Dunlop Cry Baby vs Wylde Audio Cry Baby Wah
The Dunlop Cry Baby and the Wylde Audio Cry Baby Wah are both pedals sharing mid-forward. The Dunlop Cry Baby leans dynamic. The Wylde Audio Cry Baby Wah leans high gain and aggressive.
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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.45% — 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
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
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 Wylde Audio Cry Baby is Zakk Wylde's signature wah pedal, a Dunlop Cry Baby variant voiced for aggressive, vocal high-gain leads with a wide, pronounced sweep. Built for metal and hard rock, it delivers a sharp, cutting wah that stands out under heavy distortion, favored by players chasing Zakk Wylde's screaming Black Label lead tone.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Psychedelic Rock
- Classic Rock
- Blues Rock
- Funk
- Blues
- Rock
- Hard Rock
- dynamic
- high gain
- aggressive
- bright