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If you watch John Bohlinger’s recent Rig Rundown with Tim Commerford, you’ll enjoy a lengthy conversation about the raging bassist’s pedals. At the front of Commerford’s effects board is a white wah pedal that, as he puts it, “looks like it’s made for a baby’s foot.” Humor aside, the pedal in question is no child’s toy. It’s the latest addition to Dunlop’s Cry Baby family, called the Mini Bass Wah. And it contains useful features for bassists that are packaged into a frame about half the size of a conventional Cry Baby. Bassists from Bootsy Collins to Cliff Burton have used wah pedals to add articulations and unique textures to their bass lines, so I was excited to see if the Mini Bass Wah would continue or improve on tradition.
The wah effect on a Cry Baby is typically activated by stomping on a switch located under the toe of the foot control. In lieu of tradition, the Mini Bass Wah employs a spring-loaded rocker pedal and silent auto-return switching technology. This system instantly engages the wah as the rocker control is depressed.
When the foot raises off the pedal, the rocker automatically returns to an upward position—bypassing the wah effect. Dunlop also utilizes this technology in the full-size 105Q Bass Wah and a minority of other Cry Baby models.
The Mini Bass Wah contains similar circuitry to the 105Q, and the side of the aluminum chassis has two knobs. The volume control allows a player to balance the sound level when the effect is engaged, while the neighboring Q control adjusts the width of the wah frequencies. Higher Q settings deliver dramatic sweeps by enhancing brighter frequencies and vocal-like qualities. Lower settings are darker, with subtle filtering.
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