Dunlop Crybaby

Very simple, almost anything sounds cool. You can't go wrong with a wah.

Sounds good, but nothing special.

Okay, first the plastic battery holder broke only a few weeks after buying the thing. Then the thing started not turning on/off every time (I had to step on it twice or more). Finally two very strange things happened at the same time: the pedal part (bent?) so that I couldn't hit the switch without using my hand and then the thing just stopped working. I've kicked myself in the head ever since for not filling out the warranty.

Like a lazy idiot, I did not fill out the warranty therefore I didn't bother the company about it.

It was an okay wah, worth the money I guess. I think the Vox wahs may sound about the same but look a lot cooler. I wouldn't recommend this device.

If you can't use this thing, then you're a sad excuse for a human being. I have the newer model with theeasy-open battery clip thingy, so there's no problems.

I run Gibson and Epiphone SGs into a Boss EQ pedal, the Crybaby and finally into a Crate GFX212. I can get a pretty close approximation of Kirk Hammett's lead tone with it, which is all I'm going for. I play metal and more metal, and I use it on almost all of my solos. It doesn't mesh so well with my amp's distortion, but it's good enough. The only time I've had noise problems with it is when I'm using high gain and not playing anything with the pedal in treble position. I had a few problems with harmonics, but the EQ does a good job at fixing that.

It's rock solid. I've kicked it, dropped it, thrown it around, dropped stuff on it, and it works fine. Only problem is very rarely, it won't switch all the way and will cut my sound, but that's very rare and another hit on the switch fixes it.

Never had to deal with them, probably won't.

I've had this pedal for a year and a half and it works fine for me. I can get a good metal lead wah sound, and I really don't use it for much other than leads. If it were stolen, I would check out a 535Q or Dunlop's rack wah, but I don't have anything against this. The other guitarist in my band had one, but the pedal got really loose and he just bought a Vox, which, in my opinion, is only slightly better than this. I could have paid $5 less at Daddy's but I decided to support the little stores instead. Good pedal for the money. I would NEVER get a wah pedal of lesser quality than this.

Step on it.

I play an Amer. Strat with stock setup > Crybaby > Marshall 602 60W combo with Danelectro chorus and echo pedals in the effects loop. Every now and then I throw in a Fuzz Face or Big Muff after the Crybaby. I always thought that it sounded better in front of distortion not behind it. This pedal and the Vox are the standards for classic wah. Hendrix and Clapton used both. I never use it on the clean channel, only for overdrive. If you want a Clapton sound, crank the gain on your amp to 10 and find the sweet spot of the Crybaby (about 1/2 way back) and turn down the tone of your guitar. Every good rock guitarist uses a wah pedal. You cannot wail without a Crybaby.

Bullet proof. I've had it for 26 years. There's hardly any paint left on it. This pedal has been through everything and still works beautifully.

Only time I ever dealt with them was to order some new rubber feet and rubber foot pad a couple of years ago.

I've been playing for 30 years mostly blues, hard rock and some jazz. This was the first pedal I ever bought 26 years ago. The Crybaby has become so much a part of my playing that I couldn't imagine playing without it. A truly classic pedal that I take for granted.

Very easy to use There is one switch and that is the rocker pedal Not hard at all

Well it sounds good on clean tone but if you put this thing under distortion you are going to wish you hadnt. This wah like most distorts you tone a lot so that it is very twany and it sucks you tone is so bright it ruins the sound of the distortion Dont expect much

This is built almost as good as a boss

No problems besides the tone which isnt really a defect it is my disliking of the tone

Its an okay pedal if you are in the market shop around and try it before you buy it

Gets pretty muddy and toneless at the bottom end, but that could be because its signal has declined over time (see below). The high end has never been too shrill or trebely, though. When I first bought the pedal, I would have rated it at 9. I liked it better than the most recent Vox wah at the time.

After three years of playing casually, jamming with friends, etc., it seems like there's a dead spot in the middle of the sweep. The quality/clarity of the bottom end has also gone south. It's been maintained well; I've only ever opened it to clean it with a swab (never use batteries, only AC adapter). A friend who has owned a Crybaby for a couple of years told me he has had similar problems. Maybe it's just the typical lifespan of the reissues.

Never tried to deal with them. For the cost and hassle to fix, may as well get another.

Initially it worked well and the price was very reasonable. Can't comment personally on its reliability vs. other wahs, though.

piece of cake.... put foot on, move foot up and down... easy, no?!

great highs... great lows.. what much more do u want?!

never had any problems with it.. well unless your gonna talk about that damn rubber foot grip thing... that bitch fell off... but its not needed unless your bear footed in the rain or something... ohh and its missing 1 of the 4 screws that hold on the bottom... hey not my fault.... like that when i got it!

man im not gonna call up dunlop over a damn rubber grip.... all they would do is put me on hold for 76 hours and then tell me to go to hell or to buy some krazyglue...

best damn pedal on earth... needs a new foot, paint job and a bottle of krazyglue for that damn rubber grip... other than that its the greatest... shes been through hell and back a million times and still no problems...(knock on wood)

You step on it, you rock your foot back and forth! Not too hard! =)

I play a reissue Fender Mustang, to the Crybaby, Rat2, Boss DS-1, Boss CS-2, EHX Small Stone, EHX Small Clone, Fender practice amp. This Wah doesnt seem to suck up any tone from my guitar at all. The Wah sounds pretty good, nothing spectacular. You can get a great Voodoo Child sound out of it, since Jimi did use a Crybaby. It sounds great with a little Rat2 distortion, but sounds really scratchy when I use my DS-1. I have my DS-1 up really loud, so it's not too graet with the Crybaby. I usually have my CS-2 on to smooth out my clean tones, to the Crybaby sounds great with it on.

Crybaby's are built great! As an added bonus, my model (a newer one) has a tab so you don't have to unscrew the bottom of this unit to get to the battery. It's made of solid steel and hard rubber. This thing will last a life time. Just keep it somewhat clean so your sound doesn't get too scratchy.

Never had to deal with them.

As my friend told when "every guitarist needs a wah to mess around with!" its so true! if you can get ahold of any wah for cheap go for it, even if you're a new guitarist or a pro. they are so much fun, and crybaby's are great! They are fairly cheap, even new! I have been playing for over 5 years, and this was my first wah pedal. I am very happy with it. If it were stolen, I'd definately get a new one.

I agree with most people on this one: Extremely easy to use, but occasionally refuses to switch on/off.

I'm mainly a keyboard player so I use this with my Fender Rhodes and Hohner Clavinet. The Rhodes is plugged into an old Fender bass amp and the Clavinet goes directly to the mixing desk. I get amazing sound out of both, but at gigs I use it with the Clavi, cause it sounds shit without a wah! Our guitar player has the Jimi Hendrix JH-1 which he claims is much better with his Strat, but with keyboards I find that the JH-1 tends to mute the sound too much after about halway down.

I've also tried it with my Ibanez Axstar bass and I found the result quite impressive.

Use to produce a lot of hiss before I changed the factory treble setting.

I bought one, it refused to switch off on my first gig with it. I took it back to the shop and they gave me a new one which has been rock-steady for the past two years. I guess I just got a faulty model the first time round.

I took the Crybaby back to the shop, the guy called customer support and they just gave me a new one. Perfect!

I play mainly jazz/funk and I find this pedal to be perfectly suited to the lo-fi sound I'm trying to get. I tend to use a lot of guitar effects (delay, envelope filter, overdrive, phaser) with my keyboard rig, but the Crybaby has become a mainstay. If it was stolen I'd go to my bass player's house and beat him on the head until he gave it back. At the time I bought it because it was the only wah-wah i'd tried out, but I've come to love it. I've heard good things about ther Vox wah-wah, but for the time being I'm more than satisfied. A tone control would be a nice touch...

Any wah-wah is simple to use, yet very difficult (it's kind of zen). While there's nothing more to this pedal than on/off and rocking your foot back and forth for treble/bass, it's almost an entire instrument unto itself because of the subtleties involved.

My setup is Fender Strat w/Texas Specials -> Tubescreamer -> Big Muff -> Crybaby -> Fender Amp. It seems really important to have the Crybaby last in your effects chain. Otherwise, it sounds...well, bad. And my fuzz completely cloaks my wah if I put the wah first. In this order, it sounds fine.

It kind of gets hissy all the way forward and pretty muddy all the way back, but in the middle in sounds great. The extreme ends of the wah's range are still useful for playing funk and old porno music (boom chick-a WAH WAHHHH!).

I'm pretty sure that Jimi Hendrix used this wah. In fact, I'm pretty sure that most professional guitarists use either a Crybaby or a Vox wah-wah.

This is not as well built as my other pedals (Tubescreamer, Big Muff, and a veritable legion of BOSS and DOD pedals). I've had it 4 or 5 years, and it still works, but it's starting to get a little crackly, and I have to fiddle with the input jack sometimes to stop the sound from cutting out completely. It has an AC adaptor, which is strongly recommended because you have to take the whole bottom plate off to change batteries.

Never dealt with them, though I've heard bad things about Dunlop.

The wah-wah is probably the only effect pedal that is pretty much universally respected by all guitarists. No matter what style of electric guitar you play, the majority of artists in that genre probably use a wah-wah.

If it broke or got lost, I'd certainly get another wah-wah, but I'd probably compare the Crybaby to Dunlop's higher-end models and the Vox. However, I seem to remember the Crybaby sounding the best out of all the other wah-wah's when I bought it the first time, so odds are I'd buy it again. It's a good value for the price.

Anybody can use this thing.....you step on it and that is about it.

i think it sounds pretty good on a Peavy Rage 158, and when i went to the store to buy it i plugged in on a Fender Princeton 65, man I want one of those bad. I think that there could be more bass, but it is the best i've played on so far.

It is made of metal. How much more does a person need?

never had to deal with em'

i think it is a pretty good pedal. i play mostly blues and classic rock and it is really good.