Dunlop Cry Baby vs Dunlop Dimebag Cry Baby Wah
The Dunlop Cry Baby and the Dunlop Dimebag Cry Baby Wah are both pedals sharing mid-forward, dynamic. The Dunlop Dimebag Cry Baby Wah leans aggressive and bright. Current prices: $85 vs $200.29.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.48% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Metal
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- mid-forward
- dynamic
Dunlop Cry Baby
Dunlop · pedal
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$85via Reverb
$200.29via Reverb
The Dunlop Cry Baby GCB95 is the standard-production version of the original Cry Baby wah pedal, built around a Fasel red inductor and a halo-style pot that defines the classic late-1960s wah sweep character. It produces a midrange-focused vocal sweep that sharpens attack on distorted lead tones and adds expressive movement to clean rhythm playing. Heavily associated with the foundational wah sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Slash, and Tom Morello, it is among the best-selling and most widely used wah pedals in production. Genre fit is broad: blues, rock, funk, metal, and psychedelic rock all use this pedal's sweep as a core element.
The Dunlop Dimebag Cry Baby From Hell is a custom-tuned wah pedal featuring an extra-wide frequency range designed around Dimebag Darrell's aggressive playing style. The pedal delivers everything from throaty growl to all-out screaming highs, with a broader sweep than standard wah pedals enabling greater expressive range at both frequency extremes. The six-way tone control shifts the frequency range up or down to adapt the wah character to different tunings, pickups, and tonal contexts. The pedal features true bypass with fasel inductors to avoid tone-sucking, and dual LEDs indicate pedal and boost-function engagement.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Psychedelic Rock
- Classic Rock
- Blues Rock
- Funk
- Blues
- Rock
- Heavy Metal
- Hard Rock
- aggressive
- bright