Way Huge Camel Toe

It took all of 2 minutes to get some amazing sounds out of this pedal. Very simple controls. The LED switches color from Red to Green when you switch drives which is an awesome feature. I give it a 9 because of switching it between series or parallel modes can really affect the tones you may be trying to get from it.

The review before mine did an excellent job of describing the features, so I won't repeat them here.

I run this unit primarily to overdrive a Marshall TSL 100W head into a Mesa Recto 2x12 cab. I play a PRS McCarty and a PRS Swamp Ash Special, and they both sound great through this pedal. I have a couple of other pedals on my board (a ZVex Fuzz Factory, ZVex SHO, an early 70's Fuzz Face (w/ bc209c's), a Fulltone Choral Flange, a 535Q wah, etc..) Over the years I've owned a lot of high end pedals out there, and this one's definately a keeper. The Red Llama is very much like a well-tuned germanium fuzz face, and the Green Rhino is a dead ringer for a TS808 Tube Screamer. This is a very mellow, smooth pedal, and the sounds are just amazing to me. The natural tone of my guitars isn't impaired at all, which is very rare in a distortion or fuzz device. I can nail Carlos Santana's lead tone with my McCarty through the The Green Drive (Rhino) to the Marshall ;-). The Red Drive is very much like the Prescription Electronics Yardbox to me, only less harsh - I use it more to get vintage rhythm sounds. It can also dial in a decent 60's In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida fuzz sound, too. Funfunfun. It's a very quiet pedal.

NOTE: I run this pedal in parallel mode (Red OR Green), but it can also be run in series mode (Red THEN Green combined). Series mode is a bit overkill for my tastes, but that's to be expected running a fuzz into a distortion pedal. I like to get the majority of my distortion from tubes.

I opened it up and it's built pretty darned solid, so that's a good thing. I wouldn't gig without some sort of backup, but it seems a lot more solid than most of the pedals I've seen.

Well, the company went under a few years ago, so customer support is N/A. I suppose if something happened I could email Jeorge at Line 6 now that he's designing pedals over there.

I've been playing semi-professionally for over 20 years, doing occasional studio sessions and gigs with some of my blues/jazz friends. I A/B'd the Camel Toe's red drive with my Prescription Electronics Yardbox and actually liked it better. I don't have my old Ibanez TS808 any more, but the red drive sounds an awful lot like I remember it sounding. I give this a 10 for one simple reason - it makes ME sound more like ME. I love what it does for my playing - I can add a touch of additional gain to my amp to get some feedback happening on a note and back it off with the volume knob on my guitar when I don't want it anymore. It doesn't color my sound, it doesn't add unnecessary EQ shifts to my sound like other pedals, and it's got the smoothest distorion & fuzz sounds I've ever heard.

This pedal is insanely rare - mine is serial number 010. It's pretty much guaranteed to draw questions from any guitarist that sees it. It's really 2 pedals in one (3 if you run it in series mode), so it's a real find - I'll buy another if I ever see one. The only other pedal like it is the Lovetone Cheese Source, and they're also quite hard to find.

Very easy to dial in great sounds. The Camel Toe is a Green Rhino and Red Llama rolled into one pedal with separate controls for each pedal, a true bypass switch, an overdrive selector switch and a series parallel switch. In parallel mode you can select between the Green Rhino circuit and the Red Llama circuit. Series combines the two for complete overdrive chaos. In addition, if you open the back of the pedal Mr. Huge has several trim pots to increase the maximum gain available by each circuit. So with a little tweaking your pedal can go to "11".

I currently play a Tom Anderson Drop Top and PRS McCarty through a Boogie DC-3. I won't go through the list of pedals because its frighteningly large (my therapist says I'm getting better). I found that in series mode the pedal was very straightforward in its tone. The Green Rhino circuit recreated the Tub Screamer tone very well. The Red Llama circuit is great for classic overdrive tone or to fatten up existing overdrive. In Series the pedal provided tones of anarchy. I kept hearing a faint high pitch whine which I think I can get rid of by adjusting the trim pots. This is the only reason I give the sound quality a 9, otherwise perfect.

Way Huge Pedals are built like tanks. This is such a rare pedal (SN#001 of maybe 3 in existance) I doubt I would use it on stage or any place where it could get ruined or stolen! If this were mass produced, I'm sure it could withstand most of the regular abuse gigging can provide.

Jeorge Tripps (aka Mr. Huge)is very helpful and does do repairwork. He's very good at responding to email questions. Way Huge is out of business, but Jeorge comes across as someone who stands behind all his products.

I play rock, funk and blues, so this pedal is something I will use time and time again. I have most of the Way Huge line of products, including several one-offs. If I ever lost this pedal I seriously doubt I could find another, as I said there may only be 3 in existance. I love the ability this pedal gives me to fine tune the gain on each circuit. The only thing I would add to this pedal would be a fuzz option to run the gammet of overdrive selections.