HOLIDAY weekend SALE!!$

***Here at Gordy's Music in Ferndale, Michigan, we are so proud and grateful to receive the REVERB TOP 300 SELLERS Certificate for the second year in a row! A real honor. We want to start by thanking all of you, our customers, my partner and wife Marcia, top notch crew, and Reverb.com. We have quite a team and will strive to get this certificate year after year.*

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Here we have an almost 50 year old original Morley volume pedal in good condition.

The Morley Model VOL is a classic, heavy-duty volume pedal. It is highly regarded by musicians for its electro-optical circuitry, which replaces traditional, scratchy potentiometers with a light-dependent resistor (LDR) and shutter system for a smooth, noise-free volume sweep.

This is the Vintage 1970s "Big Box" Era model: Manufactured by Tel-Ray Electronics in Burbank, California, these legacy models feature massive, heavy-duty chrome steel chassis. They rely on an internal light bulb, a physical shutter attached to the treadle, and a light-dependent resistor (LDR) to alter the tone. Vintage units are usually easily identifiable by their permanently attached AC power cords.

Famous Users: Similar Tel-Ray era Morley volume/boost/fuzz-wah units were famously utilized by bassists like Cliff Burton and Jason Newstead of Metallica.

Technical Features & Tonal Profile

• Design: A massive, bulletproof chrome enclosure shaped like a car accelerator.
• Mechanism: It plugs directly into AC wall power (often 120V or 220V depending on the region) to power an internal light bulb. A physical curtain attached to the treadle blocks or exposes the bulb's light to an LDR to control your volume.
• Multi-Instrument Versatility: Functions exceptionally well with both electric guitars and bass guitars. It is highly prized by bassists looking to capture Cliff Burton's thunderous, aggressive rock tone.
• Indestructible Build: Built like a tank out of heavy, cold-rolled steel to survive relentless stage use.
• Tested by our technicians, works very well.
• Cosmetically: This unit is in good working condition and shows normal wear for a 50 year old pedal.

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Shop at our Reverb Store for a bunch of vintage and other products at:

https://reverb.com/shop/gordys-music

Ships fast and insured.

Pedal weighs just over 5 lbs.

Shipping weight is 10 lbs.

Shipping box dimensions: 14"x10"x8"

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IN BUSINESS for 40 YEARS!!

50 YEARS of VINTAGE EXPERIENCE!

MICHIGAN GUITAR SHOW PROMOTORS Since 1989!

Brick and mortar to the end!

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Visit out website to see the long list of celebrity musicians and groups we have met and serviced in the past 40 years. 

NOTE: Too cool. We just shipped very recently this summer a 1967 MapleGlo Rickenbacker 6-12 Converter 'comb' guitar to Billy Corigan of Smashing Pumpkins! We also then shipped a vintage 50 watt Marshall head to L.A. studio-touring guitarist extraodinaire, Michael Landau, and 2 vintage guitars to Jack White's organization down in Nashville just a few days before his 50th. birthday! mmm? Add 'The Kentucky Head Hunters' to the list, just sold Greg a cool little 50's Valco tube combo amp!

Gordy's Music has become a Detroit institution! Our shop was used as a filming location for a few films like "Miracle in Motor City" a Christmas movie on Lifetime (featuring Smoky Robinson). We've supplied gear for movies including "Bill & Ted Face The Music" with Keanu Reeves. We've got decades of celebrity customers, including recent visits from Beck, Eric Johnson, and we recently sold Billy Joel's bassist a cool Gibson SG he is in love with. One day a while back Andre 3000 and his group stopped in to browse as they were playing Masonic Temple that night and right after that we sold an old oil can Morley Wah Vibrato pedal to Credence Clearwater Revival's thee John Fogerty!

We are having and have had a lot of fun here at Gordy's Music! I was just remembering about 35 years ago a tour bus pulled up to our little shop, and who rolls right in and hangs out for an hour? Lenny Kravitz and his entire group, right about the same time I was selling many guitars to and chauffeuring around Dee Dee Ramone who had an apartment a block down from my house.