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Topic: How about a Morely Pedal for steel? |
Randy Carson
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San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2007 3:55 pm |
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Anybody try any of the new Morely pedals that are supposed to operate on the same basis as the Hilton and new Goodrich?
ya know NO CHANGE IN TONE
your thoughts! please |
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David Higginbotham
From:
Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2007 4:39 pm
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I've tried one and we have a player here that uses one regularly. I did not like it! Not much center area on the travel. It is either too low or too loud. Just my opinion.
Dave |
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Frederic Mabrut
From:
Olloix, France
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 12:12 am
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Hey Randy,
Do you mean Morley?
Fred |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 1:56 am
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I've used a Morley wah for 20+ years now for standard guitar, unlike a Crybaby they never wear out. Inside the pedal, there's a little piece of black cardboard with a slit in it that the pedal moves up and down in front of an LED, and a sensor that measures the light through the slit, which then controls the tone. There's a whole lore about moving the LED around on it's wires, and/or reshaping the slit with electrical tape and/or scissors to vary the way the pedal changes the tone. In fact, Morley urges you to call them and ask them about how to do this, a nice customer service touch. It's likely that the volume pedal works in the same way, and the sweep of the pedal could be tuned by some internal manipulations to have a smoother or more peaky effect.
Personally, I just use a DOD or Boss graphic equalizer in front of the wah to "tune" the sweep of the wah, as it varys a bit from guitar to guitar, and room vs. headphones vs. recording. The wah pedal at least seems like it would be awfully big to fit under a pedal steel, although sacred steeler Chuck Campbell uses one and gets a great, vocal kind of wah-steel sound. Morley pedals have the input jack on one side and the output on the other, so the cords could be in the way unless you use angle jacks. |
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 3:54 am
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I've been using a stereo Morley pedal for 20 years, very reliable, slightly lossy re the in/out gain, (About 10% loss in level) but no perceivable tonal change.
I have now changed to a Hilton for forward maintenance reasons. |
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Jim Sliff
From:
Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 5:30 am
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Morley's pedals are darned near indestructible (I still use an EVO-1 Voume-Echo that I got in the 70's) and I've found the volume pedals have no tonal effect. I never really noticed the volume loss with 6-string, but it might have been there. What some don't care for is the fulcrum point - it's far back on the pedal and has a completely different feel - almost like a car gas pedal.
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Tom Mossburg
From:
AZ,
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 7:10 am Morley Pedal
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| I needed another pedal in a pinch once so I bought a Morley "Alligator. I didn't expect much since it was only $60 but it really surprised me. It performed great and I find myself using it quite a bit. You can run it with a wall-wart or 9V battery. I'm surprised how long the battery actually lasts. Our fiddle player has had a Morley for decades. That one is built like a tank. I'd say that for $60 it was a good purchase. |
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Jonathan Shacklock
From:
London, UK
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 2:44 pm
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I've got one of the old Morley light VP's that I keep as a backup. No change in tone over it's travel but the overall tone is a little muddy and distorted compared to my Sho-Bud pedal. Not awful but not great.
It's a lot lower in profile which may be a plus. I find top end of the travel a little hard to control from a sitting position, it's like going over the crest of a hill, suddenly it gets away from you. I don't know if they've changed the angle over the years but it looks the same as the newer pedals. |
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 7 Feb 2007 2:53 pm
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| The lower gain OUT of the Morley pedal isn't so noticeable if you use a "Wall Wart" instead of a battery. |
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Frederic Mabrut
From:
Olloix, France
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Posted 8 Feb 2007 12:51 am
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I use an old Morley VP since 10 years now. I 've choosed it firstly because of availabilty in France, its price and its near indestructibility. It's also a kind of low profile VP which is great for a tall palyer like me. I also like the button which give the possibility to adjust the amount of sound you want from the "off" position. Another plus is the 9v battery alimentation.
However, there are two minus points:
A tone too muddy (as I said Jonathan) especially in the C6
and the placement of the ouput jack....directly under teh 8th pedal.
That's why I'll swap shortly for a Hilton low profile
Fred
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 8 Feb 2007 2:07 am
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| If the sweep of the pedal seems peaky or sudden to you, it can be readjusted by moving the internal light and it's receptor around on their little wire legs, or by adjusting an inductor. You can e-mail customer rep Bill Wenzloff at: bill@sepigroup.com, or at: info@morleypedals.com, and he will send you a PDF document describing the modification. |
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