Way Huge Electronics Joerge Tripps started the company in 1992, specializing in guitar effects. It had a relatively short duration of 7 years, because in 1999 Tripps decided to switch to Line6. But at that time he already had a significant impact on the industry. Its easy-to-use, yet versatile pedals were an icon among the handful of connoisseurs who managed to get their hands on one of the 15 original models. In 2008 Jim Dunlop decided to pick Way Huge back where it left off, including Jeorge Tripps. He was given the opportunity to look again at the now legendary designs to see what could be done better to re-release and improve them.Read more...

The Separate Approach

You will probably immediately notice the names that Way Huge uses. The Conspiracy Theory, the Russian Pickle, it doesn't say much about what it does. But this argues for the trait that made Way Huge so great in the 1990s. They are not afraid to do something crazy and experiment. This is also represented in the cartoon characters on the packaging, which are works of art in themselves. The result is always a pedal that does its type of effect in a distinct, yet musically useful way. In addition, it is always as user-friendly as possible with three to five controls, a foot switch, true-bypass and a power indicator light.

The Most Famous Designs

Way Huge's catalog has now been expanded with new pedals that had not yet seen the light of day during the first run. The Fat Sandwich for example, a distortion as Joerge Tripps envisioned it. The Purple Platypus overdrive takes the much-coveted tone of the original Way Huge Red Llama Overdrive, and adds a frequency doubler. This makes it a unique combination of an overdrive and a Fuzz. All in the same kind of sturdy steel housing. But what is perhaps Tripp's best-known product design is the MXR Carbon Copy. The idea originally came from him and could just as well have been a Way Huge stombox, but was eventually realized by MXR, which is also part of Dunlop.