So I got to check out the Steve Morse today and the guitar blew me away. The neck felt grate, the wide range in tones where amazing, and the over all make was out standing! My only dilemma at 1st was that single coil by the neck pick up it kept getting in my way. So I had the guitar tech there lower it so I did not hit it. Problem solved! Then another problem came up. One of the toggle switches was in my strumming pattern witch I could not fix on the fly. I think I would have walked out of the store with that guitar today if I did not run into these problems. So now to my 2 questions. Has any one else have or had these problems the pick ups or the toggles getting in your way on that guitar and dose the Y2D model sound alike to the normal one? And I know I could adapt my playing to over come the problems that I where having with the guitar but I am a firm believer a guitar should just feel right without you changing your playing styles to bond with it properly.
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Grand Wazoo
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It's a signature guitar, built to Steve Morse's requirement, love it or loathe it. If anyone else found that to be a problem they wouldn't have bought it. You just have to make your own mind up, never mind what other people feel about it, you are the one that has to live with it. Just remember our brains are designed to adapt with anything, and we are always learning. I am sure if you give yourself a chance to play with it, gig it a couple of times and you'll soon adapt to it, specially if you play it standing up with the strap on where your strumming is different from when you are sitting down. Good luck
Slingy
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Not sure about the Morse exactly, but when I first went from a two pickup, to a three pickup guitar, I couldn't stand the middle pickup in my natural picking space. Now I don't even notice it.
fbecir
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Hello
I own a Steve Morse for more than 7 years and it is my main axe.
The single coils are a bit too high with the factory setup. If you watch the photos of my guitar (just click in my signature), you can see that they are worn (I'm a heavy picker and I pick every note).
In fact, Steve put the pickups very low. So, I lowered them and now there is no problem.
For the switch, I believe you need just a small adjustment in your technique. At the beginning, sometimes my pick was hitting the switch. But now, my hand "knows" (it was not a conscious learning) how to avoid it.
Now you have to see the advantages : with the Morse it is really easy to change the pickups "on the fly". Before, with my other guitars, I was playing a song always in the same configuration. With the Morse I learned how to change my pickups on the fly.
The position of the volume pot and of the tone pot is also very good. For volume swell and tone swell the Morse is perfect.
Just watch some video with Steve Morse, and you will see the cleverness of the switches and pickups configuration.
I own a Steve Morse for more than 7 years and it is my main axe.
The single coils are a bit too high with the factory setup. If you watch the photos of my guitar (just click in my signature), you can see that they are worn (I'm a heavy picker and I pick every note).
In fact, Steve put the pickups very low. So, I lowered them and now there is no problem.
For the switch, I believe you need just a small adjustment in your technique. At the beginning, sometimes my pick was hitting the switch. But now, my hand "knows" (it was not a conscious learning) how to avoid it.
Now you have to see the advantages : with the Morse it is really easy to change the pickups "on the fly". Before, with my other guitars, I was playing a song always in the same configuration. With the Morse I learned how to change my pickups on the fly.
The position of the volume pot and of the tone pot is also very good. For volume swell and tone swell the Morse is perfect.
Just watch some video with Steve Morse, and you will see the cleverness of the switches and pickups configuration.
banjoplayer
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If the 2nd singlecoil and the toggelswitch are the 2 things that doesn´t fit for you, you could try a Y2D. It doesn´t have neither the switch nor the pickup.
I didn´t try a Y2D so far, but on the forum they say it sounds very similar, maybe bit brighter or the same. I think there are several threads about that.
I didn´t try a Y2D so far, but on the forum they say it sounds very similar, maybe bit brighter or the same. I think there are several threads about that.
tommyindelaware
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a standard morse is my main axe since 1990. i too found that i was hitting the add bridge toggle alot by accident . so ......i simply losened the switch , & turned it 180 degrees so that down is off , & up is on. retighten it......& that solved it for me .
D.K.
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I've had the Morse for some years now, two, and had been thinking for a long about buying a y2d, so I've tried a couple of them. In my view, they feel very similar, and the sound difference is very sublime - if at all, the y2d is a tad brighter and hotter, the standard mellower in tone and deffinitely even more versatile.
The switching on the morse has never been a problem to me, but it looks like You should try the Y2D, as it does most of the things the old morse can, looks great and doesn't have the toggles/pickups You seem to fight against.
The switching on the morse has never been a problem to me, but it looks like You should try the Y2D, as it does most of the things the old morse can, looks great and doesn't have the toggles/pickups You seem to fight against.
I own a Y2D and an original Morse.
For me on the original Morse the switches were not a problem as I play fairly tight in to the strings.
Sound-wise my Y2D is a bit warmer sounding with a bit more bottom end, the original morse has a bit mor top-end.
The difference is only subtle but you can tell the difference.
I know this contradicts another entry already posted but even though they're made out of the same wood the tonal qualities can still differ.
My advice would be go and try some and see what suits you best, although you can squeeze a few extra sounds from the original.
For me on the original Morse the switches were not a problem as I play fairly tight in to the strings.
Sound-wise my Y2D is a bit warmer sounding with a bit more bottom end, the original morse has a bit mor top-end.
The difference is only subtle but you can tell the difference.
I know this contradicts another entry already posted but even though they're made out of the same wood the tonal qualities can still differ.
My advice would be go and try some and see what suits you best, although you can squeeze a few extra sounds from the original.
guitarman23
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Steve morse anchors, so the two way toggle does not get in the way, im not sure how your picking hand is like but i have no problem, but prob because i anchor too.... but the other option is the Smy2d witch there isn't that two way toggle so you might be better of with the y2d.
