New Morse

[puppiesonacid]

What's up with the missing slanted single coil upper middle position pickup on the 20th anniversery model? the guitar looks great except for that missing component. what was the reason for the change? JW


God bless,


Tony

 

[slukather]

What's up with the missing slanted single coil upper middle position pickup on the 20th anniversery model? the guitar looks great except for that missing component. what was the reason for the change? JW


God bless,


Tony

Ask Steve Morse l guess, maybe he didn't want it or didn't use it, it looks like a kick a$$ guitar anyway.

Scott.

 

[brentrocks]

i have always been kinda fasinated by his EBMM. it looks like a very versitle guitar. can you get it w/ a floyd?

are they still available in the 3 p/u configuration?

how much are they?

 

[slukather]

i have always been kinda fasinated by his EBMM. it looks like a very versitle guitar. can you get it w/ a floyd?

are they still available in the 3 p/u configuration?

how much are they?

The original has 4 pickups, 11 different combinations, l think you can get them with a floyd. How much?? l dun know.

Scott.

 

[edensdad]

I never understood the switching on the old one - I tried one - and then I looked at the diagram and still didn't get it. I think with that many pickups the best way to manage them would be to have 4 three way toggles - one for each pickup - On, Split and Off. I guess I'm more of an uncluttered sort of guys - I like my JPs simplicity. The new maple tops sure are purdy, though.

 

[SteveB]

What's up with the missing slanted single coil upper middle position pickup on the 20th anniversery model? the guitar looks great except for that missing component. what was the reason for the change? JW

Tony,

I don't know the 'why' of the change, but look where the middle pickup is.. it is *not* centered between the other 2 pickups. It is decidedly closer to the bridge. Perhaps this placement let Steve get all the tones he wanted without needing the 4th pickup.

Or, maybe they just tweaked it because it's a new model guitar altogether.

 

[tommyindelaware]

one of my students has a morse......i rewired it for him (after he put a gun to my head) to this...
lever = bridge hum-neck single-neck hum
the forward toggle still adds the bridge.....although i turned it upside down so that when he keeps banging it down while strumming........it's not on accidentally.
the other toggle now adds......or solo's the tele pickup....
oddly enough..when i play his guitar...i get confused..cause i been playin a normal wired morse since 1990.
i think beej has one where the add bridge toggle instead takes one of the coils in the bridge to ground....splitting the bridge hummer.is it still that way ?????

I never understood the switching on the old one - I tried one - and then I looked at the diagram and still didn't get it. I think with that many pickups the best way to manage them would be to have 4 three way toggles - one for each pickup - On, Split and Off. I guess I'm more of an uncluttered sort of guys - I like my JPs simplicity. The new maple tops sure are purdy, though.

 

[slukather]

one of my students has a morse......i rewired it for him (after he put a gun to my head) to this...
lever = bridge hum-neck single-neck hum
the forward toggle still adds the bridge.....although i turned it upside down so that when he keeps banging it down while strumming........it's not on accidentally.
the other toggle now adds......or solo's the tele pickup....
oddly enough..when i play his guitar...i get confused..cause i been playin a normal wired morse since 1990.
i think beej has one where the add bridge toggle instead takes one of the coils in the bridge to ground....splitting the bridge hummer.is it still that way ?????

It must of been fun wiring a guitar like that (YEAH RIGHT!!!)

How did you go with learning what switch did what and remembering what switch went where etc so on and so forth?????

Scott.

 

[tommyindelaware]

took basic electronics in high school......that , wood shop , and music were the only a's i ever got .

 

[kbaim]

Interesting to have seen Steve play another electric last month after all these years. It looked fantastic and sounded great. But of the 25 or so songs he played during the evening he used it on only 3!

One night he only used it on only 1.

I have no inside info, but I'm guessing that he'll use it way more (perhaps exclusively) when he tours with Deep Purple, though I'm not sure about recording.

I think with his own stuff, he may just prefer and require the additional tones of the slanted.

As for why the new axe? I think it was more of a bidness move. Many potential guitar buyers are probably scared off and rightly a little confused with so many pickups/so many levers. Add to that you can't find them to test out and you have an extremely versatile guitar, over a grand, that Einstein would have trouble figuring out, let alone drug users in their teens and 20's

Don't know how many of the new ones eb will sell, but my hunch is it'll be many more than the original on an annual basis. Perhaps 20X or more. Just a guess, but stunning, plus simpler, plus a little marketing (cross your fingers) equals better sales.

KEITH

 

[beej]

(Just back from the UK ... spending a lot of time catching up on this board!)

> i think beej has one where the add bridge toggle instead takes one of the coils in
> the bridge to ground....splitting the bridge hummer.is it still that way ?????

Thanks Tommy! It was like that when I bought it, but then I wired it back up normally and put in a push/pull pot to split the bridge hummer. Guess I like Steve's complicated switching scheme- it makes sense to me

I'm planning to put in *another* toggle switch in this guitar, just below the pots. An on/on/on 4PDT so I can switch both humbuckers to series/split/parallel. I've got this in my home made HSH strat and love it!!!!

HB in parallel mode gives you a decent single coil sound and is still humbucking. With this and the slanted strat single coil you can get a good strat sound out of the Morse.

 

[brentrocks]

can you still get the old pickup configuration from the factory???

 

[OrangeChannel]

the old morse signature still exists....so yes you can....

I find it odd that nobody commented on this being a 22 Fret instrument as opposed to a 24...

 

[SteveB]

I find it odd that nobody commented on this being a 22 Fret instrument as opposed to a 24...

Maybe after 20 years of playing EBMM guitars, Steve has transcended the need for the 2nd octave?

 

[OrangeChannel]

Well, the Tele was a 21 fretter....

 

[Colin]

the old morse signature still exists....so yes you can....

I find it odd that nobody commented on this being a 22 Fret instrument as opposed to a 24...

Since when has the Morse had 24 frets?

 

[OrangeChannel]

Wow.

I'm off my marks...that NEVER happens. Damned flu....I've been wavering in and out of consciousness for thelast few days...I goofed when I made that post. There goes the quality factor....hahahahahaha. My Silo's been on my mind alot since I might send it back for a fret job..I'm guessing thats where I made the mistake, that and the pics of the Morse Blue Silo with the floyd and the SS config.