Dunlop Junior Wah Special Edition White

The Dunlop Junior Wah Special Edition White is a compact wah pedal from Dunlop, a special finish of the Cry Baby Junior Wah that shrinks the classic Cry Baby footprint down for players building tight pedalboards. RockBoard's PedalPedia entry, which carries Dunlop's product data, describes it as a special edition of the Cry Baby Junior and lists it as an analog wah¹. Guitar World reported its launch in April 2022, when Dunlop introduced two special-edition versions of the Junior Wah at once: black with a white wave logo and gum tread, and white with a red wave logo and tread, both with footwear-inspired treads².

Like every wah, it works by sweeping a resonant filter across the guitar's frequency range as you rock the treadle, so the vowel-like "wah" sound moves from dark at the heel to bright at the toe.

What it does

The pedal is a treadle wah: press the footswitch to engage it, rock the treadle to sweep the filter. The manual for the Special Edition lists a single footswitch that toggles the effect on and bypass, with a white LED showing when it is on³. That LED is one of the Junior's practical upgrades over the vintage-style Cry Baby, and Guitar World flagged it as a feature of the special editions when they launched².

A Range Selector switch inside lets you shift the sweep, with the switch position marked H towards the heel and L towards the toe³. The front-mounted input, output and power jacks are the other big practical point: because the jacks sit on the front face rather than the sides, the pedal sits flush against its neighbors on a board and cables run in a straight line².

The Junior's small size was the point of the original design. When Dunlop first unveiled the Cry Baby Junior in November 2020, Guitar World described it as a wah built around a lightweight aluminum housing with an on/off LED indicator, designed to fit Pedaltrain pedalboards where a full-size Cry Baby would not⁴. The Special Edition White keeps that housing and changes only the cosmetics.

Specifications

Dunlop's manual gives the full measured spec for the Special Edition³:

The 3 mA draw is low enough that the pedal is easy to accommodate on a shared power supply. Power comes from the Dunlop ECB003 9-volt adapter, and the voltage is 9V DC with center-negative polarity¹³.

Where it sits in the Cry Baby range

The Special Edition White is a finish variant, not a separate circuit. It shares its electronics with the standard Cry Baby Junior Wah, and the Junior itself is the compact option in a range that runs from the full-size GCB95 Original Cry Baby through mini formats like the CBM95 Cry Baby Mini Wah and on to signature models such as the KH95 Kirk Hammett Cry Baby Wah. For a player choosing on size alone, the Junior splits the difference between the full-size standard Cry Baby and the mini wahs, keeping a real treadle you can rock while cutting the footprint.

Dunlop's product page for the Cry Baby Junior Wah carries warranty information for the line⁵.

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