Dunlop Crybaby 535Q

Pretty easy to figure everthing out. If you spend time tweaking everything you can learn how to use it pretty quickly

Unlike everyone has written. I am not to impressed with this wah. To me, the wave is long enough. Even at the best settings, there is too much of the lows and too quick of a switch from the lows into the highs of the wah. For me this isn't a great wah.

Same problems as everyone else.

never delt with them

I wouldn't recomend this pedal. For the reasons stated above.

A pretty straight-forward product to use. Set frequency range and use the knob on the side to finetune.

Used with a Les Paul Classic through a DOD-250 into a Marshall 2555SL (Slash signature / Jubilee). Sound quality is great: there is most likely a setting that will suit your preference. There is no abnormal noise heard, tho the use of an adapter gives a bit more noise. Easy to get a Slash-like tone, but also many others.

Unfortunately, like many others already reported, the switch failed after a while. When going from wah to bypass the signal was lost. I found however that most of the time this was caused by the fact the switch wasn't pressed in far enough. Unmount the switch and remove some of the rings that keep the switch down!

I bought a DPTD switch but the original has a PCB mounted on it, instead of the wires being soldered directly to the switch. An email to techsupport of Dunlop was enough to get a very friendly email back within a few minutes with a wiring diagram that could be used to install the new switch. Great, friendly service!

Being a guitarplayer for over 16 years playing (hard)rock i consider the 525q an essential part of my setup. Having used Morley/Vox/DUnlopClassic Wah's they can't compete with the versatility and sound of this pedal.

A pretty easy to use device considering the features it has

The sound is very good. Using a Gibson Les Paul Standard DC through a Marshall 2555SL. With the options it has there will always be a setting that'll fullfil your needs

Reliability is just crap. As a lot of other people already stated: when stomping the switch i loose my signal. Pretty hard to depend on it live! For the money i have payed i would've expected better quality for sure!

Haven't bothered. Got me a Vox Wah

In use it's dead easy. Step on it, rock it back and forth - it works the way a wah is supposed to work. I give it a lower rating because the set up is a bit fiddly. Thankfully the manual is good, and has some suggestions on how to set it for your fave sound (hendrix, page on dazed and confused, etc.)

Sounds the way a wah should to my ears. Used with several guitars - les paul, strat, sg. Used with several distortion effects - tone bone, ts808, fuzz face. Used with several amps (marshall silver jublilee, fender showman, champ, deluxe reverb). All worked as expected, nothing unusual.

Crap. Intermittent switch failures. After a year the whole unit stopped functioning. I am not a pro, so this unit was not gigged with - just used in my basement. The case is incredibly strong, it seems like the pedal should last a lifetime. Unfortunately, mine died a premature death. Too bad, I liked this wah but would not buy another.

Didn't bother. Bought a fulltone clyde wah.

Nice wah, but poor reliablity. For me, reliability is just table stakes. After a year of light use this thing should have no trouble whatever.

Wah pedal, no big fuss about it's ease of use, but here are what I found very annoying:
The volume and variable Q control knobs are both small enough to make it difficult to adjust them easily.
The jack out is so close to the power adapter in that you might get some difficulty using a universal adapter on this.

Very good range of wah sounds, i call it my "flexi-wha". The boost switch might have been useful for me only if it didn't came with that dull distortion

Seems solid, but it's a real pity that the 9V battery case cover is in thin plastic: it broke the first week i had it!

It is a flexi-wah with a great range of sounds but with a quite dull construction

This pedal is easy to use. There is a knob to control the voicing and two small pots to control Q setting and volume of boost. The boost button is on the side so it isn't really practical to use during a gig but it is a nice little feature to play with at home. Many different settings to go through so this gets an 8.

My Setup is MIM Strat-->535q-->CoolCat Fuzz-->TS-808--> 1967 BF Super Reverb
or..
1956 LP Custom-->535q--> CoolCat Fuzz--> TS-808--> Crate V16 Palomino

I get all the sounds I want besides the classic metal sound (but that is debatable, my tone gets pretty heavy). The wah is good all the tones I want (classic rock, blues, funk, grunge, hard rock, classic metal. It gets a bit noisy with the fuzz but I think that is more of the cheap (but good) fuzz's fault. I can sound like Hendrix or sound like Clapton or Morello or Slash with this wah.

I haven't had it long enough to know if it is reliable, but I looked inside and it looks pretty damn sturdy. It is heavy and could cause life-threatening injuries to anyone who has one dropped on them from 2 feet away.

No experience with the guys at Dunlop yet. Hopefully I will never have to.

I would buy it again if it was stolen. I might be tempted to save for a Gig-fx wah or Fulltone Clyde. I wish the boost was easily accessible but that isn't a huge deal. It sucks a little bit of tone but that will soon be fixed when I add a 3dPt switch in there. Great pedal overall:best I have played under $200.

Fairly easy to understand and straight forward. Manual comes with some good presets to use as a starting point. Where it loses points in my book is the difficulty I have with engaging or disengaging the effect. When gigging, I do a bit of tap dancing with channels/effects/pedals etc. I occasionally have problems getting the device to turn off or on. e.g. if I need to disengage the wah and immediately switch to a clean sound. If i don't hit it just right the wah will fail to turn off. Maybe i'm not stomping on it hard enough, I don't know. It's very inconsistant.

1970 Gibson Les Paul Custom, 1990 MM Fender Strat with VanZandt pickups, 1986 Westone Spectrum, VOX AD50VT and 1970's Ampeg V4 half stack with various effects/overdrives. Sound quality is good. Can get many different sounds from it. From vintage to modern, it's all pretty much there. No noise or tone suck that I noticed.

There is another sporadic but major problem I have found with mine. The wah occasionally cuts signal for no apparent reason until I move the pedal. It's only happened a few times, but again, I can't afford it to happen in a live situation.

I haven't contacted them YET, so I really can't comment.

Right now i am in a band which plays a mix of 90's/00's covers and originals. I've been playing and gigging for almost 20 years. If it were lost or stolen, i'm not sure i would replace it. For me it's a great pedal for recording with great tone but not for live situations. I need something a little more reliable. I think an LED would help as a visual confirmation that the device is on or off.

Very easy to get the tone I want. Love the fact that I can control the sweep range and volume for boost. Can have total control over the parameters I want.

A lot of people says it sucks tone big time but I think they are just biased. It does suck up a bit of tone and live out of your tone but not much compared to Boss pedals. Anyway I'm a perfectionist so I got myself a true bypass looper from Loop-Master and problems solved!

It has a wide range or sweep that you can control using the dial knob and the small knob. As you turn the dial knob down, you get to a bassier region and vice versa. The small knob lets you control the range on whether you want an end to end sweep range or just a particular one without too much bass when rocked back and not too much high when rocked up.

Every time I on the power and use it for the first time, it will have a pop. Only for the first time. After that its fine. So make sure you on and off it for a few times before you on your amp.

The mid range of the sweep is not really good. It kinda have a 'jump' and doesn't go through all the frequency in between bass and treble. Especially when you turn the small knob all the way up. Therefore control over the small knob is important to get a relatively nice sweep.

A lot of people says this pedal always fail on them but it works perfectly for me. Guess those idiots just stomp on it with all the strength they have. Come on, its an electronic device. Why do you wanna be rough with it? You will just spoil it. Totally hate those people who becomes a monster when they play guitar. Have some control over yourselves man.

I love my pedals so I just use the minimum force possible when stomping on them. And in return, they love me too.

Never dealt

I've been playing for 9 years and covers a wide range of music. Don't buy a wah just because you are a Jimi wannabe. Use the effect for your own music. Be creative and don't let all these "guitar gods" control your playing style.

Anyway, this is a very sturdy pedal with lots of good tones in it. You just need some time to tweak around to get your nice tone. Of course you can't compare this unit to boutique pedals like Fulltone Fullcylde Wah.

If stolen I will open up my options to boutique wahs. But I don't mind getting this again.

It is tricky to start if you aren't familiar with this pedal. But once you get it dialed in, it's awesome. The manual is cool too. It gives you different style settings for hitting hendrix to frusciante. Pretty cool. I love it. I have played alot of others like morleys, other crybabys, boss, rocktron, and I liked this one from the first time I heard it. not to say the others suck. Given their applications, they shine in their own right. But as far as I'm concerned, this one did it for me then, does it for me know. I am the man in the box baby!! not really. Sorry jerry, yes you are the man.

I love this pedal when you have it kicked-in. The only downside of this pedal, or any other pedal that doesn't have this, is it's lack of a true-bypass switch. Ya, it's going to slightly color your sound but it's a coloring you deal with if your a wah fan like myself. If I were to record, I would probably isolate this effect alone to maximize my tones that I would want. Live, well, I have never played in a live setting that had such pristine sound that anybody could notice. They just notice when that bad mofo kicks in and it's on like donkey kong!. I'm sure there are some better boutique pedals out there for way more duckets, but for my money, this is the one for my ears. I love this pedal! Satch uses it. I have read some reviews that put the pedal down so much that he must be completely tone deaf??? rrrrrrrrrright..... This pedal inspires me to pretend for second that I'm Kirk Hammett, yes. But I'm not. So playing the intro to man in the box will do. It's not at the rackmount level but I didn't buy the rackmount wah. So rated against it's peers, I say it rocks.

Haven't had a problem with it. I did have an old one I beat up alot. It's hit the deck hard a couple times, had beer spilled on it, attacked by dust bunnies as it sat uncleaned for years, etc. Anyways, I was an idiot and put the wrong power supply into it and needless to say, the old schooler that took two nine volt batteries only works with two nine volt batteries now. The wall wort is done. i got a new one and it won't work. Still sounds good though. Just not as econimical as it once was. And I think that the old one without the fassel sounds better too. Maybe I'm tone deaf? I don't know. But I like that old peice of crap. Love it. They aren't that different. Just slight. Both are awesome. I bought the dime wah too. Way too many options. It's like line 6 products. Love their usefullness. I just don't want to attain the degree it takes to thoroughly understand them. Maybe I'm a caveman. Takes away from jamming. I have ADD or something. I like easy to use knobs and this isn't the easiest, but it's easy enough. Ya, it's reliable.

I just keep buying them like dunlop intended. I don't know?

I play it all. I also suck at it all. And I like it all. I love this pedal. I set it, and forget it! I have been playing for 13 or so years. I still suck. I have owned alot of gear. I looked up my musicians friend account the other day and totalled it up and almost cried. If it were stolen, I'd buy another. I bought another and it wasn't stolen in the first place. Ya, I dig it. What I love about it is the fact that once you find that sweet spot, your done. Put velcro on it and slap it on your board. Don't mess with it again. that easy. Again, I wish it had true bypass. Dunlop will wise up one day. And I'll buy a freakin' new one. Ya, I could send it off to keeley or wherever but I'm lazy. oh well. As far as helping me make music, yes. Very much so. It makes my crappy solo style sound less crappy. Alot of people say that people who use the wah pedal do so to hide there crappy technique. And some are right. I do fall into this category. But one day I hope practice pays off and I can make a few think otherwise. Maybe not. I don't care. I like the wah wah. As far as anything else I would like to share. rate products fairly. I read reviews alot. If you've owned it for one day and your last name isn't vai, how can you write a poor review on something? Also, rate it against it's peers fairly. And if you hate it in the first place, rate it accoudingly. Tell everyone you hate it right off the bat so I don't waste my time reading about your crappy set-up and your two years of playing and how you know good tone and all that crap. I'm hear to listen to fellow guitar junkies who love gear, good or bad, and appreciate it for what it is, and how it's used accordingly. Ya, it's not the $500 boutique, but it's damn good. I'll shut up now.

first off,you have to read the manual on this one so you know what and how all the dial,s work and how they alter the sounds...this pedal is extremely tweakable.

i had earlier version's of crybaby's but was never really happy with them,went to a teese rmc1 wah,paid way to much,never really liked it,then came across this 535q,finally what i was looking for, a wonderful clean wah,very vocal,very tweakable....a honest 10.very easy to get any sond you want...

it's very well built,heavy,quality part's,you can depend on it and dunlop back's it up....both by warrenty and part's availabilty...

i have dealt with them in the past,you talk to real people,their happy to help...

overall,you can get any sound your looking for out of this pedal..really..i am really impressed with this pedal,and it's a heck of a bargain,try it,i think you'll agree...the only downside,wish it had a led...