Dunlop Crybaby

Easy as 123,youd have to be a idiot not to figure how to use this pedal.

I have a RG120 -Dunlop crybaby-Ibanez SM7 (smash box)-Danelectro Flanger-Ibanez DE7(DELAY & Echo) going inot a Crate Gfx15.I dont know why people are bashing this pedal, its still the best wah ive heard.I previously had a Morely Wah(not the bad horsie,i hate the springboard) and is was Crap!Traded it in for a Crybaby and never regreted it!Must be the difference in Electro-optic circuitry and Hot potz,but thats my take on it.I love how this pedal sounds through my setup!I got one because my favorite guitarist ,Tom Morello of RATM has one and I was Easily able to duplicate his Wah sound,especialy on "bulls on parade."Ive also used it to do Metallica solos,such as the "wherever i may Roam" one and it worked great!I also use it as a volume boost>All in all,i loved the sound!

This thing is built tough!I was playing with it and didnt notice the cable was under it and it completely bent it without a scratch on it!Ive never had a problem with the on/off switch and im alwas able to put turn it on with ease(those who complain that its difficult must be tooth picks).I dont think ill ever need a backup for it,it looks like it can take a good beating=)

Nver dealt with them.

Ive been playing for over a year and play mostly Thrash metal and Hard rock.If it were stolen,id definatly buy a new one,but probably a 535 or 95Q crybaby.I love how many sounds you can get out of this thing!Ive recently learned how to use it as a filter ala"Rusty cage" by sound Garden or the solo from"fade to balck" by metallica.I use it along with my Delay pedal and get all sorts of freaky effects.Dont use it much for punk,but adds a nice effect when you pick slide(sorta like the sound of the pick slide from "Crazy train" by Ozzy).It just expanded my horizen on what i could do musicly and i think it is a crucial element in a Guitarists effect army.

Just wanted to give a word of warning--my buddy and I both have crybabies. They have the same model. Mine sounds great, his is really flat and crappy sounding. Opened them up and... they have completely different circuits! His is 12 years old, mine is 6. weird.

Plug it in and rock back-n-forth! Fun!

Not bad, just short of great.I use a Carvin DC200 guitar with 10 gauge strings. My Les Paul Standard is my back up (the Carvin is that good),Ernie Ball Mono volume, a Tube Screamer with my Dunlop. I use a Rocktron Replitone 212 for an amp.All those "anonymous" reviewers out there need to record with a wah pedal to tell how much the wah adds apperently. I like my wah!

Another one that makes me scratch, I've had mine since about 1985 or so and the only thing that ever goes weird on mine is the nuts on the jacks.I get out my wrench and soon I'm slayin' em again! By the way, I took off the rubber stoppers under the rocker pedal for easy on/off and a wider sweep.

Never had to deal with them.But you can see me at:Bilvis.Homestead.com. (NO WWW)

I play Rock & Roll. Not trendy crap either! Yes I would buy another one, but I haven't needed to. It is my "Tonto", ,my "Robin", my sidekick that I do not do without.

So easy to use tha even a one legged man might figure it out. No need for a manual. Plug in, wail.

This sucker is not true bypass and can really suck the tone out of your guitar. It is a great throw away pedal. If you can't afford anything else, fine. It isn't horrible, it just aint so great either.

These things are pieces of frigging s**t. I bought 1 in 1995 and it died in 1996. I then bought another one in 2000 and it died 8 months later. What went wrong ? The pedals could no longer be turned on with the foot mechanism. They have to be turned on by hand--which renders it frigging useless. I then borrowed 1 from a friend of mine for a gig and his unit didn't wah--just modified your tone but no wah when you moved the foot pedal. I do not abuse musical gear. I spend too much time enjoying my music to disrespect my equipment. Yet I have had 2 Cry Baby's die on me. Take my advice---dont buy this pedal. I have sent Dunlop several emails about repairing my units and have never gotten a reply. These things are the Yugo of wah wah pedals.

I emailed multiple times without ever receiving a reply.

This pedal sucks and so does Dunlop. Why did Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton play these ? Simple answer---they were on heroin. You would have to be rocked out of your mind to buy this pedal. Get a Vox or a Fulltone. Sorry Jim Dunlop, but I would not use another one of these pedals if Jimi Hendrix crawled out his grave and delivered it to me.

For all you idiots (of beginners) out there, here is how to use it:
Step 1: Plug it in
Step 2: Play
If you need to read the manual, you should be commited.

It tries to sound like a Vox, and sounds close, but it's a piece of shit!! Don't even consider getting it. Sounds decent, but not too great with heavy distortion. Too muddy-then too nasal. Sounds like a volume pedal, not a wah.

When my first one broke, I thought it was coincidence, but when my second one broke, I was really pissed off. Dont think that I abuse my pedals, for I love each one and keep them on a pedalboard 24/7. If you look in the back of music stores that sell these, you will notice that they have piles of broken ones. Dunlop uses shitty materials, and makes one really crappy product. If you even think of getting one, shove you guitar up your own ass and run to the hospital to distract yourself. If i could, i would give it a 0.

When my first one broke, Guitar Center sent it to Dunlap for free, and they sent me a brand new one. But when my second one broke, Guitar Center didn't do jack shit, and repair replaces want to charge $50 to fix it. I told them to eat shit (cause' it cost $60 new)

I have been playing since I was ten, and this is the only pedal that has ever broken on me. I play all styles of music, but most of the stuff I write sounds like a cross between Creed and Weezer (no clue why!). I use a Strat and a good amp. If it were stolen, I would send to guy who stole a thank-you letter and then laugh my ass off thinking of him trying to use the broken peice of shit. I would take one if they gave them away free. Total waste of money.

Easy to use when rocking it back and forth to create the wah sound, but forget about switching it on/off with your foot. You have to reach underneath the pedal and do it by hand as it requires too much pressure to do it by foot. If you want to turn it on/off by foot then you pactically have to jump on the thing from geat heights as the pieces of rubber on the pedal are too stiff. This is absolutely ridiculous. Fix the problem Dunlop, you've been making these for too many years now, you have no excuse for not rectifying this problem.

I have problems with this thing making horrible buzzing sounds in the treble position. It never used to make this noise but I guess the pot has worn out. I think Dunlop must be using very cheap components here, as I have only owned the pedal for two years and I hardly ever use it. The problem developed after about 6 months into owning it, and I never used it much.

When it did work properly however, I still was not satisfied with the sound is it has a loud, crisp high end (treble), but a quiet, unclear low end.

I was using this with a cheap strat replica, so the cheap single coils in this guitar may have contributed to the buzzing sound.

This pedal is not worthy of using at a gig, period. Not even as a backup pedal.

Never dealt with them.

There are better pedals out there for the money. But next time I'll get something in a different league.

The only other wah I've had the opportunity to play properly is a Morley (satriani model) and even though it is $100 more than the crybaby, it is actually worse. It was spring loaded, which sucks as you can leave it at the half-way point. It also had a feature that only makes it turn on when rocked. At least the crybaby isn't made like that. so be careful, and try before you buy, not like I did.

Judge for yourself, take one look at a crybaby from the inside and you'll see that there's fuck all componentry inside it, and take one look on the outside and you'll see that the quality of the rubber moulding on the grip is nothing short the type of finish you'd expect to see 500 years ago. You might say "who cares, its just the rubber" but This is just an example of the type of pathetic workmanship that goes into making these pedals, and how easily you can be ripped off for a product that doesn't perform the way it should.

I don't know how Dunlop can justify the the ridiculous price. There is no need to be designing things this bad anymore - Wake up dunlop, this the new millenium. As an amateur guitarist who's been playing for 10 years, and as a professional product designer, I think I have the right say to those of you in the market for a wah pedal:

DO NOT WASTE YOU MONEY ON THIS PRODUCT.

Very easy to use. Just one on/off switch and a rocking petal.

I love the sound of this thing. All of my guitars have bridge humbuckers and that's all I use with this petal. I also have two Marshall amps one solid state and one Triple super lead 60 watt tube/valve amp. The Crybaby sounds great with both amps. One of my guitars has an EMG 81 pickup in it and it also sounds great with it. It souns good clean or with a lot of distortion. This petal is smooth as silk. I'm very happy I bought it. I heard Lita Ford playing a wah wah on "Black Leather" from "Little Lost Girls" by the Runaways and I had to get one. I wanted this version because when you take your foot off the petal it's still engaged and you can get a kind of a scooped out/boosted sound with it when you do. Also I didn't want the petal to have too many circuits added to it because these tend to add resistance to the signal and cut tone. When you turn this thing on it's like instant Jimi Hendrix! It's a very cool, awesome sounding petal, and very expressive. I've read that Vox invented the wah wah but I believe that the Crybaby was probably an improvement on the Vox design.

I don't know how reliable it is, I just got it a week ago. I'll just try to take care of it. I hope it lasts a long time. It seems very solid.

I haven't dealt with the company. The petal does have a warranty.

I play rock and metal and this petal sounds great for both of them.

A very simple pedal. No onboard controls, input and output for instrument etc. A doddle to use. A pretty standard pedal that's simply a classic!

Well I bought this pedal secondhand from Curly Music and for a good while it was great! But for the last few months I have experiences terrible noise interference when using it. I wouldn't recommend to anyone to buy secondhand stompboxes/effects units as they'll wear out quickly! The sound was pretty great for about a year and it's easy to coaxe Clapton/Hendrix sounds out of it. I play it into a Fender 1965 Reissue Twin Reverb and it really holds up.

As I said, this pedal was bought secondhand, but I've used it live 4 times and it's easily reliable, even for a second hand wah! (Or should that be a 'second 'foot' wah!)

I played this pedal extensively through my '65 Twin Reverb with many guitars such as Strats, Teles and a Gibson 335. It pretty much matches up to any sound you like! I think i'll buy a new one soon though.....!

It's a wah.

The Dunlop reissue is not as good as the old Thomas Organ Cry Baby. The sound is not as vocal as the Vox V-847 reissue. It does have more treble sting at the frontmost position, but in general, the sound range is smaller and less vocal than other wahs.

This is where it gets sticky. I killed two of these before I got the Fulltone. Unlike the V-847 or the Fulltone, the jacks connect directly to the circuit board. They were stripped out, always coming loose. I thought about expoxying them together, but that's permanent; trouble if anything else ever goes wrong. It did, the wah effect eventually died, and I scrapped the pedal. Not worth fixing. Another thing, people claim these are "built of steel," but they are really cast-zinc housings with thin aluminum bottom plates. They can and will crack; the bottom plate screws are small and take the weight of your foot when you stomp. The screws can and do break or strip out and then you're screwed. The potentiometers get scratchy pretty soon, but replacements are widely available for about $25. I give it only a 4 because all these problems start to add up after a while, and the unit becomes unreliable.

Never tried.

There's a lesson here about pedals, particularly for new guitarists.

The Dunlop reissue cry-baby can be obtained on sale, brand new, from Mega Guitar Chains for $69 plus tax. It's tempting to treat these as throw-away pedals; when yours dies or starts to become troublesome, scrap it out and get a new one. If someone steals it, it's no great loss. It is not true bypass and WILL suck your tone, and may mess with the tone of fuzzes in your chain even when not on. Since the jacks are part of the PC board, you can't easily modify it for true-bypass with a dpdt switch.

For a bit more cash, maybe $40 or $50 more, you can get the Vox reissue. The Vox V-847 chrome-top reissue sounds better than the Dunlop, more vocal, although without the cry-baby "sting" at the fully depressed position. It is also not true-bypass but since the jacks are separate from the pc board (1) you can make it true-bypass, (2) the jacks are better in quality, (3) they won't fall apart like the pc-mount ones and (4)if you have jack trouble you can easily fix them with a Switchcraft replacement and they're good forever. It shares with the 'Baby the same cast-metal housing. The cry-baby has a 9v input jack whereas the Vox does not.

When my cry-baby died, I tried every wah in the store, including the V-847. It came down to Fulltone or Vox on sound. I settled on the Fulltone Clyde over the V-847, which was the runner-up at about $125 less. It sells for about $275, which, I know, is an awful lot of money to pay for a wah. Exactly four times what the Cry-Baby Dunlop sells for from Mega Geetar Chain. But I tell you, the Fulltone is everything the Cry-Baby ain't. True bypass, 9v jack, serious heavy-gauge formed and welded steel housing with powder epoxy paint job. The inside looks like something Boeing's subcontractors make for the 777. It sounded the best of all the wahs I tried after brutal a/b testing. It's built so well I can't imagine needing a backup. Sort of like the Vox, but more of everything the Vox is good at. Between the sound and construction, I think it was worth $125 more than the Vox.

The $69 cry-baby is tempting for new guitar players on a budget. You might get into one of these now and plan on getting a good one later. But I think if some budding guitarist asked me, I'd tell him, even if you work sacking groceries at $5.50 per hour, hold off, save your money, quit spending it on girls, and plunk down for the Fulltone. That way you get a supremely reliable unit that will sound awesome and last for maybe decades. New guitarists need to be aware that the bootique stuff isn't always the Holy Grail either, but it's better to invest in a few quality pedals that sound great and will last rather than cheapo reissues and stuff from the Far East or Mexico that costs Mega Guitar Chain $15 at the dock. Nobody was ever sorry they bought the best. Ask your friends that play in bands: Do they ever say, "Oooooh, I'm really sorry I bought this cool pedal when I coulda got a DOD Kiddie-metal for 79 bucks. I don't care that the one I got sounds fabulous, works great, is true-bypass, and really enhances my playing. I just think about the $130 I could have saved buying the cheapie generic every time I play, and want to cry." No. Nobody says that.

Dunlop really does make some cheesy, non true-bypass stuff. Read the reviews of some of his other offerings. I struggled with the Dunlop Roto-Vibe before I got into the Fulltone Dejavibe. Night and day. I'm not here to bash Dunlop, but be forewarned.

The Cry-baby gets a 4 because it will get you going for seventy bucks, but that's about all.

It's pretty clear: move your feet, that's all :) couldn't get easier

It's my only amp and it's perfect for me and my poor amp. Since I don't have a distortion box I have to use the amp's distortion and so the distortion is _after_ the wah, but I want it to be before.. so that's the only problem :)

I bought the pedal from United Arab Emirates, and I live in Finland, so I guess I won't take it to there for repair. 2 weeks after use the on/off-switch started to fuck with me, and I had to fix the thing that pushes the switch.. but now the switch works better because I don't have to push it so hard :)

It's good for my playing, but I guess it could be better. I think it's a good value :)