Dunlop Classic Crybaby

Its a wah wah pedal, click its on...

Great classic wah. Great for those clapton/page/hendrixy sounds, but you need the right set up. With a solid state practice amp this thing won't shine, but with the right setting, effects, and a good tube amp you have wah bliss. I have a Fender Hot Rod 212 with a marhall blues breaker od, voodoo lab trem, boss tuner, and the wah at the end, it pulls off awesome classic rock tones, think pearl jam. But this wah isnt for everyone, it is limited to what ypou can do with it and your set up. If your an effects, experimental sound addict, than this wont cut it, but if you want simple cutting wah sounds this is it. What i personally like about this wah, aside from the price, is its midrange and bass orientated sound rather than having a tremendous treble boost like most wahs I have had and tried before in the past. This gives you a musical sound if when playing on the higher frets, rather than that whiny high pitch sqeel you get from other wahs in this price range. Also has a nice slight lead boost.

It seems solid, i have another dunlop cry baby and its lasted years so and has shown no wear, so i expect the same of this one.

Never delt with them, and for a side note, i dont think anyone should use those ordering mags unless you have to, everything is different, and personally i like buying what i played.

I give it a ten simply because i dont think you can come this close to a boutiqish wah in this price range other than the dunlop. It doesnt cover every style and you have to know what your looking for, i recomend like a dunlop original crybaby for a first wah, but if you know what you want and you dig that classic sound but dont have 150-200 for a boutique wah, than buy it. I know I'm happy with it.

Very easy. Can you push a gas pedal and brake???
Pretty easy to get a good sound out of. I always ran from guitar to wah to distortion then amp.

Not the best but definately very good. When used clean it has a very watery like sound. When used with gain it has a very quacly, whining crying sound...hence the name! I used this pedal originally for Hendrix and had his sound dead on. I was also able to achieve the same sound you here in most Alice In Chains solo's so basically if you could get whomever gain sound and amp tone right, the wah could pull off their wah sound. I would have liked for the range to be a little broader but there are plenty of cheap mods for making it do so.

Very reliable in my opinion. I'm pretty tough on my gear and not a light guy. These things are made out of a cast metal and very high quality electronics. The potentiometer used is very heavy duty. I would never gig without a back up but if I had to I would trust it. My only complaint about it , as with many dunlop re-issue type pedals, was the battery holder. I liked the that the feet gripped the screws holding on the bottom plate and you simply removed them to take it off. I hated the pisspoor excuse for a battery holding system it had but all in all you got it in right it did stay in place.

Never dealt with them.

I really loved this pedal. I no longer own it because I bought a zoom which had an auto wah that sounded great so I figured when I got the expression pedal I wouldnt need this pedal and sold it. BOY WAS I WRONG!
The zoom is decent at best for a pedal wah though it shines everywhere else! The dunlop was exactly what I wanted and I got it for one hell of a price. Theres as nothing I didnt like about it but it would have been nice to have some control over its effect other than the foot pedal itself. I have hopes of replacing this pedal over the next year and reguardless of other wahs having such high reviews I think I'll go with another one of these again, or atleast a dunlop crybaby. Its a great wah.

CLick it on (switch works very easily), and rock it to and fro for all those wonderful wah sounds you are looking for.

MUCH better sound than the standard issue Dunlop Crybaby. Wider tone range, smoother travel, gain unity, and no hint of scratchiness. It sounds very close to an original Thomas Organ Wah I also have. Very good sound for the price.

I have had major problems with 2 recent issue Dunlop Crybaby wahs I bought,and returned, earlier this year. Made me wonder what was up with their quality control department.
I will give this version the benefit of the doubt and hope it will be much sturdier than the other wahs I had from Dunlop.

Good classic wah sounds at a reasonable price. I have tried many of the boutique wahs and they were pretty decent as well, but the prices just seemd a bit too high for a wah.

Got it a few weeks ago f/ Musicians friend, was backordered terribly, i waited SO long for it. Its a wah, click it on, move your foot forward, get a "wah" sound, backward, it'll get all bassy and make the opposite of "wah" whatever that might be. There is a manual with it, which is fairly small, and gives little "tips" on how to get a good sound. Sometimes its difficult to get it clicked on or off.

I use a fender "roc pro 700" amp, with various hollow bodied guitars. It seems to produce nice sounds. I was so impressed by it for the first few days, put it away for a while, and now am using it all the time again, very obnoxious, but fun. Nice Jimmy Page sounds. I haven't been able to get an amazing Jimi Hendrix sound, but he obviously knew how to use a wah, and I clearly don't have the right setup either.... I'm not sure what other wah sounds to compare this to, there are better than this, but i like it.

It seems dependable, made out of the same stuff as my Mom's frying pans. I was a little shocked to see the ridged post that turns the pot was just packed in grease, didn't even realize they did that. I would use this at a gig without a backup, since if your wah craps out you can still play, not like an amp or anything

have not dealt with them......

Very nice wah. I'm just now learning to use it, and I love it. I hope it lasts a long time, it is very mechanical, and will obviously some day break.

Standard wah wah operation. Battery door on the bottom plate makes battery changes possible without removing the plate. The switch engages easily. Comes with an attractive instruction manual.

This wah was tested with an Epiphone Elite Les Paul Standard Plus with stock pickups and a Budda Verbmaster 18 1x12" combo.

Other wah pedals I've played using this exact setup include a Dunlop Original Crybaby, Vox V847 Reissue, and a Budda Budwah.

I prefer a vintage wah sound so my review is biased towards that taste.

The Dunlop Original can't really compete for a vintage, vocal quality.

The Vox V847 sounds pretty good; vocal and wide sweep; definitely in the right direction, but the tone-sucking in bypass mode, well, sucks.

The Budda Bud Wah is a great sounding pedal; decent sweep, vocal quallity, and a rich harmonic structure but it leans towards the bright side of the sound spectrum. The Q, or width of the bandpass filter, seems wider in this pedal which creates, to my ears, a richer tone with clean amp settings but the wah effect diminishes more than the other pedals during heavier distortion.

The Cry Baby Classic pedal is a very pleasant surprise and, in my opinion, sounds the best of all the aforementioned wahs. This model is equipped with an Italian Fasel Inductor (not a halo, but it was only $90 USD new) and although it's advertised as having a Dunlop Hotpotz 100K pot, the pot looks like something else altogether (look at the pictures, link is below). The tone is pure vintage warm and not bright or piercing like from the Original Crybaby. The sweep is wider than the others and very vowel-like with a quackiness in the voice like in old Hendrix recordings that the others lack. This pedal gets me in that direction for the lowest price. Maybe a tad muddy in the full-back position, but still usable. The effect adds a noticeable boost when activated but I usually just lower the volume on my guitar when I activate it, which cleans up my amp and allows the wah effect to come through more clearly.

Sometimes I wish it had just a bit more harmonic richness, like the Budda but overall I'll take the wider and more vocal sweep.

This pedal has a DPDT true hardwire bypass, but when bypassed the tone retains it's highs, but losses some bottom and transient response as compared to when the effect is not in the signal chain. The Bud Wah, which is also true bypass behaves in EXACTLY the same way with my rig. I've tried swapping my George L's guitar cables all over the place, including signal direction so I know that's not the issue.

Because this pedal was only $90 USD it gets a 9.

This pedal has PCB-mounted input/output and AC in jacks which is the worst thing going for it reliability wise. View internal images of this actual pedal at http://pgong.home.comcast.net/crybaby/.

I feel confident in the reliablity of this pedal and gig without a backup but I don't rely on the wah effect too often and if it went down all is not lost for me. I take care of my gear and don't foresee a problem.

Never dealt with them.

I am a blues rock/classic rock type of player of about 11 years with a guitar -> cord -> amp type of philosophy. I prefer to overdrive the whole amp (preamp/poweramp/transformers/speakers) and I like to control my overdrive by adjusting the volume control and/or pick attack on my guitar. The only thing I insert into the signal chain SOMETIMES is the wah pedal.

For the money, I've never heard anything come closer to the classic wah sound of the 60's than the Dunlop Cry Baby Classic. A phenomenal blend of vintage wah tone and price.

If lost or stolen, I'd probably get another one but I'm still curious of the high end wahs from Mike Fuller and Gregory Teese. Don't know if I use a wah often enough to justify the price of those though.

I just got the pedal the other day, i haven't worked with it too extensively. It is also my first wah wah pedal, but I am happy with it so far for the most part. As advertised, it can deliver nice "classic rock" wah wah sounds, e.g. Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, etc. you know what i mean... pretty basic, turn it on, rock your foot back and forth, it delivers pretty usable sounds. Press your toe down, and it will more or less go "wahh", press down your heel and it will make the inverse of that, "owwww". I guess it could be simpler, so i'll give it an 8 or something...

At this point I use it with my Epiphone Dot, a Marshall 30 watt amp, and occasionally a DOD "flashback fuzz" pedal, which seems to work. It seems to sound good, this is my first wah, so I have very little to base it on, unfortunately. It has the original Italian "Fasel" inductor in it, which means little to me. For an extra 20 dollars you get about the same sound as the original Crybaby(maybe slightly better) with the original logo on the front. Like I said, its good for classic rock, which is all i've experimented with, with the pedal, so far. Like I said, i have little to base my knowledge of wah tone on, so i'll give it a 7, just to be safe. Lets hope someone who has better idea of what they're doing gives it a more accurate review.

Its made of cast iron, but obviously, like anything mechanical, it will eventually fail. I would depend on it, since it is new. When i first tried to plug it in, i had a hell of a time getting the cable into the amp jack, the clip inside wouldn't budge, eventually i got it in, but it is still a little difficult.

OK, so i ordered this thing back in May, when it was first in the musicians friend catalog. It was backordered to June 6th. The estimated date of arrival was pushed all the way up to like July 15th, until they finally got the shipment of pedals, christ, it was one hell of a wait. It was probably worth it though, i am quite pleased so far...

I play basically rock in general, also blues. I've played several years, but haven't really played wahs at all until fairly recently. It seems like a good reliable wah, which should last quite a while, anyway.