Yep agree with you one that one... if I Didn’t have the analog pedals and had the time to program what I wanted, I dare say I’d never go past the aftershock though. It would definitely do a good job.
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Way huge Pork and Pickle
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Yep agree with you one that one... if I Didn’t have the analog pedals and had the time to program what I wanted, I dare say I’d never go past the aftershock though. It would definitely do a good job.
I'd love to know the answer to this, and I'm particularly curious to see if it'll work for the Pickle side (I'm using mine for the fuzz, not so much the OD), but I don't want to risk blowing mine up to find out.
I'm also curious if the pedal could be modded to replace the fuzz/OD switch with a blend pot to pan between the two different clipping circuits rather than picking one or the other, similar to the Voice pot inside the regular Swollen Pickle.
Hej guys,
got one here in front of me in Berlin - really loving the tones I can get but am not sure if my unit is faulty:
When I turn the clean blend to full on clockwise and the clean tone full on counter clockwise I get a farty E- and sometimes A- string. Also the input seems to be really hot but I'm only playing it with passive P and JJs. Drive is set to minimum and it does not come from the drive engine as it only shows when the clean is blent in. Will make a recording soon. Does anyone have the same problem?
got one here in front of me in Berlin - really loving the tones I can get but am not sure if my unit is faulty:
When I turn the clean blend to full on clockwise and the clean tone full on counter clockwise I get a farty E- and sometimes A- string. Also the input seems to be really hot but I'm only playing it with passive P and JJs. Drive is set to minimum and it does not come from the drive engine as it only shows when the clean is blent in. Will make a recording soon. Does anyone have the same problem?
What you are reporting sounds like the exact same issue others (including me) have had with the Pork Loin. If correct, it's a headroom issue with the clean pre-amp. Running the Pork Loin at 18v totally fixes it, but I have no idea whether the same would be safe with the P&P or whether there are long term thermal wear issues doing it on the PL. This is very useful info, because my main interest in the P&P was that 'for bass' implied to me that they'd addressed this - Dunlop are aware of the problem and described it to me as 'not uncommon'. Since the clean pre operates for both OD circuits, it's a deal breaker, which is a drag to say the least because the PL is my main dirt sound and the option of adding a Sovtek style Muff without adding any footprint was very appealing. Back to the drawing board.
Oh my, thanks for the info! Since this is my first Way Huge pedal is was totally unaware of that problem.
To clarify, this is the sound I'm getting and not liking. Sounds like I'm clipping the input of my recording interface, but I'm not!
Played with a passive Duesenberg Triton, getting the same results with a Fender Jazz.
Yup - that sounds like the issue. It affects the lower strings and doesn't matter if you are active or passive too, which is the same. I'm not familiar with the Dusenberg, but I got it with a Stingray and a Jazz. If you search on this forum, somebody has posted clips of the Pork Loin at 9 and 18v for comparison. The original Pork Loin was sold as a guitar pedal 'popular with bassists'. This is sold as a bass pedal, so no excuses really. I assume you bought it new, so you should be able to get a refund. Might be worth raising this with Dunlop customer support too.
If Way Huge haven't tweaked this for basses i find that really bad practice.
To be fair though, ive never encountered this issue with my PL, not even when running on battery, but i had hoped they would put some effort in to this new box and not just put the old circuits in a new box.
To be fair though, ive never encountered this issue with my PL, not even when running on battery, but i had hoped they would put some effort in to this new box and not just put the old circuits in a new box.
You do not seem to have this issue though, or did you run this at 18V?
I have just tried it at 12V for a short time and I could hear a little difference. Unfortunately not enough though and I do not have 18V lying around.
Have you tried adjusting the clean filter, it may clean up if you dial out some of the very low frequency.
Interesting. I was just about to buy a P&P, but this issue has definitely scared me away for now.
I’d definitely check the internal pots first (forgot to mention that), but this made no difference on my PL. lm hoping I can get to try one in store before I rule it out (they aren’t on the shelf in the UK yet) because the footprint really is a win.
If these things run off a 9v battery then no way should you have to buy a PSU thats rated higher just to get them to do the job they are supposed to IMO.
Way Huge needs to be made aware of this thread. I am definitely a person whose business they lost. I was literally ready to press the buy button but something told me to look here first and see what people were saying about the P&P. After reading about the clean headroom issue, there is no way in hell I'd buy this pedal without a corporate statement from Way Huge saying they are not only aware of the problem, but that it's been fixed.
Dont hold your breath. Lots of people had this issue with the PL, and that was never addressed.
Sorry for playing devil's advocate here but - setting the pedal like this seems to me that it would not be very useful.
Am I correct in assuming that these settings would totally pull out any overdrive or fuzz and roll the treble all the way off? This seems like a dubby type sound that one could easily get without the pedal. Or am I misunderstanding this?
i´m in the same boat, the P&P was on top of my wish-list, but the cons vs pro won.
Would be great if someone from WayHuge would join the discussion here ...
Question - I have 2 Pork Loins, both modded ala JohnK, and have never had the problem being mentioned here. They are my absolute favorite low gain OD on bass, beating out hand made boutique builds by respected TB folk. Do you think the mod prevents the “farting out” issue, and if so, would the P&P benefit from the mod?
Just curious, I have no electrical engineering knowledge whatsoever, save for how to do a basic solder job.
Just curious, I have no electrical engineering knowledge whatsoever, save for how to do a basic solder job.
