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...