Proco Rat Opamp Clipping

[hanumanlangur]

I just got a Proco Rat 2, and noticed that when the distortion is turned up a bit, the tone gets very.... fuzzy, like a DS-1 or something. It sounds like the opamp is clipping the signal, because the harmonics seem a bit off. Would it suffice to change the opamp to something cleaner like an NE5532? Or a TL072? I'd like to have usable tones for high gain as well, not just fuzzy, flabby stuff.

I had a Proco Vintage Rat (reissue) in the past, and I didn't notice this issue so much, but that was probably because it has less bass than the Rat 2.

[Caferacernoc]

The rat is designed to have lots of of op amp clipping. So you will hear a difference in what opamp you use.