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Dunlop Crybaby

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Price New Dunlop Crybaby @ Musician's Friend
Manufacturer URL http://www.jimdunlop.com/
Ease of Use 9.2 (253 responses)
Sound Quality 8.0 (257 responses)
Reliability 8.4 (244 responses)
Customer Support 6.4 (33 responses)
Overall Rating 8.4 (238 responses)
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Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted 08/09/2009 at 08:24pm by Guitar Critic

Ease of Use : 10
Easy to use. Just plug in and play.

Sound Quality : 6
Sounds very good specially with tube amps.

Reliability : 1
Here is the place this product fails. I have two of these pedals that died after very light in home use.

Customer Support : No Opinion

Overall Rating : 1
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.


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: GBP 39 USED
Submitted 04/16/2009 at 10:49am by ChimpMuisc

Ease of Use : 8
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.

Sound Quality : 7
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.

Reliability : 10
its like a brick. 'nuff said. I've even had the battery in for about 4 months.

Customer Support : No Opinion
NA

Overall Rating : 9
It came with some gunky mayonnaise stuff on the cog, presumably lube but i'm not sure if it was meant 2 have that.


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted 02/08/2009 at 08:33pm by usermane

Ease of Use : 9
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.

Sound Quality : 10
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.

Reliability : 9
It seems like its built like a tank so far. WOuld definately not need to bring two to a gig.

Customer Support : No Opinion

Overall Rating : 9
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


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: GBP 60
Submitted 09/21/2008 at 03:17am by Craig Sunderland

Ease of Use : 8
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.

Sound Quality : 9
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.

Reliability : 8
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!

Customer Support : 9
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.

Overall Rating : 8
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!


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted 08/23/2008 at 03:01pm by Mule

Ease of Use : 10
Press pedal wah on/visa versa

Sound Quality : 7
Ok but noisy

Reliability : 1
Switch broke first time out.

Customer Support : 1
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.

Overall Rating : 1
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.


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted 08/08/2008 at 04:20am by Mattias
Email: mattiassahlstrom at hotmail<dot>com

Ease of Use : 7
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.

Sound Quality : 1
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.

Reliability : 9
I got rid of it pretty fast but it sure is a solid piece of metal i guess it wont break.

Customer Support : No Opinion
No idea

Overall Rating : 2
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.


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: 120
Submitted 04/24/2008 at 04:58pm by s_krug

Ease of Use : 8
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.

Sound Quality : 5
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.

Reliability : 10
Built like a tank.

Customer Support : No Opinion
n/a

Overall Rating : 7
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.



Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: SEK 995
Submitted 02/15/2008 at 05:40am by Peter Holmgren

Ease of Use : 10
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.

Sound Quality : 9
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!

Reliability : 9
Very reliable. Haven't had any problems with it.

Customer Support : No Opinion
Haven't dealt with Dunlop.

Overall Rating : 10
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!


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted 01/12/2008 at 05:49am by cottontips
Email: cold_puppet at hotmail<dot>com

Ease of Use : 10
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.

Sound Quality : 8
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.

Reliability : 10
Very reliable. Its a block of metal!

Customer Support : No Opinion
Never dealt with them.

Overall Rating : 9
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.


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: Euro 100
Submitted 09/23/2007 at 06:51pm by Rhys

Ease of Use : 10
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.

Sound Quality : 8
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.

Reliability : 10
It is very strong I would definitly gig it without a backup.

Customer Support : 10
Very good I e-mailed them asking them how to lubricate it properly and they explained it very well.

Overall Rating : 10
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.


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: USD 70.00
Submitted 03/08/2007 at 09:10am by Brian Lanciki

Ease of Use : 8
Doesn't get much easier. Unless you're really famous and have somebody working your pedals for you.

Sound Quality : 8
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.

Reliability : 8
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 Support : No Opinion
Customer what?

Overall Rating : 10
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.


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: USD 100
Submitted 11/07/2006 at 12:43am by nedorama

Ease of Use : 10
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"

Sound Quality : 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!

Reliability : 10
Totally can depend on it. I also have a Keeley-modded TS9 and wouldn't think twice about going to a gig without backup.

Customer Support : 10
good informative manual shipped with the product back, and well packed.

Overall Rating : 10
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.


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted 11/04/2006 at 09:27am by Ron

Ease of Use : 10
The Wah peddle is very easy to use, the manual is straight forward.

Sound Quality : 6
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.

Reliability : 10
Very solid.

Customer Support : No Opinion
Have not had to call.

Overall Rating : 8
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.


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: Canadian 50 USED
Submitted 07/16/2006 at 06:21pm by Kyle B
Email: the dot blue dot falcon<at>gmail dot com

Ease of Use : 10
Click on, click off. Rock to wah.

Sound Quality : 7
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.

Reliability : 10
Built like a brick. (As heavy as one too.)

Customer Support : No Opinion
Never dealt with.

Overall Rating : 8
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.


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: N/A
Submitted 06/25/2006 at 08:09pm by Dave

Ease of Use : 10
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.

Sound Quality : 8
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.

Reliability : 10
Its built tough, I kick the "shirt" outta this thing and it comes back for more.

Customer Support : No Opinion

Overall Rating : 8
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.


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: 0.00 (trade) used
Submitted 05/24/2006 at 04:28pm by David G. Johnstone
Email: davecath<at>computan dot com

Ease of Use : 9
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!)...

Sound Quality : 9
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...

Reliability : 10
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!

Customer Support : No Opinion
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...

Overall Rating : No Opinion
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.


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: 140 (NZ$)
Submitted 05/09/2006 at 02:19am by coRky

Ease of Use : 10
Plug in and go! (difficult depending on present mindframe)

Sound Quality : 6
Setup: Epiphone Les Paul --> Crybaby --> Marshall 8040

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

Reliability : 3
Pot already scratching. I can depend on this wah for sitting under the bed doing nothing

Customer Support : No Opinion

Overall Rating : 6
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 :(


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: 50 (#) used
Submitted 04/03/2006 at 03:01pm by Anonymous

Ease of Use : 10
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...)

Sound Quality : 9
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 ;).

Reliability : 9
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!

Customer Support : No Opinion
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.

Overall Rating : 10
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!


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: N/A
Submitted 06/05/2005 at 04:07pm by Ben Dover

Ease of Use : No Opinion
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!!!!

Sound Quality : 10
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!!

Reliability : 9
i dunno,,,its built like a shit brick house though..

Customer Support : No Opinion
support group yeah, for my green bud smokin

Overall Rating : No Opinion
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.


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: Euro (89)
Submitted 05/27/2005 at 06:50am by Dick

Ease of Use : 10
Plug it in, turn it on, done!

Sound Quality : 8
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.

Reliability : 10
It's built like a US Army tank. I think it would survive a grenade.

Customer Support : No Opinion
Never dealt with them.

Overall Rating : 8
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.


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: US $5.00
Submitted 03/24/2005 at 06:16pm by zeews

Ease of Use : 10
easy to use, plug the amp in one side, the guitar in the other. Then you rock it.

Sound Quality : 9
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.

Reliability : 9
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)

Customer Support : No Opinion
never had to deal with them

Overall Rating : 9
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.


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: N/A
Submitted 03/23/2005 at 01:48pm by Anonymous

Ease of Use : 6
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.

Sound Quality : 7
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.

Reliability : 7
Mine's never broke. Once the pot got squeeky and I had to put a little oil on it.

Customer Support : No Opinion

Overall Rating : No Opinion
You can't go wrong with the crybaby. There's better boutique things out there but at a much greater cost.


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: N/A
Submitted 03/18/2005 at 09:53pm by Anonymous

Ease of Use : 10
Very VERY easy to use!

Sound Quality : 5
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.

Reliability : 9
Of course, these are always reliable. Never had a problem.

Customer Support : No Opinion
N/A

Overall Rating : 7
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.


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: #70?
Submitted 03/16/2005 at 07:12am by Anonymous

Ease of Use : 9
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.

Sound Quality : 7
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.

Reliability : 10
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)

Customer Support : No Opinion
Never had to deal with them

Overall Rating : 7
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...


Product: Dunlop Crybaby
Price Paid: N/A
Submitted 02/23/2005 at 06:04pm by Anonymous

Ease of Use : 10
The unit is super easy to use, only the press of the pedal turns it on.

Sound Quality : 9
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.

Reliability : 10
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.

Customer Support : 9
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.

Overall Rating : 10
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.

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