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Compressor before the Wah, hmm. How does the CryBaby behave? Because mine (Jim Dunlop GC95, 1990), directly after the guitar is quite a treble soak when inactive which makes it mostly useless for me. I got an old Morley as a replacement which is nice but just doesn't have that characteristic bite of the GC95.
I'm not happy with the Dunlop mini Cry Baby, for a very simple drawback: sometimes I don't know if it's on or off, there is no visual feedback about it. So I have to play something to check. I bought a cheap Sonicake Vol/Wah mini pedal and I'm soon to test it (it comes with blue light when on Volume mode, red light on Wah mode).
That's because the bigger crybaby such as GCB95 doesn't have true bypass and their buffer is quiet bad. I had the same treble soak problem as you describe and modded mine to true bypass by soldering a new switch and removing that buffer. Works great now.
Mine is the weird "inbetween" nodel from 1990. It doesn't have a buffer.