Morley PVO Volume

come on, it's a volume pedal! if you can't figure this one out hang up your guitar. only added trick to this pedal is the min volume setting. a quick turn of the knob on the base and you can set a volume level to reduce too instead of cutting the sound all together. comes with a product catalog instead of instructions.

i got this pedal so that i could get a lead boost out of my amp. i'm running a mesa dc5 which is only two channels so it presents a problem when you want to increase your level for playing leads. i'm running the pedal in the effects loop of the amp right before the return. in this configuration i'm not finding any loss of tone or introduced noise. it's also kinda nice because since you are reducing the effects level being returned to your amp you can get a different amount of effect in your lead and rythm sounds. i'm also running it in the loop so that i do not change the way my guitar is driving the pre-amp in the mesa. i have emgs in my jackson and i wanted to keep hitting the tubes as hard as i could even though i was reducing the overall output level from the amp. the configuration seems to work great for me. it also works out nice because since i set the power amp level in the amplifer for my lead level and then reduce to the rythm level with the volume pedal, i get to run the power amp a little harder and get thoose really good tube tones.

seems to be built greaet. i have read that the battery wears out pretty quick so an no/off switch would be nice so that you don't have to keep unplugging the pedal every time you want to quit playing. i would gig without a backup, just have some spare batteries. if you goto a gig without spare batteries you are stupid any way.

haven't had to use it. don't think i'll need to.

i play mostly metal so it was important to me to find a way of getting a level change that did not reduce the overdrive i was getting from my amp. running this pedal in the effects loop seems to be the ticket. i was looking at an mxr micro amp but i couldn't see paying almost a hundred bucks for an op-amp in a battery box. i think this is one of the best and cheapest ways to turn a two channel amp into a three channel. no modifications, extra gain stages or tone soaking devices needed. if it were stolen i'd buy another. i've paid more for less useful peices of gear.

This is a basic volume pedal. It has the standard foot rocker control and it has a control for the minimum volume. It has a input and output jack. The pedal is on when a chord is inserted in the input jack. Otherwise it's off - no switches.

This pedal is fine as long as it has a strong battery or a power supply. Since it's on all the time that you're plugged in (there's no bypass) it sucks batteries very quickly. It takes very little use to drain batteries to the point that series tone thinning is occuring. Because of this, a powersupply is a must with this pedal IMO.
The rocker pedal controls volume. Since this is an active pedal, volume can be boosted as well as attenuated. The 'minimum volume' control sets the lowest volume that the pedal will produce. This allows you to choose between using the pedal as a booster (set the minimum volume high and use the minimum as rhythm level and maximum as lead level) or as a volume swell pedal (set minimum volume low so that you can do swells up and down).

This is constructed with a strong metal chassis. It doesn't have a pot to wear out. It has the newer Morley optically controller, so there's not much to go wrong. Wouldn't take it to a gig if I used batteries in it. It may not make it through a long gig before draining a battery away.

I use this for doing volume swells and it works well for that. I've used it with my Mesa/Boogie DC-3 (see other review) and my Marshalls and it sounds good in all cases.