Singlecoils on the old Morse

[Jochen]

Is one of the singlecoils on the 'old' Morse RWRP? If so, which?

Thanks for your help!
Jochen

 

[Colin]

Is one of the singlecoils on the 'old' Morse RWRP? If so, which?

Could you tell me what RWRP means please?

 

[Jochen]

It's Reverse Wound Reverse Polarity. I think it's quite normal for strat middle pickups to get this 'airy' sound. I think about changing the singles on my Morse and I would like to know which one of them, if any, should be 'RWRP'.

Jochen

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

RWRP is normally only used on a strat middle pickup so positions 2 and 4 are hum cancelling.

 

[tommyindelaware]

It's Reverse Wound Reverse Polarity. I think it's quite normal for strat middle pickups to get this 'airy' sound. I think about changing the singles on my Morse and I would like to know which one of them, if any, should be 'RWRP'.

Jochen

there is no industry standard for polarity .it can vary from brand to brand. if u are replacing both single coils......then the polarity of the pickups in there now is not important.u just wanna be sure to get a new set that does contain one rwrp. i'd stay with one manufacturer to be safe as far as polarity goes. there are ALOT of really good pickups being made these days.some of them are even as good as the ones that are already in there.(there is also a whole lot of stupid redundent bull**** voodoo ones) i've swapped them out in dozens of standard morse guitars........& more often than not my customers end up putting back the originals. in my opinion there are very few...if any...... that are better.
for versitility........ that standard morse geetar rules !!!!!!

 

[Colin]

Well said Tommy, and it's 100% accurate kiddies

 

[Luiz Gustavo]

I like them a lot (originals)

And I'm not a big fan of single coil pickups

 

[Colin]

I don't know how many times I've said this, but the Morse single coils are it's secret weapon

 

[beej]

It's Reverse Wound Reverse Polarity. I think it's quite normal for strat middle pickups to get this 'airy' sound.

That's not what gets you the 'quack' or 'airy' sound - you get that by having two single coils wired in parallel, at a short distance from each other.

Middle pickups are reverse wound (relative to the other pickups in the guitar) for the noise-cancelling properties, so that when wired up the hum from each is subtracted. Same principle applies to humbuckers except that they're usually wired in series and not parallel.

+1 on what everybody has said on the Morse singles- they sound fantastic. You can also get a nice plucky sound with the two single coils together. (However there is some hum there.)