Wah Wah Pedal

[Slash Guitarist]

I am looking to buy a wah wah pedal, but dont kno whether to get the standard jim dunlop cry baby, or whether to get the jim dunlop slash cry baby. Is there actually a difference apart from price and colour??? I need help.

Edited March 10, 2007 by Slash Guitarist

[Max™]

There will be subtle tone differences and maybe a different sweep (the range of the wah, dependant on how much you push your foot down). I think also the higher-end JD wah's (Slash, Classic, etc) have true bypass so it wont suck your tone away when its off.

[Hamo]

I think the slash one has distortion wacked in it too.

[Garden Of Eden]

Get a standard cry baby, the slash one blows and it will make you sound like bloody constipation.

[Slash Guitarist]

Get a standard cry baby, the slash one blows and it will make you sound like bloody constipation.

Haha, is it really that bad???

[JDRM]

I wouldn't buy signature guitar stuff on principle.. i don't want to duplicate anyone's sound on purpose.

[damian 1200]

Zakk Wylde.

[Raw Power]

I wouldn't buy signature guitar stuff on principle.. i don't want to duplicate anyone's sound on purpose.

With signature stuff you won't sound like the artist at all, its far away from what they originally use.

So if you do like the sound of a signature product, buy it, it won't come anywhere close to what the artist

use itself.

I would recommend a VOX wah.

[aidlook]

I am looking to buy a wah wah pedal, but dont kno whether to get the standard jim dunlop cry baby, or whether to get the jim dunlop slash cry baby. Is there actually a difference apart from price and colour??? I need help.

I've got a crybaby 535Q...it's good because you can dial in exactly what boost, range, and wah you want....it's a little pricier though

[Giblet]

Every Crybaby I have has broken in someway, usually the pot becomes clicky and responsive. Try a Vox.

[ssiscool]

heres a review of the slash cry baby i wrote up from total guitar a while back

This is the Total Guitar Review

Slash has always seemed strangley reluctant to put his name down for the signature pedel treatment. Back in the GN'R days, there were too many other things to do, like banging chicks and developing an intravenous drug habbit. Now he's cleaned up and (relatively) clear-headed, the iconic Velvet Revolver guitarist has teamed up with Dunlop to create a faithful version of his customised Cry Baby Wah. "This wah pedel has been a dream of mine for years" notes the top-hatted one.

To the naked eye, the slash wah is a fairly standard Cry Baby pedel. OK, so it's red and features his skull 'n' crossbones motif on the rocker pedel, but otherwise Dunlop havent wasted time on gimicks. You wont find any VR posters or keyrings rattaling around in the box. This is a serious peice of Kit. it combines the fasel inductor from the classic Dunlop Cry Baby with a high-gain distortion circuit and sets all the levels to ape Slash's trademark lead tone. in otherwords, its Paradise City in a box. thats the idea anyway.

it gets awfully dark onstage, so the Slash Wah offers a series of LEDs to let you know whats happening. when you first plug it in you wont notice any of them - that means the unit is bypassed. Push the rocker pedel all the way forward and you'll activate the Wah circuit, causing a blue LED to twinkle at each side. Use your finger to press the red button on the base of the pedel, meanwhile, and you'll activate the Distortion, which is represented by a red LED. It might have been nice if Dunlop had allowed us to activate this mode via a heel switch instead of forcing us to stop soloing, bend down and risk our top hat falling off. But thats a minor criticisum.

Harder to fault is the tone of the Slash Wah. It's a fitting tribute to the man's idiodyncratic sound with the Wah and distorion creating a sneering top end and a fruity mid range quack. The best way to use the unit is to push the rocker pedel forward to accent the most dramatic notes, although its also effective when your rocking over a palm muted chord sequence (like the intro to Mr. Brownstone).

The Slash wah is also quite versitile, with volume and gain dials on the side and the option of ditching the distortion and funking it up with the Hendrix-esque of the naked Wah circuit. We were interested to see how it preformed as a 'straight' distortion pedel, too, but unfortunatly this wasnt possible - turning off the wah also bypasses the unit. Gripes aside, this is such a cracking peice of kit that we are happy to overlook the fact it's twice the Cry Baby price.

Price - £209

Origin - USA

Type - Wah/Distortion

Features - Wah/disrotion circuit, Fasel inductor, Gain and Volume dials, Input/Output

Power Supply - 2 x 9v Battery or 18v adapter

[Slash Guitarist]

heres a review of the slash cry baby i wrote up from total guitar a while back

This is the Total Guitar Review

Slash has always seemed strangley reluctant to put his name down for the signature pedel treatment. Back in the GN'R days, there were too many other things to do, like banging chicks and developing an intravenous drug habbit. Now he's cleaned up and (relatively) clear-headed, the iconic Velvet Revolver guitarist has teamed up with Dunlop to create a faithful version of his customised Cry Baby Wah. "This wah pedel has been a dream of mine for years" notes the top-hatted one.

To the naked eye, the slash wah is a fairly standard Cry Baby pedel. OK, so it's red and features his skull 'n' crossbones motif on the rocker pedel, but otherwise Dunlop havent wasted time on gimicks. You wont find any VR posters or keyrings rattaling around in the box. This is a serious peice of Kit. it combines the fasel inductor from the classic Dunlop Cry Baby with a high-gain distortion circuit and sets all the levels to ape Slash's trademark lead tone. in otherwords, its Paradise City in a box. thats the idea anyway.

it gets awfully dark onstage, so the Slash Wah offers a series of LEDs to let you know whats happening. when you first plug it in you wont notice any of them - that means the unit is bypassed. Push the rocker pedel all the way forward and you'll activate the Wah circuit, causing a blue LED to twinkle at each side. Use your finger to press the red button on the base of the pedel, meanwhile, and you'll activate the Distortion, which is represented by a red LED. It might have been nice if Dunlop had allowed us to activate this mode via a heel switch instead of forcing us to stop soloing, bend down and risk our top hat falling off. But thats a minor criticisum.

Harder to fault is the tone of the Slash Wah. It's a fitting tribute to the man's idiodyncratic sound with the Wah and distorion creating a sneering top end and a fruity mid range quack. The best way to use the unit is to push the rocker pedel forward to accent the most dramatic notes, although its also effective when your rocking over a palm muted chord sequence (like the intro to Mr. Brownstone).

The Slash wah is also quite versitile, with volume and gain dials on the side and the option of ditching the distortion and funking it up with the Hendrix-esque of the naked Wah circuit. We were interested to see how it preformed as a 'straight' distortion pedel, too, but unfortunatly this wasnt possible - turning off the wah also bypasses the unit. Gripes aside, this is such a cracking peice of kit that we are happy to overlook the fact it's twice the Cry Baby price.

Price - £209

Origin - USA

Type - Wah/Distortion

Features - Wah/disrotion circuit, Fasel inductor, Gain and Volume dials, Input/Output

Power Supply - 2 x 9v Battery or 18v adapter

So from that, it seems its alot more fancy than the original cry baby wah wah.

[ssiscool]

heres a review of the slash cry baby i wrote up from total guitar a while back

This is the Total Guitar Review

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So from that, it seems its alot more fancy than the original cry baby wah wah.

yeah but then its double the price, would it be worth it for the price? some people posted comments here http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?s=&amp...t&p=1332283

[Garden Of Eden]

Get a standard cry baby, the slash one blows and it will make you sound like bloody constipation.

Haha, is it really that bad???

Your better off building your own. Like the other kid who said it, you should stay away from any signature stuff.

[where's izzy?]

Whatever you do, make sure you get one that can be bypassed, other wise it makes your tone sound thin and tinny.

[Serg]

i heard zoom makes good pedals