Dunlop Crybaby

No problemo here.

I have used this one with following set-up:
Fender(Mexican)Strat Deluxe->Crybaby->Vox distortion Booster->Boss Stereo Chorus->Amp (Before Marshall Solid State 50W, now Fender Roc Pro 1000).
I have experienced no unneeded sounds, hiss or scratching. It seems to change your guitar signal even when it's off (adds some treble, maybe) but that's hardly noticeable.
When the rocker pedal is up, the thing seems to take down some level of your volume (as happened with my former Morley), but not too much. Anyway, for best effect on this one, try to rock the pedal on a small space around the pedal's mid position, not just up and down with the beat!
The sound is pretty good and classic.
With a lot of distortion it seems to loose it's edge, and you can not vary the effect it creates so much. (For a wah that works well on high gain settings, check out "Bad Horsie".) But with clean and slightly overdriven settings it shines!
And to the discussion whether wah should be before or after the gain, I'd say it's for everyone to choose. I've heard that Jimi used it after the gain, I prefer it to be the first one in the effects chain. Both ways it works, but the sound is definitively different! Try it out!

I've had it for two years, and hasn't broken up. My friend has had it about 7 years, and no problems. It just needs some cleaning inside.
And remember to leave it in down position after playing, so that dust won't crawl in.
Really dependable. Well covered in steel.
In- and outputs and power in have worked without problems.

I can not comment on this one, cause it has worked out just fine.

I play hard rock and blues sometimes, and Crybaby fits in nicely.
I have played for what,..., eh, seven years, and had a Morley Wah/Volume Pedal before. This is superior to that.
I just wish one could somehow change the sound on this, to make it more personal. But that's for those who wanna pay more!
It gives me a way to add "vocal quality" on my soloing, and really helps to hide my mistakes! :) On comping it can make the whole rhythm change it's character.
Nice peace of an effect we have here.

extremely easy to use if you have even a semblance of rhythym and ear for phrasing. Dont remember if it came with a manual, No upgrades.

I've used this with my Fender US Strat, Epiphone Sheridan II, DeArmond S65, Harmony REbel through both tube and SS amps. Currently I'm using a Fender Stage 100 and small 1950's Danelectro tube amp and this pedal sounds like crap with all of them. Extremely noisy and scratchy since the day I bought it new. DON'T BUY THIS PEDAL-IT'S GARBAGE! Buy a VOX! I've heard other Crybabys and they sounded the same as mine.

What could go wrong with it- I never use it! I couldn't rely on this thing (at least not soundwise) since I bought it! I wouldn't use this piece of junk WITH a backup!!!

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Play blues and classic rock. This pedal isn't a match with anything other than the back end of a garbage truck. If someone stole this pedal I'd hunt them down, give them a battery, and wish them luck. What a waste of metal and cut rate components. I bought it becasue I've been playing for 35 years and trusted the Dunlop name-but what an utter piece of pure unadulterated CRAP! Spend the extra fifty bucks and buy a Vox-there's NO COMPARISON!!! Is there anything I wish it had? Yes! I wish it came with it's own mailing box and postage so I could send this piece of dung to some other unsuspecting sap and let HIM deal with it! If this catagory had a "0" option that's what I'd use, but since it doesn't- I rate it....

I got this for christmas & had been wanting one for ages. Having never used one before I excitedly unwrapped it, stuck in a battery, plugged it in & straight away making all the sexy wah sounds I wanted!
It even works when Im drunk.

I run this pedal into a 50watt Marshall amp from either my Ibanez delux '59er classic, or my Jackson RR1 'flying V' superstrat. It sounds perfectly clean through both these guitars and just enhances their tone. With the gain turned up the sound quality gets lost but thats expected, but I never want hi distortion anyway.
The sounds I want I can always get so far I use it to get the classic wah sounds for Guns'N'Roses & Hendrix; clean,funky sounds like in all the '70's films; envelope filter noises if its slow & feeds back; slow moogs like in dance music and fast riffs like Pitchshifter & Prodigy. It's capable of so much.

Dont see it breakin soon as its like a brick & weighs a tonne. Its had a lot of use already and has a quality,lasting feel to it. I'd use it no problems at any gig.

This is the perfect wah pedal for anyone. Its built to last, has a perfect sound capable of so many funky noises and has uses in all music.Ive been playing for 2 years and this is my first pedal, Im definatly glad i own one. Cant find any hates about it and it definatly has a use in guitar playing!

You click the pedal on, rock it a few times, and click it off. Not hard at all to find the sweet spots.

This wah sounds incredible with my daddy-O as well as clean. It also makes my fulltone Fulldrive 2 sing, in the od channel at least.

"But if it sounds great, why the 6?"

The problems all started when I first tried the wah with a heavier distortion/overdrive. When I play it through a DS-1, it doesn't have that sweetness/smoothness as with the lower gain daddy-o or fulldrive. It sounded like it was positioned after the DS-1 instead of in front of it. So I get this rancid kind of tone when I sweep it back and forth. And it does the same thing with the boost section of the FD2.

MUCHO BUMMER!!!

Other than that, this 9 year old wah hisses at the toe section and pops on and off. This isn't too big a problem. It's just that I like to use it to accent parts of the quiet songs. And the "POP" stands out!

9 years old and still kicking.

never dealt with them.

Overall, this isn't a bad pedal. I really like the tonal spectrum of this wah. I would however like to have one of those Fulltone Clyde wahs because they supposedly have an even broader and sweeter bottom to their ranges (which is where I like to play).
Buy this as a first wah off eBay, then if you decide you like the wah effect, save up to buy a dunlop 535Q or fulltone clyde. You can't go wrong

How easy is it NOT to get a good sound out of this?!?!? No knobs, just a rocker pedal. Choice of AC input or 9V battery. That's it. Simple and effective.

The manual is only helpful in that it tells you that Jimi Hendrix used Fuzz before the wah. Try this - it sounds like your channelling some spirit of Jimi haha!

Here's my setup: Squier standard Strat into Boss NS-2, OC-2, MT-2 and FZ-3, then into a Fender Deluxe 85. Wah is after the Fuzz and the on-board distortion and sounds fantastic. Wah is before the Metal Zone and sounds like Kirk Hammet or possibly even Dimebag off Trendkill (Think 'Thirteen Steps to Nowhere'). Sounds good with clean too... bridge pickup and a hint of reverb... wow funkadelic!

Looks strong, although the pot looks prone to getting dirty.

No comment.

Get one!!!

A no-brianer. Doesn't get much easier than an on/off switch and a rocker pedal. Scrimped on the features, but man, it's easy as pie to use.

Very good vintage wah. Gets that nice thick "white room" wah to the t. Not very versitile, but what it does, it does well enough.

Seems dependable.

never dealt with dunlop

I play blues with a little bit of classic/acid rock. For all that I need the wah (which aint often) it does the job pretty well. Now it aint perfect, I know, and it's pretty static as far as differing tones and whatnot, but seriously, I'd like to see all of you who say this pedal is trash make a wah that works. It isn't great, but seriously, it isn't that bad!

A monkey could use it.

Well, I run a clapton strat into it, to a dl4, into a dynacomp,into my mesa and get some good sounds. I notice that all the reviewers that have played along time (10 plus years) usually give this pedal a 1-6, opting for the higher priced boutique pedals. On the other hand, most beginners (1-5 years) rate this pedal rather high. I've played 8 years and have gotten to the point to where my ears are very developed but not to the point of a 15+ player (pro/semi-pro). Anyway, this is a good inexpensive pedal. It gives the classic wah tones and adds some colorful filtering effects to your sound. Like in the sixties, it does suck on your tone and dulls it up, just like on band of gypsies or white room(and i don't care if it's a vox or crybaby they both do the same thing). To be honest I'm going to invest in a fulltone or a 535Q because I'd like true-bypass. In the meantime the crybaby is doing a fine job.

It crackles and pops and sometimes really screws with the sound, but cleaning it now and again helps. Live it has done fine.

It's a cool little pedal with a good vibe and some flaws, but anything I've ever owned I could say the same thing about. If you have really picky ears look elsewhere, but for the the most part it wahs and wahs and wahs.........

Aaaa. Im not going to answer this.

First off. BEGINERS LOOK HERE. Take my word Ive toured all over the US and in other countries. Half the problem with tone on this page is Your puting your wha in the WRONG PLACE! Unless your going for a special effect, Wah's ALWAYS go before the distortion. the Reason....you wanna distort the wah'ed signal not wah the distorted signal. Why? Wah'ing the distorted signal acts like a gain filter and filters out frequencies. When in the bass possition it will sound like it sucked gain and volume. in the treble position, it will sound very peircing and loud and noisy. Now, distorting the wah signal is what you want becouse your wah is wah'ing the clean signal from your guitar and will effect all frequenceis evenly and filter pregain. If you dont belive me try it. Or better yet look at the BOSS effects manual they put out to show off thier line. they give a chart of were you should put stuf generally. Wah is always first!

That being said, Im a Vox user and I dont like the Crybaby. Ive taken both units apart as I am qualified to do repairs like that and Ive seen that not only is Vox built better, it uses better components and the way they configure thier circuits will always win over the way dunlops crybaby does it. For some reason Crybaby has been linked to everybody even though everybodys always used Voxs. Can you name a guitar hero whos used a Crybaby? Dont say Hendrix. Hendrix used Voxs and had Crybabys specilly built. Its not Satriani Vai page etc although theyve been linked to crybabys for some reason.

Ive never had a problem but just about everything else that Dunlop makes now a days has a funny way not working all the sudden. If you think I dont know what im talking about its becouse you havnt owned many Dunlop effects, play in your bedroom and get no real use from gear, or have just plain been lucky with your boxes. Ive butted heads many times with Dunlop especially over Uni-Vibes (which seem to suffer from a scourge of bad manufacturing leading to many people eventually winding up with 250$ paper weights) and the Heil Boxes.

Ill put it this way, most of the time when one of thier products stops working for some reason? they dont even acknowledge you. The time i did get a reply and a conversation was over my UniVibe. I bought it for studio use, used it once, put it in a nice safe clean place in storage. Next studio trip, i grab my UniVibe recorded a few takes with it and then, nothing. They fixed it for free. Got it back, one day, then nothing. Sent it back for repair (and 60$) got it back, nothing at all. Thier responce, must be your fault. I wanted a new one but i guess from lookin at the review page for UniVibes, if they gave a new one for everyone that tanked for no reason, theyd be outa business. So I dont think much of thier service.

I cant rely on thier products live. i do love some of thier boxes but they just arent relyable and Dunlop isnt helpfukk at all.

Easy...plug in. Rock back and forth. Enjoy sound.

Best wah on the market....and to the dumbass named Doug who posted a few spaces down saying he couldn't hear the effect when he used his friends.....It's called an effects loop retard. If you used anything in the amp like distortion you should realize as a human that the gain etc. is effecting the guitar line completely. In fact that's why amplifiers have loops to begin with. Anyway....The pedal sounds great. Dunlop kills all the other companies.

I use it live all the time. Really reliable. I think "Doug" just got stoned and tried to make his own wah and thought all along he bought one....

Never dealt with them

If it wers stolen I'd track down the f*ck that took it and slice his neck off...I love this pedal

This is a beast of a pedal. You can rock 'n' roll all night with this baby. Ooh mama. Suh-weet soundin' piece of equipment. Just plug the sucker in and you're ready, Jim!

I'm using an epiphone guitty right now runnin' it through a vintage Danelectro amp with the tremolo all the way up. This crybaby always brings out the best of it.

This guy is built like a 1950 chevy hot rod-very well. I play in a funk/country group and use this all the time with no means of a backup.

Never dealt with these cats, but I'm sure they're hip as can be.

I mainly play vintage funk and, whooo-wee, does this baby rock! My kind of pedal! I love this thang. Little D can't get enough of me when I flip the switch.