Dunlop JH-1 Jimi Hendrix Wah Wah

Pretty easy to switch over, but some force is necessary.
Almost impossible to switch on when sitting down.

Sexual

I had the thing for 20min and i broke the switch. Other than that the thing is built like a brick. I gig with no backup as one isnt needed.

Aint worth the trouble. It took 4 weeks for them to send me a new pedal when the switch broke.

Its the best ive trid, better than morleys vox and the crybaby

I bought this pedal in order to sound a little more like Jimi, without a lot difficulty of use. After all I am still just begining.
I found that it is easy to use,except that it catches when you bring it up to high. other wise its great.

I used a very simple set up of a squier stratocaster and a Peavey "rage 158" amp. I found the sound to good enough as to play a vast aray of Jimi's songs such as " voodoo chile". I also use it to play at events such a a baseball game that I proformed the star spangled at it sounded great in a larg open area.

Every now and aging it stops on me but to offen.

Have had to call.

If you want the sound, buy the pedal.

Pretty easy to use though one must push hard to switch pedal on an off
In order to improve switching, just cut away the rubber pads ( and eaven the vilt beneath the rocker.

I've heard a lot jh-1 wah's cause i modify them. They sound all different!!!. Put 10 original jh-1 wah's to the test and they all sound different. I've heard quite good ones and very poor ones. But there's defenately no wacka wacka in this pedal when original and sounds vary from very muddy to shrill and piercing. The all have one thingin common: little range. First 50 % of sweep is practically worthless with no bass. When you change in and output cabs and the cab on the pot you get real good impovement of sound and wacka wacka. The pedal sucks sound, especially high frequenties when switched off. In order to solve this problem simply replace switch for dpdt-switch for true bypass.

Somethimes the on/off switch can get stuck and no sound will be heard.
You have to push very hard to switch on and off.
The pedal is very sturdy and relyable.

don't know

I do play all kinds of styles. I've been playing for about 10 years know and i find the original pedal pretty worthless. it sucks lots of tone and therefor useless when gigging cause when switched on and rocker down you do not hear anything!.
So: poor sound, tone sucking when switched on but also when off and independable switching. I've modified mine and now it's a pretty good wah, but for people who want to buy this original i won't recommend this pedal...
happy picking and greetings from holland

No Brainer

Works well for me. I compared it to the Vox, standard Crybaby, and two different Morleys all rigged together in an A/B (really A/B/C/D) set up. The range was the most useful of the lot. Bottom is a bit muddy but the top doesn't get so shrill it breaks your teeth like the regular Crybaby did. Very organic sound. Very quiet. The Morleys sounded sterile.

Basic tank-like construction

I hope I never have to find out.

Overall this is a pretty good pedal. I use a variety of guitars with single coil and humbuckers. The signal goes through a Sabine tuner to a TS-9 Tubescreamer to a DOD Chorus to the JH-1 Wah and on to a Fender Blues DeVille 4x10. The Chorus adds a little high end even when off and sharpens up the signal losses caused by the other pedals. I run power out to all my pedals so battery life and associated tone issues are really non-issues. This is where the Vox lost out right away - no 9V power input! A word to the prospective Wah buyer: Audition well before you buy. Be ruthless and compare all available offerings as long as you need to. Remind the sales geek that this is your $100 and you will make an informed decision whether he wants to be bothered or not. As an Engineer in the electronics manufacturing field I can attest to the variations expected in components. There will be some sound variation from pedal to pedal, no matter the quality of construction. Based on the wide range of reviews prior to this one, I think my point is well illustrated even accounting for personal taste.

easy to use... even my youngest brother (12) knows how to use it. hard to enable if u're sittin down though

perfect for my 57 fender strat and ESP KH-3

i can sure depend on this... been through a lot of gigs, kicks, drops. still works!!!

have no clue

good good good

Most wahs are simple, ecspecially cry babies cause all ya have to do is step on it and there ya go its that simple.

Most people think that this pedal sounds bad because of the "muddy" sound it produces. I think that dunlop did a good job on trying to recreate the 60's wah sound.

Most cry babies,in my opinion, have good reliability because of the heavy duty steel that they are made with.

I've really haven't had any trouble with my pedal so I haven't had to send it in yet( hopefully never )

The band I'm in play rock, which we want cool solos in our songs so we use cry babies.I have a Zoom 505ii and a boss DS-1 which help ad a unique twist to things.

input, output, pedal. pretty easy

i just got this 2 days ago and i am pleased except when the pedal is all the way back the guitar souds "muffled"

the first time i played a wah was when i played my friends wah wah on his Line 6 POD foot board, so then i got Jimi Hendrix wah for $89 and that was less the their Fulltone Clyde WAH WAH which was $170 so for the price it was worth it. For my first wah, its good.

i was gonna get a Bad Horsie Steve Vai wah but i was talked out of it by sum damn worker, oh well, live and learn. Its good, not great, but good none the less. but if it were stolen i would get the CLyde WAh, dont waste your time with this, unless its $80 cheaper than the CLyde

Step on, step off.
Easy.
The only thing that could be better is that there is no visual information about effect on/off. It could do with an easy led, especially on dark stages where you can't hear yourself all that well.

This thing is noisy, but hey, they all are (exept the one on for instance the BOSS gt-5, but man, does that thing sound like crap).
It creates a very fat wah-sound, great for those high-gain sounds (I use a 5150), but nout so great for clean, as it cranks up the sound a little bit...

I don't thinh this thing will ever break, even if I will throw out of a window of a sky-scraper.
RUGGED

nothing here

I love this thing.
Check it out on my band's Promo, MY OBSESSION
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Very easy. Step on it to activate, step on it to deactivate.

I've had this pedal for about 4 years, and in the beginning I thought it was pretty decent. Then my friend dropped it. After that I didn't think it sounded so great. Of course it was just the way I was playing it. My pot wasn't busted, which is what I originally thought. I can understand how some of these reviewers will say the sound sucks, how it's muddy, or there's to much low end. This is true. The range on this pedal is amazing. When it is first purchased, the rotating pot controller thing (pardon the term, it's late and I can't think of the proper word) that makes the "wah" sound is stuck in the middle. If you open the bottom metal part up and turn the pot so that it's as far as it can go towards the more trebley side, this should give you an insane range. This works great for me. Of course my setup might work differently for others. My most basic (and best) setup is my strat to a Tube Screamer (Ohhh how I love this pedal), to my Peavey Classic amp. Put the reverb on 5, use the neck pickup, stick the wah BEFORE the distortion, not after (make sure it's trebly), and rock out. It screams. Now granted it took me FOUR long years to get my sound the way I want it with this pedal, and it still isn't perfect, but then again, the tone is in the fingers.

No backpu necessary, just some extra batteries. It resembles a battleship. 'Nuf said.

Never dealt with the company.

I play rock, mostly classic rock. Actually, only classic rock. I love blues, Stevie Ray is a HUGE inspiration, Clapton is God, and Red House by Hendrix makes me keal over and drool on myself. Pink Floyd is practically my religion, so I try to cop Gilmours style alot (not his licks, his style....big difference). I'm after tone and getting my own sound, and I know what I like, so this pedal is pretty much an accessory. I can do without it. But I've figured out how to modify it and use it, so why not? It works great, sounds great, gets that "White Room" sound when I want it to. Great vintage sound. It's very tricky yo use it though, but when you get it, Voodoo Chile is no problem. If I lost it, I would probably get another one only because I know how to manipulate it to get the sound I want. If I got something different it would my tone. I only recommend this pedal to people that want something different, something expressive, and something that doesn't sound fake and digital and computerized like most equipment on the market today. Not for those that want instant results, not for the weak.

Pretty easy to use, just step on it and it starts to cry. The only bad thing about it is the wah is a little tough to switch on and off as the button is hard to press down, especially when sitting down.

I play a Left handed american standard strat through a small marshall amp. I was looking for a wah that could get that Voodoo Chile/White Room sound. This wah doesn't get it but it comes pretty damn close. Anyone who complains about this sound is looking for a wah that is EXACTLY like Hendrix. Well your not gonna get it and you may never get it. Hendrix's sound will never be duplicated so you might as well stop bitching and get you own style. After a couple of tries i found that i could get any sound i wanted out of it and the only problem i had was when you take you foot of the pedal the voume allmost dissapears.

Like the others said, built like a tank.

Bought it from Guitar Center with a 30 day money back guarantee and it hasn't failed me yet.

This wah is great if you are looking for a simmple wah that can handle a wide variety of music. It has some flaws, but they can all be fixed with a little bit of custumizing. If i lost this wah, I'd definately get another one.