DUNLOP GCB95 Standard - Original Wah

As early as the early 1960s, with the success of the first electric guitars, many electronics engineers began to think about creating a sound variation effect that would simulate the work of pulling the left hand on the string.

An ingenious system.

Let's move on to various stillborn adventures and reach 1966, when Brad Plunkett, who was then working on the development of amplifiers, invented a new type of potentiometer. At first he thought he could control the effect via the vibrato rod of the guitar, but it was difficult, if not impossible, to set it up; and it was after installing the electronics in the housing of a volume pedal that the wah-wah took the form we know it today.

The original model.

Vox then took over its manufacture while the Thomas Organ company distributed the product in the United States. The commercial success was such that dozens of manufacturers became interested in the system, with varying degrees of success. Until Jim Dunlop, who had taken over the manufacture of the original model, registered the Cry baby as his flagship product. Which is still today part of the guitarist's indispensable panoply.

- Category: Wah

- Technology: Analog

- Format: Pedal

- Inputs : Jack

- Outputs: Jack

- Settings: hot potz

- Power supply: Battery 9 V, DC 9 V

- True bypass: Yes

- Expression pedal: No

- Power supply included: No

- No. of effects: 1

- Additional specs: - Hot potz, no microphone

- Optional power supply: MDU adapter ECB003E