Maker

Dunlop

American music gear manufacturer

Dunlop Manufacturing (Jim Dunlop) is an American musical-products company founded in 1965 by Jim Dunlop Sr. and based in Benicia, California. Starting with guitar picks and accessories, it grew into a major maker of effects pedals and is best known as the home of the Cry Baby wah, the most iconic wah pedal in music. Dunlop also owns the MXR and Way Huge pedal brands.

Models

  • Dunlop Cry Baby GCB95 Wah

    Effects pedal · United States

    The Dunlop Cry Baby GCB95 is the standard model of the Cry Baby, the most iconic wah pedal in music. The original Cry Baby added a whole new layer of expression to the electric guitar after its 1966 introduction and shaped the sound of players such as Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. The GCB95 pairs a red Fasel inductor with a more focused high end and aggressive, accentuated sweep, housed in a heavy-duty die-cast enclosure with a Hot Potz potentiometer rated to one million cycles.

Sources

Categories

  • Effects pedals

    Guitar and bass effects — overdrive, distortion, fuzz, delay, reverb, modulation, and more, in pedal, rack, and multi-effects formats.

Representative model

  • Dunlop Cry Baby GCB95 Wah

    Effects pedal · United States

    The Dunlop Cry Baby GCB95 is the standard model of the Cry Baby, the most iconic wah pedal in music. The original Cry Baby added a whole new layer of expression to the electric guitar after its 1966 introduction and shaped the sound of players such as Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. The GCB95 pairs a red Fasel inductor with a more focused high end and aggressive, accentuated sweep, housed in a heavy-duty die-cast enclosure with a Hot Potz potentiometer rated to one million cycles.