Dunlop Crybaby

Easy enough to use, but using a wah wah is a skill in itself...

I use it with a Fender Tele and Princeton. I had a Jimi Hendrix model before and I aslo tried Morley's, Voxs and - ahem - Ibanez's. This one is best for clean funky playing. I can get the sound from Prince's Kiss almost exactly. Also great for dry chucking, blaxpoitation stylee. Probably not extreme enough if you play heavy rock/metal though. Hard to rate it, beacuse it can sound a little tinny but that's the sound I'm going for so to me it's a 10 but to the average player I guess 8 .

Any wah has moving parts, and this one uses a pot rather than optical units, so I'm expecting some trouble one day. My Dunlop Hendrix wha DID break after many years. One advantage of Dunlop is that you can order spare parts. (Try that with your Ibanez!)

Don't knwo (still need to get thta damn JH wah fixed)

For funk this is the best I've heard. One of thje few indispensable effects I own. The range is wide enough to get areal chacka-chacka sound, like on Shaft or Son of Shaft or Papa was a Rolling Stone. It also does a pretty good Just Kissed My Baby with a little overdrive added. Not perfect for Voodoo Chile or Say Wha? though. This pedal is a great help, cause when I forget the chords I can always do some great dry wah-ing! :-) Oh I also played it with a Gibson LP and that soudned really good too. Not a good match with a Fuzz face (though the Dunlop booklet implies it is!) for some technical reason...

Straightforward enough, but I hate having to press my foot down to turn it on and off.

I'm using this with and Epiphone LP and a Peavey 100 Watt combo. Contrary to the way everyone else seems to criticise this, I love it. It is truly an amazing wah pedal. Not only does it give great sound clean and overdrivien, but the wah sweep is so smooth and slick. I can even leave it on to give my tonal adjustments. I love this pedal.

Ah, well... the stupid footswitch is a bit broke, it clicks when turned on and gives a momentary lapse in noise.

Great sound, I have used it to play metal to rock to blues and it sounds amazing, but it broke, so I can't give it 10. Still, this is my favourite pedal and when used in conjunction with flangers or detuners sounds amazing. Beats the Bad Horsie and Boss hands down. I would replace this if stolen and also kill however stole it. An essential part of my tone.

u step on it and rock it back and forth step on it till it clicks its off if u cant figure that out then your just really.the button is a little hard to push especially if u are sitting but this can be fixed by raising the button or cutting the little rubber feet

my setup is squire strat or jackson v >crybaby > ibanez compressor> peavey chorus to fender roc pro 1000 amp and this pedal sounds damn good.alot of people bitch about it sucking tone and it does take away some treble but i like this because i like the darker sound especially when i use the strat. this is a very good pedal for the money but its not really the sound i want i like it but i want that wah sound from the intro of the outlaw torn by mettalica and this pedall is to thin for that but is serves the purpose i use it for almost all of my solos for jazz band at school.i give this pedal a 6 because it dosent sound as fat as i want

its very dependable i got my pedal used about a year ago and the previous owner had it for a long time and i'm still not having any major problems. the pot is starting to go bad though but it should be able to make it through the end of the yr

never dealt with them

its a good pedal for the money and i'm happy with it it could be better but is serves the purpose so i'll give it an 8

Well, kinda easy... you know? ;)

Framus Panthera Custom - CryBaby - Jackhammer - JCM 800

Well, it's great. I tried several other wah's and I really took my time to find the best out of the bunch. I heard good things about Morley but to me they just don't have any range. They're shredding. wah's. And you pay twice as much for a Bad Horsie 2 as a CryBaby. I'm not saying I'm the great expert. I'm not the kind of musician who spends more time getting gear than actually playing. But to me it sounds damn great. I couldn't imagine my playing without it anymore. It's sweet and it's the only wah I was really convinced of. It's so much fun to play.

It's build like a rock. The salesman said I'm gonna have problems with the pot in a few years. Heard that from lots of people. Mine is new, so ok... can't really judge that.

Never dealt with them

If you like a really 'organic' wah, get this one! You get it for cheap money and it is definitely the best one out there. It has no true bypass though. I wasn't really out to get a CryBaby cause I wanted to set my sound a little aside. But such quality you just can't ignore!

Not too bad, just lean your weight forward on it to turn it on/off. Stomping on it doesn't really accomplish the task as easy. I only weigh 180 lbs, so it doesn't take much weight. Then the fact thats you just rock it back and forth simplifies using it. However, it does take time to really learn how to use it musically.

The Cry Baby sounds so sweet. The only lost of tone is when the battery is low, then the pedal can't function well. I use it with my Crate GFX-212 and cab, along with my PRS Custom 22. Really helps to enhance leads, and it can give the player a new, creative way to create music. Seems to work better for fast, metal leads, e.g., Kirk Hammett's style. Not as effective for rocking wah sounds, works better as a slow filter.

The Pedal works great and is built very strongly.

Never talked to them.

The Cry Baby is a necessary addition to my soloing style. I can create much emotion during solos in which the Cry Baby seems to suit. I've never played a Wah pedal I like more, I've been playing my Cry Baby about 2 years. It may be nice if it was modded to have controls such as changing the range that the tone change be shifted, and a mid-shift control.

This pedal is too easy! If you can't switch it on, put a riser on the switch. I threw some hockey tape, a ball of it, it switchews real easy, sometimes I accidently switch it off if I push too hard.

I'm using a les Paul, a Nobels overdrive and my crybaby into a Peavey bandit, run into a peavey head and then finally a cabinet. It's not noisy at all, but depending on where I have set it up it will suck the hell out of my tone and lose some volume as well.

It's reliable. Built like a tank, as already mentioned and seems good overall. Who has money for backups? I sure don't, if something goes on stage, we always make the best of it.

Don't know.

I play in a thrash/punk band and experimental band, and I have found lots of really fun uses for it. I would buy it again if it were stolen. I enjoy it, but hate the tone drain.

Designed sometime long ago, technologies weren't too difficult. So is the way you should threat the baby. I bought one yesterday, after having used my friends one for a few years. Second hand, very cheap. I have had the VOX 847 reissue, which might sound better, but that thing annoyed me increddibly, sice I couldn't manage to built in a decent Adapter-input. The thing had an irritating hum, playes with the adapter. With bateries it sounded great, but I don't like working with them and so sold the vox and bought a Crybaby. The thing looks like my grandma: Old, ugly and repaired. That's what I like.
Now, I need to say, whoever says that it's not easy to activate the pedal, for you have to weight as much as an elephant, is not very smart...
Yust put the switch higher up! Take it easy, a small bit should be enough. But it'll make the difference.

As I said, probably not as sweet as the VOX, but it works fine! I play a sort of grooverock, kinda like RATM / RHCP, but with a lot of straight forward melodramatic melodies. For me, I mostly use the wah through distortion, and it does it well. Maybe it takes a bit of tone (not true bypass, but they say true bypass can be annoying too), but you can take care of that at your amp.

Setting: Ibanez Artist (AR100, super 58), wah, E.H. small stone, Carl Martin Hot drive 'n Boost, London City dea 130 MKV head, (or a JCM 900 head), ampeg speakercab with 4 x 12 celestions.)

Looks sturdy, try it and find out it is! Maybe the Pot... but only heard about the problem, never actually had problems.

Never dealt with them.

These pedals aren't so expensive, and go around the planet in large amounts. It's easy to find one for a good price. For me, it has worked well for about three years (I,m talking about my friends wah).
Maybe if I can find a not too expensive George Dennis wah, I will buy it. But never will do this away, since I'm satisfied.

Buy one, and have fun!

Well, you plug it in step on it and go wheeeeee.

(My Rig Explained at the bottom)
Ok, obviously its a classic so that can't be bad. My personal beefs? Well, honestly I hate the bypass on it. When the effect is not on, it really chokes the tone. You know how some guys really hate wireless units and will use a cable instead to get better tone (EVH, Joe Perry, Zakk Wylde on the new Ozzy Tour). Well, its because their wireless units (which are way better than you and I can afford) are choking their tone. Personally, the crybaby chokes the highs and it so noticable that my drummer even noticed when I wasn't plugged into it and said that I was sounding brighter. I give it a 6 because its sound while being played is great but I knock off 4 since the bypass sucks.

Well, I've had this unit for 11 years now and have used it every time I've plugged into a guitar. Just recently though, my unit died and I'm now currently in the market for a new wah wah. One night at a gig, I stepped on it to get some horrendous screetch when the wah was depressed and on. I immediately disconnected it and finished the gig. The next time I plugged my wah up I could hear an audible click and then the tone would drop but the wah wouldn't work. I replaced the tone-pot but it didn't work. Since its 11 years old and you can pick up new ones for 70 bucks online i'm not going to push it and spend any more money. I give it an 8 on reliability because its heavy and I used to think it was indestructable. It lasted 11 years and 3 wives so I guess its not that bad.

Even though I had problems with it, I didn't contact them. Too much of a hassle for something I beat up for 11 years.

I play southern rock/heavy rock and literally have to use a wah on 80% of my solos. I run Les Pauls (Customs and Standards) through the wah, Boss Super Chorus, GE7 EQ pedal, and Line6 DL4 Delay through a JCM2000TSL100 and 1960 cabinet. I'm going to purchase a new wah and I will test play everything out there but I'll really seriously consider buying this again if they've updated the bypass since my model if not, I'll purchase something else. 8 for great sound but crap on the bypass.

I am writing this review to stick up for the damn button. People here are slagging the button because it is hard to press and saying things like "You need to weigh as much as an elephant to press it". I disagree. I have used a crybaby for years and have successfully turned it on every time!! If you are having problems turning in on and off it is because it hasn't been rocked back before you push it hard to click the button and the button hasn't been allowed to go back up to catch again. Just rock it back and then forward again. THE BUTTON RULES WITH ULTIMATE AUTHORITY!!

Cant go wrong really, forward is treble, back is bass. Sound quality is what you get out of your guitar with a pot between it and the amp, what do you expect?

You can make it more trebbley or more bassy by slackening the screw on the saw, moving the pot round, sticking the saw back on and tightening it up again.

Never let me down. I have encountered one that hasn't been played in a few years with a scratchy pot but that is lack of use rather than breakdown.

Never needed to, never had a problem with it.

I play Rock/Metal in the traditional sense of the term (not 'nu-metal') and use a Les Paul Marshal TSL 100 head 4x12 celestion loaded cab. Effects, ancient MXR Dyna Comp, Boss chorus, an ancient analog delay (can't remember who made it now), wah, and A/B box that goes to the Marshal or to a Vox Cambridge 15 with Heil Talk box fitted. I usually leave the Chorus and Delay out of the loop unless I am using them as they eat batteries and I only have them to *play* with rather than for gigging. What can I say, I am a waliking cliche with a Marshal, Les Paul, Wah and Talk Box....

Pretty dadgum easy! Step on it, and start crying the blues.

It's actually a little trickier than you would think to work this thing.If your gonna have a wah wah,this is the one to have. There is only one complaint, and that concerns all this modern day crappola about true bypass. LOL!!!!!This is the only pedal that I can think of where you would need to pay somebody to make it true bypass. Just about everything else out there sounds great when not engaged whether its true bypass or not. So stop believing all the B/S these companies are trying to sell you about true bypass. All ya need is a great guitar, a great amp, and lots of practice.

I've heard of these things breaking easy, mine has been known to get scratchy pots so theres gonna be some maintenance involved.

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Again, if your gonna have a wah wah, then get this one.