Dunlop Crybaby

OK, most people say "if you can't use this thing you must be a moron". Two points re that:
1. If you've never used a wha before, you need to practice it. Just pumping your foot up & down sucks; you need to learn to sculpt the sound the way, say, Hendrix does. That takes a bit of getting used to; and
2. At least on mine, you have to virtually JUMP on the thing to turn it on and off.
This second point has caught me out live a few times. Might just be my box, I'm not sure, and it might be that I'm more of a tapper than a stomper on my pedals generally. That said, I've been playing this for around 6 years so I can't hate it that much.

Hmmm. I *really* like this version of the wha sound. As someone below said, it's not a very extreme wha, but for me you want more of a vintage sound on this type of effect. It sucks your tone when it's turned on -- that's what it's for ;-) -- but when it's off I don't notice a big difference. Probably a true bypass mod would be nice though.
I also had an issue with the pot making grinding noises. That would have been the death of it, except my brother is a dab hand with a soldering iron and fixed it in about 10 minutes. If any pedal makes crackling noises, it's busted and either needs fixing or replacing.
Finally, it quite often goes POP when you turn it on or off.
I love using this at home/jam sessions, and I'm just about OK with it on stage but you couldn't really use it for recording. Again, this might be a quirk of my unit, or it might a a repairable fault (I can't remember whether it's always done it) but it's a real problem either way. If it didn't do that, I'd give it a 10, no question.

I bought this second hand and don't know how old it is, so this is hard to judge. As mentioned above, I've had to get the pot fixed and I might have a problem with the switch. In terms of casing, which is what those "built like a tank" folks care so much about, it is indeed very solid.
One other thing: the battery tends to die suddenly, so it can choke on you on stage. Use an AC adapter or put a fresh battery in for anything important.

Never dealt with them.

Basically I like this pedal a lot but I think mine is just a bit elderly. If/when it needs to be replaced I'll look at others but I'll probably be looking for the same sound, just newer and hence more dependable.

it will be hard to use at first, unless you have very good hand/foot coordination. very good for mimicking vocals.

I saw joe satriani use this on his live in san francisco dvd. He had a really good tone in that dvd. he basically uses a marshall 6100, and a few effects pedals. i was a little skeptical as to getting a defective wah pedal because the wah didn't seem to work when used with a lot of distortion and i've heard satch get a good wah tone while using tons of distortion. I figured out that he used a treble pickup to get that predominant wah sound. one advice would be to use your treble pickup when using this device if you are trying to get the wah tone in the higher frets because using the neck pickup will basically do very little to the tone.

dunno, only had it for a week.

dunno, never contacted them.

the price for this pedal is slightly more than I expected. probably because a lot of famous guitar virtuosos like steve vai, eric clapton, joe satriani, and jimi hendrix have used them. I mainly play a lot of rock instrumental though I'm also into jazz, classical, metal, alternative, and a few others. I've been playing for 4 years and this would be my first wah pedal. I was going for that satch wah tone and so i bought this impulsively.

its easy

the sound quality is raw and 70,s, which was what i wanted, you can loosen off the saw and move the pot for more treble/bass, instead of stomping on it you can take off the silver washer on the switch and reassemble, this is very easy to do, dont need to be a genius
now..... i had a small problem with my rig, jcm 900, strat, dod yjm 308, the additional boss dd-3 was beefing up the treble in my rig because its not a true bypass it was so trebly that even the singer noticed,
this seems to be a perfect match to run with the crybaby because its taken that treble back out! thank fuck for that, im very happy with this thing, warning, if you have a bassy rig this may prove harmful to your sound.
be sure to run it before anything in your chain for optimum effect although jimi used to use it after his fuzz!

you better believe it!

nup.

i play malmsteen style licks and know he uses one so....... i got one, naturally!
all you non vintage bastards out there with your schecter guitars and crap with ya valvestate amps will probarbly hate this pedal its very vintage sounding.
]just warning you no offence offered,
even if you are!

couldn't be any more basic... click and wah away.

perfect... this is what a wah is suppose to sound like...no other basic grade wah compares (including that legendary cry-baby). only thing that i have a problem with is how much tone it sucks out of your sound (you know...the true bypass crap). I plan on gettin mine up graded soon enough and would advise anyone else to do the same.

this is built like the chunk of steel it is...it weighs like 5 lbs too. good luck destorying it.

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like i said ...nothin compares, Vox is the best, it kicks all the other wah pedals right in the teeth. only trouble i've ever had was on how Vox was pronounced, Vox (fox) or V.O.X.

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If you play around with this wah and learn HOW to use it you can get a great sound. but if your like my friend who has the xact same crybaby I do and doesn't know how to use it will sound horrrible. I bought it used, so no manual, but if you need a manual your obviously not smart enough to use a manual effect like this.

I use this mainly with a Fender Telecaster and a vintage sunn amp either very clean of very distorted and it nails Hendrix, its not quite whinny enough for metallica but that is probably because i use overdrive not distortion, if you use this clean there is a very noticable volume increase, but the volume increase helps distorted.

This thing is built like a mac truck

I play Hendrix, grunge, funk. contempory Christian, jazz, blues and it will work for anything except jazz(duh), i really wish you could change the q length but that isn't really an inconvienience it would just be nice.

Pretty simple once you find that sweet spot for solos

sounds great, but you do have to have a good rig to get the most out of it for rock solos. on the other hand, I plug into my digitech rp100 and use it to record funk rhythm tracks on cakewalk, and it's sweet.

Mine's never had a problem, but a friend and I had a gig, and his Crybaby fell out of the back of his amp in the parking lot, and then got ran over with the back wheel of a 1/2 ton! He plugged it in, and still played the gig with it! All that was wrong was a sheared off rubber foot and a bent up bottom plate! Who can beat that!

Their easy to fix and replace parts, so I suppose not a lot of support is needed

there are lots of good wah pedals on the market, but these are one of the best, and the higher end dunlop wahs get even better. I'd like to try one of the new fasel crybabys, and maybe get one step better.

easy to use, just rock it back and forth.

i had the worst anp and a warlock (not a great guitar) and on the clean mode it sounded awesome. you can have the worst amp in the world (like i did) and it still sounds good. if you use a lot of gain (like me) you cant really hear it to much. but thats ok. i give it a 9 cause you cant hear it with a lot of gain

i would definetly gig with it without a backup. its made like a tank, it can take a beating, believe me.

never delt with them

If it was stolen, i definetly would buy a new one. its a very very good wah

its really easy to use but if you want to switch it to by-pass you have to push really hard on the pedal. this is nearly impossible to so sitting down.

it sounds amazing. i run it threw a line 6 spyder 112 and my ax is a schecter c-1 classic(also a great buy). ive used this on every effecton my amp and it never has sounded dirty or bad. i think it sounds really cool with heavy distortion and i can get the feel of hendrix on it (providing I use a lighter distortion).

i would gig wiht it but lake a day after i got it the little feet fell of and i had to take the screws off and put them back on. when i got it i looked at it and lifted the pedal up. when i looked in between the part of the pedal and the base of he pedal where the switch is i saw the thing that is connected to both. srry i dont know how to explain it but its like a black thin thing that goes in the pedal when you push down and so when i looked in it there was grease every where and it got on my fingers whiches a hughe pain.

it is an amazing pedal and i love it its got great tone and the sound never gets dirty or scrambled with other effects i love this pedal but i hate the features (the feet and the greasee)

you've got to really stomp this thing to get it going. this makes it difficult to use while sitting, which is how i often play. no problem though, just stand up, click it and sit back down. if you've never used your feet before (i.e., you can't dance, etc.), you might have an akward time rocking it at first. (i'm very stiff, so,yes, i had a weird time first using a wah. but i made sure i had the hang of it before buying one.)

i love the manual. it said simply "hendrix' rig: guitar, fuzz, crybaby, amp." i'm surprised it didn't simply say "duh..."

i run mine between a les paul custom and a marshall that has several built in time-based effects (delay, delay/chorus, chorus, flange). when i'm sitting around alone i get really expiremental. the crybaby fits perfectly with a slide and long delay lengths.

i use mine with almost every solo i take because it makes each time new and exciting, even if i play the same thing over and over. you don't really even need to rock it for it to rock. i leave it in the treble position for marc bolan-type stuff, and by leaving the bass you can get quite a fuzzed out, talk box like sound, perfect for the 'hair of the dog' solo. as i said, i use this all the time. i use it clean, i use it dirty. it always sounds great. however, if playing fast with a lot of overdrive on the high end of the neck, it can be difficult to hear whether you have switched it on. you might not think you have, kick it again, and then not have it on when you need it. this is a minor problem that i'm sure is only with my (lack of) hearing.

one of the neatest sounds i've ever made came from running two crybabies together. for that reason i will probably buy another one.

it sounds like a wah is supposed to sound: trebley with the toe down, bassy with the heel down, akward in the middle.

built like a panzer. survives me kicking it around the concrete floor all day. batteries are a problem though. a friend of mine was complaining that he had to change batteries every week. i told him to simply unplug it when not playing and its fine.

i haven't dealt with dunlop, but musician's friend got this to my house in five days.

so many guys don't like the crybaby, but guess what--it's not the pedal, it's the player. i use the crybaby for everything. sweet blues; trippy, psychedelic jazz; raunchy rock n' roll; and screaming metal. you can't go wrong with it. i love it. i recorded an interesting little twenty-minute thing called 'my baby cries (wah-wah blues)' that spanned everything i thought it could do. i was wrong. the entire use of the wah can't be captured in twenty years of playing, much less twenty minutes. when i got mine musician's friend sent me a free shirt, but it was big enough to be damn parachute. so i cut out the logo and sewed it on the back of my jean jacket. i get catcalls from most people for having crybaby on my back, but the guitar players see it and respect it! make the baby cry! you rock it, it rocks you.

Fairly straight forward... it's a wah pedal. If you have a minimum of coordination, it's easy to use. I did solder a penny to make it easier to click on/off, but that's just me.

I haven't tried out many wahs. I tried this one and bought. For the longest time I thought it sounded a little weak, but still kept it. When I sold my Peavey Supreme 160 (I used the distortion in the head) and bought a Marshall JCM800 and started using an overdrive pedal, my wah suddenly SCREAMED! Huge improvement in sound quality. I have noticed that different guitars have different "sweet spots" as far as the wah bass/treble, but I don't find it's a problem. Sounds fine to me.

I bought it brand new in 1992, have gigged and toured with it heavily. It's dirty, beat up, and the foot part I spray painted white so I know it's mine, but it works as good as the day I bought it. The longest I've ever consistently used a pedal without it failing for exploding.

Never had any problems, so no reason to call.

I play Black Sabbath/early 70's-influenced Heavy Rock. This wah gets that sound and I'm very pleased with it. Mind you, I haven't really shopped around--but I haven't felt the need to try out other wahs either. Does the trick, I'll play it till it breaks. Then I'll try to fix it. If it was stolen, I'd look around for a Crybaby with dirty white spray paint on the top and I'd know it's mine--then beat the person up and reclaim my pedal.