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Morley George Lynch Dragon Wah

Summary
Price New Morley George Lynch Dragon Wah @ Musician's Friend
Manufacturer URL http://www.morleypedals.com/
Ease of Use 10.0 (5 responses)
Sound Quality 8.2 (5 responses)
Reliability 10.0 (4 responses)
Customer Support 10.0 (2 responses)
Overall Rating 8.8 (5 responses)
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Product: Morley George Lynch Dragon Wah
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted 06/17/2009 at 01:01pm by Chuck

Ease of Use : 10
Like all GOOD Morley's, very easy to use!

Sound Quality : 10
I have had many Wah's, this has the best range so far!

Reliability : 10
Totally reliable.

Customer Support : 10
Havnt needed it.

Overall Rating : 10
By far, the best Wah on the market! And it was well worth the price!


Product: Morley George Lynch Dragon Wah
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted 06/13/2009 at 04:39pm by Chuck Reppe
Email: cpreppe at cox<dot>net

Ease of Use : 10
The best Morley has put out to date! Perfect distribution of tones and the ease of use make this pedal Morley's best!

Sound Quality : 10
Sound is a 11 out of 10!

Reliability : 10
Very reliable!

Customer Support : 10
Havnt needed any support!

Overall Rating : 10
Get this one while its available.


Product: Morley George Lynch Dragon Wah
Price Paid: Canadien 99
Submitted 07/11/2008 at 07:18pm by Daniel Wheeler
Email: canucks_fan1990<at>yahoo dot ca

Ease of Use : 10
It's a Wah pedal. Just step on it and your good to go. Quite easy to use since you just have to step on it and not have to go down first and hit the switch like on the Crybaby and Vox wah's. Though it does have a switch to switch to the WOW setting, also a knob for the "loudness". Pretty basic ****.




Sound Quality : 8
I use a Peavey Valveking as my amp. Epiphone sg and SX strat for my guitars. Only time you hear any noise from it is when it's real close to the amp or when you have the loudness knob right up (my experiance)

I have yet to really get into the nuts and bolts of the wah since I have had it for less than a day (july 10th 2008) I love the WOW! setting in the wah. Like the guy said below me.. "this is how a wah should sound".

Like I said.. I have had it for less than a day right now.. Only problem with this wah is that it only really goes from low to high. No mid's at all really. Though like I said I'm inexperienced with this wah right now.

Reliability : 10
The thing weigh's in at 4 pounds and is almost has big as a phone book lol. Yes I can depend on it and I would gig without a back up

Customer Support : No Opinion
Haven't dealt with them yet, and I hope I do not have to

Overall Rating : 9
I play mostly hard rock and metal, but I do play the blues sometimes too. Been playing for almost 3-4 years now. If it was lost or stolen I probably wouldn't be able to find a replacement since it is a limited edition wah. I love the WOW! feature on it and the "loudness" knob since it'll give you more loudness and gain. Fav feature on this thing is that it is so big and orange!

I didn't really compare it to other wah's since it is one in it's own. It's not a Crybaby or a VOX. I was contemplating on buying one of those too. But for the price I got it at $99 bucks. Couldn't pass it up.

One thing that I don't really understand on it is the 1 outta 250 dealy. The serial number we shall call it.. on mine is GLW #691? I got mine from a Canadian Morley dealer.... maybe the 1 outta 250 is just for the states and the rest is for the world?

If so... I guess 1 outta 700 aint bad? It's not over 1000


Product: Morley George Lynch Dragon Wah
Price Paid: USD 125
Submitted 01/07/2008 at 09:24am by Donald

Ease of Use : 10
It is very easy to use. Morley is probably the easiest to use of all the wahs out there. I never looked at the manual to use it. You step on it, it goes wah when you go toe down, and it cuts off shortly, I mean shortly after you go heel down. There is a switch for the WOW effect, which to me was just over the top wah and then there is a loudness knob to adjust the volume of the wah when it kicks into your signal in case you want a slight boost when you use your wah

Sound Quality : 5
I used a Les Paul BFG, 2 Strats, 2 Teles(1 w/EMGs), and I even got out an old Kramer w/ a super distortion at the bridge and ran it through a Fender Twin Reverb reissue w/15" speaker to test this pedal out. Why so many guitars? I had no problem getting an outstanding sound while playing clean. But when I stomped on my ZVEX Fuzz Factory, I could not hear the wah or WOW effect. I lost no signal strength, the volume was there, I just barely heard an wah. I tried several tests with a Fuzz Face, a Danelectro Fabtone, a Keeley Modded Tube Screamer, a Rocktron Silver Dragon, a Tonebone PlexiTube and TriMode, a Boss Metal Zone, and both the Dimebag and Zakk Wylde MXR pedals. I found that the metal and fuzz pedals are the ones that have the problems. The less saturated your sound is with distortion, the better it sounds. I have listened to George Lynch for years and that doesn't make sense. Most of these pedals got a good sound when the gain was turned down. The Dragon wah is not noisy, no hiss. BTW, I am currently a fuzzophile, and those other pedals occasionally come out as I can musical tastes. I returned my Dragon Wah after I got a Vox Clyde McCoy Wah and was pleased. I have had a total of about 12 wahs in the past 2 years(about all of the Dunlops) and have never been pleased. I hate stepping on the switch to activate the wah, but the McCoy is worth it. Once I decided to keep it I pulled the 2 rubber pads from under the front and it switched easy. and it is true bypass. So to sum up, great clean, not at all great for over the top metal, can sound good at lower saturation levels.

Reliability : 10
I have seen some old Morley pedals out there and Steve Vai sure abuses his.

Customer Support : No Opinion
never dealt with them

Overall Rating : 5
I'm a gear whore. I probably have some stuff I haven't heard of. I love a lot of musical styles. I play blues or bluesy rock. that's what I fall into naturally if I jam alone or with others. But I can follow others lead. Ultimately, you have to decide. This pedal was available from Musicians Friend only, so I'm out $11 to ship it back. Was it worth the $11. Yeah, George had signed the bottom with a read sharpy and it looked like to straight lines. They only made 250 of these and mine was 170, so if you want one, you better hurry.


Product: Morley George Lynch Dragon Wah
Price Paid: USD 125
Submitted 11/16/2007 at 08:57pm by Jeff

Ease of Use : 10
If you can't use a Wah, you're not even trying. You push it down, it goes "wah." Morley wahs make it even easier since they turn themselves on and off as you use them. Surely a 10/10 for ease of use, even as wahs go!

Sound Quality : 8
This wah sounds great. I've used various Crybabies in the past, and the Vox wah (which was worse than the Crybaby series if you ask me), and while they certainly did the whole "wah" thing, they didn't really do much for me. I could never find a place in my playing style for their sound.

I am having no trouble at all incorperating the Morley George Lynch Dragon Wah into my playing! Whether it's in "Wah" mode (which sounds beyond lovely for cleans and lighter distortion, but gets lost in thickly distorted chords - still works great for high-gain lead wah'ing, but hard to detect for three-string or more chords), or in the very useful "wow" mode (which cuts through even two cascaded distortion pedals into my amp's distortion channel and rips it all apart), I love it. THIS is what a Wah ought to sound like, if you ask me. The "wow" feature is definitely not just a gimmick - if you manage to get your hands on one of these pedals, you'll love to figure out how it fits in your setup.

The "loudness" control is the only knob on the thing, and the "wow" switch is the only other control. "Loudness" doesn't just turn it up, though, it also adds distortion - it can be dialed low for a non-distorted wah/wow, or you can crank it up more to get a really GROWLY wah sound that chews its way through your distortion like nothing else I've ever heard. Very cool.

8/10 for sound (can't give it a 10/10 because I wouldn't mind it if the "Wah" could be used more effectively with a lot of gain - if it was just a "Wow" pedal it would be 10/10 for sure, but since it has both functionalities I have to be fair and reasonable). If I weren't such a high gain maniac I'd have no complaints at all about the sound.

Reliability : No Opinion
I have no idea, they only started selling this model a few weeks ago at the time of this review and I bought one right away since it's autographed by George Lynch, my first guitar hero. I figured, even if I just get a piece of useless junk, it's still a great looking keepsake with the touch of the man himself.

I have to gig without a backup because I couldn't afford to double up. Here's hoping it won't crap out, I've heard mixed reviews of Morley wahs - sometimes, they last forever, and some are more prone to errors. One thing's for sure, there's no potentiometer to wear out so you don't have to look forward to the INEVITABLE crybaby scratch as the pot gets crud in it through normal use.

Reserving my opinion here until at least a year of use has gone by.

Customer Support : No Opinion
Couldn't tell you, no opinion.

Overall Rating : 10
I play jazz-influenced metal and metal-influenced blues. I've been playing long enough to know tone when I hear it, and this thing delivers. If it were stolen, I'd be heartbroken unless they reissue it for general sale without the autograph - I've got number 242 of 250 made for the U.S. buying public, and I don't know if I could get another one. It ought to be a testament to how much I like the product that I would sell something else to try to find another, even if it cost me twice what this did new!

This wah nails it all down. It has exactly enough features to give you control over your sound, and not so many that you spend too much time fiddling with it and not enough time making music. The only thing that you need on it is the ability to switch between "wah" and "wow," and the ability to control how growly and aggressive the wah sound is - and that's what you get. Some folks might be better suited to the Bad Horsie II since it lets you dial in the Q of the wah, but as far as I'm concerned I'm thrilled with this one's q right where it's at.

From the moment I plugged it in, it has fulfilled my vision of what a wah ought to be. I don't know how hard they're going to be to get - supposedly, there's a very limited run of them - so if you want one, you might want to act quickly, or else you'll be watching Ebay and shelling out twice the price or more. These wahs ought to be an instant classic - but time will tell.

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