Author Topic: Morley pro series wah..... cr@p (Read 11797 times)

Miracle Man Matt · « **on:** October 02, 2005, 05:26:01 PM »

I bought a morley pro series wah off ebay for £30, but I reckon it sounds wank. The wah sweep is abrupt i.e. as your rocking it it sort of jumps in...... nothing....nothing.... oh wah.....nothing.

also it sounds really noisy and isn;t very deep at all. I thought morleys are supposed to be brilliant?

MMM

HJM · « **Reply #1 on:** October 02, 2005, 05:39:21 PM »

That sounds like a Morley.......Vai must be a genius to make one sound good!!

indysmith · « **Reply #2 on:** October 02, 2005, 07:20:08 PM »

any wahs using LDRs are usually rubbish. and especially low-end morley ones.

Miracle Man Matt · « **Reply #3 on:** October 03, 2005, 12:08:05 PM »

I wish Id b00dy known that before I bought it. I just got the jist that I was supposed to stay away form crybabies. I think im just gonna get myself a WD7.

Drac · « **Reply #4 on:** October 03, 2005, 12:45:15 PM »

One man's wah is another man's paper weight...
-I got a Dunlop 95Q Crybaby that I like-
quiet enough for my brain-surgery
( chimp-tantrum agitated monkey sound effects in the background)-
It has variable sweep Q and a level control that sets the side footswitchable boost level that I like.
Love it , or hate it...It's sprung in "closed" position-"off/bypass"
-& when you step down,pedal down,"open" in the sweep, boosted wah...
takes a little time to get used to the unswitchable delay of the bypass( 300-400 milliseconds), but it works for me...
TRY WAHs BEFORE YOU BUY THEM !
-In a spending frenzy in L.A., I bought this Roland ( yep! ) PW-10 V-Wah-
-Useless japanese ( effect-sounding) engineered unmusical noisy cr@p! What was I thinking...
Cool features that didn't work for me-I just wanted to spend money that day...
The fool and his money definately parted !
Damn.- Drac

indysmith · « **Reply #5 on:** October 05, 2005, 10:49:13 PM »

i played a budda wah and it was actually perfect!!! i want one, but i don't want to splash out for one

Skybone · « **Reply #6 on:** October 06, 2005, 12:09:43 PM »

I found that with Morley wah's, so bad, I took it back to the shop & swapped it for a CryBaby. I managed to buy an old Coloursound wah from eBay, it only runs off battery power, but it sounds fantastic. I think I remember Tim saying he had one.

You could always flog it on eBay again.

Miracle Man Matt · « **Reply #7 on:** October 06, 2005, 04:34:27 PM »

yea I might as my brother comes back from Australia where he was living and is gonna stay with me for a bit, although he doesn't play loads, he's got an Aria Pro 2 which sounded awesome through my amp, an Epi les paul, a big Marshall amp and a jimi crybaby which im gonna borrow.

MMM

JJretroTONEGOD · « **Reply #8 on:** August 20, 2006, 03:36:04 AM »

If you want a serious wha, then forget a buddah, forget fulltone, the RMC3 is the one! thats Real McCoy Custom wha, they are hand made by Geofrey Teese an expert in wha, and now I sound like a god with my RMC. Geofrey calims it's the only wha that has the same original vintage reaplica circuit parts that made the original Vox and Cry Babys sound so awesome. It may not look beautifull but wait til you hear it! you'll be blown away! small problem, they cost £200. But there's a 5 year warantee and it's handmade, proper boutique wha. trust me this is some very very sound advice here PDT_003

_tom_ · « **Reply #9 on:** August 20, 2006, 10:02:54 AM »

I got a Vox V847 off ebay for £55 with true bypass mod and its great, planning on doing some mods to it soon.

axg20202 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 22, 2006, 06:00:50 PM »

If you bought the Morley wah off e-bay then I'm guessing you can't return it. It was cheap. Therefore, I suggest taking the back off it and monkeying with the position of the LDR (or the LED, I forget but it should be obvious which of the two can be repositioned). You can gently bend this on it's legs to adjust the tone and sweep range to taste - the wah works by opening and closing a kind of shutter that gradually lets more LED light through to the LDR. By the sounds of it yours is set up to let virtually no light through until you open the pedal right up. You might find with a bit of a fiddle it produces a better tone. I have a morley wah and this modification was essential to get the tone and sweep range I was looking for.

Andy.

CaffeineJunkie · « **Reply #11 on:** September 22, 2006, 06:03:18 PM »

wooo00ooh this is a really old thread, but that sounds like a viable suggestion, provided you still have the wah that is

axg20202 · « **Reply #12 on:** September 22, 2006, 06:10:31 PM »

Yeah, sorry. How bored am I ?!!

Hell Hound · « **Reply #13 on:** September 22, 2006, 06:53:33 PM »

Anyone know if the Ibanez WD7 is any good? cause the specs are really good...

HTH AMPS · « **Reply #14 on:** September 22, 2006, 10:34:47 PM »

Quote from: JJretroTONEGOD

If you want a serious wha, then forget a buddah, forget fulltone, the RMC3 is the one! thats Real McCoy Custom wha, they are hand made by Geofrey Teese an expert in wha, and now I sound like a god with my RMC. Geofrey calims it's the only wha that has the same original vintage reaplica circuit parts that made the original Vox and Cry Babys sound so awesome. It may not look beautifull but wait til you hear it! you'll be blown away! small problem, they cost £200. But there's a 5 year warantee and it's handmade, proper boutique wha. trust me this is some very very sound advice here PDT_003

heh, Geoffrey would say that - he is trying to sell 'em afterall :roll: The inducter is the part that he's talking about and they really are the heart of the wah and account for the majority of their final tone (imo).

I got an RMC3 direct from Geoffrey Teese back in 2000 - he told me I was the 2nd person in the UK to order one. It was most certainly the best wah I'd ever played... until I got one from Stuart Castledine (wah-wah.co.uk)

The beauty of getting one from wah-wah.co.uk is that they are built to a similar spec to the Teese stuff (i.e. old Vox wahs), but they're half the price and every bit as good (better imo).

:twisted: