You can add your settings if you'd like, but I'm more interested in how you use the RAT. Is it a standalone drive pedal? Is it your boost pedal? Is it part of a pedal stacking setup? Is it your full on heavy fuzz pedal? It really is that versatile.
I rely on my pedalboard because whether I play in a club or a studio, if I don't have my own amp with me, I can plug into anything generally clean to slightly dirty and sound like me. My amp of choice is always a fender, by the way. The RAT is a big part of my sound because it always sounds like a RAT, it's not that transparent yet my strat and les paul retain their general tonal characteristics. I like that I can vary the gain with my guitar volume. I use it as a basic rhythm where I can raise the volume on my guitar for dirty lead tones and lower my guitar volumes for fatter clean tones. This only works when I keep the gain about 10:00. When I need more, I boost an od808 into it. So, I guess I'm using it to simulate an amplifier slightly beyond breakup.
I rely on my pedalboard because whether I play in a club or a studio, if I don't have my own amp with me, I can plug into anything generally clean to slightly dirty and sound like me. My amp of choice is always a fender, by the way. The RAT is a big part of my sound because it always sounds like a RAT, it's not that transparent yet my strat and les paul retain their general tonal characteristics. I like that I can vary the gain with my guitar volume. I use it as a basic rhythm where I can raise the volume on my guitar for dirty lead tones and lower my guitar volumes for fatter clean tones. This only works when I keep the gain about 10:00. When I need more, I boost an od808 into it. So, I guess I'm using it to simulate an amplifier slightly beyond breakup.