Dunlop Bass Crybaby

*NOTE: I have the old bass crybaby, not the one with all the tone knobs and stuff* It's a wah pedal, nuff said. Once you play around with it and get the feel for how it's gonna sound it's pretty straight forward.

I use this with my jazz bass through a peavy amp. Not particularly good as a stand alone pedal, sound can be pretty thin in the high end of the sweep. Cranking the pre-gain seems to help a little bit. I stay off the heel as much as possible because it just gets all mushy sounding. Still, you can get a pretty funky sound outta this.

I never had a problem with it. It's pretty solid.

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If you wake up one day and say to yourself "Hey, i need a wah pedal for my bass" this would be a good pedal to get. Fun to play with but if you're REALLY serious about funkin' up your bass you may want to look around a bit more. If this were stolen or it caught on fire or was carried off by small aliens i'd probablly get a different wah pedal. The major gripe is that on my model you can't turn the dam* thing off! You really have to play with it in different positions to find one that has a realativly clean bass sound if you don't want to play with a wah. Overall though, you get a pretty good deal if you wanna to get funky.

The effect is simple. Playing it well is difficult, but that's just the nature of a wah. Step on the toe end to turn it on or off, then just rock the pedal to change the tone.

Used before overdrive into Crate 80W combo.
Noise-wise, this is almost perfect. No problem.
The tone is a little weak. It sounds good in the first half of the pedal's sweep, and anything below that gets muddy.
It gives some really weird sounds with the overdrive on. It really brings out certain harmonics. The pitch of the harmonics can be adjusted with the wah.

Fun to play with, but kind of muddy.

Built like a tank. This thing can withstand a nuclear war. It's all metal.

don't know

I've been playing alternative and swing music, very clean sound. It doesnt' really add much to that.

Simple, back for ultra bassy sound forward for treble. It's that easy.

I love this pedal with my bass/amp combination! I have an Ibanez Soundgear885GN 5-String and a 150 watt peavey amp. It has little background fuzz when not on. When it's on it has little unless of course there is a low battery. It sounds good with a overdrive or chorus. True, it lacks a little in range but it is a good pedal for all types of playing. I play Red Hot Chili Peppers to KoRn to TOOL, it sounds good for adding little accents here and there to make it interesting. I like to some times click it on and off to accent certain notes to make them stand out. Good for slap/pop styles of playing.

No problems yet. No backup.

I wouldn't know.

It is a good match for my slap pop style of playing.

This is the easiest pedal in the world, just step your foot in the pedal and then play it .....

But the sound, woow it's really suxxxxx ... if click it on, your sound volume will be drop ... and your sound very thin ... but at the one position your sound will be hear ... ggggggggrrrrrrrr .... if you connect with another effect (I use Noise Suppresor, Bass Limiter Enhancer, Super Chorus and Eq) It just makes the suxx sound going to the front .....

I'm not depent on it, if i want play using wah, i can use GCB-95 (for guitar) or i can play with morley PDW, the sound much better ....

I never dealt with them, but i don't know, where's the responsibility from Jim Dunlop Company, They has a great name with wah, but their produce a junk wah for bass ...... You know ... for my country (Indonesia) in this economical crisis, the price from this junk is very expensive ....

I play Metallica, Beatles, Police, Sting and Genesis sound, but this is not a good match .... I bought this pedal on March 10, 1999, but i want to sell this machine right now (March 12,1999). This machine only destroy my sound bass from my effect ....

It's a pretty simple effect. Tilt back for bass, forward for treble.

It has a pretty good sound, although I'd have liked more depth. It seemed to drop straight from thin to muddy without much in between. When turned off there was a little distortion, but not too much. I use a Fender Jazz Fretless, and it sounded pretty funky when slapped with the wah. This thing sounds better in a chain of effects as opposed to standing alone. When played after a BOSS Bass Overdrive, it sounded great...just like Metallica. Also heard on with a chorus and a delay. It was trippy!

Worked fine for me.

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Like I said before, by itself it was weak, with overdrive or chorus it kicked ass. Overall not a bad toy. I play funk, and as a bassist I'd rather use an envelope filter.

How hard can it be to use a wah?

This wah really suxxs. The range is extremly short and you don't get much of a wah effect at all. At fast stomping it gets a low, short wah sound wich is too weak. And when pushing it down slowly it sounds horrid, dont even do it. Don't buy this shit, buy a Morley, they are way better.

Wouldent buy it again. It suxxs. I'd buy a Morley.

Rest your foot on the pedal, rock it forward, and your bass (supposedly) goes "wah". Rock your foot back , and your notes go "aow". Easy.

Put plainly, this pedal sounds like crap. It muddies up the low end, creates weird overtones(?) that make for inconsistent tone over the course of the "wah", and cuts the volume by about a third. My individual unit also creeates a horrible squelching noise that no amount of pot cleaner has been able to fix. The sound quality, in a word, sucks.

Mine started squelching after about three months out of the box. 'Nuff said.

No idea. After commiserating with fellow bassists, I have come to the conclusion that this piece of junk ain't worth the money it would take to fix it. If I didn't recieve it for a Christmas present (instead of the envelope follower I asked for), I never even would have owned it.

I wouldn't wish this thing on anybody. Right now its collecting dust in the back of my closet, waiting for the day I use it as a trade-in for something decent. The Dunlop Bass Crybaby should be the poster-pedal for mass-marketed garbage. DON'T BUY IT! You've been warned.

Does it get any easier? No knobs no dials just a pedal.

After 25 minutes of playing the thing produced a terrible hissing noise and I returned it shortly.

It broke right off the bat.

They did everything they could but my problem was just a manufacturer defect. Returning it was easy. Got a full refund.

Good pedals if you can find one that works.

It's fairly easy to use, just step on it. The only problem is telling wether the pedal is on or off. There should be an LED or something. Takes a bit of practice to learn how to use it.

Does not really generate any noticable noise. Wah is OK but is sort weak, not enough bottom. Biggest problem is that it gets quieter when you turn it on, big problem if you using it in a band. I never use mine because of this.

It might not be good, but it is consistant. It's never broken down on me and the battery lasts for an eternity. Good tough metal casing heavy but can resist small explosions.

Never had to, but send in the warrenty card just in case.

I would not buy this again, what good is an effect if you don't use it. The wah is kind of weak and muddy, but if you enjoy weak crappy sounding whas you gotta get one of these. It's hard to turn on and off if you are standing on carpet and is hard to use if you are sitting down. If you can get one cheap go for it otherwise your probably better off with out it.

Uh... cool beavis. Any Butthead can do it.

It destroyed the bass sound, both in the high and low registers. It did not stand up to to it's big bro: original crybaby.

I used to have an original crybaby. Pretty tough. Although my guitarist is on his second original one after four years... understandable. So maintenence required: oil pivit.

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Since I never bought it, I guess I could say I never will. I bought a DOD Envelope Filter on the same store visit... much more fun for $20 less. If you want a manual wah effect for bass, just buy the original. It's better than the bass one.