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...

It's not exactly straight forward. You have to find your own sound that you like first. It's really not that hard though, I found the sound I liked within 20 or 30 minutes, Once I found that "sweet spot" I was good to go. But I don't just stay in that spot, I tinker and find other sounds too. It didn't come with a manual because I bought the unit as a display model. I'd give it a 9.5 if there was such an option because of the tweaking that needs to be done.

I play a lot of Satriani, and this pedel gives me a lot of the sound I was looking for in his songs, plus gives me the just the sound I want in my own music. It gives you a definate 'wah' sound to it, really makes the guitar cry. It has a tendency to be noisy especially with the boost selector on, but what do you expect?, it's a 'signal booster' it simply amplifies whatever happens to be in the circuitry, including noise... make it work for you ;3. This is being ran through a Line 6 Spider III 150 watt amp.

I've been reading that the switches are flakey, hard to activate, etc. But I really haven't had a problem with that so far. Yeah, the switch can be kind of hard to switch on but it was designed like that so you wouldn't accidently turn it off when you're using it. All you have to do is lean your weight into it a little bit until it clicks. Also the battery is another one I keep hearing people complain about. Still haven't had any trouble there other than getting the battery compartment to close. As far as draining batteries. No problem, just unplug all the cables and make SURE you turn the wah pedel off via the toeswitch!!! I've been doing this since the day I got it, been using the same battery for 2 weeks and the wah is still just as strong. I would use it at a gig with no back up even without a power adapter, although they are nice to have when you don't have batteries handy. Giving reliablity a 10 for now in spite of its poor reviews simply because I haven't had the pedel very long and it's held up perfectly fine so far.

Never had to deal with them. Hope I won't have to.

Overall I think it's a great pedel, matches my style of playing which is mostly rock and blues rock. Been playing guitar for 3 years and I haven't been without my share of disappointments but this little device hasn't disappointed me so far. I'd definately buy another one if it got stolen, but not before chasing the theif down and reclaiming my original xD. Like most everyone else I wish the volume/Q control knobs were slightly bigger but it's no big deal.

The ease of use is just so incredibly awesome and easy! The different wah settings make for an awesome pedal with varible wah sounds which is awesome when wanting a slightly different sound. The Boost kicks ass and is awesome. Needs no manual - this beast is so simple to use and manipulate!

The exact same model Wah, guitar legend Joe Satriani uses, and it kicks arse! Surf with the alien with this beast! I've gotten alot of signature tones out of this Wah, such as Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Satch, and Zakk Wylde respecivly, as well as my own signature wah tone! It really is a versitle wah! I use mine through a Fender Squier Champ 15 amplifier , with gain usually at between 7 and 10, treble at 10, middle at 0, and bass and presence both at 10 and played through an SX Strat. This wah kicks ass with screaming tones and harmonics with a nice gain and overdrive, but also gives awesome tonage with a nice, beefy clean sound.

It's never let me down, and I've had it for a few months already. I've heard of this particular Wah cutting out, but it's never done that with mine, and I can always depend on it whenever I need that awesome wah sound. I would definatly take it to a gig and be safe and know it won't stuff up on me. It's my old guitar I've got to worry about, haha.

Never needed to deal with them, with absolutely no problems with the pedal, its been a smooth ride! I'm sure the team at Dunlop would be very kind to assist though.

I play many different genres of music, and often my own blend. This wah along with my Monte Allums modded DS1 Distortion, gives me absolutely exactly the tonage I need and require! Before this I used a Dunlop Crybaby GCB-95 Original, but it just wasn't cutting what I needed. When I plugged this baby in I knew it was meant to be. I've also tested the VOX wah and no other wah I've used compares itself to the 535Q. And the full "chrome boy" finish gives it another thing to boast about. If it were stolen I would be shattered but still wouldn't hesitate to go and buy another one, though I'd try and get my old one back, because I feel a strong connection with all my original equipment.

No matter what you play, this is the most versitile wah ever and will cater for any style! I use it mainly for rock and metal, as well as shred and lots of good harmonics, but when I tone down the gain it still kicks epic ass.

Great sounds, lots of features, fairly easy to use.

Super range of sounds.

Junk! I have gone through 2 of these units and both have had switch problems. I don't know why a company would allow something as simple as a ba switch through thier quality control. But the pedal is unusable due to its intermittent switch and noisy too.

just returned it to guitar center. TWICE.

Garbage! Great idea for a wah pedal if they would just make sure they worked when it left the factory.

The black knobs that control the "Q" (wah depth) and clean boost are both hard to get at, but the wah pedal and wah range selector are easy to use. The on/off switch for the whole pedal is a pain in the ass, it likes to stick.

The wah sounds good and is very adjustible, but if either the clean boost or my amp's gain are turned up, it picks up the local NPR station (89.5-ish). Changing the frequency range creates a nasty trebly "pop".

I honestly don't use it very much as a wah pedal, I like it for the bass cut when turned on and left wide open, and for the distortion I get when I turn the clean boost all the way up on my amp's "clean channel".

It will cut out randomly when turned off unless the pedal is pressed lightly against the switch. It's also begun cutting out for a few seconds without warning when turned on.

Haven't gotten around to dealing with them.

It has a cool tone, and I tend to leave it on while playing, but I wouldn't trust it at a show. I haven't really found a use for the wah depth control, but the clean boost and wah range are fun to play around with.

I cant really say it's easy to use because i'm used to a wah pedal that's switchless. The manual completely sucks!! but there are a couple good settings in the back. the version I have has all of the knobs on the side so it is better than the old ones that had them on the bottom.

I thinks this pedal sounds great and I am able to get alot of different sounds out of it. I've seen some reviews where people say it's digital but it's not, that chip on the board is an op-amp. I have yet to hear any unwanted noise. I am running this to a Line 6 Uber Metal and into my Crate GX-60C.

A couple of times when I hit the switch I loose all signal, It's only happened twice and hasn't done it in a while but I still worry that it's gonna happen again at an important time. I talked to Dunlop and they pretty much told me I was crazy.

I've only talked to them once and they treated me like I had no clue what I was talking about, so i can't say they are good.

This is a super smooth pedal compared to the other Crybabys i've owned I guess it's because of the Fasel inductor. It needs an indicator light because i'm always forgetting it's on, other then that i can't see anything really wrong with it.

this is a very versatile wah. 3 knobs and a boost switch
Q-control- adjusts the frequency center
gain- amount of boost delivered when the boost switch is pushed in
volume- amount of volume added when wah is on

this is a very versatile wah! the sound i have found relies heavily on 2 things, the settings u are using, and the type of guitar u are using. between the Q control and the gain control i can get sounds ranging from
funk, to slight filterering, to your very modern rock solo tones (wylde, slash, vai, etc.) As with anything different types of pickups will give you different tones. such as with my tele with a high frequency selected and gain added i can nail the tom morello type of pushing rythm tone. this is a very smooth wah that can be adjusted for any playing style

This thing is built very well, i use it all the time with out a back up.
i did however have one time where my switch went out on me so i sent it to dunlop and they fixed it and i have had no problems with it since

Dunlop was very helpful and easy to work with when my switch went out...luckily i had a few days left on my warrenty so they let me send it on back and i got it back with in about 3 weeks with no problems.
contacting them is no problem either, i only had to call them once and they were very friendly and helpful.

i'd highly recommend this wah!
styles i play and it works great with- funk, blues, rock, metal, worship, country (its great for slide work)
i would buy it again if lost
i compared it with other cry baby wahs and a few morleys such as the bad horsie II the only wah i would say beat it was a guys 60's Vox organ wah
which was just amazing (who can find those anyways)

As easy as a wah should be.

The sound is great when it works.

Every so often (about every 6th or 7th time), when I engage the pedal, the sound cuts out completely, and I have to press it down again a couple of times to get signal again(making it impossible to use live).So no, I cant depend on it.

When it was new, it had the same problem (signal cutting out intermittently)and I sent it back under warranty. Dunlop told me they found no problem, and sent it back to me without doing anything. Tried to gig with it again, and about the 3rd or 4th time I tried to kick it in, guess what? My sound dropped out completely, making me look like an idiot.
I have tried it with different rigs, and always have the same problem. So now I just use it for home recording. Which sucks, because I'm starting to play out quite a bit again, and need to go out and buy something I can depend on.

The sound is good for a wide variety of styles (if only I could depend on it for live performance).I hear the new models from Dunlop sound great, but I cant justify giving money to a company which treated me this way.

Two gripes: 1. The little black knobs are hard to get at without taking the unit off the pedalboard. 2. The manual doesn't have a specifications page. I'd like to know the frequency values of the five ranges. In fact, the manual doesn't say much of anything at all.

This is a digital pedal. That said, I don't want to give anyone the impression that I think it suffers from the fact. Digital music technology takes a lot of crap these days, but the truth is that it's opened up a world of tonal possibilities that once only existed in the really expensive boutique analog world.
It's just that, when you opened the bottom of the pedal, it's got this overwhelmingly slick-looking, machine-wired board on the inside. It's a new world.
This instrument is fantastic. I was playing an early-80's revision of the CGB-95, which has about twenty electronic parts in it. The pot started to get scratchy, and I turned that into an excuse to get a new toy. I wasn't disppointed.
I'm a big fan of Jerry Cantrell's wah tone. Who isn't? So when I got it, I instantly dialed in the "Jerry Cantrell" settings in the manual. Holy cow. It was pretty cool.
In fact, I was so impressed that I changed the settings a little to find the sweet spot for my amp and I haven't changed anything since. One of these days I'll poke around with it, but for the moment I'm in love with this setting. I haven't played a solo without it since the first time I brought it to rehearsal.
I play a Gibson Explorer with Dimarzio pickups. EB Vol Pedal > 535Q > TS-9 > MESA Nomad 45, 4x10. I couldn't be happier with the way the 535Q gets along with the rest of the gang.
Regarding the switch: A lot of people seem to want to deconstruct the "hard-wire" bypass. It's not absolutely true bypass, that's true. But it's just about as good as it gets. There comes a point when the differences are negligible. This is that point.

It's a wah pedal. They can take bullets and still work.
And, oddly enough, the machine-soldered circuit board seems sturdier and much less likely to suffer from loose solder joints (a recurring problem with my old CBG95).

Never talked to them.
If I did, I'd ask them for the tech spec's.

I'll eventually repair my old wah pedal, but to be honest I don't think I'll put it back on my pedalboard full time. The 535Q is now the most soulful pedal I have. And that's not just because the old CS-9 chorus I have died on me last week.
The Boost function even reduces the number of stomps I have to do to get my solo-wah tone. My Tube Screamer seems jealous.
I'd buy a new one in a second.

I've been playing more than long enough to know the ins and outs (well, at least a few) of good tone. I'm a big fan of Slash, Jerry Cantrell, Dan DeLeo, Slash, David Gilmour, Frank Zappa, and Slash. I have a special place in my heart for the G3 nuts like Satch and Stevie Vai, but the real soulful guys get me in a very tingly place. So you'll never catch me with EMG pickups or a Boss DS-1 anywhere in the signal chain. Shrieky, edgy guitar a-la Zakk Wylde or Mick Thompson is good and all, they just choose attitude over pinache when it comes to tone. It's a matter of style. That's why Zakk has his own Crybaby. But the 535Q has it for all of us out there who wanna make it bleed feeling.

You don??t need to spend some time to work out how this thing works but you will need a couple of days to find what you are looking for. More complicated than a standard wah but many more sounds to get from it.

Great sound. I plug the pedal before a Ds1 modified by Pedaldoc (great overdriven sound now) and I can really get a Hendrix kind sound. I have many more pedals and this thing seems to combine well with almost everything except with my phase90 but who would want to use a wah with a phaser anyway?

Very hard shell and well made. Very reliable I would say. I don??t know about the pot getting scratchy yet...let??s hope it doesn??t in a long time.

I have had the pedal for a year and no issues so far. Hopefully it will stay the same

Great pedal. Lots of sounds to dial. If you get one of these pedals be sure you will spend many hours experimenting...Nice.

Bought the unit a few days ago, took me a while to find the ideal combination between the variable Q knob and the switchable 6 wah types. But once I figured it out, I was able to get a variety of very usable sounds

I run a '57 vintage reissue strat through the 535Q and an Ibanez TS9DX Tubescreamer into a Marshall JTM-30 combo amp, with a Dunlop 6-band equalizer running through the amp's FX loop.

One COMPLAINT: When I activate the 535Q with the boost(overdrive) channel on my Marshall JTM-30, the 535Q picks up a certain am radio frequency, which becomes more apparent as I push the rocking pedal forward (treble side). I notice the radio signal is also there when I'm using the clean channel, but not half as bad as when I'm using the boost channel

Does anyone else have this problem? please advise

Other than that, it's a great sounding unit, the only reason that I'm not giving it a 10 rating because of the radio signal issue

I've only been using it for a week in my bedroom, so I can't comment on this one

I've been playing guitar for over 10 years now, mostly as a hobby. I mainly play early to mid 90's alternative rock covers (Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, RATM, RHCP). If it was stolen, I'd definitely get a replacement

Great variety without pushing buttons, turning many knobs, etc. Has the Fasel & a good casing. Input jacks work & don't wiggle with all types of cable too. Want to spend more time tweaking? Get the Ibanez Weeping Demon instead. Want to get a strong set of wah tones? Get this unit & save your time. It's virtually a no-brainer.

It gets all the sounds you want to get, from Jimi to SRV and then some. REMEMBER: it really is in your hands, your guitar's sound, amp settings and any other pedals or crap you have in your chain. Want to cut down noise? Use your pedals or rack in your amp's FX loop and only use this before your amp input: you will be surprised. I use it with Mesa Lone Star Special and Stiletto Ace combo(s), and with PRS & Ed Reynolds guitars with hummers & single coils. The EQ on this one is good with singles and humbuckers.

As long as you aren't tap dancing on the pedal, letting a dummy toss your stuff around or spilling beer on it: it should last a while. Every month or so spray it with tuner cleaner & you'll stay happy! Better yet: keep it in a protective pedal board case.

Sorry to have to give anybody any advice: wah pedals due to their parts and design just wear out if you don't kieep them clean & protect them. Haven't had to contact the company, but go thru the people you bought it from. They order more of this product and can put pressure on them or the distributor (if that's the case).

After 40 years, this is the first one I liked after my original Vox. It covers almost all the sounds I've liked too. Other than the Weeping Demon (too many little things to tweak with) and the larger Morleys, it got good tones FAST! If you use too many pedals, pre-amps, boosters, delays, modulation units, etc.: it will all start to sound like pink noise or mush anyway. With bypass, it will stay out of your way (and ears)when you don't use it.

Quite easy to use. More options than most wah's but still, not at all difficult. Give yourself half an hour to find the best settings.
The volume boost is possibly this wah's best feature.

This is where this pedal really falls down. Forget Hendrix and SRV. I'm not sure where all these rave reviews are coming from. I've had this pedal for about 18 months and have been trying to get good tones out of it for that long. Still trying. The tones are just not in there. Perhaps, when you've got your amp (or pedals) all set for a clean sound then the pedal is passable - with a tendancy to push the high end and scrimp on the bass, but as soon as you add any distortion, fuzz, overdrive or anything like that,(even tube breakup) then it is just really a pile or rubbish.

I play with really good gear, aside from a few pedals (good ones), I play a vintage vox AC50 amp, an American custom les paul and an American standard telecaster. I'm really into good tones and good gear. When I am playing blues lead for example, with a small amount of overdrive, when I switch on the wah, I can hardly tell if it's on or not!

To its credit, it doesn't get any noise in the pot when you rock the pedal. But it's far from noiseless when the pedal is switched on and off. And you'd better turn you're volume down when you click the 'Wah range selector' switch! BANG BANG BANG (not good for your speakers...or ears).

This pedal is very solid construction wise. It's a die cast stainless steel I think. Tough. The underside panel is a bit flimsy though, with plastic battery cover...a much more delicate underbelly than vintage wahs.

As far as the inside goes, mine didn't have any problems. Though being a digital pedal it does suck batteries pretty quickly.

It's probably easiest to sum up this way...

For:
- Pretty solid and reliable
- Has a good volume boost switch
- True bypass
- Not too bad with clean sounds (very little bass though)

Against:
- Rubbish with distortion
- Noisy selector switch (aaarh! Good god this is terrible!)
- Too expensive for what it does and compared to other cheaper wah's.

Summing up, save your money. I'm going to mod mine with Area 51 Vintage Italian wah mod kit (www.area51tubeaudiodesigns). If you're interested in a wah that's soft and subtle then save the dough and get a cheaper, more basic wah. If you want to play an authentic sounding 'Voodoo Chile' then get a real vintage wah, or go for the Area 51.

Fairly easy to use, the two knobs on the side could do with being a bit bigger though. Easy to get a good sound, it all sounds great!

Using a Cort G290 (EMG SA and 89 pickups), with a load of other effects into a Marshall MG100DFX. This wah just sounds plain awesome. That's it, all the sounds are great, you can emulate any artist with it, and it really wails!

I've had mine for about a year and a half and it's still going strong, I am worried about when the potentiometer breaks however. But it's lasted a long time!

N/A

THis is just a great pedal, forget any others out there, this is the ONLY wah you'll need, despite it being a little old-fashioned.

Cake

Superior, since it can sound like any wah it beats every wah!

Never broke yet. And I Thrash it

I've delt with the company directly a few times. Always a pleasure

I have owned all the "Best" wah pedals and this one has kept me going from light jazz to wailing metal. If you need a sweet wah wah, buy this pedal

it's easey enough, it's a jewel, a master piece, you have like 50 different wah sounds, in one wah!!!!!

great, super, if you like hendrix, vai, satriani, page, there all in this great pedal

it's a tank , bomb shelter like built it's wounderful, buy it!!!

dunlop there all great people , they care about there customers

great, wah wah, sound quality better than 90% of the wah wah out there but you get a great deal buying this pedal!!!!

Been playing guitar for 28 years best thing dunlop's put out since I can remember.

Much better than the original, Playing it through a marshall 250 mdx great sound!

no question about, with the 9 Volt adapter

The one guitar effect I've been waiting for!

I like this wah very much, this is my first wah pedal. I bought it second hand and it still looked fine. The dials make it very easy to find your right sound and after 20 minutes you get the sound you want. The only problem is that there are to many dials. But I should not complain because that was the reason for buying it.

I've got the version with fasel. I think it is true bypass or at least I hope it. My setup: Jackson DXMG ( with EMG 81-85 ) --> korg DT-10 --> 535Q --> crappy cheap small amp. No noise from any of those but I intend to buy a mesa boogie combo soon.

This thing is rock solid and I would like to meet the person that could have destroyed it. Or better not.

It works, so why contact customer support

I have been playing the guitar for about 10 years now, but only 5 of them on electric guitar, I play a lot of metallica, iron maiden AC/DC stuff and it fits well with this style. If it was stolen I don't know if I would buy a new one, I don't use it so regulary

3 knobs - Volume Boost, the Q (Sweep/bandpass), and the 6-way range selector (emphasizes lows, mids, or highs).
You can plug it in, click it on, and play, but that's not really going to do much. Folks say it's 'set it and forget it,' but then you're forgetting about the tonal possibilities of the pedal. It can do a heck of a lot if you take the time to tweak it. You can get heavy metal-ish, guttural wahs and nice reggae/funk sounds that resemble an envelope filter. The settings in the manual are helpful - before I didn't realize the volume knob made a noticeable effect on the tone.

Mine's an old model, 18v with the knobs on the bottom. Pain in the rear to get to but Dunlop seems to have rectified that with the newer models.

Fender Fat Strat - 535Q -> Traynor YCV40WR
It's true bypass as far as I can tell - when the batteries die and you engage the effect, it's a mute switch, but it still passes signal. The sound quality is great and much more recognizable once you spend some time with it and tailor it to your rig. You can get anywhere from a bluesy wailing rock wah to metal and funk. Everything in one box, though not at the same settings.
The volume boost is a great help, it lets you sing above everything else in the mix, as well as get a little bit more distortion.
You can also dial in some nice feedback if you let it sit on the higher frequencies.

It's HEAVY. Like a gold brick. You could knock someone out with this thing. I would use it without a backup but there's one thing I wouldn't use it with live - BATTERIES. I've had the batteries die just inexplicably, you're supposed to unhook the input signal to stop a slow drain, and I do, but whenever I need the durn thing it turns into a 10 lb mute switch. Get a power supply!

Never dealt with 'em, but they did take the time to write a helpful user's guide, so for that I salute 'em.

It's great for what I do. I play in an alt rock band, and I get really killer leads out of it - Great Sound. If it were stolen I'd track down that scumbag in a heartbeat and put in a few solid blows with the crybaby.
It's fantastic sounding but it NEEDS AN LED. With my earplugs in I can never tell if it's off or on. Maybe an easier footswitch, too - I'm 180 lbs and I have to lean forward with all my weight on my right foot to engage it.
The cheaper Crybabies are not worth it, no variable sweep, no customization, and worst of all, no true bypass. Get this one, I swear it's at least 5 pedals in one.

Pretty simple ... might take a while to really get the hang of adjust the Q-dial and range, but really not difficult to use ... all sounds from this thing are usable.

I play Fender American Deluxe Strat --> DOD Juice Box --> Crybaby 535Q --> Marshall AVT100 ... sometimes I use an Epiphone Les Paul as well, when I feel like playing Guns N'Roses stuff or whatever ...

Anyways, like I said above, every sound out of this thing is quite usable ... and there a some very good sounds in there ... but there are no really excellent tones, to my ears. Somehow even the best tones from this pedal seem to lack something ... perhaps just missing that genuinely musical touch, you know ... maybe it's the lack of a top quality inductor, like the Fasel or Halo ones in the Crybaby Classic and the Real McCoy wahs respectively ... I don't know ...

One sound that this pedal came very close to nailing was the wah tone on "Fool's Gold" by Stone Roses, using the Les Paul ... curiously the pedal almost seems to prefer the Epiphone to the Fender, which is very uncommon for wah pedals ...

This is a real problem for me. The plastic battery cover broke almost immediately, which is a nuisance ... it's now held together with blu-tack ... but that doesn't affect performance, so it's not a huge problem.

However, there is another more severe problem; sometimes (in fact, quite often) when using the effect, if the treadle touches the switch the signal just cuts out. This is a real problem, as naturally the switch and the treadle come in contact rather often ... though I have noticed that the problem is more occurs more regularly when the battery gets older ... still, very very annoying.

I've been playing 6 years, mostly rock, oldies, blues, etc ...

This thing does have some very good sounds, but doesn't work very well.

I'm replacing it as soon as I can unload it really ... probably getting a VOX or a McCoy instead ...

It's not a very complicated pedal, and i've only took like 2 min. to make it sound as i wish.

Yeah! well, what can you say if you're using one of the satriani's choise. In order i have Cry Baby 353q firts, then a Boss Metal zone and a dunlop phase 90, then i have a marshall 259 dfx, and it sound great, i can make it sound like a slash style without problem. you just have to know how to use it with the style you like, but you can go as far as you wish.

mmmm i have like 2 months with this pedal, so it has worked good.

Well... first i was looking fot a dimebag cry baby, 'cause i'd try one before and i liked it, and because is the Mike's Einziger choise(incubus) but in the store, i tried the 535q and it sounds as good as i wanted, and it was more like my style (80's rock and jazz) and the dimebag is like more metal style. and i'm glad to choose this, 'cause it helps me to say what i want. my guitars really cry!!

Actually USING the thing is easy, as all wah-wah pedals are ... finding your sound can take a little bit of tweaking, as is naturally the case when there are knobs involved ...

I play a Fender American Deluxe Strat (and occasionally an Epiphone Les Paul+) --> DOD Juice Box --> 535Q Crybaby --> BOSS TR-2 --> Marshall AVT100 ... often I only plug in one or two of those pedals at a time, though ...

This is a very versatile pedal, every tone is usable ... but to my ears there are only a couple of very good tones ... there's no excellent tones, no one super sound ... and, as is common with Crybaby wahs (excluding the Classic Fasel model, perhaps) it can get very nasal and thin ... of course, that's why the range shifting knob is there, but when you lower the range you tend to lose definition and clarity, and the effect is generally less noticable ...

I have had problems in this category ...

Firstly, the battery cover broke on this thing the first day I got it ... it's been held in place with blutack ever since, and falls off regularly, which is a real pain ... I haven't bothered to find a replacement cover, but might do so soon.

Secondly, I have problems with the switch every now and then ... a lot of the time, if the treadle touches the switch while you are using the wah, it can cause the signal to cut out completely. However, I think that this happens much less when the battery is fresh ... still, it means I virtually have to change the battery once every fortnight to avoid the signal drop, despite the fact I'm always careful to disconnect everything when I'm not playing ...

I play mostly blues, rock, alternative or anything that sounds cool ... I've been playing over 7 years and have had this pedal for about 3 years ... I'm getting rid of it soon because I haven't yet found a really excellent sound from it & I'm a bit fed up with the reliability issues too ... gonna get a Real McCoy Picture Wah probably ...

Anyways, the pedal is still pretty good, and exceptionally versatile ... so if you're looking for a lot of good, different sounds, this is probably your type of pedal.

Didn't get a chance to try it out... it broke first....

Didn't get a chance to try it out... it broke first....

The "Think it worked once." quote is even being generous... I hope I am having bad luck but when I got it it was broken... The little stick thing moves the potentiameter thing when you step on and off the pedal was broken when I recived the pedal.

Haven't used them.... am going through my local music store because I won't even have it 12 hours by the time they are open again and go to take it back.....

Well I don't want to trash this pedal because apparently it sounds great but I am just lettting you know that it can crap out on you very very very easily.

It is very easy to get a good sound out of this pedal! The variable Q knob is so handy, I can go from vintage vox-like wah to modern wah. The manual gives you some examples of how to recreate some famous tones,they are pretty accurate.

I am currently using a Squier Stratocaster and a Peavey Rage 158. I am also running a Zoom 505II before the wah. The wah is not really noisy in my opinion. The effects always sound really awsome with this wah. All the wah frequencies are great!

It's a Dunlop wah, it's made from die-cast steel. I sure can rely on this wah. I would definately use this wah without a backup!

I haven't dealt with Dunlop yet because they made such a strong, reliable wah pedal.

I play rock and metal stuff. This wah is perfect beacuse it has the Fasel inductor. The inductor gives it a nice tone with loads of distortion. I have been playing for about a year. If this were stolen or lost, I would definately purchase another one of these! I love the sweep and how good it sounds, the boost is also extremely useful for leads. I compared this to other wah pedals (Dimebag wah, Tremonti power wah, Classic crybaby) and the only one that compared was the Dime one. It was $100 more and this wah had all the same features! This wah inspires me to new levels of playing all the time. That's all for my review, I totally recommend this pedal for any level of musician

Easy, but you must master this thing to express yourself.

Good sounds, versatile all the way up. I like the Q very low to get volume-like swells. I would have liked a Faselinductor. I need a more vocal quality.--A little nasal, not so musical. I expected a Shaftier sound.Noisy when the boost in on. Not so tone sucking as I expected.I am looking forward the GiG-FX Master Wah. It seems pretty godd as well. I want to modify this thing with a Fasel Red inductor. I am sure it will get better anyway.

Very well built. Quality components, but hard to modify, as there are some surface mount tiny components.

I could never contact Dunlop, but I requested a catalog and they sent it to me. Great!, burt I have been able to clear my doubts.

Great but hard to modify, lacks the vocal quality I wanted. VERY VERSATILE. The six selections are well tuned. Quality selector. I would have liked metal knobs and quality pots for the Q and Volume Boost. I wanted to be brief. Thanks for reading.

Pretty easy to use and offers a lot of wah options.

Sound quality is good as far as using the wah goes. However, when bypassed this pedal sucks the tone right out of your guitar and amp (I use a '79 Strat and Marshall JCM 900). Maybe I just have a bum pedal, but a quality true bypass switch and wiring is needed. I've read other reviews stating this pedal has a true bypass, but I couldn't find that claim on the Dunlop web site, and that's a major selling point. All the endorsements by superstars for this peadal are nice, but I'd bet those endorsers have modifications done to replace cheap components.

The Boost is pretty much worthless unless you like hissing and noise. Oh, it is near impossible to engage with your foot (logical limb a person would use based on where it's placed).

I won't use it for my performances because of the "tone suck" going on. I could probably buy a true bypass switching pedal and eliminate the wah pedal when not engaged, but why bother? I'll just buy a better wah and pawn off this one on ebay.

I like MXR and Dunlop and hope to never have to call them for tech support.

If you are in the market for a wah I'd find something else. When engaged the wah it's nice, but when not engaged--look out. Do yourself a favor and listen closely when shopping, especially if you are buying from a large music store. Some of the "department store" guitar/music places are nerve wrecking just walking in the door so you may not be able to detect what's really going on with all the blairing music, noise, and guitar slingers impressing themselves. Pay a few extra bucks to get quality!

I decided to try the 535Q after being dissatisfied with the Ibanez WD7. I think the 535Q is better than the WD7 for the following reasons: I don't have to worry about the 535Q switching off when the pedal is in the up position. My tone is cleaner when the pedal is used with the clean channel on my amp. It doesn't add as much distortion as the WD7. The WD7 is too bulky, the 535Q is more compact.

The biggest imperfection of the 535Q is that there are no markings on the wah to indicate the low/high knob positions. You have to turn the knobs all the way in both directions in order to get a reference point. The sample settings in the manual have markings (although the manual doesn't indicate low and high positions for the range knob) so why doesn't the wah itself? It would make adjustments alot easier. I plan on drawing some dots on the case for this reason.

Other than that, the 535Q is very straightforward and easy to use.

My setup: Carvin DC135C -> 535Q -> Yamaha DG130HA w/ Digitech VGS2120 in the effects loop. The sound quality is very good. It has the signature CryBaby sound. It adds some noise to the signal but nothing substantial.

It seems like a well built pedal. I haven't had it long enough to know how durable or reliable it is.

I emailed Dunlop with some questions about the 535Q before I bought it. The response was helpful.

Other than the WD7, I've tried the RMC2, RMC3 and the Boss PW10. The 535Q is the best wah that I've tried so far. The RMC3 might be better but I didn't like it because the controls are internal.

I would definitely recommend the 535Q unless you just don't like the CryBaby sound. The main reason I wanted a wah like the 535Q was so I could get a wide range of wah sounds. I was able to replicate the wah sounds of many different guitarists such as Zappa, Hendrix, SRV, Page, Satriani and Clapton. I can also get some very nice clean funk sounds.

Not quite as easy as a "non controlable" because you have to spend some time tweaking to get your sound and feel out of it.

I am very happy with the unit. I was originally using a Tesse RMC 1 and after a couple of years with it I decided that I would like a wah with a different feel in the sweep. The 535Q allows me to get the smooth feel I need and sounds great doing it. I especially wanted the a large hollowed out section in the sweep and it does it better than the RMC 1.

strat w/ Lindys -> 535Q -> Fulldrive -> ChoralFlange -> MXR AutoWah
-> Line 6 DL4 -> 67 Deluxe Reverb w/ Weber California speaker

I have had it for about 4 months and the switch is a little suspect at times. I get an intermitant cut out between some switching operations. I am an electrical engineer and I cant find the problem, It may be new switch time.

A good pedal. I play in a 9 peice funk band so I use it often. It does what I want for the most part with a little bit of fuss with the switch.

easy, just unwrappit plug it in and rock the pedal. everyone says its hard to work because youve got to set your own tone, but just read the instruction manual!

i use a fender jagstang and a fender 1969 strat 9 (or sumthing) with a line6 spider 2 amp. and it sounds great!! the good thing is you can shape your wah, and if ya can't be bothered doin that then just read the manual, it tells you how to match the wahs of jimi hendrix, jimi page, john frusciante, tom morrello etc.
i originally had a korg multi effects pedal, and it had a built in vox wah that sucked, it barely made a wah impact, im not sure if the real things like this. i tryed out a boss v-wah and it was absoulute crap, it was more of a multi effects than a wah.

i haven't had it for long so i don't know

again, i haven't had it for long, but i haven't had to deal with them yet.

i play funk/punk/rock plus tons of other shit, this is a great match for me and even if you don't play those styles youll probably find a wah sound to soot your liking. iv been playing for about 4 years now and this is my first actaul single effect, if it was stolen would i replace it? does a bear shit in the woods? my opinion is try out this pedal first and try out as many wahs as you can.

plug and play. after you plug it in and play some, you can adjust the sound if you don't like. that's why those knobs are there, right?

i love the fact that the 535Q is true bypass. that alone is worth the price of admission. it's got a decent sweep on it and it stays in the position i want it to. awesome.

i've had it for almost 6 years now and have never had any problems with it. i even dropped it once and i bent up the bottom plate pretty good. i just bent it back and it works fine.

hopefully, i won't have to deal with these guys.

i've played on a few different wahs in my 11 years of playing and i have to say that i like this one the best so far. i've played on the vox, the morley (mark tremonti model), and the standard morley.

the vox sucks tone like no other. i couldn't believe that a pedal could suck so much tone. i stayed away from wahs for a while because of this. i was told that it was the top of the line back then (8 years ago), so i figured any other wah would suck worse (no pun intended). wrong. i hated the vox.

both morley's sounded harsh and artificial to me. the tremonti model was a little better than the standard, but i didn't like the delay when switching on and off. the tremonti model only stays in the "up" position, which sucks because sometimes players want that all the way down or middle tone to help color up some rhythm or lead work. didn't like it.

i primarily play rock and blues. any bluesman/rocker will tell you a wah is essential for their arsenal. it's a tool for better expression.

definitely would replace if it got jacked or out of my own stupidity, lost.

i wish it came with about $17k to pay off my school loans. haha.

Three knobs,and one button on the side make this the most complicated Dunlop wah. However, the buttons are really only needed once, so that you can tune your wah to whatever settings you want. After that, just toe down and whacka whacka away. The two little knobs on the left of the pedal are hard to reach/turn when you're trying to fine tune your wah sound. However, the fact that they're sort of recessed and out of the way keeps your final settings from changing, so it's definately worth the (slight) aggrevation. The manual has some very good presets for sounds to start tweaking with.

I usually run an Epiphone Dot (with '59 neck and Seth Lover bridge and strung with .11s) -> Boss PSM-5 Power Supply & Master Switch -> Boss BD-2 Blues Driver -> Dunlop 535Q -> Boss PS-3 Pitch Shifter/Delay. My signal goes into a traynor Reverb Mate 40. The PSM-5 powers everything from a single Boss power adapter. This wah adds no noise to my setup when not engaged!
Personally, I like the sound of having my wah after distortion (I think that I'm in the minority on this matter . . ., but don't discount my opinion just because of that!). I have been able to find settings that emulate Hendrix (Voodoo Chile), Zeppelin (Dazed and Confused), Bob Marley (Burnin' and Lootin'), Slash (Sweet Child O' Mine) and Curtis Mayfield (Ghetto Child). I usually set it similarly to the Zeppelin preset in the manual, as this is the sound that I like the best (combine it with a little delay, reverb, and a pinch of chorus). Really, if you like a wah sound you'll be able to get it from this pedal.
The only thing that I never use on this pedal is the red button for solo boosts . . . I have noticed a little click when I initially turn the wah on, but this isn't very loud and doesn't happen everytime that I step on the pedal. No real complaints from me.

This is a very solid pedal. Maybe not indestructible, (I wouldn't want to see what a hammer could do to the knob on the side . . . ) but why would you try to destroy your gear? It has never failed me in more than a year of home use / occasional jam session.

This is an awesome pedal for rock, classic rock, reggae, funk . . . you name it. I've been playing for more than five years now, and am slowly buying musical equipment to suit my style of playing and the sounds that I like. I don't use a wah in every song, but I love playing with them . . . This was the best sounding wah in the guitar store that I tried. (I played with a budda wah, boss v-wah, some kind of morley wah, vox wah, and a dunlop jimi hendrix wah before I made the descision to buy this.)

Easy enough to use; plug in and rock pedal back and forth with [one] foot. Mine came with the red Fasel inductor already installed and has several features that earlier 535Q's didn't have: Q and Volume controls are on the side of the unit instead of the bottom and there is a boost [toe] button to kick in whatever volume boost you've dialed in--very handy. The manual that came with mine is for the older design but the box that it came in had enough information printed on it to adequately describe the location of the controls. It runs on one 9V battery.

I'm using the 535Q in front of a Fender Twin/Marshall JTM running in stereo. I add a bit of delay and compression between the 535Q and amps. I use Strat, Paul, archtops, and others. The 535Q sounds great with all guitars; I upgraded from my old crybaby (sans Fasel) because I couldn't get vocal-like wah from humbuckers especially with distortion. The new 535Q does the job. No true bypass--why don't they make all pedal with true bypass?

The crybabys are very reliable; built like old buicks. However, the 535Q has a cheesy plastic battery compartment cover; should last a year or so before I break it and resort to duct tape. At least you don't have to take the whole bottom cover off to change the battery like the older ones!

Never had to deal with them.

The 535Q is ruggedly built and versatile; very musical and I find it truely inspiring. I play rock/jazz and this pedal gives me the classic wah sounds that I crave. Very cool! I'll replace it if anything happens to it!

The controls are many (more than most wha s) and, at least at the time, i was not particularly tone savvy, and therefor unsure of what they all did. But after a while i figured it out... So like all pedals, fiddling and patience gets you the best tones.

my setup has changed many times since using this pedal, but it has always produced a wide variety of quite pleasing sounds. It even stays pretty powerful right up untill the batteries died, so it was a rather unpleasant suprise. Non the less, it sounds great and is very versitile.

only a little while after i got it, the battery case (plastic, one of the only parts that is) broke and is now held on with duct tape. Also, as of late i have had trouble powering the pedal, fresh batteries haven't fixed the problem, but i havn't really fiddled long, it probebly just needs different batteries or a power supply (note, it is 18volt, not 9volt). Also, the thin metal base is bending out of shape. This is mostly cosmetic, so not a big deal. Everything else has held up superbly.

never used

It is versitile and sounds great, what more can you ask for. Reliability, thats what, and i havn't experianced consistant reliability from the pedal. But i kinda beat the tar out of it, so if you are interested, try it, if you like it, buy it and take care of it.

very easy to use, though you need time to play with it before you produce the sound quality you want.

i use an ibanez js1000 with a marshall amp and a multieefects and this 535q wah. it gives me the best tone i need. specially when i play joe satriani's songs. its an awesome wah pedal. it makes you feel that you have the exact wah tone as what he has in his album and concert acts.

its very dependable heavy duty wah pedal.

i never had a problem with it.

hey if your ready to play instrumentals or just trying to create your own sound, this is the best wah pedal for you.

Read the manual- it takes a bit more thought than your typical wah as you have to dial in your tone.

Classic wah tone that allows you to dial in more to your liking. The perfect compromise between the standard Crybaby/Vox/Thomas Organ/etc and the modern wahs like Morley, Digitech, etc.

My first unit didn't even work once, right out of the box. That was a major disappointment in Dunlop. I paid extra to get two day shipping from Zzounds and was so looking forward to my new toy and then to have it do... Nothing. :^(

Dunlop and Zzounds were both very friendly and answered the phone right away. However, I am giving Dunlop a low rating because they should take care of the returns instead of pawning that expense off to their resellers- this effect was fresh out of the box and didn't work at all. Dunlop should take care of the repair and offer free round-trip shipping. I give Zzounds a high grade- they do offer free shipping and a great return policy!

I play rock, a la Dandy Warhols/New Order/Low, etc. I've been playing for 12 years and play a Fender American Tele & a Guild Starfire through a Fender Twin Reverb. This pedal is the perfect match for my style of music- I like being able to dial in the parameters of the wah, but still having it sound organic and classic, unlike the Morley/Digitech offerings. I love this pedal, but hate Dunlop's manufacturing inconsistencies.

The most versatile and best wah pedal you can buy. It's simple to use, but just has a Q control (wah range), a volume control (boost), and a variable Q control (selective bandpass filter). Even with the extra controls, it is still a very easy pedal to use, it gives you more options on what you want your wah to sound like. If you are lost or don't know what one of the controls is for, the manual will help you out. Also, the manual has some sample settings to give you the wah sound that guys like Zappa, Hendrix, Marley, Page, Frusciante, and a few others, you can dial in settings to get the wah sound that they have. It's not as simple as a regular wah, it is more flexible/versatile which means more to it, but is still very easy to use.

I believe all the newer 535Q wahs are now sold with the Fasel Inductor, which gives you the tone of the original crybaby sounds. This pedal covers a huge range of wah sounds, anywher from a high range to the lowest range wah sound, and there is plenty different sounds inbetween them. The volume control is a good idea, but I barely use it, it only gives you a volume boost when the pedal itself is turned on. You can boost your signal up to +16 dB, or just leave it at 0 dB, which is your regular signal. This is the most tweakable wah I've ever used, and the best I've ever used. First, you can select your wah range with the big chrome knob on the right side of the pedal. It has 6 positions it can be in, you can get any range you want or even think of with this pedal. On top of that, you can tweak the wah even more by using the variable Q control, the small black control on the left side, you can adjust the sharpness of the bandpass. With the Q control turned up you get a high selective bandpass filter. With the Q control turned down, you get a broad bandpass filter that sounds somewhat like a volume pedal. You can get your own wah sound, or get the sound of any one of your favorite guitarists wah sound. I have tried most of the known wah pedals, and nothing can come close to how good this wah is. I had a Boss V-Wah, didn't like it, it's a digital wah pedal that emulates Dunlop, Vox, and Morley wah sounds, but sounds nothing like any of them, probably one of the worst wahs you can buy, and very overpriced. I sold my Boss V-wah to buy my 535Q wah. I have a Morley wah, but it's been sitting with all the other pedals I don't use, along with a Vox wah, and my Dunlop GCB-95, I replaced the GCB-95 with the 535Q. If you are looking for a wah, don't go with any of the crappy digital wahs or any of those Digitech multi-effect pedals with all the different distortions, effects, and wahs. The best wahs are Dunlop, Vox are good, but nothing compares to Dunlop, check out this pedal, nobody can be disappointed with one. I never thought I'd give any wah pedal a 10 because I could never find one with the exact sound I wanted, but the 535Q proved me wrong and will always be on my pedalboard, the price for it is amazing, and the pedal is amazing.

It's built with a very solid, sturdy body, the pedal is very tough, all Dunlop wahs are tough. The only thing I don't like is the little knobs for the volume control and the Q control, they are very small and close together, they should at least be bigger. But, I can deal with it.

I was waiting for the music store by me to get this pedal in, made sure they held one for me once they got them in. You aren't going to get more versatility like the 535Q on any other wah pedal, it's the best wah anyone can have. Trust me, the guys at the music store by you might make that crappy Boss V-wah sound great with it's onboard distortions, voice mode, uni-v, and the different wah sounds, but, the pedal is absolute garbage. The distortions are a joke, the wahs are very weak and digital, so they do not sound like real a real wah pedal should, they are simulations, and the voice mode is unuseable because it only works with the onboard distortions, if not then it just sounds like something is wrong with you amp if you use it with your own distortion, and the uni-v is a classic ruined by Boss. I bought the V-wah thinking it would be pretty good, but I was wrong, I made sure I sold it and bought the 535Q which is 10 times better than your average wah pedal and 10 times better than any wah that is out. I just about never give out 10's for a review, but this pedal deserves it more than any pedal I have, or at least is one of the best pedals out of the huge lot I have.

More set-up than I was used to, but fiddle with it you'll land a sound.

Manual was pretty helpful and nicely written.

I know a number of guys who have had issues with picking up radio stations etc with this pedal. I'll have to say that I've never had anything but the signal I wanted come from this thing both with battery and wall power. I'll have to attribute that to my sexy cables. Allesandro's cables are where it's at. Check 'em out.

Anyway, the wah does exactly what I need, it gives me a little more dirt for some nasty distortion and some squeel for big solos. I can't complain. The pedal doesn't color my tone at all when off... which is nice.

I don't gig with a backup and I've had this thing out weekly for 2 years. I do depend on it.

n/a

Although the pedal has never failed I don't like the build quality. The knobs and boost switch feel cheap to me. Also, the entire bottom plate of my pedal is pulling off. Not cool, but the thing still sounds good. A LED that tells you that the pedal is "on" would be nice.

If it were stolen I'd get a new one for sure.

Wahs are pretty easy to use. Duh. It just takes a while to find the perfect sound you want.

It ahas an awsome sound. I play mostly thrash metal Like Metallica, Pantera, and Megadeth. It serves its purpose. I love the sound I get when i bust out on a solo. It deserves a 10!

It is very dependabel. Moreso than a lot of my other stompboxes that have taken a beating in the past. I STOMP on my stompboxes. The wah has yet to fail me. If it gets lost or broken I would definately replace it. It gets a 9.

Never needed it yet.

As I already said, I play thrash metal and it does a good job. I would recomend it to others who wih to play this style. The only way you can get any better is a rackmount wah.

Easy to use but since it has different setting it's not just simply "plug in and go". But all settings sound fine and have their use, so you can't really go wrong.

Very smooth I'd say. Possibly the best sounding wah I've tried so far, and I have owned a Budda (which I thought was very smooth at the time). I'm giving it a 10 cause I have yet to hear something better.

Haven't had it long enough to know. Should be alright though.

No idea.

I don't use wah a lot but when I use it it's in conjunction with a clena tone and slide, so the wah needs to be smooth.

It's cool when a wahwah pedal can adjust to the custom tone and response you want. I cannot imagine any use for the thinner, "whicka-whicka" sounding settings, but at the opposite end of the spectrum I found some sweet, satisfying sounds when the pedal actually said "Wah." Nice! So why a lukewarm rating of 5 in this category? Because, set up as-is from the factory, the switching button under the toe of the rocker is too low, requiring a concerted shift of body weight to mash it far enough down to switch on/off, especially on anything softer than a hard tile floor. True, it's an easy adjustment to make with a small wrench, but Jim Dunlop or someone in his employ should maybe take care of that so it operates like a wahwah pedal when it leaves the factory. One of the rubber cushions has already fallen off, probably from all the force needed to switch the device on and off. For $129 retail I dislike having to "guess and test" to see if my stomp was hard enough, or not.

My gear (Fender, Gibson, various tube amps, etc.), and music (classic rock and blues) are irrelevant since my gripes would remain if I played polkas on an electric zither. As stated above, the tones are sweet and musical once you experiment around and dial in the sound you want, IF you can overlook loud unshielded radio noise. I compared with different guitars, cables, amps and my trusty old Crybaby GCB-95 (circa 1985 or so). Tried wall and 9v battery power as well - same noise. The brand new Crybaby 535Q was the only thing causing that problem. It's not too bad with the wah off, or backed off to the bass end of the throw. But pushing down to the treble end raised the volume of the radio interference noticeably. It ruins anything good the pedal might otherwise do. It would sound like a 9 if the obnoxious interference didn't knock it down to 1, so I'll split the difference and call it a generous 5.

So at practice last night, back from a drain/fill break (guitar volume off - amp on to stay hot), the rig was silent. I checked the guitar, the amp, the knobs, the pickups, cords all the way in - swapped everything out - nothing! Finally, it occurred that I should cycle the crappy new pedal once, and I was back on! I don't recall anything in the directions saying the pedal has a secret silent function until you wag it around in desperation after nothing else works. I'd be FURIOUS if that lame shit happened on stage! It's hard to rate this numerically on a one-time failure (so far), so I won't.

I've had no dealings with Dunlop. But you can bet this turd and the receipt are headed right back to "Guitarget" before 30 days are up! THEY can settle it with Dunlop (if they don't just trot it back out onto the sales floor).

I'm really disappointed with this pedal. My other Crybaby has been reliable for nearly 20 years with a rebuild a few years ago to replace a worn, scratchy pot (typical when they get old). But it had no DC plug and it buzzed when I tried to power it that way, so I bought this new one to add to a transformer powered pedal board. It does THAT, but the noisy operation, surprise failure, and ridiculous effort to turn it on and off (maybe), render it useless for playing live music. Verdict? I'll just keep feeding the occasional battery to my old one and maybe take a shot at "upgrading" again in 20 more years with a thorough 29-day test drive. I'm sad it didn't work.

Q knob, volume, sweep and boost button. Oh, yeah, the foot-sized switch itself. It definitely takes a little fiddling around with this pedal to get a sound you like, but it is worth it. I don't use mine much when I play, mostly just for vaguely psychadelic sounds or quacking or rhythmic, percussive slashing. I sometime leave it on in stationary positon too. A wah is a little different from other effects in that you do have to practise with it a little to get it to sound good. A good wah player is a little rare. But I digress, very easy to use in general. I do wish it had an LED though.

Sounds fine to me. As I said before, I mostly use it to make myself sound more spacey, or to make my funk a little more rhythmic. I also sometimes leave it on in stationary, but not much. Anyway, this thing can do all kinds of different sounds, from Cantrell to Hendrix to Hammet to Funky stuff. I like it. I used to have an original Crybaby, but it had almost no sound, no sweep and caused much hiss. Chief Big Kookamunga no like. But I don't have any such problem with this puppy. Plus, it doesn't suck your tone like an unmodded vox wah does, not quite as sweet as the vox though.

Never had a problem with it. My old wah, an original Crybaby was a POS, it never worked this thing is a tank, and the battery is easy to change too.

Never dealt with them.

A very good versatile wah wah. Oh yeah, BTW my rig is MIJ 89' std strat w/EMG DG-20 -> Boss DD-2 -> Johnson 50's tremolo -> 535q -> Trace elliot super tramp w/ BBE 362 sonic maximizer in the effects loop. A decent college budget rig, suitable for jamming with friends and recording, in other words, me. Anyway, I like this thing, it suits my needs, even though they are not many. I would definitely recommend it.

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Very easy to use. On/Off with your foot ... Turn some pots to change your tone and that it!

My setup is a old 1966 Fender BLACK-FACE PRINCETON Reverb. Fender CUSTOM Shop Telecaster (Classic player) and a old Epiphone Riviera with two seymour 59 pickup. TONEBONE classic pedal and a Tech 21 GT2.

The q535 have a very good tone and action but I had to fix some thing before with the pedal ... I found that the sound changes only when when the pedal was half press. It was bass bass bass and it the end a little bit of trebel. So what I did is I open the pedal and unscrew one screw (the white plastic thing) and I turn the master pot about 1/4 of a turn in the high frequency (hope you understand my poor explanation). Wow!! now it have a nice and graduel Wha effect. I still prefer the VOX tone but the q535 is true bypass.

Very solid

Nice pedal with lots of options to adjuste your tone. True bypass so when it off, it off. It is the true bypass that make me buy it. Like I said, I prefer the VOX tone but the VOX suck your tone like crasy when it is off!!
It is bad that I had to open the pedal the fix the tone .. but it is used so I don't know if it was like that new.

Wah's are extremely easy to use, and as far as plug and play is concerned, this pedal is no different.

Getting a good sound is no problem, and tweaking the dials is great fun.

The manual was very helpful, and explains exactly what each dial does and how to get a good sound.

The three three dials can be a bit daunting at first, but it's worth the extra work. =)

Incredible range of sounds. Very easy to mimick the sound of just about any wah pedal out there, and creating your own unique wah sound is a piece of cake as well.

Beautiful tone from this pedal, with distortion, just clean, using other pedals, etc.

I especially like increasing the Q and the width to get some extreme wah sounds.

I play a G&L ASAT Classic into a Laney tube head and 4x10 cab. This thing wails.

Tough as nails, except the little red switch that gives you the boost. Mine got a little bent I think and it comes unclicked on its own sometimes. Haven't looked into getting it fixed, I'll probably just bend it back with some pliers.

Otherwise, very reliable. I gig without a backup.

Haven't dealt with them yet.

Amazing pedal. I tended to use to soo much when I first got it, and I still use it a lot, just not as much.

Great versatile wah that blows most wahs out of the water.

I have the new version of this wah with the knobs on the side and it only takes one 9V batt now. Just like any other pedal its not rocket science so if youre going to invest money in an effect pedal you better have the patience to sit down and learn how to use it. The first couple settings on the Q knob arent too different but when adjusting the other knobs there is a difference.

jackson/charvel model 2 or a epiphone vintage g400 or a fender strat into 535Q into Jacques handmade mercer box into ts808 tubescreamer into small clone chorus, into homemade compressor pedal... i use many different amps and it sounds good on all of them, but im suprised how good it sounds on my small Peavy practice amp in my bedroom. Very responsive and can nail just about any wah sound out there. Two very important tone controls people dont usually mess with are the volume knob on your guitar and the tone knobs on your guitar.. Well this wah preserves your picking dynamics and the tone of your guitar while still applying the wah effect. Getting a 9 though because nothing is perfect.

Built like a rock as all crybabys are. I wouldnt kick the knobs on the side and i wouldnt jump up and down with it, but ive gigged with is several times and im usually pretty gentle with my pedals anyway and it hasnt failed me yet.

never dealt witht hem

ive tried lots of wahs and i think this is one of the best out there. I was torn between buying the jimi hendrix wah or this one, but i realized after using them both that i could get the hendrix sound with my mercer box (www.ts808.com) and the 535Q and i didnt need the built in fuzz. I play mostly classic rock or blues and it nails it perfectly. Great to use on solos and for those times when i want a little funk sound its right there with me.

The wah takes a little tinkering with to get your groove on. Read the directions to understand what everything does. Once you dial in the sound, get up and ROCK!!!!!

I use a Les Paul (Joe Perry Bone Yard, 1958 Reissue or Telecaster)-->Dunlop 535Q---Analogman KOT--->Fulltone ChoralFlange-->MEsaRectoverb50-->Mesa boogie 2X23 Vertical Cab

Dude, I A/B'd this with a fulltone. The Fulltone sounds slightly better. Is it 110.00$$$ better, NO. I've been playing for 6 yrs and know tone. I like aerosmith, GNR, The Darkness, SRV, Bon Jovi, Metallica, CREED, Alice in Chains, GODSMACK,the STONES etc. Its all in there. you will not be dissapointed.

I use a Les Paul (Joe Perry Bone Yard, 1958 Reissue or Telecaster)-->Dunlop 535Q---Analogman KOT--->Fulltone ChoralFlange-->MEsaRectoverb50-->Mesa boogie 2X23 Vertical Cab

The boost the sustain, the wah, its so cool. Its and invaluable tool. truely Needs to be in everyone's arsonal. Learn to use it though, its so much more than a hendirx wah.

The wah is true bypass. I do not loose any signal when off. When on, a little noisy, but I am also being ridicuously picky. Its gets the tone that I want, and its the tone that suits me. That is what I wanted.

I have not had any problems. I have read issues with these and asked the clerk when I bought it. I was told ither these work or they don't. Mine works, and it rocks.

They are pretty bad. It took me 3 days to confirm that this pedal was true bypass.

Boost, Sustain, Wah.

Listen, I really wanted to buy a fulltone, I really DID. However, to be dilligent and fair, I tested both of them. Yes the fulltone is SLIGHTLY better, but is it twice as good. I didn't think so and I have invested money where appropriate in my gear (See above). I am not afraid to spend the bling bling where appropriate, but I honestly could not justify it here.

You will read reviews saying the opposite of what I am writing here, but I m being honest. Don't get caught up in the gear hype and constantly buy new stuff. I want to buy the best bangs for the bucks, and get quality. This is truely a great combination. Gotta have one. i suggest buying it new as E-bay, although cheeper, will not protect you against a defective unit. So spend the bling bling and do it right.

I rarely give 10's but Cannot argue this baby..... This Cry Baby 535Q that is!!!!!!!!!

The 535Q's ease of use is not an open and shut issue. The wah has so much wide variety of adjustment it takes a while to zero in on the one special sound you like. I got it used and didn't get a manuel; but when I try to download the manuel from the Dunlop website it doesnt work.

You can get any sound you need from this 535Q. The versatility of this thing has got make it the most versatile wah on the market. The boost is a comfort to me. My original cry baby was losing volume when activated; I no longer have to worry about that anymore. The Q sweep is great, Using it with slow movement I get otherworldly sounds. Its cool.

This 535Q is much more wah than you need. In other words with the high setting with the outside knob; and with the Q wide open it wahs in your face!! The boost wide open would probably cause an explosion. So, for he best sound one has to back off the settings or it is overwhelming. It is pro quality. I definitely would replace it if lost
stolen etc; Mine has the 2 knobs on the bottom. The new ones on the side is the right choice.

Fairly easy to use the various knobs.

I thought this pedal sounded really good. It's nice to have a wah pedal that you can adjust to find the exact sound you want.

The input for the adapter was not centered with the hole in the metal case so I couldn't use it. It was offset - very lame. Also, the pedal would without fail, every time I stepped on it, mute my entire signal and I would have to step on it again to hear anything - if I ever go all the way forward, as soon as I touch the switch it mutes again.

I emailed Dunlop about the above-mentioned problems and they did not even respond.

I guess I'll try a Vox...

The manual helps a lot to dial in your sound, especially since they changed this pedal and now it's a bit more complicated to dial in your sound.

Sound quality depends on your setup, the sound you are looking for, and the settings you dial up on the pedal. Since I only play heavy metal, I can't get a real high-gain 'wah' sound unless the mini-Q dial is all the way clockwise (highest setting) and the big selector knob is all the way counterclockwise (highest setting). I leave the volume boost all the way down, I don't want a volume jump when I turn the pedal on (I'm usually already at lead volume by that time with a MXR Micro Amp boost). Also, this pedal sounds much better BEFORE a metal distortion pedal. You can try it the other way but it sounded awful when I tried it.

Depends on how you use/abuse it. I had a previous version of this pedal, all it had was the big Q knob on the side and the volume boost switch. The pot got dirty/scratchy after a while, the thing just got old I think, so I scrapped it for a new one. I had the old one for nearly 9 years before retiring it.

I don't know if anyone mentioned this in the other reviews, but the new version of this pedal is missing the LEDs on the front that tell you when the volume boost is on and when the wah is on/off. I liked to be able to see the light and know if I had properly switched it off after a lead. There's nothing like being on stage, stepping on your wah and playing, then stepping on it again to turn it off and not really knowing if its off unless you try rocking it again. It's a bit discomforting. Why did they take the LEDs off? Also, the mini volume boost and Q-control knobs are very small and on the left side of the pedal. You might need a fingernail to turn the knobs, this is a little frustrating sometimes. Otherwise this is a quality product. If you are looking for a versatile wah that can create different tones (maybe you're in a rock cover band?), this is a decent choice.

Easy to get a sound? Duh, versatility is the game here.
All settings sound good, it's a matter of which one fits with your taste. Of course it's not as easy as a on-trick wah, but what kind of fool can't figure out a single dial switch plus some volume/gain switches.

It sounds excellent. Vox's quality is equal and different. If you like the Vox sound get the vox. If you like this sound get this, It's really that simple. Now that we got that out of the way I'm just gonna stress this once more: It sounds excellent! Agressive sweeping wah's or warm little hardly-any-influence wah, it's all in here and for some suprisingly satisfying reason, they sound fantastic. But for that price, they better. Excellent choice for any musical style between 80's and now.

One of the latest. The revised reliability issues seem to work out. Fixing the reliability issue made it the perfect wah for me. I a good know wah when I hear it. It's "that" sound for me.

Not dealt with.

I play anything from pink floyd to dream theater to metallica and all the less known bands in between. It's a perfect match! The versatility makes it even more beautiful. Go get one! Let's just hope these will last.

First of all, like most of people says, it's an excellent crybaby, i would say it's the best crybaby on the market besides Dimebag Wah. It's really easy to use, the Boost button gives an excellent punch in solo's that no other wah's are capable.

I gave a 9 because this wah gives me everything i needed. I can play some Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Pantera, Black Label Society etc, with this pedal. I've been playing for several years, and i own a Gibson SG, Fender Stratocaster American Deluxe, Ibanez 350DX (350DX, peace of shit, never ever buy that crap). I have a Fender Frontman 25R (soon I'm getting a Marshall Full Stack with JCM 2000) The pedal always sound great, from low Q to High Q, its perfect.

Yes, i can depend on it, everytime i play my metallica solo's (enter sandman, one, wherever i may roam etc.), it always works. But if you ask me if i can use it without backup, it'S not the best guy to ask, I'm currently not in a band. Looking forward, but not yet.

Don't ask, me, never had any problemes before, so I never had the chance to deal with the company. But I hear ther're pretty good with custmoers so I,ll say 8 for now.

I play pretty much Metal and some Rock and Classic Rock like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd but they're not really Crybaby players.If this item would be stolen or lost, first, I would beet the hell out of him, but if its really stolen, i would definetly buy another one, exactly the same 535Q. My favorite feature is definetly the Boost that can be controlled by the High and Low Q. And i tried several wahs like Boss, Morley, and compared to Dunlop, boss and morley are peace of sh*t.

It's a wah, but there's a rotary knob and two internal knobx, for boost and amount of color to the effect, so I'll say an 8.

My rig is as follows, B-bender teles, into 535 wah, akai inteliphase, boss od3, fulltone fulldrive, visual sound route 66, bbe sonic maxumizer, ibanez dd100, digitech res1900, lexicon lxp1, and a boomerang, all into a mesa mark III combo. This pedal is a great bargain for the money! I use it in the first or second rotary position, which is a more trebelly wah than most, but it really cuts through the mix on clean funk stuff. My band plays a mixture of fusion, funk and jam rock, and I enjoy having a different wah easily accessible with the turn of a knob. I also like the fact that it's true bypass, like almost all of my pedals are. I think it far outdoes the vox wahs, even with the bypass mod. The only one that it can't touch is the budda, but, with the budda, you get one wah sound, not six!

Like all wahs, it's pretty reliable, but be carefull, and treat your pedals with care anyway.

Overall, a great pedal for the money, and well suited for most styles of music. I don't do the rock thing, but I think it would work for that too. I think it's one of the best wahs for clean stuff on the market.

This thing is pretty straightforward to setup for sound. There is a silver knob on the right to adjust the sweep, two _very_ small knobs on the left - one for volume and the other for the Q (contour) of the wah - and a small pop-out switch in the back on the right to give it more gain.

First of all, the volume and Q knobs are way too small and neither are marked, so you have to refer to the owners manual. Wait, mine _didn't_ come with an owners manual. I had to download it from the website. Also, the gain switch is also small and is a little unnatural to hit to fire it up. Other than that, everything seems okay.

First of all, the different sweeps are hardly noticable from one to the next adjacent one. There is a noticable difference between the first and the last, but cranking it one notch up doesn't present a noticable difference in sound. Also, the more limited wah sweep settings sound like crap. Only the wider settings sound good to my ears.

Second of all, it loads the signal just like every Dunlop or Vox wah pedal does. When you kick on your wah while you're running distortion, the volume of the wah is terribly diminished and it doesn't sound so sweet. Kick off the distortion and the wah is very noticable and more sweet sounding. The more gain you run, the worse the wah sounds.

The countour, or Q, is nice. You can set it to gradually sweep the wah, or have a more immediate effect in the middle of the sweep. This helps if you don't like to absolutely go from one end to the other on the pedal to get the full range of the wah sweep. You can move it something less and get the full effect.

It strikes me funny that the setting the manual recommends for that "Hendrix setting" uses the widest sweep possible. It's been well documented that Roger Mayer modified Hendrix's wahs to limit the sweep range.

I guess you get what you pay for. Teese wahs are highly recommended, but they cost an arm and a leg. I bought this wah based upon limited financial resources and glowing reviews. However, i'm somewhat disappointed in the sound.

The thing is built like a brick house with the exception of the gain switch. I could see it getting broken off, though it hasn't happened yet.

Don't know...

This wah will do, if you don't run lots of gain and don't care about signal loading, but if you're particular about your tone, look elsewhere.

its really simple to get the tone or tones ur looking for out of this pedal cuz it comes with settings in the manual.

This pedal sounds great. Whether your trying to play hendrix or hammet it sounds awesome. All the intensity, volume, q control can change the everything of the wahs sound to fit your style of playing.

You could shoot, drop, swim with, or jump on this pedal and it would still sound great. The metal is solid and the rubber is non slippery so u wont fall or hit it at the wrong time.

Didnt need to

I play blusey rock and classical rock and this works for blues or anything. I play a 99' strat through a peavey 212 and it sounds great. I hope noone would steal this cuz id hunt em down and steal it back cuz its just that good.This pedal is the best crybaby probably and my favorite wah, way better than vox.

It has many features. A big fat silve dial for wah intensity. A red knob you push in to basically overdrive the sound. And two knobs for volume and like..even more wah intensity.

When you first get it you think "what the fuck?" because it's harder than you'd think. Thats if it's your first wah. After a little tweaking and playing..you get used to it. Play VoodooChile by Hendrix to get used to this baby.

The sound is good. Even after a lot of tweakig...there's not much difference. The only thing that really changes is the intensity and like how much wah. Short or long wah can be chosen. ex. "Wah" or "WAAAAAH" hahaha yea tried to explain it a little better.

You can pretyt much play any song with a wah in it with this. If your amp has weak distortion like mine..its hard to get some of those distorted wah solos like Enter Sandman.

One complaint. On distortion..the wah intensity dissapears. So..you need to like turn up the Q dial(silver) and like turn up the wah intensity for distortion. Also turn up the volume knob.

But Be careful! WHen you switch back to clean channel it's so FUCKING loud! So..even though it may seem quiet on distortion..the clean channel is so much different. The wah sound comes out more and the volume knob really affects it.

I dunno..it would have been better if the clean and distorted channels sounded the same..but they dont. Just make sure that you know tha the clean channel is much louder and more sensitive.

made of hard ass metal. THe pedal has niced grippy rubber so your feet don't slip. the knobs are durable too.

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www.musiciansfriend.com is where i got it. Good deal. I bought it blindly without trying any other wahs. I'm satisfied. It's a great pedal that you can manipulate to get many types of wah sounds...i guess.

If you want to add a kickass sound to your solos..give one of these a try.

In comparison to my modded (true by-pass) Crybaby it was more difficult to use, however with a little tweaking of the knobs a variety of classic and modern wah tones was available. However having to do this was a bit annoying after becoming accustomed to a standard "plug in and play" type of wah over the years

The sounds you could get from this wah were excellent, you could dial up the trebel heavy hendrix sound for a few song and then with a turn of a few knobs have that midrange heavey Micheal Schenker tone which was my favorite. The wah tends to get buried a tad with heavier distortion, however the boost feature helps that alot. Overall I really enjoyed the sounds you could get from this wah, the reason I bough it was to expand on the std Crybaby theme and for that it was wonderful. the only minor complaint was with the sweep, it wasn't very gradual at all, it was very extreme. O nce you learnd to control it, it was fine. at first though it was difficult to get used to

This is where my problem lies with this wah. I bought my first one a year ago from Guitar Center, it just stopped working after about two weeks of practice. My second one worked fine for about 6 months and then during somehting shorted and it turned itself into a volume pedal without a wah and by the time I got it home to look at it, it had completely stopped working. So after that I said screw Guitar
Center and ordered on from American Music. Well after about 3 months i did the same thing during a band rehearsal three days before a gig. So my Modded crybaby went back on the board and the 535 Q went in the trash. The things look very delicate on the inside, more like a computer than a effects pedal. Everything is mounted directly to the cicuit board which makes me a tad nervous. As many a I have went through you would think I abuse the shit out of them, I do use them several times a week but they are always securely mounted on a Custom Pedal board with a built in power supply which is always stored in a ATA style road case.

I emailed there teh department and customer service dept. after my third one had quit and I haven't received a replay after almost three weeks. Hell I wouldn't mind getting it fixed and maybe having it around for studio use but never a steady gig.

I like the sounds and the versitility in this thing however I'm unsure of it's reliability. Maybe it's just a freak accident however, it seems very unlikely for one person to get three bad wah pedals in a row, especially when I had used my stock crybaby for years before this, it just has to be a reliability issue. For the money I would by a stad crybaby and mod it to true bypass and if you want there are tons of schematics to tailor the sweep and Q of your wah to your liking, if you want to know how to do it just send me an email and I'll share the details. This would cover about 80% of a wah users needs anyways and the stock ones (especialy the older ones with wired jacks) seems to be much more reliable. I must mention that the other day knowing what problems I had been having with wah's went to guitar center and came home with a Mark Tremonti Power Wah by Morley. I had always been pretty skeptical of these but after messing around with it, it's not a bad wah. I'll write a review in a few month after I can use it for a few gigs and judge its reliability.

very easy, im just having problems to the sound im looking for

i use epiphone les poul-->big muff us-->rocktron "rampage"-->535q-->marshall vt1-->boss ce20-->akai headrush-->mixer\amp.
sounds great, better for clean than distortion (maybe i cant adjust it well) great buttens. the BEST ONE FOR ITS PRICE AND GENERALY.
and thanks god IT HAS TRUE BYPASS like a most my pedals (exept akai and boss). as a player and as a sound man and as someone who plugs it to sinths and many more and as sound quality maniac without much money i truly recomand.

its new... time will say... looks like a tank.

BUT IT. dont think, dont wonder, trust me and go buy it

Pretty simple and straight forward. If you can turn a knob and move your foot back and forth you should be able to get the hang of it. A large frequency knob on the right and two smaller controls that allow you to adjust the boost volume (small button on right side of pedal) and the intensity of wahh. I would have prefered the intensity to be the larger knob since that is what I adjust most often, but I really haven't lost a lot of sleep over it. I'm giving it a 9 for some people that don't like a lot of knobs on their wah pedals.

You know, I was about to order an original Crybaby, but after reading so many dreadful reviews, I stayed away. Then I was going to get the Vox as I've heard good things about that, but then I also understand there is quite a tone and volume loss when the pedal is not in use, so I opted to keep on researching. My wah useage does not justify me spending over $200.00 on a Fulltone Clyde Wah, even though I thoroughly love Fulltone products. Then I thought about auto wah pedals, but shyed away because that seemed a little too cheesy, so I started reading up on the 535Q, and after reading many satisfying postings on here, I decided to give it a shot. I believe I can fall into the majority of reviewers here. It's a nice pedal. It's actually better than nice. It's a great pedal. And best of all, it's fairly reasonable. The pedal does and sounds like it is advertised. You can easily adjust the frequency to your guitar and amps liking. I also like the hard/soft wah control that enables you to dial in the exact amount of wah intensity you want. this way you can have subtle or hard depending on what sound you are after. The boost is nice, but I rarely ever use it. I don't notice any volume loss when the pedal in engaged, and I have plenty of other means of boosting my volume if needed. But, it's still a nice feature as it provides users of this pedal a way of controling just the amount of output they want from their 535Q.

For the money, this is really a nice pedal.

This pedal (along with most MXR and other Dunlop pedals) is well built with steel and rubber. Dunlop says they have further reinforced their pedal for added durability which is always a plus. And, since I don't have the money of Bill Gates, I would gig without a backup. I don't have to have this pedal, but it is cool to throw it in every once in a while.

Never had to deal with them, so I won't comment.

I had a Tech 21 Killer Wail pedal a while back and while it was just okay, it really didn't deserve the price tag Tech 21 sells it for ($129.00 street). Plus, if you wanted to adjust your frequency, you had to flip the damn thing over and select from three choices. The Dunlop has 6, plus the ability to adjust your wah intensity along with a volume knob. And best of all, it's $20.00 less! Actually, and best of all, it sounds better! Plus, the cheaper price tag certainly does not hurt it's standing with me.

Having stayed away from the original crybaby, I don't know if I would have been happy or not. In a way, I hated to pay extra for a pedal I rarely use, but I still feel it's better to be happy with a pedal seldom used and pay a little more for it than it is to never use it because it doesn't sound good. That's throwing money away.

I do think there is a slight volume drop with this pedal in my line up. It is very subtle, but nonetheless it's still something. Pedals are notorious for doing this, so I can live with it until I get a Valvulator becuase it is very subtle at most.

I don't know how this compaires to the Fulltone or other higher end wah pedals. I do know, to me, this sounds better than the killer Wail pedal I owned and overall, it works for what I want to use it for, so I am happy with it. If you are looking for a wah pedal and don't know where to start, then you should give this a try along with any other ones you are considering if at all possible. Decide what you are going to use your pedal for and then A/B it with as many pedals as you can. That's another plus about the 535Q because this pedal gives you the ability to use it for more than just one style or type of music. Many other pedals don't, so keep that in mind.

Well it isint really complicated, you got three knobs, a big silver one for changing tone, and two really litlle ones on the left side( i dont know about yours but my has the q and boost knobs on the side)so i dont complain abot the knobs being on the bottom because in my 535Qthe knobs are all on the sides and besides taht it only uses one baterry not two.and there is also a red ything on the side and you push it if you want boost, the manual also is very simple and comes with some presets.

well im left handed so i cant be picky , i use a modified squier strat with a dimarzzio pickup, i dont live in USA and thats the best i could get, then to my 535Q, and to a korg ax100g to zoom distortion,, into a small crate amp, or a small peavey amp, the sounds you can get with this things are incredible whatever wah that suits your needs, and besides that is analog, it isint digital !
and as i said mine has the little knobs on the side and only uses one batery so its great.

i have play live and its beautifull, sometimes you got to be careful with the boost knob because if its ti high it starts picking radio signals, bat thats about it ,, the on/off swith its an ease, i use to have this pedal i dont remember but the on/off swith was really hard you really need to steo harder and i hated that ,, but in this wah the step is so easy its perfect!!

never dealt with them so i dont know,, but i got to congratulate them for making this pedal

wall i play anithing from rock, to blues, from metal to flamenco to ska, and this wah has it all, you can even use it to control feedback, its incredible, if stolen i would run to the nearest store and bought a new one and then go and hit with it the guy who stole it , because this pedals are really hard so he would be K.O.

very easy to use. no changes done to it. there is a manual but not very useful, and you shouldnt need a manual to use it.

it sounds good. not very useful obviously alone, but great when using effects. i play blues and is a great pedal for blues. i use it through a full marshall stack with a bluesbreaker pedal, and an overdrive pedal also a cream-tone pedal.

HORRIBLE RELIABILITY!!! I WOULD NEVER GIG WITHOUT A BACKUP. AS A MATTER OF FACT I WAS PLAYING AT RIBFEST IN NAPERVILLE, IL AND IT STOPED WORKING IN THE MIDDLE OF MY SET!!! AND I HAD REPLACED THE BATTERY JUST BEFORE I WENT ON. SO I HAD TO QUICKLY CHANGE WAH PEDALS ON STAGE. NOT GOOD AT ALL. IM GLAD I HAD A BACKUP OR I WOULD OF LOOKED PRETTY STUPID INFRONT OF A FEW HUNDRED PEOPLE. SO I WOULD NEVER GIG WITHOUT A BACKUP. I ENDED UP SENDING IT BACK IN AND GETTING IT FIXED BECAUSE THE WIRING WAS SCREWED UP AND IT TOOK 5 WEEKS TO GET IT BACK.

NOT VERY GOOD COSTOMER SUPPORT, IT BROKE AND IT TOOK THEM 5 WEEKS TO GET IT BACK TO ME. IT JUST HAD SOME SCREWED UP WIRING WHICH SHOULD OF TAKEN HALF AS LONG TO FIX. I DONT KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING BUT NOT GOOD.

i wouldnt tell anyone to buy this pedal just because of my expierence with it on stage where i needed it to work the most it let me down. i had recorded with it on a number of occasions. but it let me down at the worst possible time.

It's a Wah you step on it an your off to the races. Just to make it clear that I have the copper 535Q that uses 2 9volts and has the Q and Boost on the bottom of the pedal. I say this because I have found a few different 535Q Wahs out there. I have no idea if each one sounds the same or not. I give it an 8 only because of the Q and Boost being on the bottom of the pedal. If you change guitars you'll want to change the settings and thats not fun when your Wah is stuck to a pedal board and you have to get to the underside of it.

Curently I am running a modded Bassman and a Showman with my main giutar being a CNTarasi and the others being a Les Paul and a Strat. It is not real noisy but then I would expect a little noise form any wah. You can set this thing up to sound like other wahs but I have found that I like the the Q a little lower than the Peter Frampton setting and the boost set for the guitar that I am playing. With CNTarasi guitar the boost is all of the way off cause that guitar is real ballsey to begin with. The Wah sounds great with that guitar as well I think just because the CNTarasi sounds so good to begin with. I need the boost up a bit more with the Les Paul and even more with the strat. But thats what the boost is for and it works very well even though is hard to get to the control. I have owned a few wahs in the past and my VOX had too much top end and the Dunlop Hendrix had too little top end. This wah really lets you set it where you like it and it is flexible depending on what guitar you are using. So that is what the Q is for and it works great as well. Now the six position knob on the side ( I cant recall what Dunlop calls it but it is just the old gibson Vari-tone ) works well to take the edge off the Wah. It seems that teh Q and the 6 position switch are just the Gibson Vari-tone in a wah and not a guitar. If its not the same thing its close, either way its is used very well in the wah. Over all it sounds great with a lot of different guitars but best with the CNTarasi and next the Strat. I love it.

I haven't had any problems with this one yet but since I have owned and broken many a wah wah in the past I don't expect this one to be any different. I will give it a 5 but not because of this wah but because it seems that wahs just break down a lot. I will say that if this one broke I would try hard to repair it.

I never talked with them. I have had some of their wah's break before but the wah's were so beat up and never sounded exactly how I wanted I just bought a new one. Again with this wah if it breakes I will be calling to repair it cause it does sound the way I want it to.

I play rock and blues. It is a great match. I have been playing for 18 years. I have it first in my chain after my CNTarasi guitar followed by a Tube Screamer, Expandora 2, Volume Pedal (made it myself out of a broken Dunlop wah), MXR phase 90 (old script model), Digitech Whamay pedal (the first/good one), Digitech reverb pedal into a Modded Bassman or a Showman. If it were stolen or lost I would get the exact same pedal as a repalcement. I love the way it sounds! I hate the Q and the Boost being on the bottom of the pedal and the need for 2 9volts kinda stinks too. I like to Q and 6 position switch (vari-tone) becasue I am able to tune it to sound how I want it to. I tested it against a Fulltone Clyde and it blew the Clyde away. I was going to buy a Teese (never actually heard one before) but since it looked comparible in reviews to the Clyde here at Harmony Central (the best site in the world)I thought I would go with the 535Q because it was so much better sounding than the Clyde. I wish the Q and Boost were on the side of the pedal. It is a great pedal and is really fun to play. I hope it lasts longer than my other Dunlop wahs did.

Q-control (amount of band-width boosted w/expression pedal) and gain control on the underside, Range on the right side (the knob is a tele-style control knob). On/off switch under the expression pedal. It takes some time to dial in a good setting, but once it's there this wah does it's job. The selector on the side is nice so that it's possible to get rid of that characteristic Crybaby squeal in the high frequencies.

Used with a Danelectro 56-U2, Gibson Les Paul, custom Tele, Peavey Rage 158, Marshall JCM 900, Fender Blues DeVille and Deluxe. No noise (except when the gain is cranked). Nice Jimi-style sweep, great Zappa "honk," cool Stevie breath, even some Zakk Wylde scream. Nice for getting help w/pinch harmonics.

The on/bypass switch under the rocker came loose after about two years and began muting the sound when the expression pedal touched it, also created some real nasty microphonic feedback at high gain/volume levels. That was sort of annoying (not to mention painful). Also, one of the caps burned out after about a year. Otherwise, this baby's built like a tank. It weighs about a pound. I have no problem gigging w/out a backup.

never dealt w/Dunlop.

Good for Blues, Hard Rock, Metal, Funk. Playing since 1998-9. I think if I had it to do again I'd go for a Vox wah, which has a nicer sound, but this wah certainly gets the versatility prize. The dial on the right side is a nice way of controlling the screech of the highs.

Easy to tweak and dial in your sound.

Sounds good. Has gain boost, and Q control as well as 6 position sweep range selector which make it able to get just about any wah sound. No tone suck. I play metal and it works great. It's a good production wah.

It's dependable. I had one problem with it after a year, the coil went bad. Was covered under the one year warranty and they fixed it, put a new bottom plate, made a few adjustments, looked and sounded like a brand new wah when I got it back.

very helpful. like I said after repaired I thought they sent me a new wah.

I play metal and it works good. Compared it to the Teese RMC-1 back to back and the 535q blew it away. Made the RMC-1 sound like a wimpy, overpriced hunk of crap. I thought the RMC-1 was broken or something it sucked.

I use a parker P44 with a pearly gates humbucker into a DOD EQ->CRY BABY 535Q->MORLEY AB SWITCH. the first output of the morley, (A) runs into a RANDALL RG100SC combo for Cleans. (B) runs into a PEAVEY 5150 II which goes to a MARSHALL 1960A cab. I find that i get better sound when running the wah in front of distortion (plus this allows me to run the wah into two amps). I love the sound of this wah. I don't see what more anyone could ask for. The Q dial gives a large variety of wah frequencies, and the volume boost works excellently. Many artists use this pedal, so y would it be bad? it is rather warm for a wah (especially when in the lower frequencies). I believe it has a true bypass because i can hear no coloration of my tone, and i'm very anal about tone. Digital wahs are all garbage, stick with the analog path.

looks pretty sturdy

What can you say that hasn't already been said. It's just a Wah pedal.
One thing I can say, the picture on this site doesn't show the button on the side for gain boost.
This is my fifth Wah pedal in my life, third Dunlop Crybaby.
My first Donlop crybaby had a gain switch but it was on the front of the pedal just beyond the rocking pedal. It was easy to accidently hi it and there was no light to indicate that you had activated it. Now the new version has a button on the side and a red light to let you know it's on. "It also has a green indicator light for wah on/off status.

This is by far the best pedal for any price. I've heard tell that the budda wah is better/more musical, but have yet to hear one and they cost a bit more.
The Morley wahs I have owned were not bad but the Dunlop blows them away. Esp. the ones that are activated by pushing forward, they are hard to control. Hands down, Dunlop rules the Wah market. Good guitar picks, too! But that is all I use by them.

You can put these babies through hell! They keep on working. The pot may wear out after a while (10,000 rockings) but they are easy to replace.
Without a back up? Of course.

Olny problem I've had is, the adapters are sold separately. My local music store won't carry them because the company offers to sell you one through the mail at a price the music store can't match, (kinda dumb, but that's how they work it) So if you want an adapter, get a money order ready, and don't expect your local dealer to have one in stock.

The daddy of the Wah pedals. You just can't go wrong with this baby.
No matter what style of music you play.
If it were stolen, you'd have to take my entire SKB pedal board because it's nearly impossible to remove it with as much velcro as I put on the thing.
I wish it had a clear plexiglass casing with an internal light show that lit the entire stage, so I didn't have to set up my 16+ par cans every show, but for $130 bucks I guess I'm asking a bit too much.
I'd like to share my cold, it's a doozy!

Couldn't be easier to use.

I had searched for a wah pedal for a long time. My first wah was a regular Dunlop Crybaby. It was okay but had some extra noise I couldn't live with. Then I bought a Teese RMC-1 and was not really very impressed. It was good, but unless the range it has is exactly what the user wants, it is not good enough. I thought the range/frequency at which it opperated was not exactly what I wanted. So I looked at some adjustabel wahs. I thought okay, Fulltone Clyde Deluxe and Teese RMC-2 are adjustable and over $200. Dunlop 535Q is adjustable and $109. So I bought the Dunlop and wow, is it a great wah pedal! I love the adjustability and the sound - doesn't have the unwanted distortion noise that my first Dunlop had. This is the best wah pedal and I will never buy another. No need for the more expensive wahs. I use for soloing, funky clean, anything a wah can be used for and use it in ways most people probably wouldn't. I love wah sound.

My first Dunlop lasted many years with no problems. This one appears just as solid.

I dunno.

Forget any fools below who dis this wah pedal. They don't know how to play and don't know how to do anything. They are incompetent and suck really bad. I know how to play and I know wah pedals - this one is really great. Buy it if you are considering doing so.

i don't even know where to begin. if you just plug and play, it sounds damn good, and the more i screwed with the setting the better it sounded until i got it just the way i want it. even if you're not exactly a tweaker, the manual comes with a ton of settings used by well known guitarists.

this thing is just..... again i don't even know when to start. the boost is something i view as necessary, since some wahs seem to have a volume cut when they switch on, and it eliminates the need for another boost. the wah range is just great, it's pretty self explanatory, you can set it for more treble/bass/whatever, depending on your tastes. what completely sets it apart is the Q control. it pretty much controls how tight/loose the wah is. you can set it low and it sounds very tight and musical, or you can set it high and it sounds like a wild animal (in a very good way). i use it with both the wah and Q set about midway, and the boost set at full. i use it more like a filter, very gradually, not in your stereotypical porno type of way. i couldn't have gotten anything better. whoever you are, however you use a wah, you will find what you're looking for with this.

i use 2 wahs anyway (often in tandem), but neither (both dunlops) have ever done me wrong in any way. the only problem is that my 535Q is one of the older 18V models which require 2 batteries. i didn't know this when i bought it, so i thought it was broken until I opened up the bottom. whoops. but both have been perfect so far

the only way i dealt with them was to get the manual online. their website is excellent as it has all the info you could ask them for on all of their products/product lines (of which dunlop has many). other than that, i have never dealt with them, but they do have an excellent reputation

completely honestly, i can't see anyone who wouldn't use this. it can be totally tight and musical, or wild and loose. even if you are just in a noise band, this thing RULES at controlling feedback (if that makes any sense). if you can't find a use for this thing, something is wrong with you. the only thing i can think that it would benefit from is if it was switchless. but you can't ask for perfection, which it is what it would be if it were switchless. go buy this, you know you want to.

p.s. if anybody knows where i can get this thing modded to be switchless, let me know

it only has like three knobs, which two of which hardly do anything

i must say i was very dissapointed with this pedal, it sounds great clean but when you add distortion its not very good. instead of wah-ing gradually it sounds like its going from bass to treble right away. i wouldnt recommend it for anyone playing metallica godsmack stp... , you know wah users

very well built. metal casing..

wish i could get my money back, but it was a special order.

I don't know about the rest of you guys but when I first got this pedel I didn't really know how to use it. I found it pretty difficult, but once I figuerd out what each button did I was ok.

I'm running mine through a Yamaha EG303 w/ EMG-81 Treble pos, Cry Baby 535Q, Boss DS-1 Distortion, Fender Deluxe 90 w/ Reverb on 7-8. I got to say, I LOVE the sound. Its really amazing. I play Metallica, Megadeth, Ozzy, G'N'R' and it can match it all perfectly. The only reason I even got this pedel is because people said it matched Kirk Hammett's solos perfect, and I got to say it does. But what I really like about it is you can adjust the amount and the pitch of the wah. Its really fun to use. I really love it on clean too because it makes a really cool sound to it. I love this pedel, WAY better then anything else out, if you're looking for a pedel for "Old" Heavy Metal, and well new shit I 'spose, defenitly take a look at this one.

I guess I can rely on it, seems pretty sturdy, only thing is the bottom plate seems a weak.

No Idea

I love this pedel to death, I would defenitly get another one if this got stole or somthing. Wickit pedel, I would recomend it to anyone, no matter what style you play, this is the pedel for you.

Its pretty Simple, you turn the "Q" dial from the original crybaby to other nasty mothaf*ckin Wah Settings. If you dont own one of these puppies, you should hang yourself, because nothing can compare to it!!!

*** Ok here is the dirt... I hate and like on some level that the knobs for boost & Variable settings are underneith the pedal. This makes it fustrating for switching live. But if you get comfortable with a wah setting Like that Oven commercial goes "You Set it and Forget it"

AWESOME, Need I say more... BUY IT YOU IDIOT!!!

BUILT LIKE A FAT MOTHER-IN-LAW!

*** One thing didnt like is that its not pedalboard ready, you have to remove the rubber bottoms, and place at least 2 washers between each screw, there is 4 screws.

Never Had to Deal With them, But Im pretty sure if you did, they wouldnt know what they are talking about.

I play Hardrock, Progressive, Funk, Blues, Experimental Type Music. I use a Hughs and Kettner Halfstack and A Korg AX1500 Processor, and Whammy 4. This thing is a Dream with my setup, couldnt ask for more.

Again, I stress, If you do not own this Pedal, BUY IT!!! F*CK Morley, Dan-Electro, And all the other crappy wahs, this one f*ckin Owns Biatch!

It's a wah! Just mess with the knobs a little bit and start shredding!

There is a little noise from this wah in my guitar rig. But it only comes when it's in the treble boost position. If you know how to use it, then getting great sounds is no problem! Heel down for something real smooth and Slash-sounding, mid-position for some great nasal tones, treble position for some serious sonic damage!

I've had it for 3 and a half years and it's still kickin' some ass. I wouldn't worry about gigging without a backup. Just treat this baby right and she'll do the same for you!

Never dealt with them.

Just buy it and enjoy! I love it and would replace it quicker than any of my other effects.

First things first, i bought the revised wah, this is a far superior wah that answers all the problems the others have stated. The range nob is metal now, not plastic(it doesnt break). The gainboost and "Q"
dial are on the side of the pedal, thus, it is not an issue to change tones quickly. The step on switsch is far superior to the other type(the step on, step off 95 q switch) because you can leave it in a set position. Finding your tone isnt hard if you check the manual real quick.

Some things you have to consider when judging a device that is designed to be flexible like this one is, it is not a conversion pedal, just turning to a setting well not make you sound like a backwards strat through a SLP(super lead plexi) cranked all the way. What it does do is get you close. It gets you you very close, if you use humbuckers, you can get any Page sound, Dream theatre or Hammet. If you got coil splitting or a strat, then you can easily get Hendrix, Vaughn and company. The new version has very little noise and the frequency booster is very noticeable(when left in a position the pedal will aoutomatically boost the signal).The wah sounds so beautiful, it can be very smooth, better than a buddha. Or it can quack if you go guitar-distortion-then wah-to amp. I USE A Nighthawk, epiphone, which is probably the most versatile guitar you could buy, besidess the gibson version, digitech rp-3, and a 25 watt dean amp. Another thing, the low q settings and bass frequencies are not useless, listen to pink floyd, they make great background sounds when used like a volume pedal with chords and multiple notes. With the frequenicy in position 3 or 4 and the Q turned all the way up you can play one mean ass metal solo.

The only thing you have to worry about is the batteries, but this pedal doesnt really eat them. Ive had a battery on there for maybe 20 hours of usse and there still going. Obviously this thing is built like a tank.I would gig without a backup, why not? Hendrix did.

There is no need for them, they dont deen to explain how to work it so why call them, if something needs replacing just by and have your guitar guy install. I have never used them so i cant rate them.

I'll play any style and so will the pedal. Ive been playing about a year and a half, but im damn good, lets just say my guitar buddies call me Jimmy Hendrix junior. I love how great and high quality the sound is. If it were sstolen i would compare it the Jimi Hendrix wah and see which i liked better, but I'd probably choose this one even if it costs more. This pedal is very inspiring to play, you can play the pedal and it doesnt play you.

Dunlop Crybaby 535QC (chrome version of 535Q). It has the volume, Q switch which adjusts the wah and a wah range that can change it from a very dominant and heard wah to a very subltle 'waa'. Press down on it and rock it back and forth and there ya go! Comes with a small manual to tell you everything.

I'm using this with an EB/MM Axis and Line6 Flextone. I honestly bought it because I really like Metallica and a lot of other metal (Megadeth, Slayer, etc.) so I wanted a wah to nail some of Kirks solos. I pretty much use this thing cranked with the settings all the way up and it achieves that sound. Kirks actual wah is Dunlop Crybaby guts in Ernie Ball Volume pedal casing, so I just wanted the genuine sound. This nails it! I can also get a good version of Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) by Jimi Hendrix of course! I love it, sounds great like a wah should.

Only had it a short while but seems dependable.

Dunno.

I love metal and just messin around with this wah with everything and it serves. This should be all you need to know. If you want a wah, BUY THIS!!! With all the knobs n stuff it is the most versatile wah ever! Read the GuitarPlayer issue with the wah shootout. This one won! Anyway, I'm gonna go play it!...

Like almost any pedal, once you get a hang of what all the nuts and bolts do it is should be no problem, I had it in the bag on the first day. The pedal was designed to have a wide tone/sound range so you are going to need some buttons to do so, and dunlop have came up with a great solution for it.

My setup:
Gibson Les Paul > 535Q Wah-wah > Boss MT-2 > Marshall Amp.
In order to get a nice sound out of it all I tuned the 535Q Wah to a more treble/clean sound and then let the distortion pedal take care of the rest. Although other methods may also be considered, I found that pluging in the 535Q Wah before the distortion pedal will give a nicer sound then vise-versa. Again tuning and getting the hang of it is part of the package but as soon as you have that on your way, you'll be flying. The 535Q has a nice range of different sound textures and great overall sound quality.

I have had no problem what so ever with the pedal so far, it looks pretty solid to. The only thing that worries me is the constant up'n'down movement over a longer period of time, but they say it is built to last... lets see. I have a gig in a couple days, and I don't have a backup, but I am very confident the pedal won't let me down.

No experience...

I would say that this pedal is THE standard wah-wah pedal. I play everything from Death Metal to ol'jimmy style and this pedal fits in almost everywhere (with a little practice), whether it be jetting up and down a power grunge chord or bending strings, this machine can definetly help you out. But don't forget, the wah-wah is a certain style... does that stlye match with the music you want to play? In my opinion there is room for it almost everywhere. Long live the crybaby!

Fairly complicated to use, but that's the price to pay for verstility. A slight turn of the Q knob gives dramatically different sounds.

Very good quality. I believe it has true bypass switching, which is a plus, for sure.

Looks solid!

This is a great pedal for all playing styles. Through my Marshall AVT100 is sounds really great. I compared it to the Budda Wah and the Vox Wah, and while they were tonally all great, the 535Q is worth the extra $$$ for the versatility. The boost is great, and the two tone switches will give you 10 great wah sounds, easily.

This unit is so easy to use. I like the idea of the Q control because this is what makes the unit so versatile. The manual has great information on different styles and ways to use this. The only thing I do not like is the placement of the Q and volume controls.

I'm using a Carvin stack Valve master 100 with 2/2-12 Carvin cabnits for my amp with a Digitech RP-1 processor for effects. I'm also using another carvin combo amp to run true stereo with my RP-1 but have the speaker disconnected and a speaker cable running to my 2nd carvin cabnit. I have setup the 535Q in two places. 1. I run my instrument cable directly into the 535Q and have a cable going from it to the Valve master 100. This sounds superb with highly distorted solo's but is a bit noisy when the boost volume is on. 2. I have ran it after my effects and this sounds cleaner and thicker but really not good for highly distorted solo's. The ideal setup would be to have a 535Q setup in both positions. One for clean sounds and one for overdirve.

So Far So Good. Looks like a mack truck could run over it and it still would work.

The main reason I am posting a review is to note the fact that the 535Q adjustment pots (boost gain and resonance "Q") are now on the SIDE of the pedal and no longer on the bottom. It also now requires only ONE 9V battery. The battery is accessed through a handy hatch on the bottom plate- no screwdriver needed. The 6-way rotary knob is now a spiffy knurled metal rather than the black plastic seen in the above photo. So unless you are trying to use this pedal clenched between your buttocks, it's very easy to use.

So far I been able to acheive pretty much any sound you could reasonably expect from a wah. I sustained extensive Zappa and Hendrix damage in my formative years, and this pedal has helped me work through my trauma. I have been able to recover memories of the time aliens abducted Jimi and me and forced us to perform at the Venusian Woodstock with Miles Davis...

My main setup is American Dlx Ash Strat/535Q/Dyna-Comp/Ibanez CS-505 into a Rivera Quiana 212 combo. I inject various fuzz/distortion and delay units from time to time. If you do not observe the basics of effects placement and gain in the signal path, ANY pedal may make unwanted noises or have no apparent effect at all. Cranking the boost gain on the wah and using an overdriven tube amp WILL produce noise. Using massive distortion AFTER the wah will reduce it's audible effect. When head and feet are properly connected together the 535Q sounds WICKET PISSAH.

I somehow don't see wah failure on a gig as a career crushing blow, so I wouldn't tote a backup to a gig even if this unit was constructed from ripe cheese and pipe cleaners. Humanity would just have to endure the loss on that particular evening. But I sure hope this thing will be around for a few years before it goes the way of all wahs, and here's knocking on wood that it will be. So far all indications are positive.

My only experience with Dunlop has been an email request about a replacement part for a friend's wah that they never replied to.

I've been playing long enough to have bought a Thomas Organ Stereo Fuzz-Wah the year they came out. Do the math... Although I rarely use my Dunlop Wah for Opera, it does come in handy for pretty much everthing else I play. Don't forget to try it with a drum machine! I consider wah to be one of the basic building blocks of life on the guitar and this is about as versatile a wah as you can find, so I would probably replace this unit if some terrible fate befell it.

Very easy to use, has adjustable tonal range, Q (bandwidth) and boost. The tonal range knob is on the side and the Q and boost are underneath. I have never used the boost as I have a variety of overdrive and boost pedals. The knobs on the bottom are not a problem for me as I do not adjust any of the knobs while playing. These knobs tend to stay put.

I had a standard Dunlop Wah from the seventies. The difference between the 535Q and the old Dunlop is like night and day. I was never happy with the old unit but am very happy with the sound of this one. Very quiet and no pot noise (~1 year so far). This unit has a complete bypass when off so there is no tone sucking!!

Seems very strong and durable as.

I am giving Dunlop a 10 as I have never had to contact them on my original wah or this 535Q.

I have played for many years and use humbucker and single coil guitars into tube amps. If I had to replace this one I wouldn't hesitate to buy another one but would probably spend a lot more to try something different. I believe this wah is very good for the money. Being able to taylor the sound with the various adjustments is a big plus.

its easy to use but finding a good sound might take a little longer. cause depending on the effects you use with it, like high gain, you might have some hissing or static. So you will have to figure out how to set up ur effects with this monster so it is smooth like budda.

it sounds fucking good, best ive used. it sounds good with distortion but even better on clean.

never had a problem with my other wah or this one.

never needed it

overall it is the best wah to use becuse it is so versitle. just spend a little bit more and get this thing and u can get any of the wah sounds that are out there

This WAH pedal is totally easy to set up, and anyone who tells ya otherwise should be kicked... perhaps in the groin. I got it on a sunny christmas day and it set up really easily, and i was playin into evening... i think.:()

I use a Washburn G-20V guitar, with a Crate full stack. With distortion and Fuuuull wah going, it is VERY VERY noisy and super easy to pick out hyper octaves, but its not worth the sacrifice of good sound. Keep the wah level in the mids on the selector switch and you can pump out with distortion on Full gain and GOOOOOD sound. My Fav. artists include Steve Vai, Dream Theater, and Metallica.. blah blah, I can achieve all their sounds on this and they all play differently (though this is not the Bad Horsie wah :P)

Ive never played a gig using a wah, I havent had enough training to make them sound good live, but I get drunk and play at studios with my friends, and its great. I would play this thing without backup at an important gig. Ive owned it for going on three years now, there have been times where it would sit in the corner of my room on the floor for 6+ months unused, but when I plug it in, i get the same sound NO cracks or other feedback. This thing is F***** cool!

Nada

I play lots of hard rock, progressive, and solo stuff for going on 8+ yearzzz. If this was stolen, I would toooootally get a new one,or wait for christmas time to roll around again. Ive had otehr wahs die on me when i wouldntuse them for 3 months the first time, I think this one will last me for another 3 years, If i dont abuse it much more :). I wish it had a squishy blue foot rest..but standard.. oh well. I really reccomend getting this if you can find for under 80.

Takes some time to get the sound you want.. But really easy.

I'm using a really old no-brand amp and a fender strat. Along with my Digitech rp2000 it sounds really cool!! Great for kirk hammett tones!
I gave 9 'cos sometimes when switching off/on it has some very very little noise.

I wouldn't think of a backup. This thing is a big tank.

Never needed support, no idea.

I use this pedal for playing Kirk Hammett and it really rocks!! For normal solos use the 3rd or 4th position of the knob, and for the outlaw intro try the last one!! great! Always keep the Q-Variable to the maximum!!

It's easy to use, but it does take a while before you can tweak with all of the settings and find the sound you're after.

I've read a lot of reviews on this pedal saying that it doesn't have much wah and that turning up the gain makes it more heard. That's NOT true. It even says in the instruction manual that THE MORE DISTORTION, THE LESS YOU WILL HEAR THE PEDAL.

Now that I've got that out...

The sound quality is great, once you find the right combination of settings that works for your gear. I use Ibanez RG 120-->Crybaby 535Q-->Seymour Duncan 100W Convertible amp. If you intend on using the pedal on the clean side, I recommend heavily backing off the Q dial so that you don't have much high-end in it, or it will bite you--and bite you bad. If you mainly use the pedal with distortion, make sure that the distortion isn't too high, or it will start to reduce the "wah" sound.

Well, it hasn't broken down on me. Like all Crybabys, this thing is well-built and the framing should NEVER break unless you're extremely cruel to your gear. However, a couple days after getting the pedal, it started squeaking really bad on me. My dad took some special lubricant and put it in it, and it's worked fine ever since. That's the only reason why I gave it an "8" on reliability.

Thankfully, haven't had to contact them yet.

I play a lot of different styles--ranging from dc Talk to Creed to some Rage Against the Machine. It does everything very well. If something terrible happened to it, I would try to replace it as soon as possible, but it might take me a while to get enough money to do so. I've only been playing for two years, and I didn't check out any other wah pedals (mainly because I was highly advised by my dad to get this one). My guitar teacher really likes it--I value his opinion on guitar stuff a lot more than mine. This is actually the only real effect that I have and is really the only one that I want. I'm not a big stomp-box person. I like sticking mainly with the natural amp and guitar sound. Of course, a wah wah is a wah wah and you can't accomplish its sound without it. :-)

O.k. with this just remember 1 thing: You have to believe.
View the controls as if you're in a spacecraft unique to this device.
For each set of adjustments there will be particular realities. All
of them that I've tried are fantastic. Your manual includes 2 very nifty explorer maps. #1 is general description of controls: gain, bandpass sharpness, and wah range bias.
#2 is a series of settings of some very interesting creative animals.
let's not think of them as 'stars', but as expression agents to which we relate with unique sets of states of being; a set of complex identifications with each player. When you jump out of an aircraft, you see bloated. Mix in some perception manipulating chemicals and serious experience with women and you have some of the voice Hendrix was using. So can you make your guitar sound so bloated and out of 'normal' perspective, and underwater, etc. with this wah? Sure. Does it grab the notes? It indeed does capture notes like waves and holds them deep within the register you're using. Of course, this is just a single setting.
So each of these settings is a little goal post in your fringe discovery. The wah bandpass and gain controls are indeed on the bottom of the pedal. The Sound Quality Over Compensates for this. We'll reflect this 'nuisance' with a 2 point reduction in otherwise perfect ease of use rating.

Gear: Ibanez Universe (UV777PBK) -> Turbo RAT -> 535 Q -> solid state practice amp.
Notes on control groups: the 777 is virtually noise free except with single coil. TRAT as single distortion is quiet. With these the 535Q fits right in.
Weak settings: if there are, they are negligible.
The manual 'presets' may be found listed in www.jimdunlop.com somewhere. Why do you enjoy Zappa, or Page, or Hendrix, or Frusciante, etc. ? This device does not impede these things in myself anyhow and I'm my own limit. So basically this mutation absolutely destroys, like there is something seriously wrong with it, the basic Crybaby. Just don't look.. just take the 535 Q and disappear.
As for effects. I use the TRAT and this mutation along with the Universe so I can't comment from the land of Harold has gotten tangled up in all of his effects mutations again scenarios. The distortion unit placement issue is actually approached in the manual.
It works like a dragon with the setup I've mentioned.
Also, if you listen to Frank Zappa's 'Hot Rats' ( if ya haven't heard it, you need to get it!? ) observe the signature FZ note splattering with the distortion+wah combination. If using a TRAT as flavoring distortion into the 535 Q and then into a dirty amp channel - with the proper settings you're not just talking note splattering, it's more appropriate to describe its potential as guitar splattering.
Personally this is a phenomenally important extreme to have at the roots processing level. On another hand (who says it has to be the 'other' hand?) with for instance the Magot Brain setting and a clean channel (TRAT at true bypass) I may set my practice amplifier on one very quiet and strange beach emitting subtle sea shell atmospherics and brilliant green and blue glow tones. Of course some may be alarmed that this is possible with a 'Magot Brain' setting but
then they may not be 222 years old either.

I'll get back on this when I may answer it with good ethos.

I'll get back on this if I can add anything as it happens.

Style of music? Take Curtis Mayfield, The Association, sprinkle in some space lounge music, and Edgard Varese and play them simultaneously. Make that a note. Mix that with other notes from other polymorphic monstrosities, etc. I am 222 years old, have had my right hand broken by the Devil and I've met the Aliens. I would buy again as in clockwork. As a musician I Need To See THE ERGONOMICS of this pedal Improved. I think this device may be a gift for you and this is why I've taken time to do this. I would like to encourage all that get/have this mutation to write Dunlop regarding the controls on the bottom of the pedal expressing frustration. It gets a 10 because All Things Considered at this point, it is a 10. In terms of price, it pays for itself in tears in a matter of moments.

Just step on it!!

I've always loved WAH sound by Hendrix, Satriani, Pantera, Rage against Machine, Dream Theater, Alice in Chins, Metallica and many more!
With this pedal u can get all the Wah sound!
I've had this pedal for 2 years, it sounds great and has always been my favorite pedal. I never once thought that money I paid for it was too much. Although I used a cheap Fender frontman 15 W amp, I still liked the sound. But after I got all-tube amp, the sound was just amazing and alive!! and I can't keep my foot off the pedal!
I use it with clean channel and overdrive channel, both sounds killer.

INDESTRUCTABLE!!

U love WAH sound? Get this pedal!

Do you really need a rating for this? It's a WAH PEDAL!!! Step on it hard, it's on. Keep stepping in back and forth gently so it doesnt it go off, and you get a nice little wah wah sound. Geez...that wasn't too hard was it? :) Very easy to use.

I personally do not like this pedal, but that doesnt mean it is bad quality. My setup is a Crate 15w practice amp (laugh it up!)>Boss MT2 Metal Zone>Boss GE7 Equalizer>535Q Wah>Jackson Kelly w/ Duncans.

This pedal sounds great through my amp alone, it sounds alright through the Metal Zone, but once you hook up the EQ, you can't hear the wah at all. No kidding. Now, I cannot stand to play my Metal Zone w/o the EQ because that combination can give you the heaviest, shred-a-holic crunch you will ever hear. BUT, like I said, you cannot hear the Wah at all when I play through the Metal Zone and EQ. The Metal Zone sounds ok by itself, but with the EQ it is 10x better, so I'd much rather be playing WITH the EQ.

But since it sounds great through an amp alone, someone with a good amp, or a different distortion pedal would love this pedal (depending on how it sounds with certain distortion pedals.)

It does work great when you put the foot thing all the way up. It makes solo's really cool...lots of "crispness" to them. Lots of treble...I think the term is "filter". The switch on the side of the pedal is very good...ranging frm a sublte wah to an outragous screaming metal wah. And the 2 knobs on the bottom of the pedal really help you shape the sound as well. Very versatile.

I wouldn't go as far to say that this is not a "metal-wah". It is very much so...maybe it doesnt work well with a Metal Zone+EQ? Maybe the Crate amp is the problem? I don't know. It's a very high quality wah, but it doesnt work with my setup. That sucks too because it sounds good with my metal zone alone, so I can only drool at what it might sound like with metal zone+EQ...but like I said, you cant hear it this way.

I love metal and rock. REAL metal and rock. Not this Korn and Limp Bizkit garbage that they play on MTV. Not stupid 3 chord alternative garbage. I'm into Maiden, Old Metallica and Megadeth, Judas Priest, Halford, Queensryche, Iced Earth, Nevermore, Anthrax, Savatage, Van Halen, Ozzy, Sabbath, Dream Theater, Slayer, Winters Bane, Death, Testament ect...ya know: GOOD METAL!!! MTV METAL SUCKS!!! And I'm only 13 years old! Pretty good taste in music for my age eh?

And also, being 13, money doesnt come very easy. So I have to be very serious about when it comes to buying pedals because we all know they aren't cheap. If I was a rich guitar god, I'd keep this pedal because 1) I'd have the money to go out and buy more stuff and 2) It'd just be another pedal to my endless collection of guitar gear. Keep it just for the hell of it. But since I'm pretty picky about my tone, and the size of my wallet, I'll return this and get something else (I'm thinking of an MXR Flanger of Phase 90.)

Well, enough blabbing. Final verdict: TRY THIS PEDAL WITH YOUR GEAR BEFORE YOU BUY IT!! I didn't...and I was sorry. I know that most guitar stores aren't going to have your EXACT setup ready for you to test out gear on, but just get semi close. Its a great pedal, but its definetely not for everyone.

Definetely...its hard plastic. REALLY hard plastic. Won't break on me...because it will be back at the music store!! Appears to be really durable. Shouldn't break down.

Can't say. Never had to...probably wont ever need too.

I'd give it a 10 because it will probably give someone else a great wah. Its built great and very versitle. Why give it anything less that a 10?

The pedal takes some tweaking to get the tone you want, there is a ton of versatility, only I still haven't really found what I'm looking for. The Q knob changes lightly and the gain boost is really helpful.

When used with my Les Paul and Tele through a Mesa Maverick I have found this pedal to sound thin and sometimes hardly noticable, and that's after turning all the knobs every which way I know how. The best results come while using a Tubescreamer after it, and keeping the pedal's gain boost all the way up or else it really doesn't come through. I think maybe I'll dive into a Teese RMC or something along the boutique lines the Crybaby just doesn't cut it.

The switch messes up constantly and I hear the pots wear out pretty quickly on the Crybabys.

You know for all the knobs and different tones available, there just aren't many that I have found that are very good. It has all the makings of a great pedal, only it lacks what really matters, TONE.
You'd definitly be better of with a "boutique" type wah, and probably be better off money-wise by just getting a regular old Crybaby.

More or less stupid-easy to use. The Q control is a little confusing, as it doesnt seem to do much until youve horsed around with it. But all you need to do is listen. (I forget Dunlop's explanation for what it actually does, as I lost the manual. Its some sort of variable bandpass filter, if I remember correctly. If you dont know what that means, just tweak the knob. You'll like it.)

The 535 is a little noisy, but not too noticeably until you start tweaking the "Q" and boost knobs. I use it as both an effect for single note lines and as a general purpose tone control, and it works great for both applications. The only real problems are the two knobs on the bottom. They sound fine, until theyre set at about 12 o'clock. The buzz gets pretty bad past this point, especially if both of them are used in conjunction. Currently I've got my controls set at:
Q, 12 o'clock and Boost at 0 db.
The tone knob on the side is a cool feature, its got a lot of preset sounds, and coupled with the Q and Boost controls, you can get a pretty good range of tones out of it.

Very sturdy construction, except for the two knobs on the bottom. the shafts are very thin plastic, and look and feel as if theyd cave in at a moments notice. Fortunately, theyre recessed into the metal plate on the bottom of the unit, and are therefore out of the way of danger. Good in/out jacks, the side knob is very strong, solid pedal.
I'd gig without a backup.
And for the love of money, BUY THE AC ADAPTOR!
This thing runs on two 9 volts, and that'll suck you dry mighty quick.

Never dealt with Dunlop.

I write music best described as Tool meets Radiohead vs The Tea Party. (Moody, heavier sounding melodic music, with a lot of strange thrown in.) Don't let that throw you, I play pretty much any type of music that catches my fancy. Blues, Jazz, Heavier stuff, Ambient, Trip Hop, even a bit of Country here and there. This pedal can do it all. All in all, an excellent pedal. I wish Dunlop had made the underside knobs a little sturdier and less noisy, but I set the Q control so I don't have to think about it, and I dont use the boost at all. The preset tone switch on the side takes care of all the tones I use.
I'd definately buy this pedal again.

This padel is pretty easy to use. But I I think that puting the boost and Q knobs on the bottoms was a stupid move, it's annoying to turn the damn thing over every time that you seek your desired sound.
The manual provided is very extensive and easy to understand, it help to under stand what each knob does and gives you some setting eaxamples from artists like Bob Marly, Clapton, Page and the list continues...

It sounds great. My setup is Start>Crybaby>Tube screamer>Boss Duel Overdrive>Envoy 110 Amp. You can achive a wide range of sounds through this thing, and when coupled with an Overdrive it really make it SCREAM or vice versa, a low fuzz like tone. You just need to play around with the pedel to find you perfect tone.
If you leave it open half-way you can get a kinda Hammet or Satriani sound. sweet thing, this pedal.

I own it for a few months now, it works Just fine so far, but I give it only a 9 'cause nothing last forever.

I play Heavy-Blue/rock,kinda like Zeppelin and hendrix. It gets me the sound I want without problems. It's my first Wah, but if is were stolen I'd rush to the store and get a new one. What I like most about this thing is it's versitility, on the other hand, I really disliked the fact that it uses two 9V battaries which aren't very cheap. All ia all, I thing it's a great product that can give you a great deal of satisfaction, in both soundwise and value.

Well, it's a wah pedal, so using it can't be all too difficlt, can it? There are a couple tone and wah-range pots, so basically how easy it is to use depends on how easily you find the tone you're looking for.

This is quite a versatile unit, so you dial in any kind of wah tone - to some extent - that you're looking for. I find that when the bloody thing is working, it sounds great. Like Dunlop advertizes, you can go from a subtle wah to a broad, nasty sound (or whatever it is they say). My chain goes like this: Epiphone Les Paul 100 > 535Q > Boss SuperOverdrive > ProCo Turbo Rat > MXR Phase 90 > Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man > Fender Twin Reverb (cranked to 10 - it's not that painful). Apart from the guitar (soon to be replaced) and the Boss SD-1 (soon to be replaced by a Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive) this setup sounds great.. to my ears, anyway.

As long as I've owned it (that being under a year) I've had nothing but problems with it. Its physical construction is hefty, the way most Dunlop wahs are, but there's something fucked up with either the switch or the circuitry (forgive my electronics ignorance). Every time I go to step down on it, I have no way of knowingif I'll hear anything. When I press the switch, the sound cuts out (at least by half of the audibility of the un-wahed tone). This thing is true-bypass, so it's not like it drops a little; it bloody disappears. Then I step on it again to get it back to normal, and then I try to get the wah happening again (and it usually cuts out again). Basically, half the time it works (and works fine) and usually it doesn't. I can't afford a backup, and being the stupid bastard that I am, I didn't fill out the warranty card. Gigging with it is something that I've not done yet, but fear.

Like I said, I forgot to fill out the damn warranty card, so I don't know anything about Dunlop's customer service.

I play a varied collection of original songs, ranging from punk, funk, and pop, to roots, rock, and roll. By having all those knobs on it, it allows me to get the sound I need for any given song that I'm using it on. Unfortunately, the thing's working condition is a mystery. It could be that I just got a bum piece of equipment - I'd hope that most people don't have this problem, but it's been a headache. I've fucked around with the rubber feet at the the toe end, thinking that perhaps the resistance is either too much or too little, but otherwise I just don't know. If anyone's had the same problem, please let me know what you may have done to solve it.

Well this is just your basic wah-wah pedal. Step on it and rock it back and forth to create wah sounds. It takes a while to get used to the vowel characteristic of the pedal, but when you get it figured out it's really fun. My pedal came without a manual so I had to basically figure out what all the knobs did on my own. The 535 Q has a Q knob on it's side which adjusts the range of the "wah". There are also mini pots on the bottom of the pedal. One of them adjusts a variable boost up to 20 db and the other adjusts the how sharp or mellow you prefer the wah. I give this pedal a 9 because it does take some time to get used to adjusting the knobs to get "your sound".

I have been playing for about 5 years and have been listening to Jimi Hendrix's music for a very long time. I've studied his style extensively and have finally decided to get a wah pedal so that I could play some of his songs like Burning of the Midnight Lamp(BBC), Voodoo Chile (slight return), Little Miss Lover (BBC), and various other great songs he wrote. My setup is Mexi-Strat -->>> 535 Q -->>Fender Blues Junior. The 535 Q is just great played clean, but when distortion is added after the wah, when it's in the bass position, it gets noisey. When I play Burning of the Midnight Lamp with slight overdrive on the blues Junior, I sometimes get unwanted distortion sounds out of the bass position on the 535 Q. But, this is easy to solve: Don't depress the pedal all the way down. I have tried the Budda, and the Vox and the same distortiond thing happens when using the amps overdrive, so I guess I should have nothing to complain about. Compared to the Budda, I found that the 535Q seemed to take over the tone of the guitar a little more so than the Budda. But this is only by a small amount. Whereas the budda lets all your guitars tone come through the wah, the 535Q seems to take over you guitars tone a tad bit. Hey some people like it this way. Listen to Hendrix's voodoo chile (slight return) intro on electric ladyland. It almost sounds as if his wah pedal has completely eveloped his guitars tone, but I'm not sure maybe it's just the equipment hes using. I know that there are many people out there trying to get that sound, and I have tryed many a wah pedal to find that voodoo chile wah sound but still have not found it. But hey, this pedal will definitely get you close. With some more tinkering with the dials I've almost nailed the BBC version of burning of the midnight Lamp.
Let me tell you, the sheer versatility of this thing with the Q Dial, the Variable Dial, and the boost all make for variety variety variety! Instead of having one or two wah pedals to use, I dont care how good they are, this thing can get all kinds of different sounds. Many people have put the crybabies down in the HC Reviews,maybe the original Crybaby sounds bad (I never tryed it), but this is a crybaby model (535Q) that has been improved. By fiddling a while with the Q dial and variable Q dial I've been able to get the range and sweep of my Vox (reissue), and I've been able to come close to getting the vowel character of my budda but couldn't "nail it". This pedal can get the "wah" sound as well as the funky midrange honky "wow" tonal sweep of the budda. As with all pedals there are the goods and there are the bads. The only bads that have to do with this pedal is that it doesn't nail the sound of that vintage Vox that Hendrix was using during the BBC sessions or his intro of voodoo chile. It seems that his pedal has a great amount of "drip and quack" when the pedal is sweeped across the midrange of the sweep. Well I guess I would have to look for vintage 30 year old Voxes if I wanted hendrixes exact sound. If anyone out there is completely confident they have nailed his wah sound email me please.
Overall, this pedal is so versatile and you can get so many different wah sounds out of it that it's definately worth the money. Oh yeah, another thing is that this thing has true bypass which is a big two thumbs up!!!!!

Like most good wah pedals these things are made to be tortured. If you put all your weight on it and you weighed 300 pounds it might break the on/off switch but thats about it. I don't gig , I use it for playing at home and I use it pretty roughly. It's tough and hasn't broken yet I've had it for a week now. I'll give this area a 9 because I don't know I there will be a time when it breaks.

never had to deal with them, I heard about Dunlops warranty policy with most of their pedals that you have to send them your address and other info within 14 days of the purchase to them or else they wont help you when your pedal breaks. This I think is kind of unreasonable.

I have lots of fun jamming to Jimi Hendrix tunes like those on his Woodstock album. The 535Q does a perfect job for anything that requires using a wah wah, or wow wow. As I've mentioned I've been playing Hendrix tunes for 5 years now I guess you could say I'm not that musically creative, but hey everyone starts somewhere.
If this thing was stolen or lost I'd call or email Budda and ORDER them to make a BUDDA 535Q WAH!!!!!! Or I would just buy another of these 535Q pedals. When I bought this pedal I loved it's sheer versatility compared to other pedals like the Budda and the Vox. The 535Q is quite capable of getting the sound of Budda and the Vox, so why even bother getting those when you could get 100 wahs in one! This pedal definitely makes "feel" creative when I use it. It makes me feel like god when I improvise with it. For those who want the most for their money go with this pedal. Save yourself time and buy this one, or if your like me waste alot of time playing other pedals like the Budda and Vox in search of Jimi's Wah. We all know we'll never have it. But as for everything else this pedal is all good.

the only thing that may be considered difficult on this wah is the 2 knobs on the underside. for me i spent two days flippin it over and back until i found a wah tone i can call my own. that is the main reason i bought such a versatile wah like this one.

hey, this is top of the line. theres plenty of sounds to get out of this. its really amazing how many, they are all high quality sounds. use the manual though. it helps a lot.im using this with a peavey transtube supreme head with the matching 4x12, an electro-harmonix deluxe memory man,an mxr 6-band graphic eq and i play a dean. i have found my own wah tone which i love. i spent the time to found it now i just plug in and rip. i like the sounds because they're out of control...i like everything to be out of control sounding.as you can guess i dont play in a jazz band.

goodworkmanship. very high quality parts.

never dealt with them

i play metal. my personal wah sound that i've found is perfect. for leads there is so much i can do with this. it sounds like a jet plane buzzin by your ear, which i like. if your not sure what kind of wah sound you want, you can find it on this. this is top of the line.this is sutable for all styles. the manual shows setting for a lot of different guitarist...very helpful to get you started

The 535Q loses two points for putting the volume and "variable q" knobs on the bottom. One you've dialed in your sound, having these two disappear is great, but while you're hunting you have to constantly turn the unit over. The manual isn't especially necessary, though it's good that it explains just what "variable q" does (essentially, adjusts the "nastiness" of your wah). Paying for and changing the batteries is a pain, because 9v are expensive and the second battery just sits loose somewhere in the cavity.

The range of wah you can get out of this unit is fantastic. I use it with both my guitar and bass and with each it sounds pristine, provided there's power enough to it and it's not too dirty inside. You can achieve anything from a very subtle wah, almost invisible, to a cranking wail. As a tone control it's great, too. Being able to adjust the Q and volume boost means that you can, with a little patience, find the exact wah you're looking for. The batteries (it takes TWO 9v's! ouch!) need to be in pretty good shape or a terrible "tearing paper" sound is introduced OVER the sound of your guitar. I've found that occasionally taking the bottom off and dusting inside helps keep out unwanted noise, too. I think my unit may be a bit faulty (see "reliability") but it may just be paranoia. I give this a 9 because the sound quality decays in such an unpleasant way when the batteries are more than 2 hours old.

The selection knob on my unit lost its contact with the pot. I solved this problem by shoving the knob back on over a square of paper. The selection wiper inside doesn't stop at one end or the other, so now I have absolutely no idea whether I'm playing on one of the bass settings or one of the guitar settings or on some distant planet. This is my biggest complaint about this unit: the selections should be marked on the side, and the knob shouldn't turn further than 1 and 5. It makes it more difficult to know just what setting you've got, and makes changing the setting mid-jam a bit of a tenuous process. To gig with it, I'd want the power converter.

I've thought about calling them a few times about a host of strange problems which have come and gone. But didn't have to.

I toy around with home recording with my 4-track and jam to loops I set up on my Line 6 DL4 (perhaps the single greatest thing I've ever bought). I've been playing about 3 years now, purely for the fun of it. If I were forced to sell everything but two pedals, I'd keep my DL4 and the 535Q. With full power the smooth wah that comes off this thing makes me say, "yeah." There are probably more bullet-proof units out there, but this one will take you the furthest. It's not very mathematically correct, but I give it a 9 overall.