Dunlop GCB-95

it is classic wah pedal but the switching is not as easy as morley

Its sound is perfect.
I use it for metal and rock music and I like it..

It is a tank..

It sound is wonderful but switching can be a problem sometimes but If it were stolen or lost, I would definitely but anotherone..

Obnoxiously easy to use. If you have the wah in the full forward position and you go to stomp on it to turn it on, sometimes the button doesn't click, so just make sure it's all the way back before you turn it on. If that makes sense.

My current setup is: Washburn Maverick BT-4 > Dunlop Cry Baby GCB-95 > Danelectro FAB Distortion D-1 > Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi USA (greatest pedal ever, I might add) > Behringer GMX-212 (100 watts, has two 50-watt Jensen speakers).

Once you work with it for a while you can get a very very sweet tone for leads and soloing. Makes any solo sound good. Also very useful for playing psychedelic effects, try using it with a very prominent delay effect - very trippy.

I've noticed that the effect for the most part doesn't work on the lowest 2 strings, so it's pretty worthless if you're trying to use it on some heavy riffs. Also, the effect doesn't really work on maybe about the highest 5 or 6 notes on the highest string.

Is this infamous "tone sucking" only when it's on? Because I notice no difference between before I owned it and now when it's off. When it is on though, yes, your tone is drastically different. In my opinion it only sounds sweet when you're actually rocking it, I still haven't found this "sweet spot" people are talking about if you set it around the middle of its sweep.

It is very noisy when it's on with distortion and a bit noisy when there is no distortion, so turn it off if you're going to stop playing or you'll get this loud humming/hissing noise depending on what position it's in.

I noticed if I put it after my distortion pedals, the wah effect is extremely prominent to a point where you cannot even tell what notes you're playing. Something tells me Clapton, Hendrix, Gilmour etc do not have it at after their effects. Put it at the beginning, before all of your effects and it'll still be prominent but your notes will come through clear too, it sounds very professional.

With heavy distortion, this thing just rips. Super rich, creamy tone. Good for solos and not much else, but man this thing will make your solos sound incredible. Even just running over blues scales or something. With my Big Muff Pi USA it sounds jawdropping. No wonder the Cry Baby is the best selling pedal of all time.

It's built so sturdy if you hit it with a bat you'd probably break the bat. Throw it at a wall and you'll probably break the wall, etc. One time my friend was kicking it across my carpeting and one of the little rubber stopper/gripper/leg dealies came off the bottom and it was a bitch to get back on. So don't slide it on carpet.

I've heard the potentiometer only lasts a year or two, so don't be scared if it stops working if you've had it for a while.

Of course I'd use it on a gig without a backup. You think I have enough money to buy another one just in case this one dies?

I sent them an e-mail concerning the white cream on the lever underneath the plate (thing that you rock back and forth). About a month later, they gave me a one sentence reply confirming that it is indeed a form of lubrication to keep it running smoothly. Took them long enough.

Like I said, it's incredible for solos, trippy effects & the theme to Shaft but nothing else, so you probably won't be using it a lot (whereas I hardly ever play anything without using my Big Muff Pi).

This thing can make crappy solos sound great. Great for beginners or pros. I was either going to buy this or a Morley Power Wah and I asked some people and everybody recommended the Dunlop.

It doesn't come with an adapter or a battery, and from Radio Shack a 9V adapter is $15. Kind of steep for a plug with a cord, but worth it.

I'm in a band and we play some Sonic Youth type of psychedelic/atmospheric/noise jams which this is perfect for. We also do some Black Flag style hardcore punk and some Melvins/Swans style insanely heavy metal jams.

The first time I played a wah pedal was when I got this home, I didn't even try it out in the store. I had just heard so much about this that I went out and bought it immediately. At the time Guitar Center were having a sale and a Danelectro effects pedal was free with any wah pedal so I got a $15 Distortion pedal for free with the Cry Baby. Good deal.

Overall if you just want a bargain-priced, simple but very effective wah pedal, this is it. Excellent tone, worth the money in my opinion. Get it.

Might have problems if you had one leg, or no head.

Will write this for people who don't own a wah but are thinking of getting one.

Bought this today (first wah) and i already consider myself to be a better guitarist.

Find the sweet spot half way down, turn the gain up on distortion pedal (jackhammer), bit of Boss delay, and I can't believe how good I sound. This is the peice of kit my playing has been missing. Like I say, if you find the spot where your guitar sustains more than normal and leave the pedal there, you really can get an awesome, searing lead tone.

Don't know if this is true of all wah pedals. Only ever tried this one.

Mine looks like it has been run over by several tanks and pissed on. Still works fine, just a bit squeaky. Turn up the volume.

22 quid off ebay for a piece of bent metal.

Makes me sound like a real guitarist.

Money well spent IMO.

You push down (not very hard) and it turns the wah on.....then you push up and down and you make wah-ing sounds-simple

Theres a reason its the number one best selling pedal ever- because it makes the best vintage wah sound money cana buy-and for this one very little money. You can't change the amount of wah, but i never really seem to want to but if you do then you'll have to pay three times as much for a Dimebag Darrel (may his soul rest in piece) signature one.

Its as someone said earlier biult like a brick outhouse, underground and basically bombproof-been dropped from a great hieght and no damage done.

Nope

I play mostly blues, metal and punk-funk and this suits me perfectly. Definately buy another one if stolen although i'd rather chase after the theif and throw it at him-so heavy it'd probly break a rib or two-ive played many different wahs and this simply takes the biscuit. Although other people may not be suited to its sound its still the best in my opinion so ill give it a 9

You move the pedal, it makes wah sounds. The tone knob on my bass does that, but the tone knob on my bass has some travel to it. The entire range of the wah is in the first half a centimeter of pedal movement, as if the taper of the pot is set incorrectly. I didn't realize that a pedal with this much motion required such incredible fast twitch muscle control to operate.

Someone here said the manual shows how to adjust it. I received no such information, nor can I find it on their website. There is a more expensive wah pedal with a knob to adjust the range of the wah. I suspect that being able to sell that wah for twice the price necessitated making this one less useful. I'm a little annoyed at their marketing campaign as well. If this is the wah that Clapton uses on Disraeli Gears, I'll fucking eat it.

I bought this wah pedal with the intention of eventually modding it just for the fun of it, so no harm done. I'd hoped to be able to use it in the meantime. I'd advise against a purchase of this unit if you don't want to try to have to fix it right away.

I'm using a strat with a humbucker in the bridge and a class AB tube combo amp. I have effects that I use on occasion. I haven't noticed the incredible tone sucking that so many complain about, but I just use it at home; I don't have to keep it in my effects chain during performances. I've tried running it clean, running it before the distortion and running a distorted signal into it. Clean seems to work the best, which is to say, a little bit. Perhaps Dunlop should have called this the "Meh" pedal.

If I were only interested in playing "Love's Theme" by Barry White over and over again, this pedal would be epoxied to the sole of my shoe. It requires exquisite control in order to play due to the microscopic sensitivity.

It's big, it's heavy, it's metal. My one year old can't carry it far before getting tired. It's a great housing for whatever I decide to do with it later. It's currently keeping the door to my bedroom from closing when the air conditioner comes on. Yep, it's never failed to keep the door open.

Here's my very favorite thing about this pedal: When it arrived, there was a sticker on the pedal telling you the model of the approved AC adapter. In addition, it explains the requirements for an AC adapter should you choose to use one you already have. So many manufacturers scare people into buying their accessories when it's completely unnecessary. It's nice to know that Dunlop doesn't treat their customers like morons.

Dunlop's website is very good, if slow. It's strange in this day and age to have to wait for a website, but it's always been up.

I've played guitar for years and I always wanted a wah pedal. I used to have a Morley fuzz wah for bass that a friend gave me because it didn't work. The shroud around the photocell had come loose and it was easy to fix and worked great. So great, in fact, that another friend stole it. Oh well. I wanted to try the crybaby. I figured it was the Zippo lighter of the effects world. Lesson learned. Like I said, I'll mod it and it will be fine and I can play Devil's Daughter and Trapped Under Ice to my little heart's content. Until then it will continue to keep my bedroom nice and cool. Maybe it's just me, but I found the Morley much easier to use. I don't have the patience to have to make such small movements with my foot. I'm not sure why the rest of that motion is even there other than to get to the on off switch.


I'd have to recommend the Morley for an inexpensive wah pedal. If you have a problem with it, they are fanatical about helping you get it working and corresponding with you about it. I also think their entry level wah is ten or twenty bucks cheaper.

manual? why would you need one?...

Never been especially reliant on either effects in general or this unit in particular; though, recently, after years of neglect, I brought this back out front.

First thing I did was to pull off the rubber stoppers at the front end above the switch -- makes turning the unit on mid-song a lot easier and *slightly* increases the sweep (and despite also making it slightly easier to switch off accidently you can feel this happen and, again, it's easier to switch back on again).

The effect itself is good enough, it does exactly what a Wah should do (unless you've been led to believe that your Wah should also serve as a distortion/overdrive unit, variable tremolo unit or volume swelling device), but again, it can only sound as good as the signal moving through it, which is why I never really noticed how awful the tone-sucking factor was until I had started using it again.

I currently play a Les Paul Standard (Duncan Custom Custom in the Bridge, Kent Armstrong Hot-Rodded Vintage in the neck) mostly, going through an old valve-state head and a JCM 900 2x12. The Wah sits in line with a Small Stone and an Arion Delay.

Got the Dunlop Upgrade because it had lost a rubber foot somewhere along the line and because the battery-access factor was annoying. More serously, the Tone-Suckage is awful. It really does steal the shit out of your tone to the point where after a week of rehearsals I couldn't allow this out front for a whole set. The only reason I can think of for not really noticing this before is possibly that I was just really starting out at the time, and that I was playing with shitty stock pickups in my guitars.

It's only worth the effect while the effect is in use itself, and I no know one whose playing requires this to beswitched on for an entire set, so it really does require the mod to true-bypass (if possible) to make it worthwhile having in front of your amplifier.

My next step is gonna be either seeing to a true-bypass mod or getting the Mayer 'Band of Gypsies' retrofit. Otherwise it's only usable for overdubs.

built like a brick shithouse.

And anyway, talking about 'back-ups' - who really carries spare pedals as a point of policy?? Spare leads, strings, tubes, batteries, back-up guitar, yadda-yadda, sure - but spare pedals? Who does that? Have you ever seen someone change pedals mid-set?

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It needs a mod - Everything else about it is peripheral 'til that point.

This pedal is easy to use. Just like any other wah pedal. It did come with a manual and a cataloge which was interesting to look throgh. I didn't know Jim Dunlop has made so many different effects.

I play my Gibson Tony Iommi guitar using this pedal on numurous songs. The effect is great, with my Korg AX10G for distortion and chorus effect built into the amp I can always get the sound I want without to much trouble at all. The amp I am currently using is a Marshall 250 DFX (100 watts).

I can depend on it and I would use it at a gig without a backup even though there is a wah effect built into my Korg AX10G unit but it sounds terrible.

Never dealt with the company.

I play mostly only Black Sabbath and this suits that sound well for the songs I need this pedal on. I have been playing for 6 years and I also own numurous other effect pedals and another wah pedal. It is Aria wah but it dosn't sound to good at all. If it were lost I would probably get the silver Jim Dunlop wah because it looks better. I did compare this pedal to the Jim Dunlop Cry Baby Classic Wah. I chose this because the classic wah sounded a little to mellow for what I wanted. I would definitly recommend this pedal.

It's a wah. Wah it.

Insane volume spikes, lack of depth and warmth give this thing a 5/10.

I've heard much, much better wahs. Like a Buddha or vox. Even dunlop's other stuff is pretty good.


I just don't like this though.

7... it's been weird before. I don't really trust it.

*shrug

It works fine and it's easy to use but what's the point when it sounds like crap?

this is very easy to use

its sound is great.

you can always count on the cry baby

i dont know so i gave it a 10!

its a great sounding pedal that i love to use

step and click, rock and wah...very easy

Teles, 335 copys, tube amps, other stomps...overall, a very analog set-up. This the classic pedal and one of the few new pedals under 90 dollars that is a superb value! The Vox v848 wahs are also excellent, probably even a bit more 'throaty'sounding then the Crybabys, but their pots are horrible, they start to hiss and break down waaaayyyy to early in the life of the pedal (mine started just after a few months). Crybaby do not seem to have this issue. This is the 3rd or 4th Crybaby, I've owned, too...and I don't even think about replacing pots for at least a year or 2...and I gig with it FREQUENTLY! as far as sound goes: Theme from ShAFT, VOODOO CHILE, serious rock and funk classic sounds are all there

see above

though the Vox has a nice tone, as well, the Crybaby is more dependable and durable