Effect profile /Filter & EQ
Also catalogued as 535Q
Contains partial identificationsExplore the documented settings, signal-chain positions and roles of Cry Baby Wah in dated rigs by Adam Jones, Chris Buck, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, and 24 more. Every appearance remains tied to its supporting sources.
These are not generic specifications. Every entry is tied to a dated artist rig and preserves what the sources support: its job in that rig, known settings and its place in the signal path.
How the archive verifies pedalboards1972–2026Dated coverage
69Cited sources
Left parked at a fixed position to turn the wah into the cutting resonant filter central to Ronson's tone.
Filters the boosted signal before compression and can reverse its input and output.
Provides the vocal sweep after the volume pedal and before the always-on distortion stage.
Opens the chain as the filter behind Squire's vocal lead phrasing.
Sits last before the amplifiers so the entire boosted, gated signal pulses through the filter.
Provides foot-swept filtering before the compact effects array.
Provides Jones's restrained filter sweeps and more pronounced lead articulation.
Provides the alternate classic wah voice.
Starts Bonamassa’s 2013 floor chain before tremolo and the amplifier splitter.
Provides the manually swept wah voice.
Sits ahead of the switching system so the sweep always precedes the gain stages.
Provides Hammett's principal vocal lead sweep from remote treadles positioned around the stage.
Extends the remotely addressable wah system documented by Crew across Hammett's large in-the-round stage.
Adds vocal sweep before the Echoplex preamp and Tube Driver lead stages.
Parks in a fixed treble position to shape every note, the filter Speer never turns off.
Opens the board with an adjustable wah sweep.
Starts Morello's compact effects chain inside the amplifier loop.
Adds the percussive filter sweep, placed unusually late in the loop after the tremolo and reverb.
Provides the manually swept filter immediately after the tuner.
Provides the filter sweep at the front of the floor rig.
Creates vocal filter sweeps before distortion and delay.
Starts the front path with Wylde's signature wah voice.
Opens the board with the filter sweep before anything else touches the signal.
Provides the vocal filter sweep immediately after the tuner.
Creates the manual vocal filter sweep before the gain and routing system.
Opens the chain with the wah sweep ahead of every gain stage.
Provides the only player-operated expression effect onstage.
Provides the principal treadle-filter voice.
Visible filter stage; cable order is not documented.
