Vintage JEN Mister Crybaby Super and finished Pedalboard

[mwalluk]

Thoughts?

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Vintage JEN Mister Crybaby Super and finished Pedalboard

Where is the vintage part?

[mwalluk]

Re: Vintage JEN Mister Crybaby Super and finished Pedalboard

I'm assuming vintage being that it's discontinued and circuitry is made in JEN Itay. Being that most mister crybaby supers come with volume knob and boost and this doesn't.

[mwalluk]

Re: Vintage JEN Mister Crybaby Super and finished Pedalboard

Unable to find info on when it was built.

[blueman335]

Re: Vintage JEN Mister Crybaby Super and finished Pedalboard

'Vintage' wahs are 1960's and 1970's.

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Vintage JEN Mister Crybaby Super and finished Pedalboard

And by the looks of the way it is made.....somewhere in the 2000's.
And someone could have switched bottomplates out.

[blueman335]

Re: Vintage JEN Mister Crybaby Super and finished Pedalboard

And by the looks of the way it is made.....somewhere in the 2000's.
And someone could have switched bottomplates out.

Right. It's got small circuit boards on the pot and DPDT switch (for true bypass)! They didn't do that on vintage wah's. That's a giveaway right there.

Older Crybaby's didn't have the input/output jacks mounted on the main circuit board either; that started in the 1990's. Same with AC jacks. Every vintage wah I've seen was battery operated only. Look up pics of vintage wah's. They were very simple & roomy inside, and the boards were nothing like the layout of yours.

The board layout is recent production. I hope you didn't pay vintage price for it.

[GoldenVulture]

Re: Vintage JEN Mister Crybaby Super and finished Pedalboard

Here you go, the vintage Jen I've owned since the seventies.
- https://forum.seymourduncan.com/show...=1#post2313120 -
It's got a frequency range mod , the switch for it replacing the external power connector that it had. The rest is nearly all original.

[Lazarus1140]

Re: Vintage JEN Mister Crybaby Super and finished Pedalboard

Hmmm

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Vintage JEN Mister Crybaby Super and finished Pedalboard

I used to use a Mister Cry Baby Super in the mid 90's, so I'm assuming that one is early 90's.

I thought it was a smart feature to have a volume and wah in one pedal. I don't know why that's not more common nowadays.

[mwalluk]

Re: Vintage JEN Mister Crybaby Super and finished Pedalboard

I used to use a Mister Cry Baby Super in the mid 90's, so I'm assuming that one is early 90's.

I thought it was a smart feature to have a volume and wah in one pedal. I don't know why that's not more common nowadays.

You would think more wahs would do that. It's not like they're adding much more components or schematics to do so. Maybe it's a money grab from the companies? Why sell one pedal when we could sell 2.....

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Vintage JEN Mister Crybaby Super and finished Pedalboard

You would think more wahs would do that. It's not like they're adding much more components or schematics to do so. Maybe it's a money grab from the companies? Why sell one pedal when we could sell 2.....

That would be a good question for someone like Jorge Tripps or Geoffrey Teese. I'm guessing it's because the volume pedal circuitry would load down the uneffected signal, but I never felt like it was when I owned one.

[blueman335]

Re: Vintage JEN Mister Crybaby Super and finished Pedalboard

I used to use a Mister Cry Baby Super in the mid 90's, so I'm assuming that one is early 90's.

25 years ago? Not with the two small circuit boards on the pot and switch. That's a more recent development. It might have been made in the 2000's.

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Vintage JEN Mister Crybaby Super and finished Pedalboard

I seem to remember mine having a boost switch and maybe a volume, so it was definitely a 90's version.

I think Vasshu was right. It's a 2000's wah with a different baseplate

[blueman335]

Re: Vintage JEN Mister Crybaby Super and finished Pedalboard

I think Vasshu was right. It's a 2000's wah with a different baseplate

I've bought used wahs. One came with the baseplate of a different model, another came without any baseplate. You can't completely go by the baseplate; what's inside is what matters. Rubber feet, battery covers, and even sometimes baseplates are removed/replaced/lost.