Wah Question

[WelshBoyo]

I tend to find that less is more...i.e don't use the whole travel of the pedal for them shaft/Hendrix moments, its more a case of hovering around the "W" area and "AH"ing it up to the top end.

I have an abundance of Wah's around the place and I find that they all sound crap if you just use the full travel, however, once you start working on the mid travel technique they sound a lot better....

[DrBob]

I tend to find that less is more...i.e don't use the whole travel of the pedal for them shaft/Hendrix moments, its more a case of hovering around the "W" area and "AH"ing it up to the top end.

I have an abundance of Wah's around the place and I find that they all sound crap if you just use the full travel, however, once you start working on the mid travel technique they sound a lot better....

You're advocating sublety aren't you ?.........

Sublety has NO PLACE on my pedalboard

[DrBob]

The thing is that I agree with Noodles, I really like the Morley as a thing to use, I'm just not mad keen on the sound, so is there any option to mod with these ?

[timmyo]

i.e don't use the whole travel of the pedal for them shaft/Hendrix moments, its more a case of hovering around the "W" area and "AH"ing it up to the top end.

Totally agree. It makes many of the 'wah x is better because the treadle has more travel' discussions moot, imho.

[DrBob]

Totally agree. It makes many of the 'wah x is better because the treadle has more travel' discussions moot, imho.

And that's fine but for me I really would like that extra sweep range, I'm thinking maybe the Ibanez Weeping Demon...

[thebeagle]

The thing is that I agree with Noodles, I really like the Morley as a thing to use, I'm just not mad keen on the sound, so is there any option to mod with these ?

I'm fairly sure there would be; from my limited memory and a bit of basic digging, shouldn't there be pretty much one resistor somewhere in the vicinity of the inductor which determines the 'Q' of the sweep? Replace that with a different value or a 'resistor-plus-pot-on-flying-wires' setup, maybe...

[DrBob]

I'm fairly sure there would be; from my limited memory and a bit of basic digging, shouldn't there be pretty much one resistor somewhere in the vicinity of the inductor which determines the 'Q' of the sweep? Replace that with a different value or a 'resistor-plus-pot-on-flying-wires' setup, maybe...

Oooh, there's interesting, particularly as there is a lot of spare 'real estate' on the top face of the pedal that you could bring a pot out on to for easy access & tweaking..
So even though it's an optical switch etc,etc it's still using a basic resistor to determine the 'breadth' of the sweep ?

I'd need to get it back from Travis first and open it up..

[DrBob]

Just found this on the Morley website:

http://www.morleypedals.com/mark1es.pdf

And I'm afraid that I've got no clue what I'm looking at, Don't suppose anyone's able to translate are they please ?

[jmp220478]

Hi Rob - have a look at the Dunlop 95q - may not give you exactly what you're after but maybe best platform for mods ?? ie its switchless ( ala Morley )

try http://www.wah-wah.co.uk/ too ...

rgds

phil

ps - i have a 95q on my analog board ( replaced a 535q and a tremonti )
pps - still havent sussed the axe 2 wah yet :