Dunlop GCB-95

EVERYONE can use this thing. Click on it and it works.... i got the hang of it inmediatly

I use a Epiphone les paul standart with a fender frontman... I use the overdrive thats on the amp. That all plus the crybaby. Its simple and it sounds %&$#in AWESOME!! The Crybaby is defenatly the best Wah around... The only disadvantage is that you cant hear the wah on the really high notes. But its still the freakin best

You can build a house on it... its unbreakable. Yeah i use it without backup. No need for it

The pedal is so good i never had to deal with that......

I play everything... From Heavy metal to trash punk. This is the best invention there is. If it got stolen i would buy a new one again again and again. I've considerd a morley wah volume wah too, but i've read here this one was better... and it is. It makes me sound 100 times better. Too bad it doesnt work that well on a bassguitar....

Foot rocks forward...click....thats about it.
When i turn the unit off, if i leave the toe all the way down it wont turn back on again until i pull the pedal back a little bit and forward again...so ive just had to remember to give the thing a little pull towards the heel when i step it off.

my setup: 98' PRS Ce-22 -- Crybaby -- DoD Flanger -- DoD Phaser -- Boss RV-3 -- Marshall G100RCD -- 2x10" Celesion Vintage 10. I use amp distortion and reverb as well. When I have my gain cranked on channel 2 this thing screams. It add a really raw feedbacky feel that ive come to love. When im running a very clean channel it doesnt have enough presence in the signal but I just stick a bit of reverb on it and it thickens up.

The only thing i dont like (it doesnt bother me enough to call it a "problem") is that sometimes when i click the unit on or off the signal can cut for a second if i leave the pedal all the way on the toe. I'm sure if i took it in to get cleaned out it would fix the problem but thus far i havent bothered.

Never talked to them. I'm sure they're very nice people

I play a fair load of everything with exception to the material put out by individuals who claim to be "artists" or "performers" as opposed to real musicians. This unit does have many options (it doesnt have really any options...) and cant be made to make every kind of sound you can get out of newer digital units, but it does add a beautiful analog aspect to your rig. Either way, I believe that a guitarist doesnt need a completely different sounding effect to make something different, your playing should be the source of unique...ness(?)

yep, to master a wah youve gotta listen to Yngwie Malmsteen!

i use a malmsteen strat, marshall 900 50 w heads, i run this with a few other boss pedals and it seems to add the smallest bit of vintage bass sound when bypassed, i just love the vintage sound this thing gived off!
vox wahs are now out of production but that was the only other competition as far as im concerned, you just cant go past this baby!
its also adjustable too, you can adjust the pot or the footswitch

you can depend on it

you shop should support you.... even if you are an asshole about it!

i play hot licks, and im currently doing the cover band thang,
JUST BLOODY GET ONE!

what are you still doing sitting there?

This pedal totally rocks. The manual explains everything in like 3 sentences. But ya know, whats to explain. If u cant work this wah then somethings seriously wrong.

First of all. Make sure the crybaby is first in your chain. If there is anything before it ull notice a volume drop when u rock back. No its not Noisy. Maybe the ppl who says its noisy should get the rest of their equipment checked. I use this to achieve my style of playing (think slash). It works nearly perfect. oh yea I run t his 10 ft cable from guitar to wah, 10 ft from wah to distorition (boss ds1), and 10 ft from distortion to amp. Thats 30 feet of cables and no tonal or signal loss so dont be worried about that.

Its not built like a "tank" but it is quite sturdy feeling. It has a much more professional feel than my other wah did. This pedal wont let you down.

never dealt with them

Overall this pedal totally rocks. If u play hard rock and metal and want something that will absolutely scream for your solos then go out right now and get this pedal

It is really easy to use, but to put it on/off it is really hard!
Believe me, you have to concentrate all your weight on the top of the wah and then press, that's the only way to make the switch work! Don't even thing on making it work while you're not standing. And the first time you have to put it on/off it's not a good sensation to press with all your force on your new wah, you may feel like braking it.

There's a nice manual explaining how to setup your wah.

This is my setup: GUITAR (Yamaha RGX121s) > WAH > OVERDRIVE (BOSS SD1) > AMP (Fender Frontman 15G).

It gets noisy when i put the gain at 10, but normally, with amp gain at 6/7 and the Overdrive on it, it sounds great! Pressing on the top make a very screaming sound! And it also gives some boost to the gain.

Mine it's new, so I cannot know if it is strong as a tank as someone says. The lower part, a light metallic surface, looks a bit weak and too sharp. However, it's hard to hit that because it is at 1 finger from the ground.

Never needed.

I play a lot of metal (Death, At The Gates...) and this wah is pretty good for it. I've been playing for a year, and if i have it stolen or lost, i may buy the Jimi Hendrix one...I think it has a "bigger" sound. But don't think the GCB95 isn't good! We're talking about professional wah's, and I just love it.

Just step the pedal and play.

My setup: <Epiphone LP CustomPlus> => <GCB95 Wah> => <Guv'Nor Plus> => <Digitech RP50 (used as noise gate/delays/revrbs/chorus)> => <Amp>

It gives to me an excelent hard rock sound. I tried several configs but this really give me the best results.

The Clean sounds are very good for reggae/funk, and with a powerful distorsion you can reach the 80's metal sounds.
Note: I get no noise with my config.

I guess the chassis is like a tank but I'm not so sure about the pot mechanism. I've never problems but I give an 8

I mainly play hard rock stuff like G'n'R, classic rock like LedZep, DeepPurple. I play guitar for 5 years and the gcb95 fits perfectly my guitar sound. If it were stolen or lost I guess I'll buy another one.

yeah real easy!

People who said it's noisy, of course it's analog! when you use it, you don't hear any bad noise!

First time I heard a bad reliability problem with that ''tank'' yes it's a tank , so poor bad-lucked guy, sorry, maybe the guy who made your pedal had a real bad night...

No need to call them

First of all, guys who say it ''sucks'' and tell having a serie of 5 different fuzz, chorus and delay pedals, ya right it sucks! this pedal must be played direct right through a good tube -amp to get it at it's best, doesn't mix well with other effects, make a loop for cry baby and keep your other effects in line or at least put crybaby first, for those who say this pedal doesn't much sweep, I tried an original Colorsound, that sweeps too much! and no bass-bottom at all... after all , it's a matter of taste, You like it or not, for me it's the best I love it!

Really easy to use, except for the fact that you must step really hard on the pedal to turn the switch on/off

Whatever...

this pedal sounds like crap period. I haven't tried many whas but this one sounds dirty, crappy and trebly, even offensive to my ears. The sound you get from this thing comes from too muddy and undefined to a way too-trebly sound... but you never get the mid-sound you expect.

I own a good amount of pedals and I put different chains of them from gig to gig. I use a Boss CS-3, RAT, Big Muff, Nobels ODR-1, Rocktech analog delay, Nobels TR-X... and I have removed the GCB-95 from the chain definately. It sucks tone severely and it sounds really bad with other effects. It also destroys ths sound of my jazzmaster.

I guess this is the only good thing about this pedal

I've been playing guitar for 10 years now, my sound style is similar to bands like radiohead, the cure, jeff buckley, luna... sweet atmospheric crunch and a bit of fuzz... the crybaby never fits this It never sounds sweet, it changes the tone of my jazzmaster/peavey classic 30 so much that it gets really unpleasant.

You'll think I don't like this pedal because whas are not my style, but I also play some hendrix stuff and this pedal still sounds awful. I'm trying to sell it right now, and if it were stolen I guess I wouldn't be very sad about it.

simple. actually has a better switch than i thought.

this is terrible. i don't know what the #$(*#&$#(* is wrong with this, it has such a poor sweep range. absolutely no balls on the bass end of it... i just got this thing and it's out of here. i've got other wah pedals and this one just sucks.

it's older, used, but tough. no issues with pot scratchiness typical of crybabys. i still have to give it a 7 due to experience with these products in the past...

you got to be kidding?

doesnt work for me. i've had these in the past. just got it in. it's out the door/ on the trade block right now. absolutely no bass end to it. my morley bad horsie that's beat to hell kills this thing. my vox ri kills it as well.maybe just got a bad one...

i've had all kinds of gear. too much to list. this thing is out the door as quick as possible. trust me, its not a functional issues. just doesn't cut it for my useage...

Easy to use as abc , but the switch is a bit hard to put on (anyway, mine is always on).

This pedal gives me total expression, either I rock it with clean tone to get funky early 70s tone or get amazing harmonic sustain completely out of space with overdriven tones, the ''sweetspot'' that make it scream is easy to find (in the middle), you control it like if it was a part of yourself. wow!

Like others said ''built like a tank'' run your Hummer over it and it will work like before.

No need to contact them.

When I was looking for a ''wha'' the store had a lot of models, the salesman told me ''there's two good ''wha'' on the market, the crybaby and the vox, I tried both and they sound about the same (maybe a bit more ''mid'' with vox), the vox was $50 more because of chrome on it I guess, I bought the cry-baby and I am very happy and have a lot of fun with since.

Hooking this pedal up is simple - and there are no controls - just the pedal. Only problem is with the built in on/off switch that's activated by pushing the pedal all the way up - it's very stubborn and you got to stomp it like if you're trying to kill it.

I hate to complain about this pedal's sound quality because overall I like it, but I can assure you that the sound quality is highly dependent on the impedance of your instrument (in fact I have a guitar that it won't even work with), the length of your cords, the number of other pedals you have connected, and what order you have the pedals hooked up. It's real easy to lose the sound quality.

As far as physical reliability, it's practically bullet proof. The body is very well designed to stand up to the worst abuse. But as far as how reliable it works - well, like I mentioned above, you never know what's going to happen to the sound when you hook it up to different equipment (in some cases it has little or no wah effect, or it feedsback).

I've never contacted Dunlop, so I can't tell you about their customer support.

Overall it's a pretty reliable pedal with a nice effect. But if I had to replace it, I'd try another model first. But I'm not sure that there is any other wah pedal that's better. I'm considering maybe designing and manufacturing my own pedal, based on this one, but with improvements.

Easy, if know how to deal with wha wha's... but I hate how the wha-wha pedals (doesn't matter the manufacturer)are switched to on/off. Requires practice to fit the effect in time... The pedal 95Q, don't have a switch, but you can't explore the "bass area", 'cause the pedal turns off; at highest position, the pedal turns on... Maybe Dunlop could make a new model, with the switch placed in a "mini base" attached on one side of the pedal(PLEASE!).

My setup:

Fender YJM Signature>Samson VHF>Rocktron Banshee>Dunlop Wha>CS3>CE-2>amp

Excellent sound! When used with soft dist/OD, you get classic Jimi's wha. With more powerful ODs, you can catch the Metal sound of 80's and 90's, and for my setup I've got the exact tone of Yngwie's wha sound. Clean settings are quite good for funk/reggae stuff.
Noisy when used with cs3, sure... I'm using a Marshall VS-100 combo and his Od1 and 2.

Great classic and metal sound, but attention... IT'S NOT BUILT LIKE A TANK, like many people says!!! Believe me!!!

Problems like the "hot pot" broken or felt into the box(with 3 years of NORMAL use), in/out jacks problems adding a lot of noise, fragile plastic battery place broken, are common in Dunlop models. I don't know about other manufacturers. But I bet that's not SOOO different...

Never dealt with them...

Perfect fits in the styles of music I play (Hard Rock, Metal, Neoclassical,Funk and even Jazz). I love the classic and agressive tone. It makes my Strat scream! I hate the switch system (like every wha)

Not a hard unit to use, just a pain in the ass to find the right tone.

I have head so many people say that this WAH is awesome. Tone wise it sucks for Voodoo Chile, I dont care what you people say. I know tone, and this DEFINATLY isn't it. It is alright for some of Slash's stuff, and if you really push it on the exacting technique (that is necessary for this wah) you can replicate about 20.00% of the sounds on jimi's voodoo chile. truth is it is EXTREMELY nasaly on the mid to top, and the low sweep ranges are too muddy. This happens with my SG,. and my american Strat. Tube amps, to solid state...and oh, if it's in a chain....forget it. make sure to upgrade to a "True bypass" if you can. Look for area 51's or roger mayers replacement boards. they are what i use now, and its ALL 10's Completely across the board. no pun intended....

I have never had it break, and it has a great battery life.

Its really hard to say....when i first started, i was amped about it...now, once i have tried,and tried to recreate that bluesy tone that hendrix, and SRV, and KWS has/had i realize that it was IMPOSSIBLE with this unit. A great learning tool to say the best.

I must say I had to figure out how a wah worked, because I never owned one. Just put it all way up till you hear a click and its actived. Pretty stupid system really, but not very hard to figure out in the end.

It sounds great! I use a marshall valvestate 8080 amp and boss/pearl effects. Distorted it sounds awesome. I only use it distorted, not clean. For example: the song "disarm" by Smashing Pumpkins sounds great when you kick in some wah at a certain point. It gives the sound alot more meaning, somehow

This thing is build like a tank, and I dont think it would break or anything. I would gig with it without a backup...

Never dealt with them.

I could get this wah second hand pretty cheap, it was hardly used and came with original box, cable and manual. I would definately get this one again if it was stolen, but only if I could get a good second hand deal again.

Very simple, just switch it on and start moving forth to get higher tone and back to get low ends. The only thing is that when you switch it on you get the highest tone.

It takes a while to master and improve your controlling on this pedal. The only thing I complain about is that you get a very noisy high tone when moving all the way forth, and when you go all the way back, you get a very low tone without volumne, I guess it shouldn't affect the volume at all when moving back.
I use a Fender Highway 1, with: Boss Mega Distortion II> BossDD-3> crybaby > Laney HCM120R. I guess I can master on this pedal soon, and get used to this pedal and control those high and low ends that I don't loke.

Great, very reliable, strong pedal, bring it to a gig without backup...not very easy to get broke.

Never needed

I play Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Dream Theather and other rock, heavy metal band, including music from my band which is a ROCK band with 2 basses and 1 guitar.

No knobs, no nothing, just move your foot. Noobs could have trouble with the button however.

It's really noisy, but that cause it's boosting treble and mids. Here's where the beef is... it sounds very thin... It doesn't sound like some where they take just your whole sound and wah it. With distortion you can only notice different harmonics and even without, there is almost no sweep or anything to it. It works for what I do but whatever...

It's always worked fine.

It works out pretty good for most of the riffs I play and I actually have it on most all the time. I just wish it had more of a sweep or a more in your face, low end tone. If it got stolen i'd be mad, but would probably try out another pedal, maybe the hendrix or a vox.

very easy! plugged and go or ask your baby to teach you how it works.

An old version of GCB-95, I use this after Voodoo lab chorus, play funk, and some kind like reggae stuff, vintage tone! a high trebly wah! Delay and reverb effect added, I can get a closer sounds like Eddie Hazel - Maggot Brain.

for some reason of weak/thin sounds users, I think prob. the battery runs low or setting problems.
rip
Strat/Jaguar -> Wizard Custom A/B + 2 LOOP -> (Boss DF-2 -> Big Muff Pi || GCB-95 -> Boss Ds-1)
Out A -> Voodoo Lab Chorus -> Amp
Out B -> Amp

tank like! one is ok, no more backup.

never dealt with 'em

I play Noise Rock, Post-HC, Grunge, Metal Funk, Reggae. check your rip if sounds noisy, don't keep bla bla bla and do nothing.

its a wah, what do u want, if u cant use it, u need some help......the button can be tought at first tho

its a classic wah, dirty, noisy, and in ur face. if u dont want that dont buy it. im thinking of modding it for true bypass and switchiing a few pots,caps, maybe the inductor to get some more tone out of it and maybe a slightly more vintage sound, and also so it doesnt mess with volume as much when on....

overall a neccessary pedal for any blues, classic rock, 80's, or just about any player.

gig without a back up only cause i check it every other month

n/a

i play blues and classic rock, been playing 2 years, i run my electric setup godin sdxt (sd pickups) into gcb-95 to mxr dyba comp to bd-2 blues driver to amp....
if it was stolen id get another wah, maybe a vox, maybe a dunlop w/ fassel, maybe this wah, itd all depend.

Like other reviews have stated, it depends on how talented you are. Anyone can use a wah pedal, but to get the most out of this effect you need to spend some time with it. Turning it off and on my be the most difficult thing to do.

I use this after a NexFx Fuzzstortion and i can get that Bulls on Parade type wow-wow-wooka-wow-wow...type sound out of it. The only thing i notice is that when i turn it on it kills the bottom end. like...noticeably kills the bottom end. Playing it clean sounds really good for sleezy porno funk, which for me is AWESOME!!! On leads i would rather have it before the fuzz where it is more subtle. I'm thinking of grabbing a second one for this purpose. Before i began upgrading all my pedals i had it plugged before a GFX-707 and it sounded really amazing. It wah'd more than the current wow sound i get.

My crybaby is one of the ones made from 1989-1992. I can tell from the power jack. I got it off ebay 6 months for about 25 bucks (CDN) because the guy thought it was broken. Not the case it just needed a new battery. But it was old enough to have gone through some wear and 2 weeks ago i replaced the Pot. Judging by the componet i took out of the unit and by the soldering it was the original. Now...i know this pedal has been through alot because the botton plate is scratched, dented and the rubber feet are partially worn off. I am the type to take care of my equipment, so i hope i can get 15 years out of my 35 dollar pot. hell...15 years out of a 50 dollar crybay? Sign me up! BTW, i have had no problems with this pedal at all.

second hand...and i can fix it myself.

I love this pedal!!!

I have a cheap guitar (some mongrel 2nd hand Yamaha) run into NexFx Fuzzstortion ---> Crybaby ---> Yamaha Master Selector A ---> Line 6 Spider 210 (always on Twang) B ---> GFX707 (then back into the Master Selector).

I do (or at least i think so) alot of different things with this pedal. Wah's are very versatile effects. They are just a filter but you can be rythmic, or expressive. I like adding a heavy delay to a clean tone and palm muting a picked riff while sweeping the pedal slowly from back to forward to create a swirly almost keyboard sounding effect. I am a fan of electronica artists and some of their tricks are done with a filter just like a wah!

I've been using wah pedals since 1998 and i still love them! The reason i went with the Crybaby is because 2 of my favorite guitarists (the Edge and Tom Morello) have them, and i wanted to emulate some of their sounds. I just like making crazy sounds and a filter makes that possible. But i use it for more tradition purposes too. I can step on this during any solo and it never fails.

This is a classic effect that got a bad name in the 70's but whether you want be psychodelic or heavy metal this will get the job done. I think blues players would find a use for it too.

Easy, but the handling of the switch is not very responsible!

Hmmm, I don't play Jimi Hendrix, so it's too trebly for my taste. I use it before a TS9 and a Vox AC30.

After changeing a few resistors and a capacitor, I would not give it away anymore! ---> Rating after modification: 10

B.T.W Don't think that the inductor is bad but i will switch this one as well if I can get an original one

I would not use it without a backup but even tough it looks rock steady.
The switch and the potentiometer are probably the weakest thing...

Did not need their help but only because I am an electronician myself and know how to solder...They should change these parts I mentioned as well!

I would not buy this again and it cost me a lot of time to find the solution of the trebly problem.

I play Heather Nova, Aimee Mann and TEXAS stuff...

Jsut like everyone else...step on it, it turns on, rock it back and forth, get wah sounds. Now, that said...it does take some practice to get GOOD wah sounds out of it.

I've had a couple of Wah's in my time..a morley fuzz-wah..a no-name generic wah, and now this Crybaby. The Crybaby is much more subtle than the Morley I had...the dynamic sweep is much less pronounced. it has a much more vintage tone to it, whereas the Morley pegged a "Dirt" era Jerry Cantrell sound. I don't have an AC power supply, so I don't know if that will make the effect more pronounced. This is more of an underwater wah pedal.

I've only had this pedal for a few weeks, but I bought it at a pawn shop, and it looks like it's had some use. The pots seem good, no scratchiness, the rocker action is smooth, and no stikiness in the on/off switch. Seems solid enough to me....Backup? really...who can afford to have backup pedals?

Never had to really deal with Dunlop, but they had their manuals online, which is a plus in my book. I'm a pawnshop gear junkie and it's always nice to be able to get the manuals for used equipment.

I play ska/punk/rock-a-billy, some 80's alternative (Pixies, Social Distortion, etc.) My guitar set-up is an Ibanez AG75 into a Daddy-o overdrive to Crybaby to Vox Pathfinder 15R. It's a pretty lo-fi set-up, but it gives me that vintage-y garage sound that I'm after. The Crybaby is just subtle enough to fit into my setup without overpowering anything.

Depends on how musically talented you are, like any other music related equipment, hahaha. But anybody can turn the thing on, rock it up and down and make wah wah sounds.

Sounds good to me, comes awful close to a VOX wah-wah, to my ears anyway. I actually think Jimi Hendrix would approve.

Mine hasn't conked out yet,(had it about a year, use it about everyday) so i guess that's a good thing.

Never had to use it.

My setup consist in this order of: Fender Strat (white, rosewood neck bottom heavy gauge dean markley strings, capacitor soldered on the volume pot for treble bleed), dallas-arbiter*england fuzz face (original), Dunlop wah-wah, Ibanez ts-7 tubescreamer, 15 watt fender frontman (soon to be fender deville 410, I use nothing but coil cables. I am satisfied with my crybaby, I would suggest buying one to anybody. Sounds good, it's durable, I'm happy.

Easy to use, after extensive practice and experimentation.

In short.........Great for high wattage free style RnR........
gets that HIGH PITCH squeal for Voodoo Child that is over the top, which is OK...

The BAD.......
It sucks tone so bad, you will get rid of pedals that you THOUGHT were poor to begin with...
The wah goes first in the signal chain, unless a vibe or compressor is employed....
Too bad.....
Used it for YEARS!

Has its dilemnas......
pots go south soon, squeaks in the treadle.......
Fix it....Get true bypass installed and maybe we're talking turkey here.......

Pffffffttttttttttt.........
Why?
Just true bypass the damn thing and be done with it!

Power Blues.......
Has it's moments....but when you care about tone......
Try it in and THEN OUT of the chain......
It's like recovering from drowning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fer Chrissse sakes............

Too easy. Just plug it in. Instrument cable in one , the amp cable in the other. just press down on it for on/off. simple as that

I use this in front of a boss ds-1 distortion, a boss bf-2 flanger, and an mxr phase 90. The Crybaby works excellent in conjunction with these effects. It gives you that wail that can be heard in songs from various artists. I use it through a Dl-20 20 watt Mega amp. The sound quality is excellent. If you turn the volume up on your amp with the crybaby in the down position (down relative to where the crybaby nameplate is) you may have a little buzz. but that is it. If you are looking for a fatter wah sound that gives you a "wow" sound instead of a "wah" sound you might be better off with a Vox wah. But either is great and I hear that you can alter the Crybaby wah and make it so the sound is different, but I don't know how to do that.

Yes. But if I were to use it for a gig, I would purchase a newer model of the crybaby. the newer crybaby wahs have an adapter plug-in. I bought a used 70's model of the crybaby and I have to use a 9 volt battery. But I still have battery life after about a whole year of using the crybaby off and on.

I never had a situation where I had do contact Jim Dunlop.

This is great for any style of music. I use it on oldies like "Marvin Gaye- lets get it on", jimi hendrix styled songs, gospel, and funk. I would definately buy another if I had to.

It's very easy to use. no secret. i tink my unit is a little old
AA25H027.

i use a vox cambridge 15' with a celestion speaker, my sound pass through tagima strato guitar - CRY BABY GCB95 - TS9 clone - dano eq - sansamp classic - chorus CH1 BOSS (i go for dod fx65 and sell this) and a dan echo. my unit had almost imperceptible noisy. the effect is very good, but i can reach true hendrix sound, it could be more wet and delicate on slow use. but is very good to me... a just trate it for a more vintage unit, i belive mine is about 91'.
generaly the sound come very good, e like very much of my cry baby.
I had another one buy in 2000, but did not have a same vibe.

HARD BOX. you can play ball with and is continue to work.

i never go for dunlop support, i think, its nothing to be supported...
no secrets or complains about it.

i live in BRASIL and i play blues, rock, reaggae, funk, soul.
if get stolen i will buy another one... or search for a beter cry baby unit. IT'S CLASSIC THIS PEDAL COUL'D BE MORE USEFUL. GREAT. i use in all styles i play.