Advice for silent single coil replacements in an EBMM Morse

[Peko]

Hello All,

Well, I am almost finished with the pickup mods on my EBMM Morse. I switched the stock DiMarzio Morse bridge humbucker out for a SD Screamin' Demon and love the results. Not only am I pleased with this forum's suggestion to use 250k pots but I discovered that the Demon and Morse neck model match up nicely. I chose the Demon because the guitar is inherently dark sounding and when combined with the DiMarzio Morse bridge model I was left with a very mid heavy sound. The Demon solved that problem.

Now I am looking to swap out the two single coils for hum canceling ones and would like some suggestions. If you are not familiar with this guitar, my avatar shows the layout of the pickups. I was thinking about using a Duckbucker for the single closest to the bridge because I like using the combination of the bridge humbucker and single coil. As for the other single I have no idea, DiMarzio techs recommended I use an Area 67.

I just dropped an email to the Duncan techs so I am awaiting their response.

Any suggestions would be appreciated,

Rich

 

[SwedishHumbucker]

Re: Advice for silent single coil replacements in an EBMM Morse

What kind of sound do you want from a single coil in your guitar other than hum-cancelling?

 

[jeremy]

Re: Advice for silent single coil replacements in an EBMM Morse

yes, what are you looking for from those two pups?

duncan just came out with a handful of really cool sounding noisecancelling strat pups so there are lots of flavors to choose from. the classic stack + is great and very vintage sounding and they now have lots of new models to choose from that bring any where from a little to alot more fire power

 

[baritone]

Re: Advice for silent single coil replacements in an EBMM Morse

I have a Duckbucker in the middle position of one of my guitars. It is now my favorite single coil sound. Super low DC resistance with a small ceramic magnet give great treble response.

 

[Peko]

Re: Advice for silent single coil replacements in an EBMM Morse

Thanks guys, sorry I should have mentioned what sound I was after in my original post.

I like to combine the Demon and single coil closest to the bridge together, the sound gets a little thicker and allows a good rhythm sound with the ability to switch to just the Demon for leads. Some of the info I have found out about the stock single is that it was modeled after a neck single coil from Morse's old guitar but I'm not positive. I'm going to use it in combination with the Demon so.....

For the middle single coil I want something similar to the Van Zandt Blues. I know that's asking a lot from a noiseless single coil but that's what I'm after.

Any help is appreciated,

Rich

 

[SwedishHumbucker]

Re: Advice for silent single coil replacements in an EBMM Morse

Maybe a duckbucker like baritone has?
Or maybe they will be to bright together demon and duckbucker.

This is just a thought but how about a true single coil with alnico 2 magnet?
The single coil would be warmin up your guitar real good and then hopefully the demon will provide some bite to it
I´m not sure it will turne out that way..

 

[Peko]

Re: Advice for silent single coil replacements in an EBMM Morse

Maybe a duckbucker like baritone has?
Or maybe they will be to bright together demon and duckbucker.

This is just a thought but how about a true single coil with alnico 2 magnet?
The single coil would be warmin up your guitar real good and then hopefully the demon will provide some bite to it
I´m not sure it will turne out that way..

The duckbucker combo does sound interesting but you may be right that it could end up being too bright.

As for anything with a alnico 2, I'm just wondering if the 250k pots combined with an already dark sounding instrument would be too much.

I would really like to scoop up one of the EBMM Silent Circuits and then I could just grab a pair of Van Zandts and be done.

 

[uOpt]

Re: Advice for silent single coil replacements in an EBMM Morse

You have to be a little careful with Stacks in there.

A hum-canceling stack works by having a blind coil without a magnet, or rather, without a magnetic field. The real coil has short magnet that don't extend to the lower coil and there is MU metal in between (magnetic insulation).

In the MM Steve Morse model the single coil slots are right next to the humbuckers. So the magnetic field is halfway joined. That messes with the sound in any situation. But if you use stacks then you might run into the very specific problem that the humbucker's magnetic field gives the blind coil "life" it is not supposed to have.