Morley Bad Horsie Wah Pedal Review
I have had this wah pedal for a little over a year and have had a chance to use it a lot. Using it for anything from funk, rock and everything in between! Completely built to Steve Vai’s specs as well!
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Let’s look at the pedal first:
The first thing I noticed about the Bad Horsie Wah pedal was how rugged and well built it is. Absolutely nothing flimsy about this piece of gear. Everything is made of solid medal and is built to last from what I can tell. Over the last year, I have stomped on the thing like crazy and it never disappointed me. The rubber feet on the bottom of the pedal kept it in place too!
The Bad Horsie Wah pedal is also a simple piece of gear. No knobs, just an input, output, indicator LED to tell you that it is on and the pedal itself. It is powered by either a 9 volt battery that can be easily inserted on the bottom or you can use a 9 volt AC adapter.
The coolest thing about the Bad Horsie Wah pedal is the fact that the pedal is spring loaded. You know how on a Dunlop Cry Baby or similar wah, you need to manually rock the pedal back and forth to get the effect you are looking for? Well, with the Bad Horsie, you just need to step down on the pedal and the spring will bring it back up for you automatically. It got a little hard to get used to at first but once I got the hang of it, it was a lot easier. The only downfall of this is that when I used a Cry Baby, I sometimes liked to put the pedal in one position and leave it there for the tone — can’t do it on this pedal unless you have a steady foot and can manually keep it in one position. My wish would be that Morley could make some kind of way to switch between spring loaded and regular.
The other thing that I like about it is the fact that it has no off/on switch. Just press down on the pedal and it engages automatically. When you are not using it, it is automatically in true bypass mode.
As far as tone goes, this thing seems to like just about any set up that you put it in. Before I tried this (and later bought it), I tried the Morley Classic Wah. The Classic Wah was an excellent pedal but seemed to not be very effective with a high gain setting. This Bad Horsie was able to sound good with all different types of guitar tones — from clean, overdriven and high-gain.
I could go on writing about the tone but the actual sound would be better. Morley has a couple cool tone examples to check out — just click here.
All in all, this is an excellent wah pedal. Since I have had this, I haven’t used any other wah!
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