Dunlop Way Huge Smalls Doom Hammer Fuzz

The Way Huge Smalls Doom Hammer Fuzz is a compact fuzz pedal from Way Huge, the Dunlop-owned effects brand. It carries three knobs, Output, Tone and Fuzz, and sits in the scaled-down Smalls enclosure that saves space on a pedalboard¹. Dunlop announced it in September 2025 and it was available immediately².

The circuit has a specific story behind it: it goes back to 1998, when Way Huge designer Jeorge Tripps modified an op-amp-powered fuzz circuit from 1978 for the band Oranger, working in the original Way Huge garage lab³. Premier Guitar's announcement described the result as a pedal that "will pound your ears with thick saturation worthy of high-desert riffage"².

The controls

The Doom Hammer keeps to a three-knob layout, which Guitar Pedal X calls "the very standard 3-knob topology of Output, Tone, and Fuzz - very much Big Muff style territory"⁶. Dunlop's manual defines each control plainly⁴:

Dunlop's product page adds that the three dials together "allow you to tailor the pedal's velvety harmonics to your rig," and suggests trying a low Fuzz setting "for the most delightful crunch"³. Gearnews found the range wide: even at moderate settings the pedal produces a slight crunch that stays clearly defined and sits well in a band context, while higher Fuzz values produce the dense sound carpet a player would expect from a fuzz of this type¹. Delicious Audio sums up the layout as offering "wide-ranging control, from a delightful low-gain crunch to a" dense saturation⁵.

Jeorge Tripps and the Oranger fuzz circuit

The Doom Hammer's lineage is unusually well documented. Dunlop's own account: "It all began in the original Way Huge garage lab back in 1998 when Jeorge Tripps modified an op-amp-powered fuzz circuit" for the band Oranger³. Many years later he crafted a handful of prototypes based on that modded original, and those prototypes became the basis for the pedal³.

Guitar Pedal X identifies the 1978 circuit more specifically, reporting that the pedal "is based on Jeorge Tripps' 1998 mod of a presumably 1978 Opamp Big Muff"⁶. That places it in the same family as the op-amp Big Muff era of the late 1970s, rather than the transistor-based Fuzz Face style circuits Dunlop also builds, such as the Dunlop Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face.

The production pedal is not a straight copy. Gearnews reports it uses an updated version of the original circuit, optimized for a firmer low-frequency range¹, and Delicious Audio calls it "a road-ready tribute to a cult-classic circuit, updated for t" today's player in the compact Smalls enclosure⁵.

Power and size

The pedal runs on a single 9-volt battery, installed by removing the bottom plate, or on external power⁴. RockBoard lists the external supply requirement as 9V DC, center negative⁷.

The Smalls enclosure is the point of the range. MusicRadar described the Way Huge Smalls line as "a range of new scaled-down Way Huge Smalls range" pedals⁸, and Gearnotes notes that on a pedalboard the Doom Hammer's compact design saves space and fits easily into existing setups¹. Other fuzzes in the same line include the Way Huge Smalls Swollen Pickle Jumbo Fuzz and the Way Huge Smalls Stone Burner Sub Atomic Fuzz, the latter adding a sub-octave to the fuzz.

Price and availability

Premier Guitar's launch announcement listed the pedal at $169.99 street and $242.84 MSRP², and Dunlop's product page shows $169.99². Published figures elsewhere differ slightly: MusicRadar's review noted £182/$169⁹¹, and Gearnews reported $182.00 / £162.00 / 185.00€, with Thomann listing it at $156.00 / £141.00 / 166.00€¹. Bass Magazine confirmed the pedal was available now at $169.99 street at launch¹⁰.

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