Way Huge Smalls Pork & Pickle

The Way Huge Smalls Pork & Pickle is a bass overdrive and fuzz pedal that packs two of the company's dirt circuits into one small box. Way Huge, a Way Huge brand sold by Jim Dunlop, describes it as combining "the warm, soft-clipping tones of the Pork Loin Overdrive and the rich, fatty tones of the Russian-Pickle Fuzz" in a single pedal¹. A toggle switch on the front picks which side of the pedal you are playing through, and a clean blend keeps your fundamental low end in the mix underneath either one.

It is the compact version of the full-size Way Huge Pork & Pickle, which debuted at NAMM 2018 as Way Huge's first official bass effect pedal². The Smalls edition carries the same tone circuits in the smaller, more pedalboard-friendly Way Huge Smalls enclosure².

What it does and where the circuits come from

The pedal partners two existing Way Huge designs. The overdrive side is the Pork Loin Overdrive, a soft-clipping circuit; the fuzz side is the Russian-Pickle Fuzz, a thicker, more saturated voice². You run one at a time, chosen with the OD/Fuzz toggle⁵.

What makes it a bass pedal rather than a straight guitar dirt box is the clean channel. Premier Guitar describes it as "the Pork Loin Overdrive's distinct sauced up clean channel... a modified classic British style preamp," and it works with either the overdrive or the fuzz mode⁵. Guitar.com likewise notes this part of the circuit is based on a modified British-style preamp usable with both functions⁴. Two knobs, Clean Blend and Clean Tone, control how much of that clean preamp signal sits under the effect and how it is voiced⁵⁴.

Controls

The front panel keeps it simple: Volume, Tone and Drive adjust whichever side of the pedal is active, with the Drive knob setting overdrive or fuzz intensity⁶². The clean channel gets its own pair of knobs.

Inside the pedal are three internal trimmers:

• Overdrive level and fuzz level trimmers, setting the level of either effect independently²
• Curve and presence trimmers, for further refining the tone of the Pork Loin clean signal⁵²

Guitar.com describes these as controls that "allow the user to shape the level, curve and presence of the effect"⁴. They are set-and-forget adjustments rather than live knobs.

Power and bypass

The pedal runs on a 9-volt battery, a Dunlop ECB003 9-volt adapter, or Dunlop's DC Brick, Iso-Brick and Mini Iso-Brick power supplies, none of which come in the box¹. Because a battery is an option, it is not locked to a pedalboard supply.

When switched off, the pedal uses a true hard-wire bypass, which Guitar.com says ensures "the signal retains its original character"⁴.

Where it came from

The original Way Huge Pork & Pickle was announced at NAMM in January 2018, and gearnews.com reported it as Way Huge's first official bass effect pedal⁷. MusicRadar's NAMM coverage noted its Volume, Drive and Tone controls carried over from the Russian-Pickle side, along with internal controls for overdrive and fuzz level⁸.

The Smalls version pairs the Pork Loin Overdrive's warm, soft-clipping crunch with the Russian-Pickle Fuzz's thick-set fuzz in a smaller enclosure. MusicRadar described it as "partnering the warm, soft-clipping crunch of its Pork Loin Overdrive with the thick-set fuzz of the Russian-Pickle Fuzz," with volume, tone and drive controls that adjust either side, plus clean blend and clean tone controls for bringing the Pork Loin Overdrive's clean preamp signal into the mix². It retailed for $169.99 street in the US, £182.99 street in the UK, and was available at launch⁴².

Price

Way Huge lists the Smalls Pork & Pickle at $199.99 USD as of October 2026¹³. At launch in 2019 it retailed for $169.99, with MusicRadar's 2020 UK pricing at £182.99 street²⁴.

How it differs from the original Pork & Pickle

The difference is the box, not the sound. MusicRadar states plainly that "the Way Huge Smalls Pork & Pickle has the same tone circuits" as the original, housed in the smaller Smalls enclosure². A player choosing between them is choosing footprint: the Smalls format takes less pedalboard space, while the original full-size pedal offers the same two circuits and the same clean blend architecture.

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