For Sale: Dunlop Cry Baby Classic W/ Fasel

[Tone2TheBone]

Wah wah pedaling at it's finest. This one again was hardly engaged. Unit is used but in mint condition. Comes with original box.

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$70 plus $15 shipping. USPS Priority Insured.

Edited: for corrected shipping costs

 

[duhvoodooman]

Nice wah pedal. I'd give it a go if I didn't already have my Dunlop 535Q. C'mon--gotta be somebody here who needs this! My own pedalmania notwithstanding, a good wah is a MUST in any rock guitarist's arsenal! :rockon:

 

[pes_laul]

Tone one question: what is a fasel switch when I got mine I had the option to get one but I didnt. what does it do?

 

[duhvoodooman]

Not sure if Tone will be around today, so lemme throw in 2 cents or so:

An inductor is not a switch, it's a passive electrical component that is at the heart of what makes a wah pedal "wah". Without getting into a lot of theoretical mumbo-jumbo, the inductor in a wah pedal, in combination with a couple of other components, forms a variable capacitor. The effect creates a resonant peak that is swept up or down in frequency by moving the pedal (which turns a potentiometer back & forth and varies the capacitance), giving the wah its characteristic "a-a-a-a-h" to "o-o-o-o-h" modulation.

Many of the early Vox/CryBaby models used an inductor sourced from an Italian company, labeled as "Fasel". These were reputed to have the most pleasing and vocal-like tone and response. They went out of production in the early 80's, I think, but were brought back by Dunlop for use in the CryBaby Classic and some other wah models. How close these inductors are to the original Fasels I have no idea, though I would expect Dunlop to have done their homework and gotten pretty close.

If you want to read a lot more details about how wah pedals work and the "magic" behind the Fasel inductor, there's a comprehensive article by effects wizard R.G. Keen available HERE....

 

[pes_laul]

ok that make sense

 

[Tone2TheBone]

Thanks for jumping on this for me Voo. :AOK:

 

[Tone2TheBone]

The Cry Baby sale's pending.

Ro3b I sent you a PM about the shipping......:messedup:

 

[Tone2TheBone]

This pedal is sold! Yet another happy customer!!