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Topic: Volume/Wah Pedal |
b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Robert C. McKee
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 7:33 am |
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Bob, I've had one for about 15 yrs. It is the power volume, power wah pedal. I used it when playing keyboards, among other things. I liked it really well at the time, although I'm sure there is a lot more competition in manufacturing now. I still have it. It works very well, (I don't like it on the steel, however), & I would probably sell it if someone made an offer I couldn't refuse.  ) The pedal has held up extremely well. Just the rubber pad came loose from the top of pedal & I only had to glue it back on. I'm talking a lot of play time on it with absolutely no problems. |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 7:52 am
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I was interested in this sort of pedal a while ago. Let me just warn you away from a DOD FX-17. Got it cheap on ebay so no big harm but it's a dog.
I sort of lost heart after that and never got any further in my quest.
One thing that I have discovered, as a work-around, is the use of an envelope filter, set just right in conjunction with the volume pedal. If the sensitivity is set right, the volume pedal can almost function as a wah pedal.
----btw, what I mean by 'work-around' is avoiding having to use two pedals on the floor. |
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Keith Hilton
From:
248 Laurel Road Ozark, Missouri 65721
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Posted 23 Mar 2008 7:38 pm
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| B0B I still have an old Morley volume/wah I used to use 30 plus years ago, and I think Morely still makes the same unit. Havn't hooked up to it in probably 30 years, but I did look inside it about a year ago. The volume control is done with a photo resitor, and light. If I can still remember back that far, I remember I liked the pedal. It was to tall and I had to place it on the outside of my steel, otherwise I couldn't get my knee under the steel. I don't think Morley used any pre-amp on their volume/wah pedals, so they sucked high end out of the guitar pickup really bad. Don't know why in the world they didn't put a small transistor pre-amp in the circuit to prevent the tone sucking. Who knows, they may be using a pre-amp in the circuit now. I would sure check for tone sucking on the high end, if that matters at all to you. It doen't bother some people. I think you would get better results from a envelope filter, which is an automatic wah. B0B I get the best results by using a double ended guitar plug and plugging the envelope filter right in to my guitar. I could never get good results when it was further down in the signal chain. Right next to the guitar plugged in direct it gets a signal it seems to like. I used the evelope filter on two songs on my last CD--"Rockabilly Fever". |
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