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10-28-2009, 07:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: VA Beach | | | Morley Power Wah Vs 70s Morley PWF
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Compare and Contrast for me please
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10-28-2009, 10:13 PM
| | | | Modern Power Wah- Pathetic sweep, wimpy tone, no fuzz, built like a tank
70's PWF- Wider sweep, great tone, awesome built in fuzz, weighs as much as a tank but still feels a little flimsy
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10-29-2009, 05:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Canberra, Australia | | | No contest - Old Morleys kick butt.
The only common thing between them is the brand name - they share no common components and only a vaguely similar electronic design. IMHO there are no other wahs as good for bass as the Tel-Ray/Morley chrome beasts. They have a massive frequency range and heaps and heaps of headroom thanks to being mains powered.
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10-29-2009, 05:09 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Davenport, IA | | | I looked for a wah for YEARS. Then came across a PWF used, played it, and fell in love. It has a huge sweep. Other wahs sound like they don't do anything with bass freq's to me IMHO. |
11-02-2009, 11:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: San Francisco | | | No contest, best wah. Fuzz section is a little weak, but can be nice when paired with other effects. sweep is massive and mine functions as a volume boost with the fuzz and wah disengaged, nice for cleaning up effects when overdriving a tube amp.
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11-02-2009, 02:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: NYC | | | Quick question about the old PWF- how's the bypass? It's switchless, correct? So if I want to use it just for one section of a song will it leave my clean tone alone for the rest? Thanks. |
11-02-2009, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by JT Bass Quick question about the old PWF- how's the bypass? It's switchless, correct? So if I want to use it just for one section of a song will it leave my clean tone alone for the rest? Thanks. | No it has switches for both the wah and the fuzz... buffered IIRC. The switches require quite a stomp, and are loud as heck, as I remember... but I'm not sure if it was audible in the signal or not (I haven't had one in years). |
11-02-2009, 02:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: NYC | | | Bummer. I'd give anything for a switchless wah w/ dist that I could just nail on one note at the end of a riff... suggestions? I should probably get my own thread for this, sorry. |
11-02-2009, 02:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Dallas, TX | | | Gawd, I had a PWF in the early 80's. The band I was in at the time wouldn't let me use it. Never played with a newer one, but that old one is seriously disturbed, in a very good way.
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11-02-2009, 03:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Wakefield, UK | | | I've got a newer Morley Power Wah (black enclosure) but not eh newest issue. It's a few years old. It doesn't have the boost control.
I have to say, it's my favourite wah out of all those I tried.
Can't comment on the 70s one though...
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11-02-2009, 05:08 PM
| | | Personally prefer the PWB. I love the way it makes the wah shriek, and I have 2 distotions already. Quote:
Originally Posted by xsubs No it has switches for both the wah and the fuzz... buffered IIRC. | It is, and not very well by today's standards.
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11-03-2009, 04:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Canberra, Australia | | | IME the Tel-Ray/Morley wahs ARE NOT buffered bypass. They are half-bypass - whereby the input is always connected but the output is switched between wet and dry.
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