Description
Dunlop and Joe Bonamassa dialed this Cry Baby in together, chasing the exact wah voice Joe leans on for every soulful bend and cry in his live set. Under the copper-topped, black-bodied shell sits a Halo inductor that thickens up the harmonic content, plus large thru-hole components in the vintage style Bonamassa favors for his tone.
Place it early in your chain and it does more than the usual quack-and-back — the sweep range is wide and vocal, tracking pick dynamics and string bends with real expressiveness rather than just a fixed filter sound. An output buffer is built in specifically to keep impedance from collapsing when you’re running vintage-style fuzz behind it, a detail that matters a lot once fuzz enters the signal chain.
A standout feature is the internal switch letting you choose true-bypass or non-true-bypass operation. Bonamassa himself runs it non-true-bypass, since it slightly darkens the top end and smooths the tone when the pedal is off — a subtle but deliberate voicing choice you can dial in or bypass entirely to suit your own board.
Power it with a single 9V battery loaded from the bottom, or run it clean off a Dunlop ECB003 adapter (ECB003E for Europe) or a Dunlop DCB10 Brick supply.
- Input impedance: 800kOhms / Output impedance: 10kOhms
- Filter range: Low Pass 290–310 Hz, High Pass 1400–1510 kHz
- Max gain: +16.5 dB, heel down at 1400–1510 Hz and toe down at 290–310 Hz
- Current draw: 1.35 mA
- Internal true hardwire bypass switch accessible via bottom plate
“The first pedal I ever purchased was a Cry Baby, 25 years ago,” Bonamassa says. “I am so honored to have my name on this pedal.”
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