Dunlop Crybaby

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...