Tel-Ray Electronics Morley Oil Can Delay Pedal Model Echo Effect, c. 1966, made in Los Angeles, serial # 16351, black crinkle enamel finish. This appears to be a rare prototype of one of the strangest effects pedals ever built. To the uninitiated, this looks simply to be a volume pedal with an overly large box tacked onto the end of it. That large box is what makes the Morley Rotating Sound Oil Can Echo one of a kind, contained within are an oil can and a motor. The oil can houses read and write heads which transfer the recorded input signal by means of an electrically charged oil. The motor speed is shifted by means of a pulley system, the lever end of which protrudes from out of the box. The intensity of the effect is controlled by a potentiometer on the left hand side of the footpedal. It unique sound is an echo that is at once deep, warm, warbly and downright strange. Although it is much more of an echo than delay, The EVO-1 was Morley's contribution to the world of delay inspired effects. This crude version does not feature Morley's signature chrome chassis, but is of sturdy construction and performs reliably.
Height is 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm.), 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm.) width, and 17 in. (43.2 cm.) in depth at deepest point.
