Music Man Steve Morse: Pots and pickups

[stupendous silly]

I recently got a Floyded one of these, and I changed the pots to 500k. I am not fond of dark sounding guitars in general but this one was a good deal. I placed a Dimarzio AT-1 I had to the bridge because it was an unproblematic swap and also seemed like a suitably warm pickup. Now I am getting the worst bridge tone ever, thin and nasally. I might back out on the 500k pots and get a JB for the bridge maybe, or I might just try different pups. I might live with a darkish guitar if the alternative is the present type of sound. What is your experience? Thank you.

 

[Chistopher]

Re: Music Man Steve Morse: Pots and pickups

Is there hum? Your problem might be that you accidentally wired the pickup out of phase with itself. What two pickup leads did you tape together?

 

[Mincer]

Re: Music Man Steve Morse: Pots and pickups

Well, Steve's sound is sort of dark, and his pickups are really mid heavy. The poplar he uses for the body is also mid-heavy, so there ya go. I have a poplar Music Man that was all mids- I now use a Custom 5 and a Jazz, and it solved the problem.

 

[stupendous silly]

Re: Music Man Steve Morse: Pots and pickups

Is there hum? Your problem might be that you accidentally wired the pickup out of phase with itself. What two pickup leads did you tape together?

Yes I noticed increased hum, I didn't do the wiring but it is black and white taped together presently. This is not a new pickup though, and it worked well before.

 

[stupendous silly]

Re: Music Man Steve Morse: Pots and pickups

Well, Steve's sound is sort of dark, and his pickups are really mid heavy. The poplar he uses for the body is also mid-heavy, so there ya go. I have a poplar Music Man that was all mids- I now use a Custom 5 and a Jazz, and it solved the problem.

Alright I will consider Custom 5 too thanks.

 

[stupendous silly]

Re: Music Man Steve Morse: Pots and pickups

One thing maybe I should have noted, this is not a dark guitar naturally/acoustically but for the electronics. I think it is quite the contrary, That would be one concern putting a C5 with the current set up. I will do it anyway unless adviced otherwise.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Music Man Steve Morse: Pots and pickups

My particular Music Man made of poplar is a really dark guitar, so if the wood in yours isn't particularly dark (you'd have to try it with a pickup you know really well), then the C5 might not work for you.

 

[stupendous silly]

Re: Music Man Steve Morse: Pots and pickups

Is there hum? Your problem might be that you accidentally wired the pickup out of phase with itself. What two pickup leads did you tape together?

Well it turned out most of the problem was a wiring mistake, whether it is the one you noted or not, and JB in the bridge with 500k pots is doing pretty good, and I suspect AT-1 wouldn't normally sound as bad as it did either. Writing just in order not to misinform and accidentally turn people from what is a really fine guitar and pickups.