Way Huge Pork Loin
Remember that guy we talked about earlier, Jeorge Tripps? You know, he had the
company called Way Huge? Eventually, he left that company and his analog ways
behind and went to work for Line 6. Thankfully, he eventually went to work for
Dunlop and together, they relaunched Way Huge. He reissued some of the Way
Huge favorites (some faithful, some modified) and then set about to design some
new Way Huge offerings. My favorite of the bunch is the Pork Loin. Heck, it might
be my favorite overdrive ever. The Pork Loin is magical, because it approximates
the sound of playing through a multi-amp setup. It makes any tone bigger and more
complex, and it does this by splitting your signal between a “British preamp” section
and a mellow overdrive section. Players can then use the Clean control to find the
perfect balance between the two. In practice, this means folks can have a heavy drive
tone and blend some clean in for definition. It also means that users can stack other
overdrives into the Pork Loin without excessive noise or loss of dynamics. The Hot
Cake into Pork Loin is nothing but magic.
GOTTA HAVE ‘EM ALL
I’m not claiming that any of the following are better than the Centaur, TS808, or
even each other. This list is not the end-all be-all list of overdrives. These are simply
overdrives that have inspired me in my playing and that I think deserve to be
considered for the pantheon of greatness. Readers: You owe it to yourselves to try
each of these at some point.
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