Please tell me how to set it! Swollen Pickle I messed with the trim pots, didn't really know what i was doing. I found that if I run the loudness any higher than 2, its blaringly loud. Been using it into a clean amp
It's a repackaged Saucy Box. There's another more recent iteration called "effects pedal" that's just a repackaged Swollen Pickle, but Josh is holding the Saucy Box (3 knobs, no mini pots)
Gotta shout out to Craig Anderton who made the tube sound fuzz. The red llama is a barely altered tube sound fuzz circuit. It was (not saying stolen) copied. Big name in DIY. Craig Anderton deserves a chapter in pedal history.
I absolutely love Way Huge pedals! I worked for a store that sold Dunlop and we were very happy when George Tripps started working with them. I bought the very first Red Llama when we got one in and fell in love with the entire line. Dozen of their pedals and counting
I love my Green Rhino Mkiv, which I feel does not get enough mention, a little smaller and the updated 100hz and 500hz make it SO versatile. Even at noon the tone is different than the classic setting...basically making it two different “ts” tones! Finally, the use of a carbon battery does something magical if you can try it. And now I need a ringworm, thanks Josh! Lol
Saint Rhoads The CCD is nice but it’s difficult to get the mix right when playing live. I have it and like the sound but it’s been sitting since about the first week I got it. YMMV
I agree. The repeats are really lo-fi but that's part of the magic - you can create nostalgic sci-fi sounds really easily. And the tap and layout make it very intuitive to tweak on the fly.
+1 on the Supa Puss. I have a JHS Panther V.1 but it's YUGE so when I want analog delay w/tap, subdivisions, ext-in, etc without taking up 1/2 my board, I go with the Puss Delays galore.
Thanks for another wonderful ep. I have the Pork and Pickle Overdrive & Fuzz for Bass and it's a beast of a pedal. I record with it all the time and have it next to a ABY pedal so I have a clean and fuzz option for each take, which is useful when ya not sure how much fuzz you want when tracking. After watching this ep, I am keen to get my hands on the Purple Platypus because it sounds magnificent.
I love Way Huge so much I have 11 dirt pedals from them. I even went to the trouble of getting hold of a red and a blue Drive (aka Geisha). I love the Havalina because it is weirdly touch sensitive and organic...and I say touch sensitive rather than volume sensitive advisedly. It's weird.....you know :-). I love the Pork Loin for the mix and the Saucy Box because the mix is more straightforward to get at....if you get me. I love the Fat Sandwich for it's fine grained high gain shenanigans that still cleans up a treat. The 'Geisha' has all but taken over from the Barber Gain Changer as my all-time favourite drive pedal. I think if I were out and about again I would happily have a board with two - minimum gain for slightly hairy boost and 3.00 o'clock for creamy leads. I love everything about 'em. ......... really cool enclosures too.
What about the Conquistador?? That one might be relatively newish, but it tears it up in the realm of fuzz, and Velcro- fuzz in particular! I have 6 WH pedals, all in a row. Because of the top mounted Jack's, they go flush side-by-side with no gaps in-between. They actually take up less real estate than equivalent boss pedals - and they look killer, all im a neat row like that, each withntheir skater-cool colour vibe.
I still believe the Green Rhino is miserably underrated... Ever since I got mine, it's been pretty much on 24/7, 365 days a year on my board. Seriously. Best Tube Screamer-like overdrive in the history of Tube Screamer-like overdrives, maybe ever. Bottom line: The Way Huge Green Rhino Overdrive is my favorite pedal ever, was I clear enough about it? I love the Green Rhino.
I loved A.M. But when I heard YHF, I wanted to open my veins deep and wide. I don't even give it enough thought to call it bad - I just wanted to kill myself those two times I tracked it.
I love the Ringworm, I prefer using the lower frequencies with the blend at about 11 o'clock. Adds a lot of texture, like you said. Great, great pedal. You get the most usable sounds compared to other ring modular type pedals, in my opinion.
Excellent video. I am so glad that you featured the Havalina. I never see it on any list of best fuzzes, or even best fuzzes by Way Huge, but it is an amazing pedal. One of my favorite musical experiences was hooking this up to a ZT lunchbox amp, setting the ZT under the entrance to my attic, cranking both the pedal and the amp as far as they would go, and driving out a raccoon that had decided to make its home up there. However, his absence was temporary, as I think he also appreciated the throaty majesty of the Havalina.
I'm a fan of the Red Llama. I remember Tripps being on the Andertons channel and Lee calling the Red Llama a "player's pedal" cos it's hard to dial in and not for beginners. Jeorge didn't seem to appreciate that very much, but he stayed polite about it.
Ok, so I'm pretty sure that the super famous guitar player, that Josh was talking about, is Joe Bonamassa. I just happened to re-watch Joe's Rig Rundown today, where he talked about getting something called the Effect Pedal from Jeorge Tripps in 2014 to compare it to a Tube Screamer and an original Klon Centaur. Joe talked about the Effect Pedal as being a modified Green Rhino that was made for especially him, so perhaps it was sort of the early stage of what would become the Overrated Special and the Doubleland Special, which he used in the rig rundown.
My Green Rhino Mk II was a holy grail find for me. After years of using Boss Yellow OD pedals and other similar mid-bump bass-cut pedals, all I wanted was something that just sounded exactly like my amp but with more drive. Even though it's based on the mid-humpy Tube Screamer, the extra bass control allows me to dial in a very transparent tone.Have yet to try any OD pedal that matches it for just sounding like my overdriven amp with zero tonal colouring.
Oh really??! Damn! I cheaped out n got an mxr instead. Now I wish I'd paid the extra $70 (AUD). Cos I've got a neat line of 6 way huge pedals on my board. They look awesome all in a row, flush side-by-side the to the top-mounted jacks.
Recently acquired a Purple Platypus for a steal on Reverb! Awesome pedal, inspires a very particular playing style. I find it works best into an already dirty amp, makes for some really unique lead/heavy rhythm tones!
I’ve been a fan of joerge Tripp & Way Huge since he joined MXR/Dunlop... My Way Huge Swollen Pickle! Totally underrated, and doesn’t get used as often as I’d like because IT’S A BEAST!! And not always tameable... I’m talking about the phattest fuzz.. Plus I’ve had a Green Rhino on my board for... 8 years? Final, maybe getting overthrown by the Golden Boy.
i watched your which overdrive is right for me video and decided i needed a Blues breaker type overdrive, but a bit later on the same day i heard some demo's of the Way huge Green rhino and knew that was the one i wanted rightaway. Really looking forward to play with it 😁
between the time you played the purple platypus and the end of the video i bought one.... sooo favourite sound.... and i have enjoyed using a pork loin and a saucy box. Way Huge is pretty dreamy stuff
The Way Huge Saucy Box is my favourite drive pedal ever. I have 6 different drives on my board but if I could only have one it would be the Saucy Box. Never really hear too many people talking about it tbh and I think it's pretty under rated
@@extendedlines ps if anybody knows where I can get one in the reverse colouring ....Pink pedal / black lettering. ....gimme a shout , I REALLY want one !
My favorite way huge has to be the Fat Sandwich. Great Distortion pedal that responds so well to dynamic playing. In addition to the volume, saturation and tone, you have additional presence and resonance controls, as well as internal controls inside, allowing you to fine tune the curve and sustain.
Surprised you didn't like the Swollen Pickle or the Fat Sandwich. They're easily my favorite WH pedals because of how versatile they are. Huge range of tones.
I’ve never been a Wilco fan but Jeff Tweety used to live in my neighborhood. It was when his kid was young, so I would see him at the park sometimes. His son had a Beatles cover band. They were really good.
I love the doubleland special, however because of you I broke out the Boss MT-2 AND I PUT IT AFTER MY SWOLLEN PICKLE......OMG TALKING bout sweet ass tones with my strat and dsl40c. my amount ate that shit up. Thanks for making me take another look at it.
I recently put together a new little pedal board intending to keep it fairly simple but ended up with a loop for two distinct channels & 8 (EIGHT!) distortion, overdrive or fuzz pedals & nothing else... My favorite "fuzz" tone is the the Way Huge Camel Toe... turn every tone/frequency knob all the way down & it's just enough massive amount of volume & overdrive to get me to MY perfect level of fuzz. The Green Rhino is amazing & my favorite OD before the Conspiracy Theory OD came out now the Conspiracy Theory is my absolute favorite.
I found a guy in the city selling a Way Huge Red Llama and an Angry Troll. I'd been wanting to try Way Huge for a while, so I bought 'em. Sent the Red Llama to my buddy in NYC for his birthday and use the Angry troll with guitar AND bass. Love it (and my buddy loves the Red Llama). Then I found a Purple Platypus in a music shop near my house and bought it after hearing some TH-cam demos. I'm now officially in love with Way Huge pedals!
I’ve had a Way Huge Camel Toe pedal for almost 3 yrs! Just started using and I’m blown away!! With a chorus and delay, it goes into Gilmore/ EJ territory and without I can cover some 90’s/Grunge covers!! Absolutely awesome!!!
All the Billy Bragg & Wilco LPs "Mermaid Avenue I, II & III". All previously unreleased songs written by the amazingly beautiful Woody Guthrie. Which Billy Bragg & Wilco put their own music to. And there's also the Documentary "Man in the Sand". Documenting the recording of the LPs. And a large portion of the songs which where recorded in Republic of Ireland 🇮🇪
"This next one is the OTHER most famous Way Huge pedal... It's kind of a big deal" me: Did he say big dill??? That's PERFECT. SWOLLEENN PICKKLLEE-oh it's the red llama.
I love way huge, i sold a havalina a year ago and it was a terrible mistake. The saucy box hc is a fantastic pedal it is comonly called the brown sauce overdrive 😂
1. Way Huge Overrated Special (Dumble Overdrive Special) - modified Green Rhino Way Huge Green Rhino (tubescreamer) 2. Way Huge Aqua-Puss (analog delay) 3. Way Huge Blue Hippo MkII (analog chorus & vibrato) - likes it as always-on with a very low vibrato ('3D effect') Way Huge Effect Pedal (fuzz) - essentially a Swollen Pickle with maybe some extra treble 4. Way Huge Red Llama (overdrive with hi-cut) 5. Way Huge Havalina (germanium fuzz) 6. Way Huge Ring Worm (ring modulator) 7. Way Huge Purple Platypus (octadrive) - dirty & gnarly, bad tracking (I don't know how he was counting - he counted the red llama as number 5, so I figured every pedal he demos is part of the numbering, the others aren't. Since the Aqua-Puss is in every demo, I counted it as number 2)
Waited so long for this episode. Love the way huge. Swollen pickel makes me smile to play around with it. Ringworm is great too. Super puss is outstanding with the time sequencer. Love your Show josh. Why no bike Shirt this time?
I have an original Purple Platypus that I got back in the mid-90s to use with a specific band I was in at the time. At the lowest drive setting, you can get some quirky fake sitar sounds (treble strings), and kind of a broken speaker sound with full chords.
YES! I honestly fist-bumped the air when I saw the Havalina! I have it myself and always wanted a ToneBender and I just adore the thing! So fun to use - and stacks really well with a light OD after to make it sound HUGE
I tried once a MkI Saffron Squeeze from a friend, and I still think of It as the best sounding, high quality, guitar signal -friendly compressor pedal, great work mr Tripps!
I made a comment about it earlier in this comment section. Im pretty sure that it's a modified Green Rhino, that was made for Joe Bonamassa. You can look at my comment for further explanation if you want :)
@@oscarskjoldan Bonamassa used the Pork Loin exclusively for the longest time (still?), so if he's the guitarist to whom Josh is referring, it's probably a modified version (or not) of that circuit.
Surprised the Swollen Pickle wasn't on there. I have the Green Rhino, Red Lama,Swollen Pickle,Blue Hippo, and Angry Troll. Always wanted the Aqua Puss. Great show
I bought a couple of Way Huge pedals relatively early on in their return, and despite daydreaming about some, haven't bought any more since, at least not yet! The Pork Loin is by far the one I've use the most, but branched out about as much as possible with my second purchase, which was the Ringworm. The rhythmic effects in some modes made that stand out to me as the ring mod to try, and I was kind of delighted to see it in the video! A friend who took audio production class with me bought the Pickle around the time I got the Pork Loin, back when there were just those and the Fat Sandwich, probably. The Aqua or Supa Puss are the ones I've most daydreamed about getting, but a fuzz or modulation pedal would be great too. No, I didn't exactly say which was my favorite though!
Finally! I have trying to get someone to confirm the Havalina is a tone bender for years...been on my board for 4 years but I have been using a Muffeletta lately in the fuzz hole.
Great video. I have owned a bunch of Way Huge pedals. I used to use my Swollen Pickle Mk2 a lot. I used to have a Green Rhino, that's a real nice overdrive. The ones I currently use the most are the Saffron Squeeze compressor, the Conspiracy Theory overdrive and the Conquistador fuzz. I've still got a few others but those three are ones I'm playing through lately. And though I haven't had occasion to use it in a while, my Pork Loin is just an amazing overdrive.
Aside the fact that we are talking about pedals... Josh is probably my favorite youtuber ever! My brothers (who are not musicians) sit on the living room with me to see the show Lol
I have that Anniversary Llama. Shout-out to Dunlop tone shop for getting me a replacement knob when mine had an unfortunate break! Was having a low-key panic attack about it because it's my favorite
Hey Josh...... I discovered Wilco practically with "Wilco The Album" . I love them and I think One Wing is one of their best piece. Great lyrics, great guitars, etc. Anyway I just bought the Atreides by Way Huge. Thank you for the tip (I know it's not on this video). Hugs form Sardinia.
Lol - it wasn't until you got to the second pedal that I realized that this video was about pedals made by the company "Way Huge" rather than about over-sized pedals. :-) Great video though as always. hehe
I NEED you to do a video on the Ibanez Soundtank series!! No excuses, you WANT to make that video, I can hear it in your eyes and see it in the way you talk. ................. please?
I don't doubt that Jeorge was an early adopter of the 3PDT stompswitch, but I was always under the impression that it was Mike Fuller who originally ponied up the dough for a switch-maker to produce 3PDTs for his pedals.
Earthworm Jim is a video game whose protagonist is a worm called Jim who, holstered on a cybernetic trajectory and armed with a pistol, is dedicated to touring the universe in search of the princess "What's her name". Great overtones from this pedal Huge fan of the Ring Worm .. sorry are we talking pedals or Cartoons?!? I got confused, either way I'm a Huge Wilco fan anyways, just for the record!!
Honestly, the Pork and Pickle is one hell of a pedal for both guitar and bass... Can move from amazing Smashing Pumpkins tones to a subtle fuzz that works with everything
Agreed! I haven't seen anyone talk about it used on guitar but it's easily as good as it is on bass...... to be able to use it as a drive, fuzz, clean preamp or a combination of dirt and preamp. I just found out about the four internal trim pots. It's crazy that it's basically a full porkloin and a russian pickle in one.
@@extendedlines honestly I’m unsure aha but it’s in both my boards because it’s sooo good and it stacks really really well with the earthquaker devices plumes
I'm not a pedal maestro. I have/have had maybe 20 pedals, from 90 to 20, and the Swollen Pickle Mk... 2 I think it is, is the best pedal I've ever heard, and/or played. I've played a significant portion of the Earthquacker Pedals (sic), multicolor stacks of Boss and DOD, and a bunch of others, the Swollen Pickle is AMAZING. I'm not trying to play the pedal market, as I swear people are trying to do online, but this pedal produces the FUZZ FOR ME. It is not old nostalgic fuzz, it's not contemporary stupid fuzz, that sounds good, to you, alone, with no other instruments or vocals, that can't be used in a song. It's just a HUGELY versatile fuzz that can get heavy as hell, thrashy as hell, insane as hell, basically any extreme adjective as hell it can get. And almost all of those sounds are usable with the proper arrangement and production/mix. BECAUSE it is a 7 knob pedal, it can go places. Insane places, but then the pedal has the ability to stay insane, but rein in the out of bounds portions of your signal, the stuff that makes it unusable in a mix. I'm writing this because I've heard nothing but relentless scorn for the Swollen Pickle. Is it the name. Is it people trying to garner clout by hating on a small boutique brand that went big? What is it? I don't know. But from a lot of what I hear online, people can't seem to figure out how to work the pedal. Which is understandable, it is complex, and maybe the knob function names aren't the best, but maybe they are, either way, turn some knobs, play some riffs, turn some more knobs, you can't go too wrong with this pedal, but you can go to hell and back again with this pedal at the same time. Just turn some knobs until it sounds insanely good. And then turn it up. Then speak with the nice police people who come to hear you not play. Best pedal I've ever heard or played. It is kind of soul destroying, because every other pedal I have on my board sucks by comparison. I have this feeling like there is this golden arena where all the pedals that perform all the pedal functions are as good as the Swollen Pickle, like the overdrive is as good of an overdrive as the Swollen Pickle is of good of an unhinged but almost always usable fuzz. And I don't know the pedals in that golden arena. And even if I could find all of the pedals in the golden arena, I couldn't afford even one of them (except the Swollen Pickle, I can pay $75 once a year, for a golden arena pedal, but that's not what I think the golden arena pedals cost. I think Chase Bliss has made a few Golden Arena pedals, and each one costs more than my car. Eventide too. Wow, its late. Good night.
I currently only own one Way Huge pedal but it was a limited run. The Saucy Box HC (hard clipping) overdrive. Was limited to 500 units. Regular Saucy Box is soft clipping. Still not sure if the Saucy Box is actually bases on something else or if it is its own thing. I've actually been running it as my boost. Love it. Always on
They sold a Red Llama and Green Rhino in one box, called it the Camel Toe. You could use either alone, or both together, but that was a toggle switch, as the unit had one bypass foot switch and a foot switch that selected either circut, not sure why there weren’t separate bypass switches for both sides instead. (Like on a Pigtronix Disnortion (that has drive, fuzz and octave fuzz, 3 separate circuits with their own foot switches).)
Just as I sold and shipped out my Red Llama a couple of hours ago... It did not sound great through my Roland JC77 - yes, I could have known, but I shall remember it for it's second to none quality action of the footswitch.
I have the purple Ring Worm, love it so much! Also the Havalina and Saffron Squeeze. Wilco The Album is great, I just loaded up on Wilco via Bandcamp on June 19th when Bandcamp was donating profits and Wilco donated all profits as well!
I’m really sad you didn’t include the Swollen Pickle if only so you could call it a “big dill”
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It’s a wonderful pedal, the only one of these I have...
yessssssss
@@graxjpg i only have the green rhino but the swollen pickle is my favorite
I love the Swollen pickle so much. If you smack the front of it real hard with another drive it does this wacky spongey thing that I just adore.
Swollen Pickle is my only Way Huge pedal and I love the thing, my favorite fuzz I have.
Please tell me how to set it! Swollen Pickle
I messed with the trim pots, didn't really know what i was doing. I found that if I run the loudness any higher than 2, its blaringly loud. Been using it into a clean amp
I have a question which is better, the green rhino or the conspiracy theory? For me they both sound very good, could you help me decide on one?
@@babyBmaj if you want a nice fuzz, no scoop or crunch, filter at mid, sustain all the way
same! I love the Swollen Pickle cause it melts your face off with it's blistering fuzz!!!
I have this fuzz it never leaves my rig
The swollen pickle is one of the best fuzzes in the market, it can sit pretty well on rhythm rock or it can do the glitchy fuzz as well!
Can't agree more, friend got one on his board and I duth coveted that fuzz...
+1 to swollen pickle love. And the way the LED burns my retinas with the light of a thousand suns
Is that based off a big muff, but with more tonal options?
It's a staple on my board and an essential for when I switch to bass.
@@BlueBarrier782 Yup!
man Way Huge pedals I love them soo much: the tight switch button, big smooth knobs, thicc sound. I’m so glad this brand is alive
And now I want to know what a Metal Klon would sound like. Get on it.
Transparent?
It's a metalzone with mid-range
Depends on whether you get the black or the charcoal box. They’re totally different circuits. Really
Metal zone keeley modded...... secret is out!
Metal, but subtle?
Now I can't stop thinking about what the Way Huge "effect pedal" does
Probably nothing. Just an empty box...
@@bipbipletucha Not true, they are prototype circuits. I have one! Not remotely famous, but I went to a Way Huge Clinic and one was for sale
@@joeyowen404 so what does it do? The suspense is killing me
It's a repackaged Saucy Box. There's another more recent iteration called "effects pedal" that's just a repackaged Swollen Pickle, but Josh is holding the Saucy Box (3 knobs, no mini pots)
Overdrives are my favorite pedals, I just love them. The purple platypus was the one that caught my attention and the thing sounds killer.
I have a question which is better, the green rhino or the conspiracy theory? For me they both sound very good, could you help me decide on one?
I just added a switch to my PP to turn the octave on and off and it became really versatile and cool
Gotta shout out to Craig Anderton who made the tube sound fuzz. The red llama is a barely altered tube sound fuzz circuit. It was (not saying stolen) copied. Big name in DIY. Craig Anderton deserves a chapter in pedal history.
Blaze Infernus Twat !
I absolutely love Way Huge pedals! I worked for a store that sold Dunlop and we were very happy when George Tripps started working with them. I bought the very first Red Llama when we got one in and fell in love with the entire line. Dozen of their pedals and counting
I love my Green Rhino Mkiv, which I feel does not get enough mention, a little smaller and the updated 100hz
and 500hz make it SO versatile. Even at noon the tone is different than the classic setting...basically making it two different “ts” tones! Finally, the use of a carbon battery does something magical if you can try it. And now I need a ringworm, thanks Josh! Lol
The supa puss is immaculate. Having an analog delay with a tap tempo is a feature I never knew I wanted. But here we are.
MXR carbon copy deluxe
Saint Rhoads The CCD is nice but it’s difficult to get the mix right when playing live. I have it and like the sound but it’s been sitting since about the first week I got it. YMMV
I agree. The repeats are really lo-fi but that's part of the magic - you can create nostalgic sci-fi sounds really easily. And the tap and layout make it very intuitive to tweak on the fly.
+1 on the Supa Puss. I have a JHS Panther V.1 but it's YUGE so when I want analog delay w/tap, subdivisions, ext-in, etc without taking up 1/2 my board, I go with the Puss
Delays galore.
I hear the Supa Puss has a terrible issue of feedback(?) after 9 o clock or something. Actual poor design. Count me out.
Hey Josh, please do an episode about the most expensive pedal you've ever owned and what's the budget alternative to them.
Good idea. I think the most expensive pedal he owned was the Octogonapus Omnibombulator fuzz wah octave. It cost around 10-15k.
He does have a Klon with a serial number of 2... the builder kept the original so I would think it’s gotta be worth a bit more than and average Klon.
@@ericcarpenter3263 i slept with your grandma, Karen Carpenter
He's lucky the police don't come and steal everything he has... Alabama...
You nailed Guanacos, that's exactly how it sounds in spanish.
I was about to comment the exact thing. Literally, every word JAJAJAAA
Yup! To both of you hahaha
Because of your sarcasm, I seriously cannot tell if the blue hippo is (or isn’t) based on a CE-2
What kind of circuit is it then if it's not based on the CE-2?
He probably would've told us what it's actually based on if it wasn't, so I think it's based on the ce-2.
I don't think that was Josh's signature sarcasm, I think he was being serious this time
@@BruceKnouseMusic Exactly. It seemed like this was a sarcasm within a sarcasm, so, like a double sarcasm?
Maybe it’s based on the Ce-1 ???
I wish the Saucy Box had gotten a mention. Because I love it but also would love to know what it’s based on.
Your reverence for other pedal makers is inspiring.
I love JHS for many reasons but his love and passion is #1! This terrific human loves his job!
6:54 You pronounced "guanaco" correctly, greetings from Chile!
Hermano eres chileno? 🇨🇱😊
@@benjasafterthought6195 si po aksjd
@@deaddoomed2380 Wena ph! Nunca pense ver un chileno en este canal..
@@benjasafterthought6195 ajajaja y tu manito de donde eres?
jsjxjjs venia a comentar la misma wea wena cabros
Hope there gonna be a Chase Bliss episode one day.
Got my first Way Huge, Conquistador and it’s a great fuzz. Not sure why it got discontinued?
Geeze man what are you trying to do. CB pedals don't need inflating any more in price. #jhscurse
@@TheMorphicResident Same here. It's a great gated fuzz. I kept waiting for it to pop up in this video.
It would blow the JHS show budget
My favorite Way Huge Pedal is Pork Loin: sweet British sound, perfect for guitars or basses.
Yeah ! Jenny Lee Lindberg uses it and it's awesome coupled with her rickenbaker.
I agree! I have it always on in my signal!
Interesting. I tried for almost 2 years and found it way too dark.
Yep, had it on my board for years now. It’s my main solo tone. Love it. Just wish they’d do a mini version of it.
came here to say this. put a micro amp in front and be done ever needing drive options.
Thanks for another wonderful ep. I have the Pork and Pickle Overdrive & Fuzz for Bass and it's a beast of a pedal. I record with it all the time and have it next to a ABY pedal so I have a clean and fuzz option for each take, which is useful when ya not sure how much fuzz you want when tracking. After watching this ep, I am keen to get my hands on the Purple Platypus because it sounds magnificent.
I love Way Huge so much I have 11 dirt pedals from them. I even went to the trouble of getting hold of a red and a blue Drive (aka Geisha). I love the Havalina because it is weirdly touch sensitive and organic...and I say touch sensitive rather than volume sensitive advisedly. It's weird.....you know :-). I love the Pork Loin for the mix and the Saucy Box because the mix is more straightforward to get at....if you get me. I love the Fat Sandwich for it's fine grained high gain shenanigans that still cleans up a treat. The 'Geisha' has all but taken over from the Barber Gain Changer as my all-time favourite drive pedal. I think if I were out and about again I would happily have a board with two - minimum gain for slightly hairy boost and 3.00 o'clock for creamy leads. I love everything about 'em.
......... really cool enclosures too.
What about the Conquistador?? That one might be relatively newish, but it tears it up in the realm of fuzz, and Velcro- fuzz in particular!
I have 6 WH pedals, all in a row. Because of the top mounted Jack's, they go flush side-by-side with no gaps in-between.
They actually take up less real estate than equivalent boss pedals - and they look killer, all im a neat row like that, each withntheir skater-cool colour vibe.
I still believe the Green Rhino is miserably underrated... Ever since I got mine, it's been pretty much on 24/7, 365 days a year on my board. Seriously. Best Tube Screamer-like overdrive in the history of Tube Screamer-like overdrives, maybe ever.
Bottom line: The Way Huge Green Rhino Overdrive is my favorite pedal ever, was I clear enough about it? I love the Green Rhino.
I find one thing in common amongst those who under-appreciate 'Wilco'. They have all heard Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
I loved A.M. But when I heard YHF, I wanted to open my veins deep and wide. I don't even give it enough thought to call it bad - I just wanted to kill myself those two times I tracked it.
Wilco is amazing
Wait people dislike Yankee Hotel Foxtrot? That's their best record! I'm very confused now
Robert Newby who would under appreciate Wilco,man,one of the best bands on the planet and getting better.
Well I just blew your theory I don’t like Wilco and I’ve never yankee hotel bs. I would never waste my time like that.
Red Llama is my favourite drive ever. ALWAYS stays on. Adds a certain shrubbery magic to the tone.
Shrubbery magic...I like that. Very well.
Tom petty would approve
I love the Ringworm, I prefer using the lower frequencies with the blend at about 11 o'clock. Adds a lot of texture, like you said. Great, great pedal. You get the most usable sounds compared to other ring modular type pedals, in my opinion.
Excellent video. I am so glad that you featured the Havalina. I never see it on any list of best fuzzes, or even best fuzzes by Way Huge, but it is an amazing pedal. One of my favorite musical experiences was hooking this up to a ZT lunchbox amp, setting the ZT under the entrance to my attic, cranking both the pedal and the amp as far as they would go, and driving out a raccoon that had decided to make its home up there. However, his absence was temporary, as I think he also appreciated the throaty majesty of the Havalina.
'Cos you look bored and you need something to do' I'm sat in hospital at 7:45 p.m. just waiting until tomorrow so I can get a scan. You're saving me ❤
I'm a fan of the Red Llama. I remember Tripps being on the Andertons channel and Lee calling the Red Llama a "player's pedal" cos it's hard to dial in and not for beginners. Jeorge didn't seem to appreciate that very much, but he stayed polite about it.
The Red Llama paired with a Strat or Tele is just pure heaven. It will always be on my board....never to be replaced
I’m sure there was others but it’s literally the only pedal I can name that Tom petty always used live after getting one in the 90s.
Ok, so I'm pretty sure that the super famous guitar player, that Josh was talking about, is Joe Bonamassa. I just happened to re-watch Joe's Rig Rundown today, where he talked about getting something called the Effect Pedal from Jeorge Tripps in 2014 to compare it to a Tube Screamer and an original Klon Centaur. Joe talked about the Effect Pedal as being a modified Green Rhino that was made for especially him, so perhaps it was sort of the early stage of what would become the Overrated Special and the Doubleland Special, which he used in the rig rundown.
My Green Rhino Mk II was a holy grail find for me. After years of using Boss Yellow OD pedals and other similar mid-bump bass-cut pedals, all I wanted was something that just sounded exactly like my amp but with more drive. Even though it's based on the mid-humpy Tube Screamer, the extra bass control allows me to dial in a very transparent tone.Have yet to try any OD pedal that matches it for just sounding like my overdriven amp with zero tonal colouring.
I'm so stoked every time Josh slips in a little Stone Temple Pilots riff
What’s the song called? It’s been driving me crazy
@@Keithplaysguitar Interstate Love Song! 100%...
HUGE fan of the Saffron Squeeze myself - most musical guitar compressor I've ever encountered!
Been debating on it. Glad to hear quite a few people mention it.
Oh really??! Damn! I cheaped out n got an mxr instead. Now I wish I'd paid the extra $70 (AUD). Cos I've got a neat line of 6 way huge pedals on my board. They look awesome all in a row, flush side-by-side the to the top-mounted jacks.
Recently acquired a Purple Platypus for a steal on Reverb! Awesome pedal, inspires a very particular playing style. I find it works best into an already dirty amp, makes for some really unique lead/heavy rhythm tones!
you always know just what to play to accentuate the character of different pedals. Rock on, Josh!
I’ve been a fan of joerge Tripp & Way Huge since he joined MXR/Dunlop... My Way Huge Swollen Pickle! Totally underrated, and doesn’t get used as often as I’d like because IT’S A BEAST!! And not always tameable... I’m talking about the phattest fuzz.. Plus I’ve had a Green Rhino on my board for... 8 years? Final, maybe getting overthrown by the Golden Boy.
i watched your which overdrive is right for me video and decided i needed a Blues breaker type overdrive, but a bit later on the same day i heard some demo's of the Way huge Green rhino and knew that was the one i wanted rightaway. Really looking forward to play with it 😁
Red llama
Hey Josh! Can you do a History of Leslie-style rotary speakers and/or your favorite rotary pedals?
The Supa Puss is also amazing. My fave analog delay.
between the time you played the purple platypus and the end of the video i bought one.... sooo favourite sound.... and i have enjoyed using a pork loin and a saucy box. Way Huge is pretty dreamy stuff
The Way Huge Saucy Box is my favourite drive pedal ever. I have 6 different drives on my board but if I could only have one it would be the Saucy Box. Never really hear too many people talking about it tbh and I think it's pretty under rated
The Saucy Box is really really great! Not sure why it’s not more popular.
@@extendedlines ps if anybody knows where I can get one in the reverse colouring ....Pink pedal / black lettering. ....gimme a shout , I REALLY want one !
I’ve been trying to find what the Saucy is based on. Apparently Way Huge said the clean was based on a Neve board.
My favorite way huge has to be the Fat Sandwich. Great Distortion pedal that responds so well to dynamic playing. In addition to the volume, saturation and tone, you have additional presence and resonance controls, as well as internal controls inside, allowing you to fine tune the curve and sustain.
Surprised you didn't like the Swollen Pickle or the Fat Sandwich.
They're easily my favorite WH pedals because of how versatile they are. Huge range of tones.
The analog weirding machine (synth fuzz thing) is my fav. I know it came out after this video did.
I’ve never been a Wilco fan but Jeff Tweety used to live in my neighborhood. It was when his kid was young, so I would see him at the park sometimes. His son had a Beatles cover band. They were really good.
I love the doubleland special, however because of you I broke out the Boss MT-2 AND I PUT IT AFTER MY SWOLLEN PICKLE......OMG TALKING bout sweet ass tones with my strat and dsl40c. my amount ate that shit up. Thanks for making me take another look at it.
Just want to say that I love these videos so much. They make me feel all warm and (octave)fuzzy.
Josh Wilco is my second favorite Wilco album as well. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say your favorite is “Being There”. My #1 is Sky Blue Sky
I recently put together a new little pedal board intending to keep it fairly simple but ended up with a loop for two distinct channels & 8 (EIGHT!) distortion, overdrive or fuzz pedals & nothing else... My favorite "fuzz" tone is the the Way Huge Camel Toe... turn every tone/frequency knob all the way down & it's just enough massive amount of volume & overdrive to get me to MY perfect level of fuzz. The Green Rhino is amazing & my favorite OD before the Conspiracy Theory OD came out now the Conspiracy Theory is my absolute favorite.
I found a guy in the city selling a Way Huge Red Llama and an Angry Troll. I'd been wanting to try Way Huge for a while, so I bought 'em. Sent the Red Llama to my buddy in NYC for his birthday and use the Angry troll with guitar AND bass. Love it (and my buddy loves the Red Llama).
Then I found a Purple Platypus in a music shop near my house and bought it after hearing some TH-cam demos.
I'm now officially in love with Way Huge pedals!
I was not expecting a Havalina Rail Company reference today.
Or ever! Yay!
I’ve had a Way Huge Camel Toe pedal for almost 3 yrs! Just started using and I’m blown away!! With a chorus and delay, it goes into Gilmore/ EJ territory and without I can cover some 90’s/Grunge covers!! Absolutely awesome!!!
First favorite Wilco album, "Sky Blue Sky" obviously. ;-) Favorite Way Huge pedal...the only one I have, the Havalina. :-)
All the Billy Bragg & Wilco LPs "Mermaid Avenue I, II & III".
All previously unreleased songs written by the amazingly beautiful Woody Guthrie. Which Billy Bragg & Wilco put their own music to.
And there's also the Documentary "Man in the Sand". Documenting the recording of the LPs.
And a large portion of the songs which where recorded in Republic of Ireland 🇮🇪
"This next one is the OTHER most famous Way Huge pedal... It's kind of a big deal"
me: Did he say big dill??? That's PERFECT. SWOLLEENN PICKKLLEE-oh it's the red llama.
THANK YOU for wearing my shirt design
And my youth, via Tooth and Nail Records, makes an unexpected cameo via Havalina Rail Co. Well played, sir.
I came here to say the same thing. What a flashback
"get jiggy with it or something I heard the kids say" .... Ya those kids are old now too
I remember that saying from the early 80's in Oakland, lols.
I love way huge, i sold a havalina a year ago and it was a terrible mistake. The saucy box hc is a fantastic pedal it is comonly called the brown sauce overdrive 😂
1. Way Huge Overrated Special (Dumble Overdrive Special) - modified Green Rhino
Way Huge Green Rhino (tubescreamer)
2. Way Huge Aqua-Puss (analog delay)
3. Way Huge Blue Hippo MkII (analog chorus & vibrato) - likes it as always-on with a very low vibrato ('3D effect')
Way Huge Effect Pedal (fuzz) - essentially a Swollen Pickle with maybe some extra treble
4. Way Huge Red Llama (overdrive with hi-cut)
5. Way Huge Havalina (germanium fuzz)
6. Way Huge Ring Worm (ring modulator)
7. Way Huge Purple Platypus (octadrive) - dirty & gnarly, bad tracking
(I don't know how he was counting - he counted the red llama as number 5, so I figured every pedal he demos is part of the numbering, the others aren't. Since the Aqua-Puss is in every demo, I counted it as number 2)
Waited so long for this episode. Love the way huge. Swollen pickel makes me smile to play around with it. Ringworm is great too. Super puss is outstanding with the time sequencer. Love your Show josh. Why no bike Shirt this time?
I have an original Purple Platypus that I got back in the mid-90s to use with a specific band I was in at the time. At the lowest drive setting, you can get some quirky fake sitar sounds (treble strings), and kind of a broken speaker sound with full chords.
I wonder what the JHS take on the Metal Zone would sound like... 👀
Make it happen, Josh
Klon and Metal Zone in one Box =D
Metallicave and the Bad Seeds tbh
YES! I honestly fist-bumped the air when I saw the Havalina! I have it myself and always wanted a ToneBender and I just adore the thing! So fun to use - and stacks really well with a light OD after to make it sound HUGE
Six months ago, before I started binging these videos - wouldn’t have understood your t-shirt. Today - hilarious!
I tried once a MkI Saffron Squeeze from a friend, and I still think of It as the best sounding, high quality, guitar signal -friendly compressor pedal, great work mr Tripps!
I HAVE to know what's going on the The Effect Pedal.
Does anyone know? I need to know too!!!
I made a comment about it earlier in this comment section. Im pretty sure that it's a modified Green Rhino, that was made for Joe Bonamassa. You can look at my comment for further explanation if you want :)
But isn’t that what the Overrated Special is?
Every effect in the world in one pedal.
@@oscarskjoldan Bonamassa used the Pork Loin exclusively for the longest time (still?), so if he's the guitarist to whom Josh is referring, it's probably a modified version (or not) of that circuit.
You pronounced "Guanaco" perfectly, that´'s how it sounds
XD
Greetings from Chile homeland of the Guanaco
Anyone else on here think that partying with Josh would be epic! Seems like such a cool dude!
Surprised the Swollen Pickle wasn't on there. I have the Green Rhino, Red Lama,Swollen Pickle,Blue Hippo, and Angry Troll. Always wanted the Aqua Puss. Great show
The swollen pickle is my fuzz of choice. Discovered it from Frank Iero talking about it years ago. Also love the blue hippo
OMG! Josh playing a Strat, and not some bizarro offset? I'm stunned! Has the world turned upside down?
My favourite way huge pedal is the pork and pickle. My favourite that you played today was the purple platypus. Cheers!
I bought a couple of Way Huge pedals relatively early on in their return, and despite daydreaming about some, haven't bought any more since, at least not yet! The Pork Loin is by far the one I've use the most, but branched out about as much as possible with my second purchase, which was the Ringworm. The rhythmic effects in some modes made that stand out to me as the ring mod to try, and I was kind of delighted to see it in the video! A friend who took audio production class with me bought the Pickle around the time I got the Pork Loin, back when there were just those and the Fat Sandwich, probably. The Aqua or Supa Puss are the ones I've most daydreamed about getting, but a fuzz or modulation pedal would be great too. No, I didn't exactly say which was my favorite though!
Oh, thank God you didn't mention the Geisha Drive! I was thinking about buying one of these and I didn't want you driving up the price again.
Finally! I have trying to get someone to confirm the Havalina is a tone bender for years...been on my board for 4 years but I have been using a Muffeletta lately in the fuzz hole.
I have a mkii red Llama and blue hippo unopened. Also have them on my board, opened one's of course
I need some new pedals after my band's drummer took all of mine.
Why'd he do that?
@@SuperMikefun Prolly watched last weeks damned episode
I suggest you buy a ToneCore, put it in a very sturdy sock & go get your pedals back.
And then use the ToneCore, because they're pretty awesome.
Great video. I have owned a bunch of Way Huge pedals. I used to use my Swollen Pickle Mk2 a lot. I used to have a Green Rhino, that's a real nice overdrive.
The ones I currently use the most are the Saffron Squeeze compressor, the Conspiracy Theory overdrive and the Conquistador fuzz. I've still got a few others but those three are ones I'm playing through lately.
And though I haven't had occasion to use it in a while, my Pork Loin is just an amazing overdrive.
Aside the fact that we are talking about pedals... Josh is probably my favorite youtuber ever! My brothers (who are not musicians) sit on the living room with me to see the show Lol
You have seriously educated and aided me in finding a new sound- thankyou sir!
I have that Anniversary Llama. Shout-out to Dunlop tone shop for getting me a replacement knob when mine had an unfortunate break! Was having a low-key panic attack about it because it's my favorite
Hey Josh...... I discovered Wilco practically with "Wilco The Album" . I love them and I think One Wing is one of their best piece. Great lyrics, great guitars, etc. Anyway I just bought the Atreides by Way Huge. Thank you for the tip (I know it's not on this video). Hugs form Sardinia.
Lol - it wasn't until you got to the second pedal that I realized that this video was about pedals made by the company "Way Huge" rather than about over-sized pedals. :-) Great video though as always. hehe
I NEED you to do a video on the Ibanez Soundtank series!! No excuses, you WANT to make that video, I can hear it in your eyes and see it in the way you talk. ................. please?
I don't doubt that Jeorge was an early adopter of the 3PDT stompswitch, but I was always under the impression that it was Mike Fuller who originally ponied up the dough for a switch-maker to produce 3PDTs for his pedals.
Thank you for understanding Josh. Double over extra underrated is always best.
Big fan of Way Huge - the soft switch alone is impressive. That Wilco album is so underrated. Like how many bands have a theme tune?!
The Aquabats
Earthworm Jim is a video game whose protagonist is a worm called Jim who, holstered on a cybernetic trajectory and armed with a pistol, is dedicated to touring the universe in search of the princess "What's her name". Great overtones from this pedal Huge fan of the Ring Worm .. sorry are we talking pedals or Cartoons?!?
I got confused, either way I'm a Huge Wilco fan anyways, just for the record!!
Honestly, the Pork and Pickle is one hell of a pedal for both guitar and bass... Can move from amazing Smashing Pumpkins tones to a subtle fuzz that works with everything
Agreed! I haven't seen anyone talk about it used on guitar but it's easily as good as it is on bass...... to be able to use it as a drive, fuzz, clean preamp or a combination of dirt and preamp. I just found out about the four internal trim pots. It's crazy that it's basically a full porkloin and a russian pickle in one.
What?? The Pork and Pickle works great on guitar too? Why am I just finding out about this? Are the circuits any different from the regular pedals?
@@extendedlines honestly I’m unsure aha but it’s in both my boards because it’s sooo good and it stacks really really well with the earthquaker devices plumes
I'm not a pedal maestro. I have/have had maybe 20 pedals, from 90 to 20, and the Swollen Pickle Mk... 2 I think it is, is the best pedal I've ever heard, and/or played. I've played a significant portion of the Earthquacker Pedals (sic), multicolor stacks of Boss and DOD, and a bunch of others, the Swollen Pickle is AMAZING. I'm not trying to play the pedal market, as I swear people are trying to do online, but this pedal produces the FUZZ FOR ME. It is not old nostalgic fuzz, it's not contemporary stupid fuzz, that sounds good, to you, alone, with no other instruments or vocals, that can't be used in a song. It's just a HUGELY versatile fuzz that can get heavy as hell, thrashy as hell, insane as hell, basically any extreme adjective as hell it can get. And almost all of those sounds are usable with the proper arrangement and production/mix. BECAUSE it is a 7 knob pedal, it can go places. Insane places, but then the pedal has the ability to stay insane, but rein in the out of bounds portions of your signal, the stuff that makes it unusable in a mix.
I'm writing this because I've heard nothing but relentless scorn for the Swollen Pickle. Is it the name. Is it people trying to garner clout by hating on a small boutique brand that went big? What is it? I don't know. But from a lot of what I hear online, people can't seem to figure out how to work the pedal. Which is understandable, it is complex, and maybe the knob function names aren't the best, but maybe they are, either way, turn some knobs, play some riffs, turn some more knobs, you can't go too wrong with this pedal, but you can go to hell and back again with this pedal at the same time. Just turn some knobs until it sounds insanely good. And then turn it up. Then speak with the nice police people who come to hear you not play.
Best pedal I've ever heard or played. It is kind of soul destroying, because every other pedal I have on my board sucks by comparison. I have this feeling like there is this golden arena where all the pedals that perform all the pedal functions are as good as the Swollen Pickle, like the overdrive is as good of an overdrive as the Swollen Pickle is of good of an unhinged but almost always usable fuzz. And I don't know the pedals in that golden arena. And even if I could find all of the pedals in the golden arena, I couldn't afford even one of them (except the Swollen Pickle, I can pay $75 once a year, for a golden arena pedal, but that's not what I think the golden arena pedals cost. I think Chase Bliss has made a few Golden Arena pedals, and each one costs more than my car. Eventide too.
Wow, its late. Good night.
My favorite Way Huge pedal is hands down the Pork loin. The conquistador is a close second.
I currently only own one Way Huge pedal but it was a limited run. The Saucy Box HC (hard clipping) overdrive. Was limited to 500 units. Regular Saucy Box is soft clipping. Still not sure if the Saucy Box is actually bases on something else or if it is its own thing. I've actually been running it as my boost. Love it. Always on
They sold a Red Llama and Green Rhino in one box, called it the Camel Toe. You could use either alone, or both together, but that was a toggle switch, as the unit had one bypass foot switch and a foot switch that selected either circut, not sure why there weren’t separate bypass switches for both sides instead. (Like on a Pigtronix Disnortion (that has drive, fuzz and octave fuzz, 3 separate circuits with their own foot switches).)
That Purple Platypus is one of my TOP Favorite pedals on my board AND I make it work for Metal.
Soooo stoked he re-issued this!
love Way Huge pedals. Blue Hippo is my favorite. And I think its awesome you mentioned the Havalina Fuzz. Its very underrated
Just as I sold and shipped out my Red Llama a couple of hours ago... It did not sound great through my Roland JC77 - yes, I could have known, but I shall remember it for it's second to none quality action of the footswitch.
I have the purple Ring Worm, love it so much! Also the Havalina and Saffron Squeeze. Wilco The Album is great, I just loaded up on Wilco via Bandcamp on June 19th when Bandcamp was donating profits and Wilco donated all profits as well!
My favorite Way Huge pedal is the Pork N Pickle. My favorite from this video was the Purple Platypus. Nice sounds, not bored anymore Josh. Thanks!