Dunlop Crybaby

Easy to use. Just plug in and play.

Sounds very good specially with tube amps.

Here is the place this product fails. I have two of these pedals that died after very light in home use.

I mostly play rock and blues. I have been playing for 25 years.

I have two of these pedals. Sounded OK when worked, but both of them had died with minimal and light in home use (less than 10 total hours of use for each).

Would not recommend to anyone. If you buy one, make sure to register it for the warranty or get the extra warranty. Likely you will need that.

I got this wah second hand from Johnny Roadhouse. (nice bit of PR there for ya.) the switch can be a little sticky and take a couple of hard stomps occasionally. Also if you step on it sometimes the switch kinda cuts out the signal until you wiggle it a bit. That may just be mine as its old.
Second Hand - No manual.

I use this with a ds1, a les paul junior and a solid sate fender. it is quite hissy on the most treble point. also, if you use it before distortion, toe down and toe up are the only sounds - no sweep at all.
After dist. its fine just synthy sounding.

its like a brick. 'nuff said. I've even had the battery in for about 4 months.

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It came with some gunky mayonnaise stuff on the cog, presumably lube but i'm not sure if it was meant 2 have that.

I don't know if it was just the one that I got or what, but it doesn't click very hard when you turn it on or off. I fixed that by glueing a piece of rubber to the switch so when I press it down, it fully clicks. Other than this its just as easy as any other wah pedal.

For me it produces no noise whatsoever. I run a Gibson Les Paul Studio----TU-2 Tuner---Tubeworks Distorion---Crybaby---metal zone---ibanez tubescreamer---phase90---liquid chorus---Loop Station--into a crappy behringer practice amp and still there is no noise at all. It has a very wide sweep that you can't control but is good where its at. Very good wah sound if you know what you are doing.

It seems like its built like a tank so far. WOuld definately not need to bring two to a gig.

If this were stolen i would get another. simple as that. I got it for 70 bucks and its a big part of my sound

On/off where you'd expect it, unlike the morley i looked at. I would like an on off led on it. I found it difficult to tell whether i'd stamped hard enough to switch it on/off. The input/Output isn't marked either, which i thought strange.

I've read reviews on here about it sucking tone, not sounding to good, not having too good a sweep etc... i tried before i bought and compared it to the Zakk Wylde Signature and a couple of Morleys (bad Horsie 2, Power Wah and the Tremonti). It was by far the best sounding pedal. Ideally, if you're looking for kit, try before you buy! I run a Washburn Dimebag signature with a dimebucker through the crybaby before a Boss Noisegate and into a Randall RH100. The gain is always cranked right up, plenty of treble, lots of bass with the mids scooped. I was told the CB sounded awesome on stage by people in the audience, and they're the one's that matter.

Seems pretty dependable on the whole. Battery door is a little fragile though. Mine was broken in the box. Should have checked before i left the store really. Being an "old fashioned" pot instead of an optical wah, it will be liable to wear. It comes with 12 months warranty and i've heard rumours that dunlop guarantee 13,000 rotations of the pot before it fails. A new one will set you back ??30 GBP. It seems harsh, but for the cheap plastic (broken) batery door it loses 2 points!

My local Dunlop dealer is awesome, although not being the biggest guitar shop around, the don't stock parts and have to order in every time. Watch this space when i take it back to Fair Deal and exchange the battery door.

Sometimes original IS best. It's not perfect though. What really annoys me about effects pedals is the lack of a power supply. When you buy a games console, you'd be mighty peeved if you had to buy a PSU seperately! Why do i have to spend a third of the value of the pedal again if i want to avoid relying on batteries for my Wah (or other effect)? 8 out of 10... out of principle!

Press pedal wah on/visa versa

Ok but noisy

Switch broke first time out.

Terrible. They cant send an email or recieve one in plain English. The shipping cost to send it back, the pedal is not worth it.

I play classic rock. I have been playing for 40 years, at least. If this pedal was stolen it would be a mercy killing. I would buy anything but this. The only thing I wish it had was a warning label , grade A crap.

Very easy to use one trick pony. I personally dont like that you have to press it down so damn hard to turn it on, feels dated, in a bed way.

I used this, the few times i used it, with a heavy distorted tube amp and ESP guitar. It sucks the tone and the effect is pretty weak. And to honest not only weak it sounds like total crap. Dont buy this crap that only sells because of its classic name.

I got rid of it pretty fast but it sure is a solid piece of metal i guess it wont break.

No idea

I would never, ever, buy it again. All whas i tried is far better, even on multieffects like boss me-50. I cant recommend it. Maybe it suits some old school rock and pop.

Super easy to use because there are only two options - on and off. It would, however, be nice to have an LED that showed you when the pedal was engaged.

What's the point of having a $2000+ guitar/amp setup if your pedals aren't true bypass? A tone deaf monkey could tell the difference between a true bypassed pedal chain and one with a bypassed crybaby in it. Send your crybaby to someone who will modify it so it'll have true bypass. For a measly $50-60 you could maintain your sound...so it's a bargain.

Built like a tank.

n/a

The stock pedal is crap.

Get your pedal modified. True bypass, led and some extra fun switches for you to play around with. JHS pedal mods does 'em, and it's worth it.

Very easy. Step on it and use it to get everything from sweeping wah sounds to duck sounds! Should be placed first in your effects chain.

I'm using a ESP LTD M-200 guitar with a Marshall 30 Watt 10" amp and DOD YJM overdrive. sometimes an ART tube preamp with a ECC-83EH tube in it. It's not noisy but adds some noise and I don't think it's a problem. This is the original Wah pedal so it's easy to get Hendrix, Hammett or Zakk Wylde sounds if you are using a great amp. You can listen to some wah sounds on my track "Cold pouring rain" at my myspace: www.myspace.com/peterholmgren!

Very reliable. Haven't had any problems with it.

Haven't dealt with Dunlop.

I play metal and rock and it suits these styles well. If it got stolen I would try the Dimebag Wah pedal or buy another Crybaby original. I don't like the Morley Bad Horsie wah pedal because it hasn't the cool sound from Dunlop. It's a bit too smooth and sounds less like a wah pedal. This pedal is a must for every guitar player!

Extremely easy. Step on the pedal on toe position and rock back and forth. You have to be an idiot not be able to use it.

My setup goes like:
Fender USA strat -> wah -> Laney VC30

I modified mine because stock sounded like shit. Mods can be found all over the internet and a self do-able.

Stock: Really bad. Honestly, I couldnt feel the richness of the wah, sounded really weak and lacked sweep. No growl at all, just a bland sounding wah with occasional ear ripping trebleness. Sounded bad with both clean and gain (better with gain though). When bypassed, it got worse with severe tone suckage. Stock, I would give it a solid 5.

Modded: HUGE improvement! I did the True bypass, pot-range, mid boost and vocal mods and it sounded like a classic vintage wah. Overall, an improvement in its sweep, growl and treble response. Works well with gain and clean. Clean sounds OK, but Vox's excel in this aspect but lack the response with gain. True bypass is the best part as there is no tone suckage anymore which really made this pedal bad. Think, Kirk hammett, Slash and Jerry cantrell with high gain and Hendrix, Jeff Beck with medium-low gain.

Very reliable. Its a block of metal!

Never dealt with them.

Honestly, even after modded it probably cant be compared to the boutique wahs out there (fulltone, RMC etc.) but these wahs are double or triple the price of this. I prefer wahs which are simple to use and have no knobs and such to tweak the sound and this wah delivers. I HIGHLY suggest doing the mods if you havent already, all it requires is a soldering iron, a DPDT switch and a few resistors! The only disappointment with this wah is it doesnt do funk as well as blues and rock. Vox will probably be better off with that, but again you have to mod it. Overall, stock = rubbish, modded = rich, warm, vintage wah.

It is very easy to use just step on the toe to turn it on, rock it back and fourth step on the toe to turn it off again. Couldn't be easier but if you aren't sure about how to use it the manual explains it very well.

The wah-wah effect is good but to sound more like your favourite artists you would want to get a more pricy model, but I ain't picky about that stuff it does what it says it does and thats good enough for me. On the clean channel (on my roland cube) it sounds amazing, I play a lot of John Frusciante stuff because he is an outstanding player and this pedal covers his wah tone really well. On the distortion channel its not so good, you can bearly hear it when you have the neck pickup on so you have to use the bridge pickup or use the overdrive channel.

It is very strong I would definitly gig it without a backup.

Very good I e-mailed them asking them how to lubricate it properly and they explained it very well.

I play rock, blues etc. and it covers the sounds I need. I have had it for " months now and it hasn't let me down at all. If it was stolen or lost I'd buy it again.
If you picky about your tone then I'd say you should get a higher standard model but I think this sounds very good for the price.

Doesn't get much easier. Unless you're really famous and have somebody working your pedals for you.

I think the sound is great. All this true bypass business hasn't been a factor for me, although my pickups are on the bright side anyway (Burstbucker Pros). The range for the wah went a little too much into the high frequencies for me, but I just popped the bottom off and adjusted the arm/pot mechanism (remove the plastic thingy that keeps the arm against the pot, pull the arm back, turn the pot till it's where you want it, and put the arm and plastic thingy back). It's perfect now, it sounds right in the human vocal range.

Build quality is great, but always have fresh batteries on hand if you don't use a power supply. When this thing goes out, it's with little warning, and EVERYTHING goes dead when it does. True bypass would be nice in that circumstance, but I just change my battery after every couple shows.

Customer what?

I play classic rock/alternative I guess. Jimi and Skynyrd with a dash of recent Pearljam. I've been playing for about 15 years, and I have a studio (not just a small usb interface, but a full studio). My main guitar is an Ibanez SZ520qm w/burstbucker pros>TS-9>Bad Monkey>Rotovibe>Crybaby>Boss DD-3>Boss EQ>Peavey Classic 30 or Epi Valve Junior (my baby. I love that thing!). I would have to say that for my setup and experience level, this thing is perfect. It's pure vintage delight and you don't have to fiddle with 15 knobs to get a halfway usable sound out of it. My motto is, "Buy the thing that sounds best and has the fewest knobs." If it needs a bunch of adjusting to sound decent, it'll never sound great.
I reall like this particular pedal because of it's simplicity and tone. I don't have to worry about patches, q-adjustment, settings, etc. I just step on it and go.

I had my old Crybaby modded by Keeley Electronics to add true bypass to it as well as swap out the old inductor and add a new red Fasel inductor.

Operation couldn't be easier. Step on wah, rock back and forth, and make sweet music.

signal Chain -
Custom telecaster with Duncan pickups (59 neck, JB Rear) into crybaby wah, true bypass box, Boss tuner, Direct Drive, TS9 with Keeley Mod, Guyatone TZ2, Boss DD6 Delay, Ibanez SC10 Stereo Chorus, George L's cable all around into modified Princeton reverb amp with Deluxe Reverb Output Transformer and Jensen reissue 10"

Totally can get the nasal sound of later Clapton or Eric Schenker from the Spin Doctors - for me, also helps to nail Page's wah from Dazed and Confused - loving the sound.

With the new inductor and true bypass, the wah doesn't take anything away from my tone when it's off - and now when it's on it sounds much better than stock - vast improvement!

Totally can depend on it. I also have a Keeley-modded TS9 and wouldn't think twice about going to a gig without backup.

good informative manual shipped with the product back, and well packed.

Me - I play garage rock, experiemental (Belew-ish), blues rock, so this covers a lot of ground. Before, I had huge tone-suck issues without the true bypass. Now that it's fixed, I'm happy to have this wah back in my pedalboard.

If it were stolen, I would get it modded again by Keeley - the only thing I would do different is splurge and get the dual Fasel inductors (vintage yellow and modern red) with the toggle switch.

The Wah peddle is very easy to use, the manual is straight forward.

I found the sound to be hollow and the usable Wah was probably 10% of the pedal range. I searched the net and found this mod http://www.diyguitarist.com/DIYStompboxes/WahMod.htm. $10 later I had a rich Wah sound and the sweep was much more usable.

Very solid.

Have not had to call.

The pedal can be easily mofified to suit your taste. The difference between the pedals is the resiters and voicing capacitor. If you like, you could add potentiometers in place of the resisters that control voicing so that you can adjust the wah to suite your style of music.

Click on, click off. Rock to wah.

My setup:
Peavey Horizon II > Boss TU-2 > Dunlop Crybaby > Boss SD-1 > Digitech RP80 > Boss GE-7 > Peavey Vintage

Sounds okay. Definately not a Teese (or a morley for you gain freaks out there.) But does the job. I don't use it super often, but I use it enough not to be able to take out of my setup. Its a tone sucker, so I got it modded to true bypass. Not the best wah pedal out there, but the cheapest and like I said - I don't use it that much.

Built like a brick. (As heavy as one too.)

Never dealt with.

Its not fantastic, but it does what its supposed to do. If it were lost or stolen I'd buy another one simply because I do use it, just not often enough to justify spending alot of money on a wah pedal. If you are looking for a great wah sound, move on. If you're like me and just need something cheap to get you by, this will do the trick. Just make sure you mod it to true-bypass or kiss your tone goodbye.

Not hard- in fact a monkey could use it. Stomp, and rock. Simple. Although to MASTER the art of wah, it takes some practice. Heh.

This is a good wah for any players who are not very fussy about their sound and prefer a nasally, vintage wah. It can get a good funk sound, and also get the rapid-fire Clapton wah-wah-wah- sound if desired. It adds a little dirt when activated which i love. But as mention a bazzilion times is does "suck" treble when off. But it doesnt bother me much, and it is better or worse with certain amps.

Its built tough, I kick the "shirt" outta this thing and it comes back for more.

A good wah for the non-true-bypass snob who likes to get dirty and old skool. I like it a lot, but I do want to upgrade to the classic wah sometime soon. Its a lot better than mucho other trash on the market.

Plug in, hit the treadle and away you Wah!!! Simple...
Remeber to change the battery often though- I am tired of doing that, so I use my pedal board's power supply now...

When it was battery days of long ago, changing it, while easy to do by removing the feet, was still a pain if you are in a dark club and you drop the feet on the floor (thats autobiogrphical!)...

Well, here's where my pooge attitude comes to the fore.

When I got mine (used from a guitatist friend), it had already been guilty of the tone sucking syndrome that so many JD owners have cried about. So it was given the true bypass treatment. Problem solved? Partially...

Next, under my soldering iron, a few caps and resistors were changed out, increasing the gain of the effect (when on, remember- truebypass now), the voicing of the wah (more for Bass Guitar now- more low to high travel) as well as the peakiness of the wah effect itself (once again, more for Bass Guitar).

Now it sounds killer. Before, it sounded like a trade in special (that;s how I got it- wink wink)...

I still may change out to the fabled FASSEL inductor though...

The case of this thing is next only to Boss pedals for reliability. I have seen the original owner of this thing trip over it and break cable ends rather than the unit itself. The jacks are that durable...

With true bypass, the tone sucking issue is history, so I can say that if it were to die, at least when its off, it REALLY IS out of the circuit!

Not needed... There are about ten million websites out there with schematics, that if you can read then and don't burn your lips with a soldering iron on a regular basis, you should be able to keep it running until your grandkids steal it from you...

A great pedal once the mods are done to it.

Honestly, how can JD get away with selling this thing in stock form? Simple, offer a gazillion other models with "upgrades" that cost them ten cents and the end user about $50 additional...

YIKES in stock form. KILLER when modded for the end user...

'Nuff said.

Plug in and go! (difficult depending on present mindframe)

Setup: Epiphone Les Paul --> Crybaby --> Marshall 8040

Would have a nice sound if it wasnt for the scratching noises!!! Frequency sweep is too small

Pot already scratching. I can depend on this wah for sitting under the bed doing nothing

Jimi, Pantera, anything!
Wouldnt buy this again, maybe just for practicing on. Looks like its common for these to crap out after a short time :(

bought this beauty for #50 in a secondhand shop. stuffed a new battery in, and lo, there was enlightenment! however when i looked inside i noticed sum dickhead thought greasing the pot with butter wud be a gd idea. i mean, come one! surely theres a better lube (no innuendo intended...)

its a Jim Dunlop man, of course it sounds amazing! practically flawless, only fault being the (widely aforementioned) bypass, taking away your beautiful tone and exchanging it for sonething Dimebag Darrell would have bin happy with. however i dont notice it much ;).

well, i had a moment of panic when i thought it was broken, so (without testing the battery) decided to resolder all the connections. it probably improved the sound though. reliable? it dropped about 7 ft off our PA after sum twat left it there. played with it two minutes later, such was my trust in this beast. it was fine!

its not been needed, and i havent checked anyways. but if there is support needed i know for definite theres a billion and one sites that have circuit diagrams and things for mods.

i have played anything and everythin on this, though ive found this is best suited for classic rock i.e. jimi, clapton. but dont put it near crap music like Creed or Damageplan, or dirty, dirty Mettalica (everyone knows St. Anger was balls! Black Album tho, that was good...)Slash used it on Sweet Child O'Mine just in case you needed some more persuasion! only thing this baby could need would be noiseless switching, true bypass and maybe a larger sweep. other than that this is a tried and tested design used by the greats!

what can I say...its a freeeekin wah pedal,,,,#1 sold pedal invented by the Thomas Organ Factory in the late 60's. Its the original man, yeah baby,,,yeah!!!!

Well this is interesting. Its a fkn wah pedal thats what the quality is. HOWEVER,,,that being said,,,you DONT need to replace the SPDT switch with a DPDT one for TRUE BYPASS!!!!

You need to look up on the web for how you can solder (if you have enough technical savy to do this) whats called a JFET transistor, along with 2 1% metal oxide resistors (one is a 10k, the other,,,i dunno,,,lookitup). these parts cost me all of under $3.00. If you can read schematics the JFET will esentially pass your original guitar signal through the system, AND SOUND BETTER THAN MOST BYPASS JOBS!!!. When the unit is on, your wah sounds just like a wah, but when off, the input impedance for your pedal is in the mega ohms, and wont suck any tone out of yer original signal. The result...welll,, i did mine, and it worked. It sounds great.
Anyway, all im saying , dont buy into the hype of real(TRUE) bypass....get an active JFET transistor (for audio) with a couple of resistors, and a capacitor hooked up to your 9 volt battery source, and weeehhee....sounds fine. You need your schematic handy, and a good soldering iron, and the work is done just after the input resistor (for those who know about electronics)

Hey for less than $3.00 you tell me if you can hear the difference, even in your bedroom. If you cant,,then live playing is not even an issue. YOur original guitar signal will SOUND BETTER THAN TRUE BYPASS!!! TRUST ME.. IF YOU DONT BELEIVE ME.....LOOK IT UP!!

i dunno,,,its built like a shit brick house though..

support group yeah, for my green bud smokin

it will sound good, like the crybaby should, but without signal loss. Its a good pedal,,,its the original one. And if you are handy with a soldering iron, send away for a faisal inductor, and replace the one in there as well while your at it for the faisel model.

Plug it in, turn it on, done!

This sounds like a classic wah. It's a bit on the treble side but most wah's are. Definately a vintage wah sound. This wah sounds better with overdrive/distortion in my opinion. It just sounds like it likes it a bit more somehow. Clean it also sounds good though. When turned on, it adds also a little bit of distortion to your sound, which can be good if you engage it for solo's.

This is NOT true bypass. Too bad, my only not true bypass pedal in my chain. I'm gonna get it modded because it sucks your tone pretty bad. It's pretty noisy too, especially when your not sweeping it back and forth. But that doesn't really bothers me, it gives a more vintage feel to it which is good.

I can get that real Hendrix signature sound out of it when played with a strat into a tube amp.

I am very happy with this wahwah.


I give it an 8 for the tone suxt0r when it's off. Once i get a true bypass mod it will be a 9.

It's built like a US Army tank. I think it would survive a grenade.

Never dealt with them.

I like this wah. I always wanted one and after a lot of testing i fell for this one. It gives me exactly the sound i want because of it's vintage character. I play Blues (Hendrix stuff too), classic rock and hard rock (the real hard rock like GNR and Led Zeppelin, not that Slipknot bullshit you little twats!).

Final verdict: 8. It isn't perfect, but hey, rock isn't about perfection.

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.

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.

Come on. Its a wah pedal. You click to turn on, and you click it again. WOW. Its now turned off. Rock the treadle back and forth to get that distinctive wah wah sound.

Sounds quite good for the price. Just dont expect great things. Ive been using this thing for more than three years, so I know my Crybaby pretty well. The treble is the real problem on this pedal, as is the bypass. For me, the treble sounds too thin and harsh. It also seems like there is some gain loss when you have the pedal in its trebliest position. Not great at all. This mid sounds suitable honkey, and the gain recovers a bit here. Sounds quite decent. Bass: too much. I put some extra rubber stoppers under the treadle to prevent too much bass from muddying out my sound. I think this pedal just needs a few tweaks, to make the range more versatile and useable. Over all, its a bit noisy when your not playing, and you are using a high gain setting. Actually, if you roll off your volume, it sounds like wind noise! The bypass is a major tone sucker. It takes out a fair amount of gain and treble even when bypassed. It seems kinda pathetic really, because this is the pedals only real major downfall. or a few bucks more, Dunlop could add a DPDT switch, to remove the sucking, but we are dealing with corporate whores here. For the price, not bad, but not great. A great first wah pedal.

Seems very sturdy. This pedal has probably seen more than 2 weeks continual, hard use. No problems. Pot isnt even scratchy. Only bad thing was the battery door deteriorated after a couple of years, but I dont use a battery any more.

I have never dealt with them.

I tend to stick to rock/britrock/metal/grunge for the most part, and this pedal is fine for these styles, and this price range, but if you have the dough, then I would seriously advise you to cheack out the Budda and Tesse wahs. The might cost a bit more, but ive heard many times that the difference is worth it. Even though im close to ordering a Budda, I will keep this pedal, and maybe put a DPDT switch in it, and a switch to change from a wah to a volume pedal. I like the fact that is a straight up, decent sounding wah pedal for just a few bucks. It really is a shame for the bypass, it really lets the pedal down. I use it with this setup (constantly changing, mind):

Maverick SF1 Custom>Crybaby>TS9>Digitech Whammy>Small Clone>Maxon AD80>Line6 DL4>Marshall DSL100

Duh. Plug in, click on and Go.

Read the previous reviews for wah pedal tone tips.

Ehhh....I bought it twice and hated it twice. The first time I thought it was just my untrained ears. The second time was 2 years later, I knew what I was buying, I plugged in, clicked on, and.....*sigh*. Now granted, I haven't bought any new units in the past few years, so I don't know if things have improved since then, but let me say this: Tweaking the gears inside didn't work. Switching guitars didn't work. Switching amps didn't work. Futzing with the tone controls on my amp didn't work. In both cases they were gone within 2 weeks and both times I felt let down by Dunlop because they had taken a classic effect heard on Hendrix, Zeppelin, etc. and turned it into a chunk of tone-sucking crap that sounded muffled on one end and super fizzy on the other end with no sweet spot in between. I don't know what they did to the Crybaby wah pedal, but this was awful. Twice. NEVER AGAIN!

It was built like the proverbial Bricked necessary room, able to be gigged relentlessly, and put through all sorts of paces.

It just *sounded* like crap. The rest was solid.

Dunlop is generally helpful and courteous. They even had a list of revisions to the Crybaby circuit listed on their website dating back to when they bought the rights to it from Thomas Organ back in the early '80s.

Well, I didn't buy them for their fashionable appeal...I wanted the classic wah sound. Unfortunately, it was not to be had here. I had to scour the used and vintage shops for for 3-1/2 years before I found an old Thomas Organ wah pedal at a decent price.
I won't review that pedal here, as it's not the place for it, but just let me say that I have been more satisfied with it than I was with Dunlop's version of the pedal.
However, if you DO want to read a review of *that* pedal, It's under the Thomas Organ section of this database.

The Dunlop Crybaby is a wah that is super easy to use. I have used Dime Crybabys and all other sorts with knobs and volume when not in use a stuff but the Crybaby Original is straight forward. Push down and rock that foot!

I am using the Crybaby on a Marshall JCM 900 cabinet and a JCM 800 head(the best amp combo i can think of) and it just kicks! It don't crackle or notihng. It always comes crystal clear and can hear that "WahWahWah" even when heavy distortion is used. If you like Hendrix and other phsicaldelic music, this efect is a must!

I trust everything to this wah and would never second guess it. The only part I would back up on it is a spare power supply or battery (9 volt).

You won't need any! It is that good!

I play lots of Hendrix covers like Voodoo Child and Puple Haze so I need this. I also sometimes use it just for fun. I have been playing for about 5 years and have thousands of dollars of gear and the Crybaby is my favorite single effect with the exception of Yngwie Malmsteens tube overdrive. I chose this wah mainly because its a heck of a lot cheaper than "Mister", "Dime" , "Hendrix" and many others and you don't have to spend a million years figuring out how to use it.

First of all if you dont know how to use a wah you shouldnt play guitar. Any sound out of this is a sound you can use. The manual is useless not cuz its bad but because it doesnt need one geez!!

I use a gibson les paul with a boss ds-1 distortion and a line 6 spider 112. It can get noisy with the treble turn all the way up good for standing out of rythym though. I can get wondeful sound of my favorite ska/punk to even metal arist. Forget the dimebag darrel wah this is where its at.

This thing is a friggin brick. Its almost weighs as much as my guitar. But this is a brick seriously. I dont really have any gigs but i would definetly use it especially since clapton does.

never needed to yet

I play ska/punk , blues,surf,metal fun stuff. This pedal is great for it. Any other crybaby totally is either the same exact sound or just plain crap.

Well, unlike most other effects pedals, it has no knobs...

When you've used nearly every wah on the market because you have fanatical friends who love wahs, you can get a decent idea what they are all about. They all swear by their respective wah pedals, so I'll go with what I hear. I rarely use a wah, so investing in a fulltone, teese, or a clyde would just be rediculous. It makes a wah noise, so it does the job for me. I actually use this more often to control feedback pitch and level than to actually make the a-typical chicka-chicka bad porn wah noise or the vocal solo wah thing. But, for those occasions when I need those, it's suitable. Thats it. Nothing more than, well, ok. The actual tone of the pedal seems to be sort of jumpy. That is, it goes from extreme bass to piercing treble. NO midrange whatsoever, and I mean NONE. I tried 6 different crybabys to see if any of them were better. None were, they were all clones of themselves(not that this is a huge surprise). Here are my wah rules:

1. Want a wah that will make all of the people in your audience cry when you hit that solo? Is wah an integral part of your sound? Don't care how much it costs? Buy/order a Teese. Teese is the best of the boutique. In my opinion, of course.

2. You shred? Can you name all of the members of Meshuggah? Who cares how much you want to spend, buy a Morley. Morley is the shredder's wah. I mean, Vai endorses it. Don't even screw with the boutiques. Plus, it's easier to bypass so you can screw with different distortions, chorus, delay, and whatnot. i'm not cracking on metalheads, i love metal, i'm being serious about that. Optical bypass is a great idea, i just wish morley wahs didn't sound like crap without assloads of gain.

3. Want something a bit less than boutique? Play blues? Go for the Bud-Wah.(AKA the rich man's crybaby) Plus, it's purple! Everyone loves purple! Right?........ If you hate purple, I hear Vox makes a mean wah, too.

4. Like to do cover tunes? Crybaby 535Q, or, if you dig digital stuff, that new Boss V-Wah. Actually, go for the 535Q, Boss is overrated. Booooo Boss.

5. Don't use wah much, but want it in your pallate of sounds? Crybaby time. Think about a bypass box or bypass mod if you are a tone fanatic. I suggest the box. I like easy things.

6. Beginner looking to see if you actually like wahs? Never used a wah before and want to get the hang of it to impress members of the opposite sex? Crybaby.

7. Do you make minimum wage? Crybaby.

By the way, not only do I rarely use wahs, but, due to college, I also make minimum wage. So, Crybaby it is. I mean, it's really not that bad, just, know your style, and know that most 60's and 70's artists used vox, not dunlop.

I'm not a huge fan of SPDT switches or direct-mount jacks, but if it breaks, fix it. Or buy a new one eventually. Whatever floats your boat, man. Every wah will eventually fail, as will anything with moving parts. But, it seems fairly strdy, and I spotted no cold joints on the board.

I really don't know, i've never owned a dunlop product before this.

It's alright, nothing special. Find the wah that fits your style and go with it.

turn it on, rock it back and forth

Sounds great. Nice fat sound, good sweep range. Not any more noisy than any other stomp box pedal. The bypass is not the big issue lots of people make it out to be. For the price you're paying this is a great value.

Eventually it will have problems but so will every other brand of wah pedal. They take alot of abuse though. I had a Teese wah that had issues with its switch, so even the really expensive models run into problems. Again, for the price these are a great value.

Bought a replacement pot for an earlier wah and their customer service was fine.

Many people slam this pedal but it is fine for the vast majority of guitarists. The sound is exactly what you want in a wah, and it holds up well with reasonable care. You can spend lots more money on a wah but you probably won't get much more value for your money than simply getting a Dunlop. A great pedal for a great price.

I think we all know...

This and the Vox are my 2 favorite wahs. If you like the classic nasal Page/Hendrix wah, this is the pedal. If you want that really deep, artificial sounding sweep, this is not for you. Yes, it has quirks -- but it's all about TONE.

It will break. This should not by a news flash. Anyone who detracts points here because of a 'scratchy pot' probably complains when their car runs out of gas and won't move anymore. A POT IS AN OLD-FASHIONED DEVICE THAT DERIVES ITS VERY FUNCTION FROM PHYSICALLY MOVING PARTS THAT CREATE FRICTION. I don't want to sound like a jerk, but wake up. Yes, you will have to replace your pot, or at least spray some contact cleaner on it. Heck, the only reason I'm writing this is because I just bought another Crybaby today. It's my 3rd in 12 years of playing, and if I had the money, I'd buy a new one every year. Hendrix used to carry dozens of these things with him. If you want a pedal that will never get scratchy, be prepared to pay a lot of money for something that will sound and feel vastly different, and will probably break down in some other, more expensive way.

No experience. They're probably sick to death of people calling to say, "The pot is scratchy."

If you consider yourself a classic rocker in the Hendrix/SRV/Zep sense, then don't mess around -- this is the pedal you want PERIOD. Well, this or the Vox. I've had them both, and they're very similar. I consider the Crybaby to be like a white t-shirt. It's not flashy, but it gets the job done. People used them 30 years ago, and they're going to be using them 30 years from now. They're cheap. When one breaks -- buy a new one. The one you bought 5 years ago is going to sound the same as one you will get 5 years from now. That's right. Everyone who posts at this site seems to think they have the ears of an Eddie Kramer or something, but let's face it -- you don't. These pedals are built with stamped circuit boards that are shot out by the thousands. You may get one with a loose capacitor or something, but that's about it. They all sound fine. Besides, 90% of tone comes from the fingers and arms, not some germanium chip.

it's a wah. just gotta move your foot back and forth

it is very noisy in mid-high gain settings but did it's job. i wish it was more pronouced and that the frequency range was a little bit broader though. after i few months mine pots got scratchy too.

My setup is a Yamaha Pacifica -> Crybaby Wah -> Mesa Bottle Rocket -> Fender 112 plus.

it does gets very subtle in high gain settings so it is not for nu-metal or heavy metal. get a morley if you play that.

this where this thing could have done better. it is built like a tank. but have had a few problems with it. i got this thing in July and after my first battery died it only worked about half of the time, coincidently mostly when i was at rehersals and such. Now just a few months after i got it, it doesnt shift frequencies and whenever enabled it just stays on the low frequency. i am going to take it in to the shop sometime in the next week and see how much it will cost to fix it. i would gig with it without a backup only because i have a hell of a lot more things to buy and dont want to spend more money on a freakin' wah pedal. i also take care of my gear, but i do run around a lot and maybe a few wires got knocked loose somehow.

i would give a 10 for the casing because that will never break, but the wiring and such i would give a 2 because that could have been done a lot better. then again i did only pay 70 bucks for it. i am being very critical and maybe i just got a dud.

haven't dealt with them

i play Alt. Rock(Built to Spill, Verve Pipe, Afghan Whigs...)to classic rock(Van Halen, Tom Petty, Zepplin, Rush...). i have been playing for three years(VERY DECICATED). Looking back now i should have spent twice as much and got a budda wah because i know they are well crafted and sound better. it doesnt have true bypass but that doesnt bother me at all i dont miss the piercing frequecies my guitar produces.

it is great for the price. however it does eat your bateries, which is not a problem for me because my drummer gets free batteries so i just bum them off him.

again, i am grading this strictly. it was a good pedal and did serve it's purpose well.

k. ANYONE who said that 'YOU HAFTA WEIGH AS MUCH AS AN ELEPHANT' or "HAVE A STRONG BIG TOE' is retarded.
YOU HAVE A DUD. i know, coz i got one myself. thats explored in reliability. BUT, when i got my replacement. EASY. push the front and its on.....
then push the front again when one wants to turn it off
simple.....
maybe those people were just retarded and can't use a wah OR had a dud i don't know but its easy to use

k
is good. no worries hear. you can change the sweep by using the screw....

BAH! sif.....Dunlop are known for makin duds. and i got one....as one guy put it.. it DIED. couldn't have put it better my self. thats EXACTLY what it did. the switch was crap and decided to be gayfaced and not turn on. big fat 1
(lol! it DID work once)

meh
stuff them. lol! support

k. its good. ITS A WAH. it makes a wah sound. and it does this with excellence. good for Jimi, Kirk and others (RATM). if it was stolen, i might buy one of the others but MEH!

Clicka-clicka, whacka-chow, whacka-chow!

A little trebly at times, but if you remove the screw on the saw, you can change the sweep of the pot, making it bassier. I run a '70s ES-335>Crybaby>Digitech RP-200>Fender M-80 Chorus, and I play funk, so I like the treble...

I have owned this since 1979, and replaced the pot in 2002; not bad for a $69 pedal. My brother Dietz had his since 1970, and I just replaced his pot, too. The only gig problems I've had is when the pot finally fried (after cleaning it numerous times with an electronic solvent), it was in the middle of a gig, and the squeal was a nightmare. Had to unplug in the middle of the song and run that wha on my Digitech RP-200, which actually sounded like sh%t.

I've never dealt with the company, only our vintage music store in town...

We play '70s funk, R & B and soul, and this thing wails. A little tinny at times, but you can change the sweep. Probably not a metalheads fave, but when I pull out my old SRV licks, watch out...

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.

N/A

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

10. up then down then up again. Want to leave it in one spot. go ahead.

I didn't think about it but after reading negative reviews I remembered that my Crybaby is HEAVILY modified. I bought it new in 1990 and after two weeks took the rubber button sheath off so it would be easier to press on and off. the made the button low so I sliced through the rubber feet under the rocker, and took them down halfway so there's still resistence but I can turn it on and off. Finally there was a clacking noise when the pedal hit the button so a band aid padded it enough. This was all in the first MONTH of owning it and after 12 years, I forgot they didn't come this way.

a little too trebly. Once again, it was mod time. I read recently that if you remove the saw that rocks the tone pot, you can roll it back and make it bassier. Then replace the saw and your sweep is lower than it was. Loses treble but you don't need it. Works perfectly but I have to retrain my foot to my ear.

Had it for 12 years and it's built like a TANK. The pot got scratchy after a few years but some contact cleaner makes it as good as new.

don't know em

I play heavy rock. I've run it thourgh a tele and an SG into a Marshall and it sounds great. There's a lot of debate on where to put it in your chain but when I do, it's alone. If it were stolen, I'd probably try a Vox because everybody raves about them but I wouldn't throw away my crybaby for one.

unless you weigh about 450 pounds, or have a very strong big toe, your gunna need to jump on this thing to get it to turn on. After that it's like riding a see saw

I use a gibson gothic les paul, through a mid 70's kustom head and a 4x10 cab, along with a bunch of pedals (boss ce-2, bf-2,dd-3, creamy dreamer,octavia, ibanez fuzz/distort.) and it's always sounded great. the only thing I've noticed is that it can cut, or boost your tone depending on what effects you use with it.

is it dependable? no! 1 out of 10 times the thing will just shut itself off and not make any noise besides a loud hiss. I then proceed to jump on it a few times and it kicks back into gear. Dunlap uses cheap as all get out components, besides the solid steel housing, this thing is a p.o.s.

never delt with it

I play mostly industrial/electronic grunge with this thing. three times now at shows, on the same song, this thing has cut out completely after a guitar solo. It makes me wanna throw it at my dog. I use it in almost every song, which is why it pisses me off so much. I'm selling it pretty soon and gettin a vox wah reissue. If it were stolen, I'd laugh in pity of the poor moron who took it. Dunlap isn't much use for any decent products besides their picks.

Engaging the Crybaby requires a very hard stomp. Unless I slam my foot down violently on the toe end, it's 50-50 proposition that the wah will activate. If you're gigging, your best bet is to "set and forget" between active wah parts and forego the frustration of the tempermental switch.

While the Crybaby has a nice sweep at the high end, the heel of the treadle produces a disproportionate frequency "jump." The skip is less noticable with fast passes, but on slow ones, the low end belches instead of bawls.

Even worse, the Crybaby sucks tone like a cheap groupie. Back when I had low end gear, I didn't notice the signal loss that much. But now that I've upgraded to mid-range equipment, it drives me crazy.

I'm going out to buy a Fulltone Clyde Deluxe. I don't care if it costs as much as 3 or 4 Crybabies. It has 10 times the sound and true bypass so it won't suck tone!

Great and easy to use, u gotta work at the foot switching thing , get the rocking motion

Its got nice sound when you play it through the clean channel but if you distort it its high pitched feedback really high treble noise its good for what i play tho , I play that Kirk Hammet Style Lead stuff (Off of albums Like Kill em all lots of wah and the load reload albums to), i also play blues (Clapton rules) I use some Memphis Strat Rip off and a Crate Amp

I'd Depend on it but you never know man

never need it

Its a good match for Metal style leads in my opinion and good for some Improv while jamin out with some buds to the blues good shit overall , I also own an ANJO classical guitar

This thing is easy to use. No knobs, just step on it and rock it fully toe down to turn it on. It probably won't click on the first try. If it doesn't click on by the third try reach down under the platform and push the switch in with your finger... there, it's on. Now rock it back and forth, heel to toe, and wah away. No options... I can't imagine anything easier. Well... if the switch worked I guess it would be easier. -1 point for the P.O.S. switch.

I'm playing a Stratocaster into a Maxon OD-808 into the Crybaby. My amp is a Peavey Delta Blues 210. I'll hit you with the good side of this thing first. I like the way this pedal sounds. No problems getting the classic Jimi Hendrix/SRV wah sounds... which is what I was after. Unfortunately, this thing REALLY alters your tone when you arent using it. I love it when I'm using it, and I hate it when I'm not. The tone sucking brings the sound quality rating DOWN! Matter of fact, I've found a guy who will get rid of the tone sucking and true bypass this pedal for me. I'll be shipping it to him this week and will post a review after the mods have been performed. I would probably give this thing a 8 for sound quality if it didn't suck tone so bad when turned off.

Reliability? Ha! The first one I got broke after about 10 minutes of use. It refused to wah, click, or sputter. It died. It had not been abused by any means... in fact I clicked it on and off with my finger because it is so hard to get it to click on by rocking it fully forward. Maybe it was just a fluke... the one I got to replace it is fine so far. I do baby my gear. One lesson I have learned... if you take care of your stuff you will have it for a long, long time. Just like anything else, it WILL break if you abuse it or try to break it. I'd give it an 8... but I have to deduct some points for the first one's amazingly early demise. Let's call it a 4... split the difference between 8 and 0!

I've never dealt with Dunlop, I have no idea how helpful they are. I took the first one back to the local store where I bought it and they presented me with a brand new one. No problems.

This wah sounds good, just like a good wah should. Unfortunately is sucks tone like a fool when you aren't using it. Like I said before, I'm sending it away to get it modded to true bypass, have the buffer removed, and modded for a more "vocal" sound. If I had it to do over again I would go across town and buy a Vox... or better yet I would order a Budda. That's what I would do... order a Budda wah. I'm 109.00 into this thing now though... the mods are going to cost me another 40.00... I coulda bought a Budda wah. Too late now. I'll post a review of this Crybaby after I get it modded... if any Crybaby or Vox owners are interested in similar mods email me and I will put you in touch with a guy who does them.

Plug in. Step on toe to turn on. Rock back and forth to make wah-wah sound. Got it? Good. Next question.

I bought this one second hand. It was made in either '89 or '90 and has the old Vox board design (2 transistors instead of 3). Jacks are not board mounted...pot and switch have been upgraded. The wah was re-calibrated to have less treble and more bass sweep. Jest the way I like it. I am seriously in love with this wah! A friend has a '69 Vox and is green with envy at the slightly wider tonal sweep I get. Our singer REALLY likes the Chucka-Wucka rhythms that I get out of it. I REALLY like this wah. REALLY like it. It DOES get a little hum with the toe all the way down, but that is its only fault.

Change battery or plug in to power supply. Where am I gonna find a backup?

I play blues, R&B, swing and improv. Been playing since 1976. Standard Strat with EMGs into Dyna Comp into TS-9 into this into chorus into delay into classic 50 4x10. If it is stolen, I will hunt the bastard down and beat him to death with my wah. Read above for what I love about it. I hate nothing.

What's there to say? There are no controls, just the wah itself. You have to wark it for a little while to get a feel for it, though. I bought it used, so I never got the manual, if there is one. I haven't caught on to how to do the mad Clapton/Hendrix wah thing, but hey, I couldn't ask for more in a tone filter.

I run my mexican Fender Stratocaster through an MXR Distortion + and a Boss DS-1 into it, and send it out to my Ibanez DM-1000, to my Peavey Classic 50 VT, and a Marshall Solid State. I really like the sound, but never use amp distortion with it. The wah gets drowned out when you do put the distortion after it. If the distortion gets to be too much, it makes this terrible high-pitched feedback at the bottom (all the way down). Other than that, it's perfect. My setup really wouldn't be complete without it.

It works as well as I could hope. The pot is a bit scratchy, and if I work it too much, it starts to squeak. Other than that, I can't complain.

I've never had any trouble with the pedal, so I wouldn't know.

I play "blues-metal" (some combo, huh?), and listen to Hendrix, SRV, Sabbath, Deep Purple, that sort of stuff. Life wouldn't be complete without my wah. If it was stolen, I'd buy an upscale version, like a 95Q because I love the sound of the original, but want the Q dial and 15 Db boost. Rather not lose this one either way. I like it plenty.

The only thing difficult about using a wah-wah is perfecting your foot controlling vis-a-vis what you're playing. This Crybaby doesn't have the 'Q' option, and thus there are no buttons or knobs to play with. While the 'Q' is a cool feature, in Australia pedals are expensive and so I had to 'settle' for the standard Crybaby. That said, I love this pedal. It is a reissue of the late '60s era wah, and it sounds great, but I don't know how accurate a reissue it is.

The manual is short and scant on information, but for those of us who have no idea about the technical side of guitar effects, it states that while most players prefer wah before distortion, Hendrix had wah after his Fuzz Face. Both ways are cool and have their advantages, but if you try the Hendrix method, make sure your amp can handle the volume and treble gain when the wah is depressed at the trebly end. The manual mainly contains promotional material for Dunlop's other effects.

You can really tweak your effects to get the best out of this wah, but I'll discuss this in a minute.

I am a rock/blues/metal guitarist. My favourite artists and songs to play are by Hendrix, Clapton (esp. with the Bluesbreakers), Slava Grigoryan (although he's more of an influence on my classical playing), Van Halen, Pantera, Sepultura, Neil Young, Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., and most of all Led Zeppelin. I've been playing for six years and have owned and sold quite a few pedals. The Crybaby, like the MT-2, is a modern classic - at least in my opinion.

My guitar setup begins with my Squier Standard Strat or my Samick Ibanez RG copy (someday I'll be rich enough to buy a Les Paul DC Standard!!), then into the Crybaby, into a Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor and then into my Fender Deluxe 85 (65W) combo amp. In my NS-2's noise suppression loop I have a Boss MT-2 Metal Zone and an FZ-3 Fuzz. Through my amp's effects loop I run a Boss OC-2 Octave and hopefully soon also a Boss or MXR Flanger.

This wah works brilliantly with the clean and overdriven channels of my amp, and it has taught me much about effects. I've heard gear boffins speak of 'transparency' in the sound of an effect. When I first tried my two Boss distortion pedals (I use either one or the other, never both simultaneously - uurrgh!) with the Crybaby before them, the wah signal was weak and barely audible (although the FZ-3 before the wah sounded great - to my ears I could approximate 'Voodoo Chile' quite closely). When I ran the two distortion pedals through the NS-2, however, I was able to clean up the pedals' signals to the point where the wah came through loud and clear! With the MT-2 I was able to get a sound closely approximating Kirk Hammett's in 'Nothing Else Matters'.

The transparency problem was more of an issue with my single-coiled Strat than with my humbuckered Samick, but then on the Strat with a clean tone you can get great 'chucka chucka', funky wah sounds that would make Barry White blush.

The wah is also useful as a filter. Some artificial harmonics are harder to produce than others, but if you tap the wah on, and depress it all the way in the treble position, you can easily get any harmonic. Also, in some of the middle and lower order positions, the wah can get some of those out-of-phase sounds that Jimmy Page made famous, such as on the song 'Houses of the Holy'.

The wah is a little more noisy when at its trebly end, but it's no big deal and is hardly perceptible. Hey, J. Mascis and Jimi Hendrix both have incredibly noisy rigs and most hacks can't play like them.

Finally, it doesn't work well with the OC-2.

Well, unfortunately I had to grow up and go to university (which I love, don't get me wrong) so I no longer play gigs. I do, occasionally, play fills and leads on my friend's recordings (he owns a studio). While his playing is more in the vein of Crowded House and the Go-Betweens, I find that with the Crybaby I can alter the tone subtly like you would if you were using subtle volume swells - just to add to the drama of the song. It comes up nicely on the recordings (digital) and there's no pot noise (I look after my pedals very meticulously, clean them after use, etc.) I never, ever, ever use batteries in pedals - for two reasons: 1) They go flat and let you down when you're aching to play; and 2) They go flat and leak and ruin your pedal. My friend ruined his DS-1 Distortion by leaving a battery in it... what a fool.

Seriously, this pedal seems tough. It's made of an alloy and has thick rubber on the foot pedal rocker and sturdy rubber feet. The only qualm I do have is that the pot is quite open to dirt and so forth, so keep this baby clean!

Never had any problem with it, but my friend owns a guitar store which is a licensed Fender, Ibanez, DOD and Dunlop dealer and repairer, so I guee he could fix it. He says Dunlop provides excellent customer support.

I really enjoy this pedal. I love the sound it can give both as an effect and as a filter. I really overused it at first because it sounded so good. Now I'm a seasoned wah-ist, I know to use it with a little more taste. This is the wah. Think about it: Crybabies are or have been used by many great guitarists - Hendrix, Van Halen, Jerry Cantrell, Dimebag Darrell, etc.

I have since tried out the Morley Bad Horsie Steve Vai signature wah. I prefer the switch on my Crybaby, although the sensor in the Horsie is cool. The Horsie is a shredder's pedal, and while I love a good shred at times, I'm more into playing songs and my tastes seem to be drifting more and more towards the late 60s and early 70s, and the Crybaby fits them like a glove.

easy to use.

marshall 50 watt, ts-9,and a marshall footswitch for clean/dirty cahnnel. I play blues, it works awesom. had it for about 7 years and it sounds abit scratchy.

a seven yr. old pedal thats been touring and beat to hell, spilled beer on it, kicked it around, dropped it out of trucks. ect. ect.

dont deal with em.

blues, great. around 10 years of playing about 7 on this pedal. had a morley before, not comparable. i would buy it again if it were lost or stolen. just to let everyone know, about the guy who said no famous guitar players were related to crybaby, there are actually several. BUDDY GUY! cmon people are you frickin stupid, buddy guy is the man.

Erm... you step on it!

Epiphone SG/Marlin Sydwinder/Squire Strat/Tanglewood Oddysey --> Zoom 505 --> Zoom 510 --> Arion Metal Master --> Dunlop Crybaby --> Marshall AVT 50W Stack

Dead as a doornail! No noise at all.
Sounds great! Especially for Chili Peppers style rhythm sections.
Recently shelled out for a Marshall ATV stack. 50W head with two 4x12 cabs. Don't know what the unit sounds like on a combo but it sounds gorgeous on my amp.
Not really for the sort of stuff my band generally plays (Manics meets U2 meets Muse) but we do sometimes have a little fun and cover old blues songs ;) Loads of wah for me to fiddle about with then.

If you attach a gun to the top people might mistake it for a tank! I was sceptical when the chap in the shop told me it would last forever, so he told me that I could jump on it as hard as I could. He told me that he would give me the money for it if I broke it. I didn't manage to break it and I weigh fourteen stone! Get the idea?

I haven't had to deal with them yet.

My band plays alt. rock and it's nice to fiddle about with a wah behind the overdrives.
I've been playing for five years. I used to have a Morley Wah, but I sold it to get this toy!
It wouldn't be a priority to replace this if it was lost or stolen as I just play about with it really, but I probably would get one at some point anyway.
I particularly like when the wah is set to low and you can get harmonic-type sounds out of it.
If it had an LED this thing would be perfect! Hense the nine...

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!!!

n//a

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.

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 :)

Pretty damn easy. Some people complain that you have to press down really hard to activate/deactivate the effect, but you can replace the small circular felt piece underneath the pedal that hits the switch with a piece of wood and it'll be much easier (if you don't want to do all that, tape a penny to it or something!).

My setup: Guitar -> Uni-vibe -> Memory Man -> Crybaby -> Amp
I've found that putting the Crybaby right before the amp is the quietest and best sounding. The effect sounds great, though I do hear some faint scratching and am thinking of replacing the pot (about $20). I haven't compared it to other wahs though.

I'd had numerous problems with this thing in the past: the action wasn't smooth, picked up radio sounds, scratchiness, the jacks were loose... but the good thing about the pedal is that it's very simple and all I had to do to get rid of all the problems is open it up and mess with it a lot. Now it works great. So I guess if you don't like tinkering with effects and just want something that works, this might not be the best toy for you.

Dunlop has a bad rep, but their website is pretty helpful (describes fixes to everything I mentioned above). I've also called them and talked to repair guys that were helpful and without having to wait on hold. The only bad thing is a non-warrany repair is $50 (compared to Electro-Harmonix which is $15).

It's fairly cheap, sounds good (when working properly), and is supposed to be the "real deal" (authentic vintage sound), so I give it the thumbs up! Still, if I were really picky about wahs I'd try out other ones...

If you can't figure out how to operate this, then you're a damn moron.

This pedal has a good classic wah sound to it, and no matter what your setup is (unless you have a crap-ass setup), you should be able to get some great sounds from it.

If the likes of Hendrix and Clapton could depend on these, then so can you. Hasn't given me a single problem yet.

Never dealt with them.

No matter what style you play, this pedal should be in your setup. It delivers that classic wah sound you're looking for...although I think Vox's wah pedals have a warmer sound to them. Either way, it's all in the ear of the beholder.

pretty straight forward, the only complaint is that you need to press the pedal with force to switch the pedal on/off

Not, too bad....i sorta wish that id tried other pedals before buying. I was choosing b/w a vox wah or this, i chose this cuz it had an adapter output. The tone is average, but the frequency sweep is too compact...the budwah is excellent but i cant get it at a good price in Australia

Solid as a rock, but the lead input has stuffed around a little bit now

N/A i should really ask about the lead input, but im too lazy

Good, no real complaints. You can modify it if you like a more warm and full tone by rotating the pod (i think thats what its called) but dont do it if you dont know how to do it

How Easy Could It Be? I've Had Mind For Over 1 1/2 Years and I'm Very Satisfied

I'm A 10 Year Old Guitarist From South Florida and I've Played With A Few Bands.My Setup Is A Squier Strat And An Epiphone Firebird VII With A TS-9 Tube Screamer,Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensamble Hooked Up To A '68 Fender Super Reverb or Crate GX-15R Amp.Try To Keep The Tube Screamer Down Cause You Could Get Some Annoying Feedback.

I Can Depend On This Pedal.It's Probably The Best Pedal I've Ever Had.

THIS IS A FLAT OUT EXCELLENT PEDAL!!!!!!!

How hard can it be? step on it and move your foot to and fro.

My setup is a Fender texas special strat with a red lace sensor in the tail position and a Marshall MG80RCD. The Wah from this pedal is the time proven funky wah we are all familiar with. It has remained (for the most part) unchanged. It is the standard.

Seems well built. I do not like the plastic mechanism with the grease all over it, but it does work. I guess it's some kind of "space-age nylon composite ergonomically impact resistant polymer" In a word, SHIT. I suspect it will last only breifly with moderate use. It has been solid thus far, so my complaint may be moot. I think for the coin these pedals command they could at least use metal.

I don't know, I hope I never do.

The sound is there, I can go from Clapton to goofy, Wicca, wicca, wow,wow funk in an instant. I love it. I just need to get my technique honed to take advantage of all I know it's capable of. I'm new to the wild world of wah, so time will tell. Buy it again? yeah, I suppose. The reviews here on the Morley offerings were not very inspiring. This Crybaby does it for me.

Man , very easy just use your foot and move it ,
I bought it 2nd hands ,so it didn't have a manual ,
and it actually starts easy to use but if you really want to do something special ,you won't just move it back ,forth ,back ,etc.
but you start to learn with you ear how it suits your stile ,
and actually this wah is perfect for all these styles out there.
but there are many ways to use it ,before distortion ,after distortion as a filter etc. but what i mean is the way you sweep , you can sweep it slowly , fast ,random ,accent your notes or licks ,and stuff , so if you want to use it in a good inspiring way ,
you should expiriment ,and not just wack it back and forth.

and some people below say that the switch is hard to push , if so ,you should put a piece of carton board or something on you switch,
to make it higher and so it is easyer to switch it on or off.

my setup is :
epiphone les paul(a bit noisy pickups)-\boss me-6 multi effects-\cry baby wah-\boston volume pedal-\peavey backstage 30

With my setup ,the pedle isn't noisy at all ,first it was though , cous my pott was old and scratchy ,but i replaced it and now it works like a charme!!

Iplay a lot of metallica ,hendrix ,oasis ,iron maiden ,and it suits all these bands perfect ,i like the high ends , the low ends ,everything is just great ,even the sweep range is good , before and after distortion .
and the higher i put my distortion ,the better it sounds ,
don't put your dstortion to weak though ,it will make the wah less contious of the distortion.
so if there are people out there who think their wah sounds bad,
you should just expiriment with it , other wise it might sound bad , and that's a shame for such a great pedal.

sometimes it just suits so perfectly with my distortion ,that it really mixes in great ,you can really hear it scream.
really cool

it is made of steal ,very reliable !!
i never had a problem with is so far ,
only the paint is starting to come off ,butt hey , who cares.
and the battery last really long ,in my case and i use the pedal every day a lot .

my pot was scratchy ,but that is natural ,
so i let a friend replace it .
now it sounds the same ,and that pot lasted really long ,couse i got it 2nd hand , and that man had already used it a lot ,and then i used it for a year ,and it started to scratch.

With the styles i play , like metallica etc. it really kickes all babys' asses!!
i would really buy a new one if it broke!!
i have been using it for 1,5 year now ,and it really rules.
and if u are a real metal fan , i suggest you bring in some more mids to make it sound fuller ,maybe bring the mids up to 5!!
I don't hate anything about it , it is the best effect in the world!!
I did compare it to the morley bad horsey wich also is a great pedal ,
but i still like this one more becouse the feel of it ,not only the sound but also the fact that it is made out of steel.
it really helps bringing more colour in your playing ,if you use it the right way ,i promise you you will like it!!

Hmm. Rock your foot back and forth......

I know people have been saying it buzzes and stuff, but mine has no problems, and i've used it for 2 years. It works great with distortion too. However at high volumes it gives a bit of feedback if you leave it in 1 position for too long.

I'd never use anything on a gig without a backup.
You can depend on it to an extent. You really need to make sure you press down the on/off switch, or it might not work properly.

Never needed them

I play metal and this is perfect for it. You can always get a great sound out of it, u just need to get used to it, and that takes time. It kicks any other wah's ass. The only thing i'd change is the switch. It needs to be easier to switch on and off, coz sometimes it gets caught in between.

Dirt simple. Doesn't require a ton of effort to turn it on/off. Wish I didn't have to remove the bottom plate to get at the battery!

Good when it works properly.

This is the most undependable pedal I have owned, except maybe for the Snarling Dogs Whine-O. Battery jack is shit. I'm assuming you have to clean this thing somehow because mines makes a horrible crackling sound when you rock back and forth. Don't buy one unless you like either fixing cheap pieces of crap or enjoy smashing things. I guess the $69.95 price should have told me somthing.

Didn't bother. Maybe the more expensive Crybaby's are a little better...

Don't buy one!!!

The easiest, without knobs, only on/off under the pedal. Sometimes on/off button is hard to press, but it's just OK.

I use with Fernandes & Fender strato guitar, Marshall & Rolling amps. Great wah, but noise will occure due to the treble boost. Best to use without distortion, or use it after distortions to get the strong wah sound but will increase the sound volume. Could be used to aprroach a little bit of Hammett, Slash wah, etc.

Good and rigid case. But after 5 years, "clack-clack" sound will occur. Seems like ash and dust are sticking in the pedal rotary and the grease was gone. I should add some grease again (i use car grease!) and it works good again. For keeping up it work well you should keep it in its box or often clean it after use it (your boots surely make it dirty).

Never dealt with them. I've ever dealt with Roland/Boss and they're friendly by sent me a manual. But I donno with Dunlop.

I play rock/metal/blues. Good sound from Crybaby that I got. I've been playing since 90. If it lost, I will cry with my own eyes because I have no money to buy again (now US$=Rp10000 so the price is 4x!!!) I love it because it's very simple. I hate a little because the sound's not a killer one. I wish the price of effects will decrease.

It's a wah pedal. Unless you have no legs, it shouldn't be a big deal.
The manual is totally lame and unnecessary. I don't know why, but Dunlop ships one of these wah manuals with every pedal they make (Fuzz Face, Phase 90 etc.) instead of a manual for the product that you actually purchased. Why? I hate Dunlop.

If the sound of cattle farting while wearing tight jeans rocks your world, this pedal will really put you in the ZONE. With all the good wha's out there on the market today, why anyone would bother with a standard Cry Baby is beyond me (I can only hope the more expensive Cry Baby models sound better).

The Cry Baby pedal I have is gutless with a super harsh high-end and a really tubby low-end. Sounds OK clean when I use it with the compressor from my Route 66 pedal, but not great. Sounds like shit with distortion both before and after the distortion/fuzz/overdrive pedal.

Do yourself a favor. Save the pennies and go buy a good wah. In the long run you will be better off if you plan to use it regularly.

Its sturdy. I don't use it so it should last forever. I'll probably take it out of commission by getting it modded with the RMC1 mod rather than sell it to some poor sap.

Never had to deal with them. Hopefully It's better than their product.

I'd rather have a rectal exam from a proctologist named Dr. Fisto than use this piece of crap. What lame excuse for a wah.