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morelia · Post by **morelia** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:23 am

AdmiralQuality wrote:Or at least was

Going grey, or, going, going.....?

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:24 am

Oh, and I used a Morley on this circa 1989... http://www.admiralquality.com/mp3/Camou ... uality.mp3 It was a friend's (as was most of the home-studio I used to do this) but it was ME who replaced the lightbulb and made it work again.

I'd been playing guitar for about 9 months at that point. This was the first time I discovered what a CRUTCH a wah-wah can be! Hell, it's a turbine powered wheelchair!

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:32 am

morelia wrote:
AdmiralQuality wrote:Or at least was
Going grey, or, going, going.....?

Grey! I still have plenty, not even a bald spot (I'm 39), but the grey ones on the sides grow at twice the rate as the colored ones (which have changed from "red" to "old squirrel"). I got a very short haircut about a month ago and the grey ones are now sticking out way beyond the colored (makes sense, those follicles have less stuff to make.)

I'll make a great Santa Claus for the kids someday.

Though most of my beard is still red (except where it's Col. Sanders white... right in the goatee area).

I still have some bright reds though... but I'm not saying where.

morelia · Post by **morelia** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:03 am

AdmiralQuality wrote:Grey! I still have plenty, not even a bald spot (I'm 39), but the grey ones on the sides grow at twice the rate as the colored ones (which have changed from "red" to "old squirrel"). I got a very short haircut about a month ago and the grey ones are now sticking out way beyond the colored (makes sense, those follicles have less stuff to make.)

I'll make a great Santa Claus for the kids someday.

Though most of my beard is still red (except where it's Col. Sanders white... right in the goatee area).

I still have some bright reds though... but I'm not saying where.

Wow, some nice images in there. At 38 I saw a few greys in the facial hair and got a bit worried. But then I caught a glimpse of the top of my head on a CCTV and it was not very good. I mean I knew I had thin hair to start with but this looked very worrying indeed. Especially being as no one else in my family has lost any hair yet. Even my 80 year old Grandfather.

It will be a while till I get the download through but I'll have a listen shortly to your tune. So that was the big chrome Morley pedal or something else?

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:08 am

morelia wrote:So that was the big chrome Morley pedal or something else?

Big, chrome, probably late 70's or early 80's vintage but I don't know for sure, belonged to my friend's friend.

But instead of a dirty pot it used a lightbulb, a curtain moved by the pedal, and a CdS cell as a variable resistor. Like my sig says, "matter doesn't"!

(Oh and by the way, you can inherit baldness from your mother's side... but I think you need a couple of bald grandmothers to do it. EDIT: Oh, wait, correction... if I remember my highschool biology right, it's women who need two balding genes to go bald but men only need one to be bald... but still, you can get latent ones from your female ancestors and manifest it when none of your recent male ancestors show it.)

morelia · Post by **morelia** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:33 am

AdmiralQuality wrote:Oh and by the way, you can inherit baldness from your mother's side... but I think you need a couple of bald grandmothers to do it. EDIT: Oh, wait, correction... if I remember my highschool biology right, it's women who need two balding genes to go bald but men only need one to be bald... but still, you can get latent ones from your female ancestors and manifest it when none of your recent male ancestors show it.

That's what I thought. My Mum's father has a full head of hair at around 86, and my late Grandfather had pretty good hair. I may be a pioneer in my gene pool.

I heard about 30 songs on the radio today and they were all worse than the song you sent. I thought it sounded pretty sweet. Nice reggae switchup. And the wah. Hard to tell because I mostly go for distorted wah sounds but I must admit that it sounded fantastic. My wife just poked her head in, asked who it was and said it sound like a very sweet song.

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:41 am

morelia wrote:I heard about 30 songs on the radio today and they were all worse than the song you sent. I thought it sounded pretty sweet. Nice reggae switchup. And the wah. Hard to tell because I mostly go for distorted wah sounds but I must admit that it sounded fantastic. My wife just poked her head in, asked who it was and said it sound like a very sweet song.

Thanks! I was just kicking myself over the bad EQ on that mix. But I'm not quite as ashamed of the songwriting. What do you think of this one? (My "Peter Gabriel song" same vintage as Camouflage, '88/89 -- though it's got Beatles and Pink Floyd breaks.

)

http://www.admiralquality.com/mp3/Words ... uality.mp3

Oh and that guitar was a 1986 Korean Squier Strat, through the Morley, through an SPX-90, and straight into the board. No amps. It's funny, the stuff I did that I'd never deem as worth-it now.

(The guitar on "Words" is the same Squire-Strat through a Boss "Heavy Metal" pedal and again, straight into the FX and board. Amazing what you could pull off before the VSTfx age if you tried, eh?)

morelia · Post by **morelia** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:47 am

AdmiralQuality wrote:Thanks! I was just kicking myself over the bad EQ on that mix. But I'm not quite as ashamed of the songwriting. What do you think of this one? (My "Peter Gabriel song")

http://www.admiralquality.com/mp3/Words ... uality.mp3

8.3mb. I'll tell you in about 40 minutes.

Seriously though that's how long till I hear. it. I'll let you know when It comes through.

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:49 am

morelia wrote:
AdmiralQuality wrote:Thanks! I was just kicking myself over the bad EQ on that mix. But I'm not quite as ashamed of the songwriting. What do you think of this one? (My "Peter Gabriel song")

http://www.admiralquality.com/mp3/Words ... uality.mp3
8.3mb. I'll tell you in about 40 minutes. Seriously though that's how long till I hear. it. I'll let you know when It comes through.

Man, and considering the data only has to go downhill to get to you.

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:00 am

Hey mor, I've been checking out your tunes too. Great stuff! "Home" in particular is giving me warm fuzzies.

Keep going!

morelia · Post by **morelia** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:06 am

AdmiralQuality wrote:Hey mor, I've been checking out your tunes too. Great stuff! "Home" in particular is giving me warm fuzzies.

Keep going!

Thanks a lot. That is my most recent and I really didn't like the vocals I did but that was a good as it was going to get. Written about my wife.

I like this tune as well, although it has a different feel to it, more serious. There is a nice pad (maybe a flute even) that seems to carry everything along but not in an overpowering way. Very pleasant listening.

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:35 am

I have a Dunlop 535 and a classic Dunlop CryBaby. I prefer the CryBaby for the classic wah sound. For whatever reasons, the frequency selector switch on the 535 doesn't allow for the classic setting. It's quite nice for some deep growling stuff, though (starts to sound more like a synth filter on the lowest setting).
I also had a Morley once but never liked it. Unfortunately, I don't remember the model name, but back then (something like 15 years ago) it seemed to be their most widespread model. It never seemed to "wah" as much as the Dunlops, but besides, I don't like the wider pedal range. Might be of great use for slower modulations, but for the typical wahwah effect (as in doing chacka-chacka rhythm guitars), the rather narrow pedal range of the Dunlops seems to cut it for me.

SpaceRat · Post by **SpaceRat** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:42 am

I own a very old VOX pedal and I like the very dense sound. It's a bit uncomfortable for its short run (very sensible on moving).
I also use a George Dennis optical one, which is quite good although less natural imho

morelia · Post by **morelia** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:43 am

Sascha Franck wrote:I have a Dunlop 535 and a classic Dunlop CryBaby. I prefer the CryBaby for the classic wah sound. For whatever reasons, the frequency selector switch on the 535 doesn't allow for the classic setting. It's quite nice for some deep growling stuff, though (starts to sound more like a synth filter on the lowest setting).

Well that's thrown a spanner in the works. Thanks though. I guess I'll have to give them a test drive in the shop tomorrow first.

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:51 am

morelia wrote:
Sascha Franck wrote:I have a Dunlop 535 and a classic Dunlop CryBaby. I prefer the CryBaby for the classic wah sound. For whatever reasons, the frequency selector switch on the 535 doesn't allow for the classic setting. It's quite nice for some deep growling stuff, though (starts to sound more like a synth filter on the lowest setting).
Well that's thrown a spanner in the works. Thanks though. I guess I'll have to give them a test drive in the shop tomorrow first.

I'd agree, get a wah that does one good sound, rather than one with a bunch of tweak controls.

Really, try the Crybaby Classic. It's pedal range is narrow, but the sound is

!!!

Wah pedals