Y2D thoughts after playing it with the band

[tommyindelaware]

Steve's personal floyd equipped guitars are floating.

Colin

f.y.i.

they are down only........

 

[Colin]

f.y.i.

they are down only........

Tommy do you have the Deep Purple DVD Total Abandon? Go to the song Perfect Strangers, Steve has one with a back route. I know that MM only sells them down only.

 

[tommyindelaware]

can't wait to see it !!!!!!!!!!!
c'mon boy.......

Well, uh, I was under UPS house arrest until noon today, but I had to leave for a meeting that lasted until 1:30. Then I rushed home for an hour for more house arrest but had to be back for a meeting at 2:45. LUCKILY, the UPS guy showed up at 2:20. I had just enough time to open the box, get an enormous whiff of "new guitar smell", pick myself up off the floor post-swoon, play about two licks, and then run out the door for my other meeting.

why am I still here? I have a new guitar to play...

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

New Morse..... Mmmmmmmmmm

 

[Junior]

f.y.i.

they are down only........

The ones you buy, yes. But apparently Morse's Floyds are floating, 'cause you can clearly see him pull the living crap out of the bar on the "Highway Star" intro.

Yes, he uses the Floyd on "Highway Star", 10000000%

 

[Colin]

Steve, does your Y2D locking trem have "Licensed under Floyd Rose Patents" written on it? I just noticed one of the new trems at NAMM has "High Stability Tremolo System" written on it.

Colin

 

[SteveB]

Steve, does your Y2D locking trem have "Licensed under Floyd Rose Patents" written on it? I just noticed one of the new trems at NAMM has "High Stability Tremolo System" written on it.
Colin

Colin,

Mine indeed says "High Stability Tremolo System".. that's why I've referred to it as a Floyd-type tremolo in one of my posts.. I'm not sure WHAT to call it!

I guess it's still a licensed Floyd.. maybe they just don't have to put his name on it..so long as the checks come thru.. y'know?

Did his patent expire?

 

[Colin]

Did his patent expire?

Is a patent like copyright, after a certain amount of time you can use it for free?

 

[Junior]

I just watched Perihelion. It's a recessed FR 100% ..can that be done to a non recessed body? Do you have to buy another bridge then? Or you just angle it differently?

 

[Robotechnology]

I am gassing for a purple Y2D bad and you're positive review is not helping Y2D's KILL!

 

[Adwex]

Colin

Hmmmm, am I nuts, or are the pickup polepieces not spaced correctly? In fact, the spacing on the single is different from the spacing on the humbucker, and neither pickup matches the string spacing. Is it the same on the hardtail?

 

[GHWelles]

Hmmmm, am I nuts, or are the pickup polepieces not spaced correctly? In fact, the spacing on the single is different from the spacing on the humbucker, and neither pickup matches the string spacing. Is it the same on the hardtail?

The humbucker spacing looks great to me and the single coil looks fine too. You could push the single coil a bit to the left if you want a more perfect alignment.

 

[Adwex]

The humbucker spacing looks great to me and the single coil looks fine too. You could push the single coil a bit to the left if you want a more perfect alignment.

Hmmm, am I seeing an optical illusion then? On the humbucker, the only 2 strings that pass directly over the center of the polepieces are the D and G. the high and low E strings pass 1 or 2 mm off-center.

The current position of the single shows the high E perfectly alligned, and the other 5 are progressively more and more off to the left. If you moved the pup to the left, then the pole for the high E would be off.

I think this is what Seymour Duncan calls "trembucker spacing"?

Anybody else see this?

 

[mbgreene]

If I remember the story correctly, the bridge pickup on the original Morse model was based on his Frankentele into which he dropped a G!bson humbucker in the bridge and moved the tele bridge pup forward (along with adding the slanted single and another humbucker. Since the the bridge bucker was actually incorrectly spaced for the telethe pole pieces were slightly off but it was the sound Steve liked and wanted to recreate. Just guessing that the same thought process went into maintaining the spacing on the Y2D. It's set up the way its set up because it sounds like he wants it to sound.

 

[Colin]

Don't forget that Morse has a Floyd, which is different than his standard bridge with the string spacing. It's still close enough to the pole pieces to be effective.

 

[Adwex]

If I remember the story correctly, the bridge pickup on the original Morse model was based on his Frankentele into which he dropped a G!bson humbucker in the bridge and moved the tele bridge pup forward (along with adding the slanted single and another humbucker. Since the the bridge bucker was actually incorrectly spaced for the telethe pole pieces were slightly off but it was the sound Steve liked and wanted to recreate. Just guessing that the same thought process went into maintaining the spacing on the Y2D. It's set up the way its set up because it sounds like he wants it to sound.

Ok, so it IS off. I thought so.

Hmmm, I'm not sure if the spacing differs between Fenders and Gibsons, I thought it differs between trems and non-trems.

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/faqdescr.shtml#trembucker

 

[beej]

In general it doesn't matter too much if the strings/polepieces aren't perfectly aligned. The strings are all sensed my one big magnetic field from the pickup.

 

[Colin]

In general it doesn't matter too much if the strings/polepieces aren't perfectly aligned. The strings are all sensed my one big magnetic field from the pickup.

We are a pedantic bunch aren't we?

 

[tommyindelaware]

In general it doesn't matter too much if the strings/polepieces aren't perfectly aligned. The strings are all sensed my one big magnetic field from the pickup.

way back when........the string spacing steve's original frankentele bridge was of gibson origination......
but...he also used fender pickups........which were not gibson spacing...so there had to be a difference in spacing appearance. but steve was alot more concerned about how they sounded ....than how they looked......

 

[mbgreene]

Ok, so it IS off. I thought so.

Hmmm, I'm not sure if the spacing differs between Fenders and Gibsons, I thought it differs between trems and non-trems.

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/faqdescr.shtml#trembucker

I found one of the earlier threads that I got the info from regarding the original Morse

Per Steve's request The bridge pickup is not F spaced. Steve has always liked the sound of "G" spaced pickups installed on his frankenstein model from the 70's.

D

F-spacing refers to Fender spacing rather than G-spacing or Gibson spacing, I believe based on the string spacing and bridges each company went with. I believe that Floyds are F spaced but that is not where the name is derived. F-spaced existed before Floyds came along.