I bought a broken Turbo Rat from the forum recently it had a problem with the volume pot where you couldn't hear anything until the last quarter of the pots rotation. I replaced the pot then reflowed the solder on a few dodgy looking joints and it worked just fine but it was looking a bit rough and didn't sound as good as my old rat (wasn't built as well either).
I had been planning on building a rat clone anyway so thought I'd reuse the enclosure and build my perfect rat. I built this on a Fuzzdog pcb with a clipping switch to go from regular rat to turbo, added a boss style power socket, optical switching and refinished the enclosure. I'm really pleased with how this one turned out it sounds fantastic and is a lot quieter than turbo rat.
I have a LM308 chip in here for the mojos but I back to backed it with an OP07 and couldn't really tell the difference.
Original Turbo Rat
Finished
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For a new-build that optical bypass looks great though. I assume it's basically achieving the same thing using an IC instead of the transistor/diode combo in the Rat circuit