He designed robust solutions for the chaotic stage behavior of punk musicians, with Rat bolting microphones to the stands, and mounting heavy duty steel mesh on the monitor wedge loudspeakers.
[1] He designed a concert loudspeaker called the Rat Trap 5, a compact 4-way trapezoidal enclosure[7] the sturdiness of which impressed punk rock promoter Gary Tovar of Goldenvoice Productions.
[8] From 2006 to 2010, Rat published a blog titled "Roadies in the Midst", chronicling his experiences as front of house sound engineer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their Stadium Arcadium tour.
The Vortex, Slotfire and V-Fire configurations describe methods of arranging and delaying conventional sub woofers such that low frequency sound bleed onto stage is reduced and horizontal subwoofer coverage to the audience is steerable.
For this tour, Rat used the French L-Acoustics K1 series line array speakers rather than the original V-DOSC system.
Rat said "I truly love Flea, Anthony, Chad, Josh and all my dear and close friends I consider family both on the road now and those that have moved on to other adventures over the years.
I am pretty happy to say that I have dedicated significant time documenting touring with the Peppers in journals but also have thousands of amazing photos spanning decades of smiles and challenges.
[16] Rat met producers Paul Tollett and Rick Van Santen in 1993, and they said they were planning to start a California desert festival called Coachella.
[10] Rat supported the benefit concert called Rock for Choice in 2004,[17] and provided sound for the LA Weekly Detour Music Festival in 2008.
[20] He has designed speakers and sound equipment such as the MicroWedge, which is manufactured by Eastern Acoustic Works and is now a familiar monitor wedge on many worldwide tours.