Morley Power Fuzz Wah

At first I thought this was a VERY cool wah pedal and not much else. I downloaded the manual and discovered some other features that are available. The pedal itself is very easy to use when you understand how the functions work.

Okay. THE BEST WAH EVER! Lush sweep and no crappy cry baby high end squeak. Great chugs and funk sound. The bottom part of the treadle effects the low end, like bass frequencies and the top 1/2 effects guitar frequencies. Use it with an octave pedal and fell the funk baby.
The fuzz was throwing me. The volume swell when I engaged it was almost unbearable and the fuzz was out of control. The pots did not seem to do anything and I was very disappointed. Then I got the manual. The fuzz is variable by two pots AND the treadle, Tone and Intensity. Intensity adjusts the amount of fuzz signal that is mixed with the dry signal. Tone is what you would think. The catch- the treadle effects the amount of fuzz mixed into the signal as well. All the way down is out of control fuzz, all the way back is almost completely clean signal so you have an almost infinite number of fuzz tones. Sustains more than a Big Muff.
Also the pedal is a volume pedal. When no function is engaged the pedal is a simple volume pedal. Three well crafted pedals in one. What a deal. Plus it looks freakin' ballin'.
This pedal is the BEST EVER.
I play a Stratocaster. This guitar through the Morley pedal into a Silvertone 10xl. RIDICULIOUS. I also have a pedal board with several pedals and a Blackheart amp with a 2x12 cab but I am seriously thinking of losing some gear because they just simply can't hold up to the sound of the Silvertone with the Morley. What a pedal!

Almost 30 years strong.

Really cool guys. Called me back about 5 minutes after I called.

Great pedal. If your a metal shredder its probably not good for you but besides that I can not see you not enjoying this pedal.

Basically it's super easy to use, for sure. A WahWah/Volume pedal with a built in Fuzz.

However, the pots for adjusting the fuzz 'intensity' and 'tone' are not very fine tunable, they are almost more like an on or off-kinda thing really. Also having the two foot switches on different sides of the thing for turning the Wah and the Fuzz on/off is not the most convenient solution.

The Volume-pedal part I don't really use and Wah Wah is so-so with guitar but the Fuzz is really great. The Wah is not very sensible because the frequency range is so broad but it works ok for slow sweeps and stuff. Obviously it also works good for boosting the treble while playing leads.

The Fuzz is really a standard and kind of a traditional sounding but in a good vintage-y way. It's thick, not too screetchy has an incredible sustain with Les Paul and a bit of that nasality to it. The Fuzz does eat bit of bass but not too much. When I kick the fuzz on for leads and/or riffs on a loud and already distorted full tube amp, then add some Wah Wah, I am where I wanna be with this thing.

Particularly the Wah adds on quite a bit of noise but then again both the Volume and Fuzz-functions are surprisingly quiet, considering the age and everything.

My basic set up, with Morley PWF included, is a late 1970s Japanese pre-lawsuit AriaPro2 Les Paul Custom with SD JB and '59 humbuckers, MXR analog delay, a RAT or Ibanez Metal Charger for added distortion, sometimes a Coron phaser or my lovely Pearl Flanger and any big enough valve amp. All of these thing are more or less vintage, obviously.

For sure I can rely on it. It has lasted for 30 years already and if it breaks it should be generally easy to fix to anyone with a bit of knowhow of these things. And it was "Made In U.S. of A.", dude!

If it should stop working during a gig it probably wouldn't ruin my performance as such. I mean, I don??t rely on this alone for the fuzz/distortion anyway and a Wah Wah is not central to my tone anyway.

As stated above, you can download an pdf-version of the beautiful vintage user's manual as well as the schematics from Morley's web-site and they still sell those small light bulbs cheaply. Could there be better support for a pedal built nearly 30 years ago?

I love this thing. I got fairly cheaply from Ebay, it's super big, looks hot!, it's old with a real cool vintage vibe to it. According to the CTS pots that is has, mine is from around 1977. It's quite noisy and impractical to carry around but so what?

I would definitely try to find another one if I lost it but I wouldn't pay much more that I did, which was not much.

The pedal is probably most usable for stoner/doom/sludge/psych/drone type of stuff, old skool metal or some experimental noise stuff. But not for clean funk guitar stuff, you really need to use the built-in fuzz and some distortion on top of that.

I don't really use the Volume-function. To me the fuzz is the best and most usable thing in it but the combination of fuzz/wah is a great one.

Its not rocket science, I have no trouble understanding it

I use mine with a B C Rich Warlock, F. Rose whammy, dual humbuckers, I like the pedal set on Wah and fuzz with the pedal 3/4 to all the way down, I set the intensity near max, but keep the tone on the pedal and guitar way to the bass side, I crank the bass on the amp about 2/3- 3/4, about 50-60% midrange, treble maybe 30% (3-4 on the knob) I usually run additional distortion, and sometimes chorus. the feedback with the dual humbuckers is Incredible! and just the most subtle move of the pedal does some pretty wild things, (especially with the DOD FX90 delay on, :):) Im sure I dont use the thing the way it was intended, But Im a big TOOL Fan, I love Adam Jones's sound, and I cant seem to get close to it without the Morley! I forgot, Im plugging in on the clean channel of a Peavey model 212 Renown 400, 210 watts 2-12 inch scorpions, and an extension cab with 2 more of the same,

This thing was used when I got it, and other than replacing the 387 bulb, its never had a problem, it will out live me I think, a spare bulb and 2 minutes? youre bulletproof I think

I never needed them, you can get all the info you need on this pedal online, just do a google search

I bought this pedal at a garage sale for $20 about 18 years ago? Its still a favorite today, and if I ever had to replace it I might try out some different ones, just to see if I liked them as much, but I doubt it, and they dont build em like this anymore, Cheap, Cheap, Cheap, Crap now.

It's easy to set for a good sound, but I have a hard time using it while I'm playing. The buttons to turn the wah and the fuzz on and off are on each side of the pedal, and they're not labeled, so it took a while before I remebered which one was what. Also, since you can turn off either effect with the pedal in any position, you have to remember to have it set somewhere where the volume effect won't totally cut your sound off. And you can't turn both effects on or off quickly, unless you jump on the pedal with both feet. As far as knobs go, it's pretty much a both-all-the-way-up-all-the-time type thing, unless you're using it with another pedal. But it's not super-fine-tunable, I don't think. The pedal itself is kind of touchy, too - if you rock it too fast it gets confused and stops working. It takes a lot of finesse to get it to do what you want. I guess maybe all wah's are that way.

This is just one small part of a long chain of high-gain devices for me, so maybe some of my complaints come from that. I play a Hagstrom (or sometimes a Dean) through this, a bunch of other distortion pedals, and a Musicman amp with the volume at like 7 or 8 (so it's already pretty distorted from the get-go). As the only effect, it's not too hot, I don't think, but tied to something like an MXR distorion+ it's really really hot.

I don't really like the wah sound alone very much, but with the fuzz it's awesome. I don't use it so much for the "wah-wah-wah" sound so much as like a controlable envelope or something - it actually seems to work a little better coming back from the most trebly position to something bassier, as far as real wah-like sound is concerned.

but it's SO LOUD!!!!!! if you find a place where you can leave it and it lets most of signal through without sounding like it's doing very much, with both the wah and fuzz on at once, and then start using it while you play, it gets really shrieky and loud and makes tons and tons and tons of white noise, and it'll add wah to existing distorion, so you can have like a static theramin, which is so cool. It's really really brutal and kind of hard to listen to. Not a whole set's worth of sound, but it's a good thing to always have to fall back on.

I would totally bring this pedal to gigs.

I bought it used.

This pedal is really reall really good for noise, so I like it a lot. For other stuff, I wouldn't know. But I probably wouldn't worry about it very much if I lost it or it broke or whatever. A lot of times I don't use it, because it's kind of a one-trick wonder. Also it kind of changes the tone of your set-up even when it's off, I think. Like it makes it thinner or something. It's good for recording samples or when you're depressed and just want to torture everyone and make them listen to you for a while. It's worth what I paid for it.

I give this an 8 because It is simple to use and get sounds out of it. Some of the features are a wee bit weird, and it takes a little bit of working with this and in conjunction any other pedals you have

I use an Ibanez talman with lipstick pickups and a fender jaguar in a setup that goes. Guitar-boss bass synthesizer-Morley PWF-rat2-old ass electro harmonix memory man-vox wah-whatever amp I'm using. I plan on getting a tremolo, overdive, compressor, and various other modulation effects to complement my "I wanna make a lot of noises like radiohead" complex. This pedal is a master of feedback and dog poo. It feeds back no matter what amp volume Im in, if the volume pedal is depressed. The wah is the most fluid Ive ever heard. the volume control is great, and when the fuzz is on it controls the blend of the fuzz and clean signal. But, my one problem is the fuzz. When you play a chord hard, the sound cuts off and goes into feedback. if any other owner of this pedalhas this problem, contact me

It is a huge metal case. Im more worried about it in my room than at a gig. Im 17, if it gets stolen, I should do my typical angst blah blah blah, then go kill myself. but I would not, because I can always find a new toy to make noise with

If I called morley, I would expect to hear "hahaha you are a moron"

I play radiohead/power pop type stuff. in conjunction with my various other disortion devices it rocks. but as an only source of fuzz it should not be used much. But the wah is amazing, and the volume control isa must have for everyone.

Duh, flip the switch, click the button, move the pedal.

The best wah I've tried or had. Returned a Vox after a week 'cause it sounded like crap on my Washburn MG-Fender M-series setup. But this wah has a great sweep, especially on the clean channel. Plays funk like Bootsy's dreams. The fuzz requires a limiter or gate because the signal from new guitars is way too strong (I'm guessing). Don't buy it for that function.

Big, metal, tough. This sucker's as old as I am (more than 20 years) and still works great. There's some wear on the contacts for the wah switch, but nothing I can't fix with a days work. And the sweep controls are photoelectric and will NEVER wear out! No crappy pots...

It's twenty years old. They'd probably piss themselves if I did call.

One problem- short AC cord. Needs to be near a socket or invest in an extension cord for gigging. I'm a metal, rock, funk, and jazz player and this has served me well since I bought it two years ago. I have to say that I'm wary of not having a back-up, just because of the age factor. The pedal isn't too loose feeling like Cry-babies and the sound packs more than the Vox did on my set-up.

It's a wah pedal, how hard can it be? It has controls for fuzz intensity and tone, and footswitches for fuzz and wah, plus the pedal itself. The fuzz takes some tinkering, but not much.

Even though this is a vintage pedal, about 30-40 years old, it beats the heck out of the newer Morley PWV I used to own. The fuzz is weird and seems to cut out every now and then, but the wah is incredible. I use it on bass, and this puppy has some really funky wah action. Lots of pedal sweep, so you can get ultra bassey or super treble screech.

It's been dependable so far, except for the fuzz. I'm not sure if it might be broken and loosing a contact or if it's just built wierd.

Oh yeah, I'd buy it again. This thing is beautiful, it's one of the old huge chrome beasts, very cool. Best wah I've ever used on bass.