Hi guys, new here!

[BetaCAM]

Hello,

I'm Benny. I live in Israel and I'm 25 years old.

I've been visiting these forums for a while and I was impressed with the way this forum helps people and how there's so much information going on here.

I'm happy to join this forum and I hope to learn here as much as I can,
and I also joined today to the Musicman family.

I picked up a musicman Sub1 in a beautiful blue color with the vintage trem and two humbuckers. I'm so happy. I fell in love with this guitar by the first few minutes I played it and I realized I must buy this.

I love the neck! so smooth and quite fast playing, and now I know I prefer 22 fret guitars over 24... and I'm so happy to let go those Floyd Rose guitars... I owned a RG550 till now.

Anything special I need to know about setting up this guitar?
I like it as it is, the frets are simply perfect! I can't believe it... so smooth and flawless!
The neck pickup is sitting much lower than the bridge pickup, I guess that adjusting here is personal preference but any recommendations?

Also, how many conductors does the pickups have? in other words, would it be possible to do splits with a proper switch?

Thank you!

Benny K.

 

[adambilz]

I have no idea about the SUB1, but welcome to the forum!

 

[mbgreene]

Welcome,
And if you have been visiting you know

We have to see it to Believe it.

not sure about the coil tapping possibilities on a Sub, have you tried a search?

 

[BetaCAM]

Hi,

I guess a picture is worth a thousand words, I'll upload more later, but here's a small teaser


Cya!

 

[TonyEVH5150]

Nice SUB. Welcome to the forum!!

I don't know what kind of pickups they used on the SUB, wether they're 2 conductor or 4 conductor wires. I would think that you could replace the volume and tone pots with push-pull pots and wire a coil tap with that.

If you're adventurous, next time you take off the strings, unscrew the pickguard and take a look at the pickup wires. If there's 4, you're in good shape. If not, you might have to invest in 4-conductor humbuckers.

 

[Jonny Dubai]

Cool guitar mate. Glad to have more friends in the Gulf.


Cheers,


Jonny.

 

[BetaCAM]

Hi,

Thanks for the kind words!
I've searched here for a while for a post regarding the pickups, so far didn't find exactly what I wanted. I did find a cool mod suggestion someone posted here, but it's too experimental for me

Anyway, I'll post now some pics of my guitar.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/BetaCAM/Guitars/3.jpg


Cheers!

 

[Astrofreq]

Welcome to the forums, Betatron! Yeah EVH is right, next time you take off strings, check to see if the pickups are 2 or 4 wire. I've recently learned some about wiring (thanks to help from people on this forum!) and really enjoy tampering with my guitars.

What was the mod you are going to try?

 

[TonyEVH5150]

I picked up a SUB 1 this week as well. When I get home, I've got to restring it. I'll take off the pickguard and take a closer look at the wiring.

 

[BetaCAM]

The mod I referred to was discussed earlier in another thread.
this is a straight link to the mod:

http://www.guitarelectronics.com/product/WDUHH3T1103

I don't really think I need more than a simple switch to split both humbuckers simultaneously.

I had a 5 way 4 pole switch on my previous Ibanez, I still have the switch, it gave all those coil splits in parallel, which canceled hum but didn't sound quite great. I prefer the simple split humbucker sound, it sounds more natrual to me, with the hum...

I'll probably get a simple Pot with a DPDT on it.

Maybe it's just the factor of the 24 frets and the closer distance between the pickups. I did consider ordering a 3 way 4 pole switch from Dimarzio which they have a diagram for it on their web site, but that would make me install an extra push pull in order to have both humbuckers in full modes, and yet I won't have the ability to use each humbucker with split on its own.

I suppose sometimes simple is better...

TonyEVH5150, I'll be delighted to hear what's going on inside that pickguard...

 

[koogie2k]

Welcome to the Addiction!

 

[Colin]

Welcome Benny

 

[jamminjim]

the hummers in a Sub 1 are 4 wire custom wound DiMarzios, they can be split.
ask customer service for the wiring diagram and they will provide....

welcome fellow Sub 1 guitarist!

 

[robelinda2]

NICE AXE! the fretboard look so playable. nice shiny frets!

Welcome!

 

[fbecir]

Hello Benny

Welcome here. Thank you for the pictures of your guitar !
IMHO splitting a humbucker is not very useful. If you need to have a single coil sound, nothing replace a real single coil ... Besides, when you split a humbucker you have always a big difference of volume, and of course you cannot adjust your "single coil" pickup height...

 

[Eilif]

Welcome to the Addict....er.....the Obsession!

 

[eliot323]

Welcome!

You managed to get a SUB just in time, as I believe EBMM are stopping production...is that true?

 

[TonyEVH5150]

yep

Use the search function. It's under Sub1 R.I.P.

 

[super_su]

Hi Benny, I've just modded my SUB1 ( same colour as yours). I changed the pups to Seymour Duncan Distortion at neck and JB at bridge, and changed the tone pot to Dimazio push-pull pot. Now the guitar can be used either as all humbucking mode or all single coil mode. I think I like it ( haven't got used to it yet!) and now is as versatile as my Super Sport.The important thing is no drilling, and can be changed back to original.Cheers.

 

[GuitarHack]

Welcome aboard...nice axe!