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95Q WAH WAH
The CRYBABY® 95Q is a modied version of the famous
original CRYBABY Wah-Wah, the GCB-95. It has four
added controls for new exibility:
1. Silent “auto-off” switching puts the pedal in
Bypass mode when you lift your foot
2. The Variable Q control, which adjusts the bandwidth (intensity) of the effect
3. The Volume control, for up to 15dB of added
gain to your wah signal; and
4. The Boost On/Off selector, to activate or disable your preset volume gain
The 95Q is the CRYBABY Wah pedal that many guitarists have been asking for…delivering the exact same
tones as the original, but with the added control of our
most popular custom modications.
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SET-UP INSTRUCTIONS
1. Open the battery compartment door in the bottom
plate and insert a new alkaline 9 volt battery, or plug in
the approved AC adaptor. The CRYBABY 95Q will operate on either power source. You can leave the battery
in place when using AC power.
2. Run a cord from your guitar to the CRYBABY’s Instru-
ment jack. The jacks are located on the left and right
sides of the CRYBABY’s housing. To see which jack is
which, read the top of the pedal’s rubber footpad.
3. Run another cord from your amplier input into the
Amplier jack. Turn on the amplier.
4. To turn the pedal on and use it, simply press it in the
“toe-down” direction. The farther down you press it,
the deeper the wah effect gets.
5. See the other side of this sheet for the operation
of the Variable Q, Volume Boost and Boost On/Off controls. These controls add exibility to your wah effects.
6. Have fun! The CRYBABY series is built to last under
the toughest performance conditions, and will give you
many years of tone-bending pleasure.
DUNLOP MANUFACTURING, INC.
P.O. Box 846, Benicia, CA 94510 U.S.A.
Tel: 707/745-2722 Fax: 707/745-2658
www.jimdunlop.com
92503000500
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OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
WAH
By rocking your foot back and forth on the pedal, you
can instantly change the effect that the CRYBABY has
on your tone. Toe down will give you more treble,
heel down will give you more bass. Play with different
speeds and depths to nd a wah tone and rhythm that
suits the music you’re playing.
By holding the pedal steady in one position, you’ll hear a
boost in one particular frequency range. This “dynamic
tone control” can be a very useful effect to add sustain,
or create feedback at a desired overtone.
AUTO-OFF SWITCHING
As soon as you lift your foot from the pedal (the Heel
Down position), the effect is silently switched off and
the pedal is automatically placed in “bypass” mode. In
this mode, both the effect and the preset volume boost
are switched off. (Note: There is an intentional delay
built into the “auto-off” switching, to allow you to use
the full range of the pedal’s travel without turning off the
effect or the preset volume boost.)
VARIABLE Q & VOLUME CONTROLS
On the left side of the 95Q you’ll nd two black knobs.
The bottom plate will tell you which knob is the Variable
Q and which is the Volume Boost.
The Variable Q control modulates the intensity of the
wah effect by adjusting the wah’s bandwidth. “High”
gives a narrow, sharp peak to the affected frequency
range; while “Low” delivers a more subtle wah by
spreading the effect over a broader range.
The Volume knob is a BOOST ONLY device that adds up
to 15dB gain to your signal while the CRYBABY effect is
in use. Turning Volume to its lowest setting will not shut
off your signal, it simply adds no boost.
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BOOST ON/OFF SELECTOR
On the right side of the 95Q you’ll nd a red kick-switch.
The bottom plate will tell you which switch position is
ON and which is OFF. When the Boost selector is On,
the volume boost that you’ve set with the Volume knob is
active. With the Boost off, the Volume knob is inactive.
TIPS
The classic way to use a wah pedal is to rock your foot
to the beat; but this is only a one-dimensional use of
the effect. Try varying the rhythm of the wah to build a
full “vocabulary” of crying tones. A VERY SLOW movement of the pedal during a fast solo can be especially
dramatic. Play with it…it’s not gonna break!
WHERE SHOULD YOU PUT THE CRYBABY IN YOUR
EFFECTS SIGNAL CHAIN? In most circumstances, your
guitar is plugged into the CRYBABY rst, and other
effects come later. This keeps the wah tones pleasantly subtle, and adds the other effects’ tonal colors on
top of the wah sound. Putting the wah later (or last) in
the effects loop is much less subtle, and adds the wah
tones to ALL sounds, harmonics and all. This might be
desirable if you want the wah sound to be strong and
unmistakable. If you want your CRYBABY to quack like
a duck, plug it in after a distortion effect!
If the effect isn’t turning off completely, you may nd
that your guitar cord (or another obstruction) is caught
in the heel portion of the pedal.
For longest battery life, be sure to UNPLUG YOUR
CORDS when the CRYBABY is not in use. Keeping the
cords unplugged tells the 95Q to stay switched off.
The CRYBABY 95Q uses one 9-volt battery. The battery
access is through the bottom of the pedal. The 95Q uses
the Dunlop ECB-03 (ECB-03E for Europe), a 9-volt DC regulated AC adapter. Plug polarity is positive on the barrel and
negative in the center. NOTE: Battery must be installed to
operate the 95Q unless an AC adapter is used.
POWER REQUIREMENTS
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