Product: Dunlop GCB-535Q
Price Paid: US $120?
Submitted
05/01/2002
at
06:55pm
by
Anonymous
Ease of Use
:
9
Not too complicated, not that many buttons. But there are a lot of different combos you can have with a variety of sounds. Just fiddle around with em and you'll get it. Like any other Wah.
Sound Quality
:
8
I like it a lot. It can get kinda funky, but is really ideal for rock solos I think. The Q thing helps it get funky and more vocal too. Throw on the volume boost for solos, and it can act like a volume pedal in a lot of ways. There are more funky wah's out there, more vocal, but this still defintly gets the job done.
Fender Start > 535Q Wah > MArshall G80 RCD
Reliability
:
9
SO far so good. Been a couple of months and no problems at all. Never jheard of any really...Made out of pretty strong metal too. Nice. Batteries seem to last a good amount of time. Takes two 9v.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
nodda
Overall Rating
:
9
I thnk it is great. Like I said I use it for a lot of lead work, but it can be great for funky rhythm. Defintly a cool wah. I enjoy it. Overall a great wah.
Product: Dunlop GCB-535Q
Price Paid: US $140
Submitted
01/24/2001
at
01:20am
by
Alexander
Email: none
Ease of Use
:
8
You got to dig into controls - diiferent combinations lead to different result, and it ain't easy to find the proper one on the fly.
Anyway manual suggests some useful "signature" presets as a good starting point for building up your own sound
Sound Quality
:
10
My usual setup is - Epiphone EM-2 (w/Di'Marzio p/u)->Marshall ED-1 Compressor -> 535Q -> Marshall Jackhammer dist. -> BOSS GE-7 EQ -> Marshall G215RCD practice AMP. Whether I play clean, or distorted it sounds great. Of course, you have to tweak it a bit to asjust for distortion or back to clean to get a perfect sound. I just love the 6th mode - it's really dark and deep. Combined with heavy distortion (which Jackhammer provides) it sounds infernal. You can easily get a variety of tones from smooth to razor sharp, with different dynamic range. Get's noisy on high settings, but who gonna tweak all knobs up to the limit? Boost control affects the tone - you can get more hi-end just adding a lil' bit of boost. It also gives you a controllable feedback. Just boost the thing up, crank up the gain on your amp/pedal and when you rock the pedal forward - you get the feedback, rock it back - the feedback is gone. You can do some cool tricks with feedback.
Someone was complaining that EQ killed the tone. Well I found that it affects the tone (I have probably the same bassy, scooped mids setting as that guy) but I just shifted the range, tweaked the Q and boost and got the same kind of sound I had without the EQ.
Reliability
:
9
Pretty sturdy. The on/off knob works much better than on original CGB-95. But don't keep it stepped on too hard for too long while switching or you'll get some unwanted squeal.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
10
Very useful and very controllable thing. You can adjust it not for your ears only, but for a foot as well. Of course, you can't tweak the expression pedal mechanics, but you can tweak the dynamic range and depth to feel comfortable while rocking the pedal. Tried to use it with the built-in chorus of my amp (on clean or a moderately overdriven setting), and got a lot of good sounds from voice imitating (termenvox-like) and cat 'meows' to somewhat that sounds like pedal-controlled flanger with psychedelic vintage taste (great for slowly arpeggiated clean chords). This shows how good it's tone is - you can put a lot of stuff over it, and get a good result. Fantastic thing - a perfect one to build up your unique sound. This is the part of my rig, I can't miss.
