Glacies
April 18th, 2012, 03:25 PM
I bought a crybaby wah from a college student off of craigslist earlier. The dude goes to one of the religious colleges around here so I trusted him when he said it works well. I mean how are you going to test a pedal off of craigslist?
Anyway, this is a Dunlop Crybaby, model GCB-95.
If I plug it all up: guitar - wah - amph = it passes the signal fine but doesn't do anything else. I can rock the pedal all day and I get no change. There is a little button in the front under the pedal that I can access. Hitting this button kills it - no sound/no signal whatsoever, so I guess I need to keep this in the "on" position.
The guy I bought it from told me he put a fresh battery in it, so I thought I'd replace the battery with one I know is fresh - same thing.
Now again, I don't know the dude, but I"m inclined to trust him. He said he was working off a pedal board, so I'm guessing he was using the AC adapter. Possibly the battery jack doesn't work at all. I tried plugging in my AC cable, but it does the same thing, however the jack isn't long enough to work on some of my other pedals so I really have no reason to believe it would work here.
Any suggestions before I open this thing up and start metering it out?
*Update = it will pass the signal without any power supplied to it as well. So currently, powered at least from the battery alone operates the same as no power.
*Update 2 = figured it out - first battery must have been dead and that button up front must have been some type of bypass. Clicking it to where it went dead was actually clicking the wah circuit on. On a dead battery you get nothing.
Anyway, this is a Dunlop Crybaby, model GCB-95.
If I plug it all up: guitar - wah - amph = it passes the signal fine but doesn't do anything else. I can rock the pedal all day and I get no change. There is a little button in the front under the pedal that I can access. Hitting this button kills it - no sound/no signal whatsoever, so I guess I need to keep this in the "on" position.
The guy I bought it from told me he put a fresh battery in it, so I thought I'd replace the battery with one I know is fresh - same thing.
Now again, I don't know the dude, but I"m inclined to trust him. He said he was working off a pedal board, so I'm guessing he was using the AC adapter. Possibly the battery jack doesn't work at all. I tried plugging in my AC cable, but it does the same thing, however the jack isn't long enough to work on some of my other pedals so I really have no reason to believe it would work here.
Any suggestions before I open this thing up and start metering it out?
*Update = it will pass the signal without any power supplied to it as well. So currently, powered at least from the battery alone operates the same as no power.
*Update 2 = figured it out - first battery must have been dead and that button up front must have been some type of bypass. Clicking it to where it went dead was actually clicking the wah circuit on. On a dead battery you get nothing.