I got my Dunlop Cry Baby back in the early 80's. I spent years not being impressed by the sound that came from it. One day during band practice, the battery went dead. The bass player was in the Air Force and he slapped a military issue Duracell in there. I couldn't believe my ears. The thing was increadible sounding.
I spent some time experimenting with batteries for a while after that. I would peek at what was going on with an O-scope. The military issue batteries where hotter. They could deliver more current on demand. That was the big difference in the tone. Those batteries could pump out as much juice as it needed to so there was no loss in tone at all.
I eventually called Dunlop and asked one of their old timers out there about what I had discovered and he gave me some ideas to build a voltage follower to mimick what that battery was doing. I never finished that project.
could you wire it up to use a hot
dc power supply
rather than a battery
& acchieve the same effect?