago
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steve_underhill

130

Its a RAT

Okay, I lied. Its also a Turbo RAT. And its less than the price of a RAT. And its a quarter the size of a RAT. No, you dont get the street cred from spending $200 on a hefty hunk of black 80's steel with rust around the inputs. You still get all the distortion you need. Careful with that knob. It doesn't take much. If you want to crank it, you'll want a noise gate. The only reasons I didn't give it 5 stars are because I prefer to be stingy with perfect scores and I don't know about its durability yet.

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about 1 month ago
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jimmarchi1

the intage rat people baffle me, its such a simple circuit to knock off because the parts are readily available and have never been altered by the original manufacturers... no secret sauce at all, the whole point of the rat was a distortion/fuzz unit that would be more reliable and consistent than a 60s fuzz and better sounding than the early 2 knob diode-to-ground distortions being put out by ross, MXR, DOD etc back then (though those caveman distortions have sound, indeed)

about 1 month ago

antonio_estrada

117

WORKS AWESOME BOTH FOR GUITAR OR BASS

Want the sound of the Proco Rat and Turbo Rat in one pedal? Get this thing RIGHT NOW! Cheaper and less space in your pedal board.

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4 months ago
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tacul_

165

fuckin clone RAT...

improve old RAT,half fuzz!!!! wife of ibanez TS9 to be dirty sound

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over 1 year ago
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jimmarchi1 Moderator

please tell me English is not your 1st language.... although if it is, this review was amazing! especially the part where you refer to the rat circuit as "wife of TS9" thatw as amazing!

over 1 year ago

tacul_

haha i'm sorry if my english so bad, i'm indonesian.

over 1 year ago

jimmarchi1 Moderator

I'm let down, I was hoping you spoke English as your 1st language and you just ahd a really unique turn of phrase. Alas. Anyone can butcher a 2nd language (I make a glorious mess of Spanish), but it takes a real poet to come up with "wife of Ibanez TS9" if English is your 1st language.

over 1 year ago

devilmarky

135

Not bad for a proco rat clone and it is cheap.

Not bad for a proco rat clone and it is cheap and instead of buying the MiC rat 2 you should buy this because it is equipped with lm308 and MiC rat 2 is only lm301. and this has a switch to choose between vintage rat and turbo rat.

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about 1 year ago
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noa_biervliet

131

Good copy

It is not a perfect copy but it sounds fenomenal. It has the same casio chip as its ProCo counterpart

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12 months ago
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