Dunlop launches Wylde Audio Pedal Series with five Wylde/MXR pedals

October 1, 2023 · 2 sources

Dunlop began its Wylde Audio Pedal Series in October 2023 with five revamped Wylde/MXR effects pedals, a celebratory stompbox line marking the 20th anniversary of the company's collaboration with Zakk Wylde¹. The MXR Wylde Audio Chorus WA38 is among them, and Dunlop's product page describes it as Wylde's "secret weapon for thickening up walls of distortion and adding liquid dimension and texture to clean passages"².

The chorus uses bucket-brigade circuitry for what Dunlop calls "rich vintage-style analog tones," adjusted with High and Low cut filters and Level, Rate and Depth controls². It has two outputs, which Dunlop says can feed two amps for a stereo spread, and it runs on a single 9-volt battery, a 9-volt AC adapter such as the Dunlop ECB003, or an MXR Brick Series power supply².

The five pedals and their US list prices as shown on Dunlop's site²:

Guitar World reported in January 2024 that the series was later "bolstered with a new addition," the WA357 Rotovibe Chorus/Vibrato, and noted that "strictly speaking, 2023 marked the 20th anniversary of Dunlop's partnership with Zakk Wylde"¹.