Who: Way Huge
What: Purple Platypus
Price (MSRP/PAID): Not available/Trade
Battery:Yes
Power Supply:Yes
Size: 3 7/8″ X 5″ X 2 1/2″ (Approx: including Jacks and knobs)
Available from: Used market
Comments:
The Way Huge line of pedals is one of the significant milestones in the birth of the boutique pedal market. I’ve always been curious about their application on bass guitar and a recent trade has landed the Purple Platypus on my door step. The loss of access to a video camera has kept me away for a bit, but this pedal seemed an easy way (only two knobs!) to get back on the horse with the new camera.
Certainly not a pedal designed with bass in mind and sadly it shows. Manipulation of the Dirt knob from anything but the maximum position acts as an extremely strong gate that decimates the bulk of your signal. This impacted all of the basses I tested both active and passive. The highest levels on the dirt knob yielded some interesting, if still low ending robbing, results. It’s something that may be worth exploring if you or a friend happen across one, but hardly worth the price they demand on the secondary market
i wouldn’t pay five cents for that as a bass player. you should use it as a precautionary video against buying distortion effects designed for guitar – kind of like “red asphalt” – except “purple suck”