Just bought a used Morley vol/wah Pro Series 2 off of eBay for $35.00 and thought it was broken cus It wasn’t getting any volume until it got to last 1/3 down. Found your video and it’s much better now! Your video has past the test of time, and is still helping us musicians! Thank you!
Your videos are always informative and entertaining it's great hearing someone that is not pc every moment of every day and your responses to comments are great to thank you for spending the time to make these
Thanks so much for taking the time to put up the video---solved my issue... I snipped at it with some tiny scissors then used tape for a smooth angle...Thank You Scott!
I had a problem with my old but still loved Digitech RP-3s pedal expression, and after watching your video and realizing it work under the same principle, i was able to actually fix it!!!...sir, thank you very much!!! you save me some bucks!!!
I know this is old but you helped me make my Morley so much better in five minutes. Mine is newer but it’s still had that paper thing to modify. Thanks Scott!!!!
Phillip McKnight turned me onto your channel. I'm SO GLAD you are continuing to make your vids. You are an incredible resource for dummies like me. Thanks again, Scott.
Very cool, Dr. Groovy. THX. I think the reason the flashlight was not affecting it so much is the frequency of the light. The light-sensing diodes are more sensitive to IR or red light.
Hey Scott, thanks for the tutorial. I just bought a Morley and was unable to control swells. Works great now with your mod. I cured the sunlight problem by using some black RTV from my local auto store and placed some around the led on the inside. I squeezed a little out around the top and then smoothed it out by dipping my finger in soapy water. Soapy water helps to smooth it out and keeps RTV from sticking to your fingers..... I can shine a flashlight into the led and I don’t see anything. Before sealing it I was amazed at how much light made it through.....once again thx and RTV your Morleys
An LDR is still a variable resistor. A Pot is a variable resistor too. There is no magic. The tone sucking thing is due to something called low pass filter that is created with the capacitance of the cable and the resistor of the pot. I saw the schematics and is the same configuration of a pot. I don't see how you can get no tone sucking and if you do is probably the small cable (low capacitance) after it.
Hi Scott, thank you so much for this video. I just picked up a Morley PVO from 1998 and will use your method to modify it. I have another issue with mine. The minimum volume knob seems to always be at minimum no matter where I set it. If I turn the volume way up on my mixer, I can hear a little bit with the minimum turned up and the heel pressed down, so it seems to work a little bit. Do you thing your mod would fix this, or do I have another issue where I need to adjust the minimum volume knob?
One the 20/20 Morley t hey say you set the minium to a 1 or 2 and it opens up the pedal to perform more like at linear taper and less like the audio taper you are moding away from. I wonder if that would have worked on the Lil Alligator. How does your mod affect your minimum setting knob? Great trick on using electrical tape over the LED to prevent outside sunny gig from opening up the pedal. Good straight forward, got to the point video. Thanks
Hello Mr. Scott. Could you heat the tip of the screwdriver and push down to realize the desired shape? Sorry, made the same statement on your Pedal Steel video.
I have a Morley Volume Plus that I am probably going do this. However, if I ever sell it on Ebay, do I call it a "Grove Modified" Morley Volume Pedal? And would that be with or without trademark logo?
I've never had a problem when by bad horsie soon as I breathe on it it kicks on. Maybe the previous owner already made these adjustments. So maybe you can follow up and show us about the potentiometer that's in the back side.
So this can be done on the wah? I got a morley classic wah and it's just like nothing! Barely any wah. And with this shaping of things, I could potentially shape my tones differently?
For sure. It will work big time. Also, you can slightly bend the LED lights up or down a bit and see how that does for you before making the shape in there.
I never liked Morley anyway. Back in the day, when most of my music stuff came from Christmas morning, I got a Morley pedal one year. A wah wah. It was alright I guess but it cut out completely at toe up. No sound at all when it was rocked all the way back. There was probably an easy fix for that but this was before RU-vid and electronics might as well have been the Chinese language to me then.
It's certainly a far cry design wise from the original 1970s Morley PVW (wah - volume) which in comparison & hindsight is far superior to the more recent models using that silly black light divider. My old 70s one, I had the brighter aircraft globes that came with the original design changes & replaced to a 240volt (Australian voltage) 12 watt globe to reduce the higher end frequency range as I personally found it had too wider sweep for what I felt comfortable with. Thanks for the Clip if ever I feel the need to buy a newer one (god forbid) at least I will know what to do.
I have a Bad Horsie 2 and I had to look up on RU-vid how to find the internal switch to fix the time lag. Why would a manufacturer continue to put out stuff like this? Lazy.
Because if you set the lag to zero, the pedal will switch off the wah when you are rocking back and forth. You need the lag so that it stays in wah mode even when you are rocking the pedal backwards. Even a dunlop crybaby does the same - rock it back, then switch the pedal switch off. The tone will change. So morley mimicked that. Sure, you can reduce the lag if you want, that’s why morley designed it with adjustable components rather than fixed components.
Justin.....you win the Internet! I don't know how I missed your comment, but that is simply funny as Hell! Almost hurt myself laughing that hard this early on a Sunday morning. Thanks for that one! They need to have a line of pedals related to wife things. Maybe a noise gate called "Shut the bitch up" and so on. lol
