The Internet Has Thoughts About MusicRadar's Dunlop Cry Baby BB535 Reissue Review.
MusicRadar found the wah. The forum found the receipt from the last time.
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“If you're after a pedal that delivers classic Cry Baby attitude with plenty of versatility, this is the one.”
What the internet actually said
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MusicRadar reviewed the Dunlop Cry Baby BB535 reissue and declared it the one. Not one of the good ones. The one. Classic Cry Baby attitude, plenty of versatility. That is a clean close to a gear review.
The Rig-Talk forum had a more complicated morning. Players who owned the original BB535 in the nineties showed up immediately. Their first note: this is not the 535Q. It never was. The voice is different. The inductor is different. The quack is different. One member described it as feeling less like a wah and more like sliding a filter — less chicka, more sweep. That distinction matters to the people who bought the original on purpose.
Then came the receipts. Someone noted they paid $125 for the original. The reissue lists at $230. That is not an outrage, but it is a sentence the review did not write.
We are not here to call MusicRadar wrong. If the BB535R brings back what made the original a touring staple by the end of the nineties, $230 is a reasonable ask. But the community is telling us something that "classic Cry Baby attitude" does not quite capture: there are players who know exactly which wah this is supposed to be, and they are watching closely to see if it actually got there.
The press gave it the headline. The forum came with the context. We are here for both.
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