Can you get Strat-like bridge pickup tones from the Steve Morse sig model?

[doubleR]

I've been looking seriously at that guitar. I play in a classic rock cover band, and we do everything from the Beatles to Led Zeppelin. I'm tired of always changing back and forth from my Strat to my Les Paul depending on what song we're doing, and the Steve Morse model seems like it was made for people like me.

However, since no retailers carry it, I'd have to order it from the internet, without having a chance to play it first. One thing I noticed is on a Strat the bridge PU is very close to the bridge, where on the Morse the bridge single coil is farther away, more where the mid PU would be on a Strat.

One of my favorite single-coil sounds is that bright, biting bridge PU position on my Strat. Could the Morse guitar emulate that type of sound?

thanks!

 

[mhorse]

You can't split bridge humbucker if that's what you're looking for... can't speak to the possibility of getting that sound otherwise.

 

[doubleR]

You can't split bridge humbucker if that's what you're looking for... can't speak to the possibility of getting that sound otherwise.

I realize that. I was just wondering how the bridge single coil sounds, since it's more in a mid-range position as opposed to directly next to the bridge.

 

[tommyindelaware]

i use the single coil that is right next to the bridge humbucker alot.........it's nice & twangy w/o being too skinny.
plus....if you lower it alot......it will get real thin like a strat bridge single.
i been playin a morse since 1990........& playing them alot........& i still LOVE em !!!!!!!!! it's the most verstile guitar iv'e ever found in 40+ years of playing.........

I've been looking seriously at that guitar. I play in a classic rock cover band, and we do everything from the Beatles to Led Zeppelin. I'm tired of always changing back and forth from my Strat to my Les Paul depending on what song we're doing, and the Steve Morse model seems like it was made for people like me.

However, since no retailers carry it, I'd have to order it from the internet, without having a chance to play it first. One thing I noticed is on a Strat the bridge PU is very close to the bridge, where on the Morse the bridge single coil is farther away, more where the mid PU would be on a Strat.

One of my favorite single-coil sounds is that bright, biting bridge PU position on my Strat. Could the Morse guitar emulate that type of sound?

thanks!

 

[beej]

You can't split bridge humbucker if that's what you're looking for... can't speak to the possibility of getting that sound otherwise.

I've added a toggle swith to mine to split the bridge. It's a three way toggle that does series / split / parallel for both the neck and bridge humbuckers. (Yeah ... like it needed really another switch ....)

With the bridge split and the slanted pickup added in, you get very close to that quacky strat sound. I actually use it quite a bit. The split or parallel brige pickup on it's own also sounds great.

That said ... like Tommy I love the straight single coil on it's own- it's got such a great twangy sound.

 

[tommyindelaware]

I've added a toggle swith to mine to split the bridge. It's a three way toggle that does series / split / parallel for both the neck and bridge humbuckers. (Yeah ... like it needed really another switch ....)

With the bridge split and the slanted pickup added in, you get very close to that quacky strat sound. I actually use it quite a bit. The split or parallel brige pickup on it's own also sounds great.

That said ... like Tommy I love the straight single coil on it's own- it's got such a great twangy sound.

i was VERY pleasantly suprised the first time heard that pickup split !!!!!! more tele like than strat to me . VERY useful !!!!!