Morley PDW Pro Series Distortion/Wah/Volume Pedal

I use this thing as a volume pedal for a VOCE V5 'B3' module on its way to a Motion Sound mini-Leslie.

Once in a long while I'll use it as a wah. Mostly volume.

BIG NIT!! I still use the plastic case the pedal came in to store it in my gig bag. But when I take it OUT of the plastic case, the pedal itself stays horizontal - i.e. at about 3/4 volume - NOT backed off at zero volume.

If I press/rock the pedal back, i.e. back the volume off to zero, and take my foot OFF it, it springs BACK to level - 3/4 volume, in other words!

SO - while I'm gigging, I either have to keep my foot ON the damned thing ALL the time, or remember to turn the output pot down on the VOCE unit, which complicates my life in the 15 seconds between tunes.

So - while its electronics ARE clean and it's built like a tank, I'd like it a hell of a lot better if it would STAY at ZERO VOLUME without my foot on it!

Oh - and don't even think about buying it without the 9Volt battery eliminator wall wart.

FIRSTLY....the heading photo of this unit is INCORRECT.
now then.....this pedal has a "rocker" panel, two switches and three knobs. it is very easy to use.

this is the ONLY wah pedal i've ever owned.
WAH: sounds fine to me
VOLUME: works perfectly
DISTORTION: THIN, TREBLY and VERY NASTY. (is this bad???...if it is your ONLY source of overdrive or distortion,..this is VERY bad. if you have OTHER overdrive/distortion units, this can open up NEW options in "WAH SOUNDS".

i have kicked the living crap out of this thing. built like a pickup truck.

never needed to call.

as a volume pedal it works perfectly.
as a wah pedal it works perfectly (i'm sure OTHER wah pedals produce different tones, some worse...some better). this has suited me well.
as a distortion pedal.....TWO FACTORS: as distortion ALONE---pretty crappy. as distortion COMBINED with wah---WELCOME TO NEW SONIC HORIZONS!
as a BONUS---run a signal from the pedal into ANOTHER overdrive/distortion unit...then kick in the Morley wah AND distortion...rock the pedal....sonic MAYHEM will ensue.
it is probably NOT the best SINGLE wah, volume OR distortion unit.
BUT,....by combining ALL THREE effects into ONE pedal,...you have options for altering your tone into the wild sonic blue.

no problems there, i mean, this is just a fuckin wah pedal!

fuckin' hell! this thing sounds C R A P!!! You want a funky wah sound? Don't even think about a morley wah, it's about as funky as your grandmothers underwear.
And don't even get me started on the explosion-like ''CLANK!!!' when you press one of the switches.
The distortion is also Com-Plete-ly useless(unless you want to go for sonic warfare), as ugly as it gets.
And then there is the wonderful volume pedal function.Not! Oh boy!, I'm just gonna leave it at this, I hope you get the message. THIS PEDAL SUCKS!!!!

Ok it is absolutely a tank, but there's no use for a tank that don't drive or shoot, now is there?

Fuck MORLEY!

very easy to use once you match it up to your amp

i was so bummed to to hear so many people complaing, there is nothing wrong with this pedal. as far as the distortion goes it seems as if it overdrives my amp. i was afraid to open the box once i got and plued it up, it was fine. i love it. it does sound diferent form the cry baby, but if they all sounded the same what would be the point

i have only had it a few hours, and i bought it used, but it seems to be built like a tank. this this is solid metal

never dealt with them

if it were stolen, i would probably try the bad SV bad horsie model instead, there is a little difficulty with the switches being so close to pedal but i will get useed to it, oh one more thing, for those of you baggin on this pedals distortion, go and buy a distortion pedal and quit complaining.

its easy to use, 2 buttons, a pedal, and 3 knobs...

I use and Aria Pro II guitar > Morley PDW > Boss DD-3 > Marathon amp. i get a lot of noise on the wah setting. The wah is pretty "shrill" sounding. The distortion sounds pretty lousy. I usually have it to give me a little gain for solos. that works well.

Its a real tough pedal. You can jump on it or whatever.

Never dealt with them

Its a good pedal to mess around with. it was a nice starter because it had 2 effects in it, but i dont think you'd want ot use it live or in the studio.

Easy to use.

Fender Deluxe Super Strat > Zoom 505 > Morley > Pignose Hog 30. The manual says that the throw of the pedal in volume mode is designed for a "dramatic swell" and is not spread evenly from off to full. That took some getting used to. I never use the wah or distortion because they are unusable for my tastes and music I play. I use the Morley as a volume pedal only. I keep my amp way up and my guitar volume around 9 at all times and use the pedal for all volume control and it works well for that. The Zoom is very noisy but the Morley has a some type of noise suppression circuitry which really shuts down the noise from the Zoom.

I have had no problems with this pedal in over a year and a half of ownership. It goes a long time on a 9-volt battery but when it runs out of juice it goes in about 2 minutes so I always carry spares just in case. There is no warning when the battery is running out: the unit loses volume and becomes distorted - suddenly.

Have not had to deal with any customer support.

I play country-rock, r/b and some pop. Also mass music at church. Used to play 20 years ago and just began playing again about a year and a half ago. Had a 69 LP goldtop, 80 Am. Std. Strat, fretless P-Bass, Acoustic 470 w/404 bottom, Hiwatt 212 combo, mellotron, Steiner-Parker synth. I owned a Morley power/wah/volume in 1977 - chrome AC-powered with the optical volume control. It was great. I thought that maybe this one was going to be o.k. As I said, for volume control it works well for me.

Fairly easy to use but impossible to get a good sound out of it.

I'm not impressed at all with this thing except the fact that it is a compact unit. Others have said that they don't like the switches because that they're too crammed in there. This is not my complaint, I had no problem at all with that. I really wanted to save some room on my pedalboard and I thought I'd try it since this was used and fairly cheap. I found no real loss since I can sell it to someone else for almost as much.
Anyway the wah has no charachter at all, its tredle range is too limited but serves it's purpose for those who want a subtle wah sound.
The volume is completely useless because of the range loss. The distortion is well, how can I say, very fake sounding. I wanted another distortion sound to complement the one I have, which didn't complement it but offended it. I have a Budda Phatman overdrive which is the best tube overdrive I have ever heard. The Morely dosn't even come close to a real tube sound. Sounds very solid state cheese with hardly no tonal control whatsoever. If you need a good wah sound get a Vox. I've tried alot of wah pedals and the Vox ranks among the best. If you decide to buy a new one, try to get a mod for they are not true bypass. Bypassing it as it stands sucks the life out of your overall tone. E-mail me for any questions on wah/ distortion sounds.
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Pretty tough

The only reason I give this a six is because of the compactness of it and it's durability.
My rig is as follows....SRV signature strat which is a 57 reissue American strat playing through a 1960's (original) Fender Twin reverb.
GET ONE!!!! My pedalboard is as follows.........
Vox wah,Mxr comp.,Budda tube overdrive, Small stone phaser, EH Memory Man, Fulltone tremelo, Boss tu tuner, Volume pedal(Some German thing a friend gave to me).

Really easy to use besides the fact that the switches are not so well placed it's an ok unit but you got to get use to it a bit.

The distortion is not the best in the world, but it serves the purpose of my need(wich was to boost in solo, and add a bluesy feel over my clean kinda dist sound I use for blues playing) The Wah is not the best in the world too(I got the Bad Horsie for that duty!), but then again I bought this to use as a tone shaper not as a main wah. The volume is ok not the best again but ok, I use it as an on off for tuning and as a leveling device for switching between guitars, so it work fine for my use plus it saves me space in the pedalboard by being all in the same unit!

Never had trouble with it.(except the switches, one was defect and I exchange the pedal right away at the store, wich can happen to any manufacturer. So I won't say it's not reliable.)

Never had to deal with them on that.

See Sound quality I mention it all there! This is a swiss knife pedal but for those who don't expect it to be their only pedal on the floor. It can save you in many situation but I wouldn't use that and only that.

It's ok, I guess. If you have big feet, it might be hard to hit the switches on the sides of the pedal. Also, if you are using wah and you turn it off, make sure that the pedal is down so you dont lose volume. It's kinda a pain to have to mess with all of that at once.

This thing sounds like crap, period. I thought something was wrong with it b/c it sounded so bad. The distortion is very thin and tinny sounding, even through my fat guitar output. Hell, my guitar almost has more distortion on it's clean setting than this thing does maxed. The wah is shitty too. It was my first wah pedal, and I am looking for a different one now, but even with my "virgin" wah ears I could tell that it blew. For one, the pedal didnt seem to travel enough, it seemed like you only had about an inch to play with. And it was touchy too. Most wah's are supposed to sound like www-aaAAaa-hh, this sounded more like --wAAH-ak! It wasent smooth. There was a point about halfway in the middle that almost sounded like you dropped all of the sound off of a cliff, it was that sudden. If there are any pluses to this, the volume was a bit smoother, but still the travel of the pedal was too short and you couldnt make anything dramatic with it unless you had ungodly steady foot controll.

I guess you could rely on it, it is heavy and solid, and Morley rants and raves about how durable their foot mechanisms are. The only problem with being made of metal is that when you hit the switches, it made a very loud, hollow metallic "CLANK!" when you switched it on. I guess that makes it feel a little more sturdy though.

Well, I do say that they were good to me. I bought it used off of a friend, and he did have the reciept with it. It didnt work when I got it home. I still could return it and I got a new unit for free. Dosent matter though, I sold it like a month later.

Garbage, garbage, garbage! This pedal sucks. Maybe Morley got a different wah pedal right, but I am not going to try. I was looking for that deep, rich Hendrix/Clapton sound and this wasent even close. I could have cared less about the distortion too, I have a great PW-2 that satisfys all of my distortion needs. I am currently looking for the old original VOX wah, I played a newer version of one in the store and it was pretty good. I would like to find an old vintage one in a pawn shop somewhere just beacause it would be cooler. But I am staying away from Morley from now on. Hell, even a good volume pedal can be a lot easier to find, try the Earnie Ball volume, usually used for steel guitar, it is super smooth and gives you godloads of travel. Sorry Morley, you sucked on this one.

Pretty easy to use. The fact that the switches were on the sides made it pretty difficult to turn it on in the middle of a song.

I use it through a Peavey 400 Series Scorpion Bass head and speaker cab. I play guitar through it. Mainly, this pedal sucks. The distortion is useles unless you like the sound of a diesel engine and the wah sounds like someone put a cat in a blender. The volume is either on or off.

Reliable. Built like a very small tank. Haven't had it but 6 months. I don't use it at gigs. i leave it at home.

Never dealt with them

I play blues metal and straight metal mainly, wityh some classical stuff in there. I have been playing for three years and I also own a Zoom 506 and a bass crybaby which I don't use either. i would definitely never buy this pedal again and wish I ahdn't in the first place. I just don't like the pedal itself. Bad sound and too steep a price. The only reason I bought it was because it had distortion and wah and people on this database said it was good. i'm trying to set the record straight. I wish it had better sound quality overall. It just sits there, not being used. This pedal will make people's ears bleed so they will not want to hear you play. Don't buy it, unless you like people screaming for you to stop.
The distortion just didn't really have any good distorted sound. No matter how I tweaked it, I couldn't get the sound of any artist i knew. When the distortion was cranked, it was too harsh and had really no sound quality at all. Nowhere close to a good tube distortion or any other for that matter. My suggestion, buy a Zoom 505 or 506 and then get a seperate wah. the combination is magnificent and the price is good too.