Dunlop Crybaby

easy to use, plug the amp in one side, the guitar in the other. Then you rock it.

Les Paul Studio, into the wah pedal, into a Traynor TS-100. If you use a distortion/overdrive pedal, i recommend putting the wah pedal before the distortion pedal in your effects chain.

I cant depend on my pedal (I bought it from a crackhead for $5.00, its in a deploirable condition, but works good.)
Iv tried others, and their built like a tank. I (personally) would have a backup, I always believe you should have a backup for everything. (better safe than sorry, You never know when somthings gonna break, no matter how good it is)

never had to deal with them

I play ROCK -N- ROLL. This pedal can hold its own. Personally, I would save up for a better model of a Crybaby wah, But as far as the basic one, I'd definatly reccomend it.

Well, it's pretty simple, I will give it that. It's a pain to have to unscrew the bottom and it's a little to easy to not hit the switch when you mean to turn it on and off.

It's a real classic sound. I've played it through a lot of things but mostly a SG through a marshall head. It's a bit thin and trebbily at times and a lot of people get them modded to work that out.

It cuts out for a brief second when you switch it on and off if you do it in the middle of holding a chord. This has never been a problem to me when playing a song though.

Depending on your amp/guitar/etc it adds some distortion too which can be good or bad and sometimes I find my guitar doesn't cut through the mix well enough when it's on.

Mine's never broke. Once the pot got squeeky and I had to put a little oil on it.

You can't go wrong with the crybaby. There's better boutique things out there but at a much greater cost.

Very VERY easy to use!

This is my only effect, I run an Epiphone Les Paul through this to my Crate amp. I have to say the sound good, but not great. The REALLY bad part is it isn't a true bypass! I can tell a NOTICABLE difference in sound when it's off. I'm very dissapointed in this and I'm going to return it. If it had a true bypass, I'd give the score an 8, but I just can't do that.

Of course, these are always reliable. Never had a problem.

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It's great except for no true bypass, which means there is a loss of tone, so I have to return it, and for that I give it a 7.

Simple to operate, although switching it on by pushing the toe end down takes a bit of getting used to. THe switch is pretty heavy duty and is stiff at first, until you've broken it in. If you've had yours as long as I have you'll find its no problem.
If you've never used a wah before,the principle is simple, but using it intelligently and expressively takes some time. Eventually it'll come as second nature. It'll still be rewarding fun in the meanitime though.

My set up, to mention only what's relevant to what follows: I'm using it in quite a big pedal board. Its the first pedal after volume. Straight after it is my fuzz, then an overdrive. Quite a lot of my gear is now true-bypass.

Lots of people reviewing this say the pots are noisy, causing hiss etc. While this is true, you only really notice this when you're not playing notes, or not rocking it back and forth. Whilst playing it's really not an issue. It has a nice 'grunt' to the sound in the mid and mid to low frenquencies when used with distortion. This is great for rock, and the slight gritty edge adds a vintage kind of sound. Other wah's, like the Morely I've just bought, sound a bit cleaner, more 'modern' in tone. Depends on what you want.
The reason I bought my Morely is that the Morely is true-bypass and the Crybaby isn't and sucks a noticable amount of treble when its off. I'm surprised few people mention this. I've also noticed that the buffer in the circuit (designed to combat this signal loss!) has strange effects on other pedals. Very occaisionally, it can sometimes cause a leap in volume levels when switched on (not sure why this is) but the one that bugged me most was it plays havoc with my fuzz pedal (even when off), making it seem strangled and fizzy. Using the true bypass wah has brought the fuzz to life now, and given me my top end back. Please listen carefully to it in a shop with your own set up if possible before buying.

I've had mine now for eleven years, and its been gigged for about four of them. Never let me down. Rock solid construction (apart from the base plate which may get dented but is raised off the ground by four chunky rubber feet)

Never had to deal with them

For a vintage sounding wah with grunt, look no further. It hasn't got the longest sweep, but, huge sweeps sound phony and gimmicky to me anyway. I love this pedal really and despite me putting another wah on my board recently, I may keep it for recording if I want 'that' sound. Its just a shame that it isn't true by-pass, although you could get it modified by your local pedal wizard. 'Let your ears be the judge' is a truism, but if you don't mind, or can't hear, the tone loss and you're not using a fuzz, then go for it. I'm on a mission to really clean up my sound and not using it makes my guitars shine that little brighter, so maybe I'm more intollerant than when I just used just a wah and my amp, way back when...

The unit is super easy to use, only the press of the pedal turns it on.

I gave it a 9 because of the noisyness of the unit when its on, but not being used. When it is being used, the unit gives a sweet sound, and doesn't seem to break up on higher notes. Its a good solid product.

I've brought this thing to a bunch of places and its held up REALLY well. It still looks and sounds just as good as it did when it came out of the box. I would gig without a back up, but thats me.

I contacted Dunlop about a question pretaining to another product by them and they were really helpful and really nice. It took awhile for them to respond to my e-mail, but the responce was really helpful and really through.

I play alot of music, with interests ranging from Clapton to Green Day to ZZ Top to Stevie Ray. I'd say that I have an extremly broad taste in music; no matter what kind of interesting guitar sound I'm trying to get, the Crybaby adds a little extra special tweak to that sound and I love it! I own a few other pedals and the Crybaby seems to work well with them. My rig looks a little something like this.

AMP--BOSS OVERDRIVE(occasional use)---MXR PHASE 90--- ZINKY TRUE GRIT DISTORTION PEDAL---ERNIE BALL VP JR----CRYBABY---GUITAR

Although, I wish it had more of a sweep to it, and for awhile I was thinking about buying a Roger Mayer Red Lion Wah upgrade, but, I've grown to like the Dunlop sound. I had tried the Vox and Boss wah's and this one sounded the best, I highly recomend this product.

New, 2004 product.

Very easy to use.

It's got that 70's "Love Boat" wah tone I need for clean funk and pop covers. It's noisy when on - that is there is some hiss when in the chain with other effects, but you don't notice it when playing - only when idle.

The pedal has a built-in buffer to eliminate some of the attentuation of highs when the pedal is off. Why they didn't just make it true bypass, I don't know - guess it'd cost a little more and wouldn't be true to its heritage (but the buffer isn't original either). Even with the buffer, some of the highs are attentuated, but its nothing that a flip to bright on the amp or boosting of the treble won't solve. And remebmer it is only when the pedal is off is it an issue.

I've tried the Morley Classic wah and took it straight back to the sotr and exchanged it for the Dunlop (GCB-95) and haven't looked back.

If you want classic wah sounds with excellent chucka-chucka tone with muted chords, the CryBaby is for you.

I sued to have an original Crybaby back in the late 70's and this is everything I remember the old one to be.

Well its a wah pedal and ya gotta know how to use them

i play a gibson SG on a crate amp and to my suprise, this little $70 unit has some spark. it has a nice opening sound but the base is a little thin. I can get a fairly close Hendrix sound out of it with my SG suprisingly enough, but its not THE pedal to get for that sound. If you want a hendrix sound from a dunlop wah, this would be a desent choise, DONT get the "Hendrix Wah", its a PEICE OF JUNK!

the little sucker broke on me. the button to turn it on and off became a pain in the ass to push in. But if i could just press hard enough on it, i could still get it to work.

For the price, i say its a great pedal. Some of these wahs can get up around $200-$300. If your looking for a vintagy wah sound, and have little money, this wah wouldn't be a bad choise. If you have loads of money, go for a better wah like a Geofery Teese, those wahs are the best!

Never knew legends were this easy to handle : insert batteries,plug in some wires and step on it. I would have given this unit a 10 in this category, if there would have been and ON/OFF indicator LED on the pedal. Now you hust have to hear whether the pedal is on or off,which isn't always easy when you're on stage and the sound system is crap.

I use this pedal with my Squier Strat and Laney MXD 120 amp. Since the pedal is so easy in use, it isn't hard to get decent sounds out of my rig.I soon discovered the Crybaby produces the nicest sounds with the Strat's pickup selector switched to treble. Running it through my amp's effect loop,wasn't a good idea though.Don't know how,but it just sounded feeble,and with the overdrive switched on, it acted more like a beaten up volume pedal rather than a wah. To get the best sounds out of it, you better just place it between your guitar and your amp. When using batteries (this thing eats them for breakfast)you must consider a certain loss of sound quality when the battery starts to give up. But besides of this little problems, just remember that this is the easiest and greatest sounding wah wah pedal you'll ever own.

As long as you make sure you have enough spare batteries with you, nothing can go wrong. You can kick on this pedal as hard as you can, it won't move an inch,neither will it give up. It's built like a tank : even after dropping it on a concrete floor from four feet high, it kept on working.

I was looking for a good wah pedal, I found a superb one. Certainly fits the rock/pop style of our band.From funky rhytms to freaky "waves" of feedback : this Baby can produce it all. I often use it to make sounds than can be compared to analog synths,and to produce punky fade - outs at the end of songs. (Since my guitar has the lousiest output level in the history of rock'n'roll, it just isn't capable of producing genuine feedback.)I would certainly buy a new one if it were stolen. Wouldn't let anyone steal it any how ;)

Cmon just step on it! Its a wah wah! You just click the switch and move your foot back and forth!

Im usin this sucker with a fender strat, an epiphone les paul and a steinburger headless guitar. I run it along with an ibanez tube screamer, and a digitech rp 50. Then i go into a mesa boogie subway rocket amp. It sounds good but i think my tone is better without the crybaby. you see when im not usin it, it kinda sucks my tone cuz its not true bypass. I am gonna send it to analog man or somebody like that cuz he can make it true bypass so it dosent suck ur tone. www.analogman.com I like the wahing, but it messes up my tone when im not using it.

O yea its a solid pedal. This thing aint gona break easily.

I play blues, rock, a little bit of jazz and all sorts of stuff. Im 12 years old and stevie ray vaughan is my hero. I like the crybaby a lot, but once i mod it to be true bypass, it'l be great.

It's a wah with no knobs, what else could you ask for if you want easy use.

In my humble opinion, The crybaby I have is the best sounding wah there is. I can't seem to find one that I like as much as this baby. It's just so funky. It's extremly easy to get hendrix or SRV sounds out of it when I'm using my Strat through my Musicman 212. As for when it's turned off... It sucks your sound. Since it's not true bypass, it sounds like when you turn the tone knob down on your guitar when it's off. I'm gonna have to get mine modded for true bypass.

The Crybaby is the least reliable pedal that I know of. Mine has broken multiple times , and I think that it's time to try a new company. Most of the people I know that have one are currently not using theirs because they are broken, in one way or another. Would I use it on a gig without backup? Well, I don't think I'd use on a gig anymore with or without a backup, seeing as how it's broken on about every gig I've chosen to use it on.

When I was trying to figure out one of the many problems with this pedal, the man who worked for Dunlop that I talked to had no idea what he was talking about. He wasn't helpful at all. I don't like trash talking companys, but the customer service that I encountered was not at all helpful. At least the guy was friendly.

I play Jazzed-up Funkjamrock and the crybaby is the perfect sounding pedal for my music. I have been playing for about 8 years now. I play the guitar I put together(Red Lace Sensors and a SD Little '59)>Crybaby>Digitech Synth Wah> Boss SD-1> ProCo RAT>Guyatone md3>E~H Smallclone> Boss CE-5. The sound when it is on is spectacular, but when it's off your great tone is not as great as it could be if you were not plugged into it. If you want a more reliable pedal then I would go for a Morley, but a Morley just doesn't have as much soul as this pedal. If it were stolen, then my problems would all be gone. I don't suggest this pedal, only because it will fall apart.