Morley PDW Pro Series Distortion/Wah/Volume Pedal

Very easy to use: constantly a volume pedal, then you can kick on distortion or wah if you want via stomp. Gave it a 7 because starting low on the wah requires you to to back off completely when its in Volume pedal mode.

One of the big things people are say is crap is the sound. WTF? These Morley pedals are COMPLETELY adjustable. I'd almost say a monkey can do it, but they'd need to know how to use a screwdriver. The Morley will never be scratchy because they use optics for their wah and not a pot. This is what you adjust to change the range on the wah. Want to learn how to do it? Call Morley... see customer support.

The distortion I can get some good sounds out of it too. The volume pedal is pretty straight forward.

It is built like a tank, that said - I've broken mine twice. Once was in a flood. My local guitar shop charged me upwards of $60 to fix it. Not good. And just recently a friend dropped it in a parking lot... so it broke. Other than that. No problems!

I called Morley because I was ready to sell the pedal on ebay in non-working order. I really didn't want to blow another $60 to fix it. AND GUESS WHAT? They stand by their products. They said: "You should have called us the first time, we NEVER charge for repairs." GREAT! Called them over the phone and they totally stand by their products. They said they get so few repairs that it's not much to repair them. Plus, if there's any upgrades that have happened in the meantime, they add to it.

Back when I had no hope of fixing the pedal, I bought a VOX wah. And I really like the VOX wah. The Morley, was my first wah pedal - and since it has sentimental value, I'm going to keep it. Plus when I get it back, they're sending me how to adjust the wah to get it to sound how I want it to. So I guess anyone who complains the wah doesn't sound good it is because they cannot adjust it the way they want it to.

it was very easy and took me a few seconds to figure it out.

its an alright sound, and the wah only orks with another distortion pedal ( for good use) but it works well

not very good, had it a few months, and the wah dosent work anymore. :(

i don't know yet, ive asked for a replacment to see if they let me trade it in. ive herd they have good customer support, so ill take te benifit of the doubt.

overall, (when it worked) great pedal!!!!

3 knobs,two switches and a pedal all in a steel chassis. Not a whole lot to mess up.

Using this pedal with an '86 Squier II HSS and a Mexican Strat with Texas Specials into an Epiphone Triggerman 60. The distortion is mis-named it's an overdrive and used as such does a great job tightening up the dirty channel of my amp. If used with a lot of gain at the amp it does hum (maybe the power supply instead of the battery would help). Don't buy this pedal expecting Dimebag-type distortion because it just ain't there. I've read other posts complaining about the sweep of the wah but it suits my playing fine, just took me a few hours to get used to the action. The volume function is a little abrupt (goes from zero to full pretty quickly) but again once you get the feel of the pedal you can make it do what you want. I play primarily blues, modern worship, classic rock and this pedal works well in all situations so far. I will post a follow up in a few weeks and let you know if the hum can go away.

It's a Morely, all steel. Unless you're pole vaulting on to it it should last as long as you do.

Been playing for 37 years, everything from top 40 to thrash funk. For where I am musically now, I really like this pedal. Again, I would not expect a death metal tone from the distortion, but for what I needed (a little extra overdrive to get solos up over the band)it's a great solution. I don't like the hum, and I will do something about that and re-post. For the money you can't go wrong.

EZ to use straight forward the only thing is the switches are located at the base and IF your not careful you can step on them when you DONT want to - and it's NOT true by-pass these two issue are the only ones i have with the pedal - having said that i really like this pedal anyway especially for the money

the distortion or overdrive sounds very good especially with my big muff at the same time w/my Fender 60 watt tube (2x6l6gc) amp nice smooth tube like overdrive (for me) the wah has a nice range. It's NOT a clyde or budda wah but it wont cost near as much to buy either - for the money i really like it! another thing it sounds better with a FRESH battery when the battery gets low the wah isn't as pronounced. if aint sounding good I know its time to pop in a new battery.

sometimes the bolts that connect the rocker need a little WD 40 or it gets sqeaky, no biggie

never had to call em - thats the best customer service of all

it's NOT true by-pass and the switches tend to get in the way UNLESS your careful but the other hand it's musical and alot less expensive than the fulltone clyde deluxe and the truth is some people on harmony central were even slammin that pedal - i guess as always it a matter of personal taste - this is a pedal i can live with and very good alternative for all types of ROCK in my humble opinion

3 knobs 2 switches and it'as a wah.

I use a fender strat and an upgraded epiphone SG. my amp is a behringer GMX212. it is set to either fender clean, ampeg clean, roland jc clean, or marshall distorted.

This wah is good. If, like me, you play drums the pedal will feel ultraresponsive. To get good sweps and dramatic wah efects it takes more foot control than a crybaby but it sound more like the wah hendrix had later on in his career. gives a warm funky sound clean but is capable of VooDoo CHild (slight Retun). The distortion has a limited use. when used in tandem with the wah it gives a nice cutting quality to your playing used by itself it realy only works for getting Backward guitar sound or organ like chords using the volume pedal.

the volume pedal is almost a peice of junk but is useful for the above techniques. Pedal steel type licks are also possible. overall a good pedal with a great wah sound that is warm and full with as semi-decent distortion and a volume pedal to boot

built like a tank and will outlive you

a mix of Rock blues jazz ska regae rockabilly funk fusion etc...
If it were stolen i would buy another one no question as it is the best wah for my particular style.

compared with a Vox clyde wah and the crybaby as well as the Hendrix wah.
very musical.

I know that many people dont like this wah for many different reasons but it fits my sound and can fit yours if you just get it into your head that it's not trying to be a Crybaby. different but not worse or better.

I use this thing at every gig. My main complaint is the position of the switches. It's just about dummy-proof. It gives me total control over my hollow-body,high-output guitars. Whenever I kick on the wah, I seem to always turn the thing down because of how cramped it all is.

I am totally shocked by the other reviews of the distortion quality. I just love the dist tone. It is tube-like, but not a "fuzzy" type sound. It seems to let some of your original clean signal thru, giving an articulate, detailed crunch. Like a Rat pedal with more clarity. The tone control is minimally useful. Too far to the right and it sounds too thin and raspy. The "fake"-ness others have described must be the inherent EQ this pedal adds. Sorta tight and bassy. I have A/B'd this with almost every overdrive pedal I've owned and this comes out on top. I used it with TV Jones pickups in a rockabilly style jazz box. I play VERY loud, with authority and humor!

See other posts. It's really solid. The nuts on the inside of the hinges does occasionally need tightened with long pliers, or the Volume pedals falls a little forward as others have mentioned.

I also have the Little Alligator volume. Morley seem like good folks. No frills.

For the Atomic Rockabilly style my band plays, the pedal is just great. The wah is useful, but I got for feedback control of the hollow guitars, and was pleasantly surprised by the dist tone. I would like to find the Morley distortion circuit in a separate pedal. The proximity of the switches is a real drag live. But, she gets me through gigs alot, so thumbs up.

3 knobs, 2 switches, one pedal... Switches could be placed in different place because it is difficult to hit` em sometimes...

WAH- different from Dunlop, but not worse or better- just different. I think that If everyone plays Dunlop I need something different and this thing is cool.
Ask Steve Vai :>:
Overdrive [not distortion!!!]- Very cool sound. It remaids some very old tube amps. Sounds very deep and wide... It isn`t thing for people who likes modern sound [EMG and ultra hyper distortion!!!!!!!] It is good thing to play chords, then it soundd sweet. It is also great to play solos, then sounds like something between Marshall and Fender... VERY WIDE!!
Volume pedal- just a volume pedal- it works what more can I say?

It is harder to destroy it than Dunlop becouse it uses optical sensor that is amost unbreakable :] Solid metal body, inputs and outputs work good. I JUST PLUG IT IN AND PLAY...

I`ve been playing for about 2 years. I play hard rock. It is a great thing and it gives to me lots of inspiration. If it were or lost I would buy another one. IF YOU WANT TO BE DIFFERENT FROM DUNLOPERS [DIFFERENT, NOT WORSE]JUST CHECK IT.

super easy - if you know what your doin.

hot rod strat with one seth lover humbucker bridge position into the morley wah and then into a EQ with mids boosted and teaked and signal boosted and then either a ab165 bassman or even a sidekick reverb either way - sometimes i'll stick another
distortion pedal between and either way what the morely does is give me SUSTAIN for infinity if I want and a very cool boosted mid LEAD tone EXCELLENT for LEAD and power chords both - and I LIKE IT! these people complaining probably don't where to put in the chain or how to set their amp gain or EQ man cmon this pedal super and its a alternate type of distortion so you don't sound the same - still use your boss ds1/2 and big muff and xxl and sansamp and however much room you have on your pedal board

never had a problem at all

dont know never have

I play everything don't you? playin since I was a 5th grader - no one gonna steal it man chill out

I have tried the modification suggested by Morley to get a better wah tone(it was missing the high freuencies)..but it only had a minor effect.
I have discovered that the brightness of the LED controlling the wah (L4)can be brightened up by palcing a 1k resistor across resistor 28.
This gives much more treble for those with dull wah problems..it also increases the gain of the wah section so I placed a 2.2k resistor across resistor 8.Now I have a good wah range and the volume in wah mode is the same as in volume mode with the pedal fully forward.
A cheap mod costing 10 cents and 5 minutes of your time.

I use it with a 1980 USa strat running into a 20 watt galanti valve amp that has a fender valve preamp to replace the galanti solid state preamp.

Polite and responsive support from Morley.

pretty basic...volume, wah switch, and distortion switch and controls. i brought mine brand new and didn't have any instructionz in it so it was really easy 4 me 2 use it!

the wah is terrible!!! it sounds very weak and faint. when u switch it on, it sounds more like a volume pedal with a slight hint of a weak wah. the volume is great on it, and the distortion is ok(don't use it much). i just hope that i have a technical problem with the wah part of it, coz overall the wah suck!

this was my fist wah so i used it in gigs but i neva got a good wah sound out of it. i've had it 4 6 or 7 years and i'm pretty protective of my effects. one of tip of the knobs fell off and the pedal doesn't stay in its 0 volume position, when i depress the pedal into the 0 volume position, it moves back down, so if i'd have 2 say that i'd rely on a crybaby!!!

tried getting it checked out 3 or 4 different times and nothing hasn't been done 2 it!!!

i play rock, blues, modern metal, gospel,....pretty much anything and 1 of my most important effect in my rig is a wah and i was disappointed with the wah, everything else on it was great. i've been playin 4 13 yrs and that was the worst wah effect i've eva heard!! so the moral of this story is 2: try b4 u buy!!! as of rite now, it a pretty exspensive volume pedal!