Brand New Dunlop Sepultura 40th Anniversary Cry Baby Wah Pedal

Dunlop commemorates Sepultura’s 40th anniversary and farewell tour with a special-edition iteration of the brand’s famed pedal: the Sepultura 40th Anniversary Cry Baby Wah. What many in the United States may not know is that lauded Sepultura axe master Andreas Kisser once had a signature Cry Baby Wah — the AK95 — that was exclusive to the Brazilian market. For most devout metal maestros, this 40th Anniversary Cry Baby Wah isn’t just a distinctive Kisser-caliber take on the classic pedal, but a chance to bring one of the most sought-after sonic-contouring tools to their aural arsenals. If you’ve heard Sepultura’s “Refuse/Resist” or “Roots Bloody Roots,” then you know the ear-grabbing tone that abounds throughout Andreas’s axe-slinging fretwork, but what makes his Cry Baby wail differently from other Dunlop Wahs? For sonics that are equal parts explosive and expressive, this Cry Baby Wah is built with auto-return switching, which allows Andreas — and you, soon enough — to instantly engage and disengage the effect, making seamless work of nuanced, precise activation. Side-mounted control knobs grant further dominion over your sound-shaping flexibility. The Boost switch lets you introduce up to 15dB of additional gain, while the Variable Q knob is your key to carving and crafting the intensity of the effect, changing the width of the bandpass filter to emphasize harmonics on the high end when narrowed, or usher in lower-frequency harmonic heft. Limited to only 300 pedals, the Dunlop Sepultura 40th Anniversary Cry Baby Wah is a testament to the tone-crafting tenacity spearheaded by Andreas Kisser that’s more than earned its place among the pantheon of performance power that’s made Sepultura a 4-decade act that we’re sad to see leave, but at the ready to celebrate and carry on in pedalboards of our own.