I used to own a Proco Rat and a Proco Turbo Rat, from memory my Proco Rat always did have a tendency to go into self-oscillation when the Distortion control was turned up, but more to the point, I found I could change the frequency of oscillation by varying the Filter control too, I think self-oscillation is one of the quirks of the Proco Rat circuit design......

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