Steve Morse Larry DiMarzio Interview

@jhop5150 Petrucci said Morse is his all time fav guitar player ;)

1:20 i learned it from petrucci almost unconsciously.... and now i know from who he learned too. So, bottom line, i´m a Steve Morse´s student :D :D:D

I recently bought a Y2D Morse. Love it. The pickups are perfectly voiced to the guitar. Just so happens that I use a Morse ENGL.....not sure why but they all work well together.

Idk why but he reminds me of ted nugent & john mccain, sorry I'll go kick my ass now...

@trashedlostandhungry errr he was not influenced by petrucci petrucci was influenced by him

Thanks for this video! Love Steve Morse. Great player. Great guy.

although Petrucci is Morses student, i think that Petrucci's picking technic is superior than the masters, by faaar

hi larry...i need your recomend for my guitar project, i wanna make a guitar with mahogany for warm tone and great sustain, rosewood fret board...i wanna have configuration like H-S-S, in bridge with creamy sound, middle and fat, middle pickup for clean, and neck pickup that has glassy tone with the treble...which pickup should i use???...

@roboteko You didn't mention whether you prefer true single-coils or humcancelling pickups in the neck and middle positions. Please email us at [email protected] with this information.

@DANizDAN Hi, Thanks for your interest. We designed all our straps with different materials. We use nylon (the same as the seat belt in your car), cotton, codura ( like nylon but doesn't slide as much) and leather. They all feel different. I don't use polypropylene that's the cheap pawn shop stuff. Musician's Friend has the largest on line selection of DiMarzio straps. Hope that helps, Larry DiMarzio

@DANizDAN Sorry, they are 2" wide. All the best, Larry DiMarzio

Larry, I have a SMY2 and am delighted with it in all but one respect. The ergonomics and neck are phenomenal , the purple burst and matching headstock and beautiful, the heft and hew perfect, the balance of frequencies perfect as well as the versatility of the positions; a whole arsenal of weaponry in one instrument...my only reservation is that I find the initial frequency 'attack' a little bit more dull than my other gits; PRS custom 22, LesPaul VOS, Strat relic 56 and Nik Huber Orca. Thanks!

dear larry i have an ibanez 2550z with 3 pups (humbucker in bridge/neck, single coil in the middle) that are labled dimarzio/ibz and i was wondering if they were custom pups or the tone zone/true velvet/air norton set. Thanks in advance

@ottozing The pickups in the RG2550 were specifically designed for Ibanez. The neck pickup is fairly bright-sounding, similar to a Super 2. The bridge pickup is a little louder and warmer-sounding, and resembles a cross between the Steve Morse bridge model and the Super Distortion. The middle pickup is not similar to any of our standard single-coils, but it has some resemblance to an HS-2 in single-coil mode.

Larry, I have an Ibanez guitar tuned down a full step. This guitar has a mahogany body which makes it sound kind of dark (too dark and muddy for my taste). Which of your high output (or even medium output) pickups would sound best in a mahogany body guitar?

@raskolnikov1873 EMail us at [email protected] and tell us the exact Ibanez model you have. This info is necessary to answer your question.

how does that bridge pickup work? its like one bigass humbucker or 1 humbucker with an attached sngle coil?

did he just call his custom build tele, a frankenstein guitar?

John Petrucci better...

@raskolnikov1873 If you're interested in a bridge pickup, an F-spaced D Activator bridge model should work.

@turockandar You might try playing with the heigh adjustment of the pickups. Moving them further from the strings might open up the sound a bit.

@renagade12 The D Activator bridge model and the Evolution bridge model have similar output levels to the Super, and they are both a bit tighter & brighter, so either might be able to solve the problem..

@LarryDiMarzio Thanks a lot for replaying and thanks for making such a beautiful instrument:)

Hi Larry, I love Steve's neck pickup sound, really smooth and singing. And I saw on MusicMan website that he use 250kohm pot on his guitars. If I use 500kohm, still the DP205 sing smoothly? Or if I use 250kohm, could I lost natural bitting and scream on my old bridge pickup?

@MystFanfare You will probably do best with 500K controls. The DP205 is very warm-sounding and will still be smooth with 500K.

@LarryDiMarzio Thank you Larry! You have great sounding pickup and great customer support also. DiMarzio is the way to go.

@MikeyZnuff The Air Zone is actually a much warmer-sounding pickup than the Air Classic, but I think there should still be a noticeable difference between the two positions with a clean amp setting. With a very overdriven amp setting, there may not be a large difference between the 2 positions. I don't think this indicates anything is wrong.

@MikeyZnuff The 36th Anniversary PAF (DP103) is a bit warmer. An Air Classic bridge model (DP191) will also be a little warmer and louder than the Air Classic neck model, and can be used in the neck position.

@ProGuitarist1993 You could try a LiquiFire in the neck, Red Velvet in the middle and an AT-1 in the bridge.

"My relationship with Music Man began over 23 years ago..which is odd because im 21 now" i love this guy.

If any of yo knows... a pickup selector with a sticker "YM-50" on it, is it possible that it pertains to an 80's japanish stratocaster? Thanks

6:00 what song????

Hey Larry :) Im interested in picking up the DP100 Super distortion and was wondering which neck pickup would compliment it best. Thanks

@CanadianKryptonite It is impossible to answer your question without knowing what type of guitar you have and what type of sound you are looking for. We can offer useful recommendations if you will email this info to [email protected]

What is the name of the song played at the very beginning?

i love steve we have same style of holding the pick

Hey Larry. I've owned probably forty DiMarzio pickups installed in various guitars since the very earliest days when they were available (I know.....it's a sickness) and I have loved every single one. I still have some HS-1 and Super 2 pickups, but I have to say that the best ever is a tie between the old early 80's Distortion and Super Distorion humbuckers. They had the widest clean tonal range of any humbuckers I ever used, and of course they distorted beautifully. Thanks for existing!

Thanks for your kind words. I wish you a Happy and healthy New Year. All the best, Larry DiMarzio

This guy has mojo....

Passion meets the fretboard! 

hi Larry I am looking to Frankenstein my strat a bit and have ordered 2 single coil hS3 pick ups to achieve that brown sound and I'm looking to bring some randy rhoads tone to my humbucker and I understand the paf 36th anniversary will do me justice. .any thoughts would be great!

I keep coming over and over again to see this video... thank you larry

Just noticed that theres a switch just below the neck humbucker and the single coil on steve's guitar. I know its not the pickup selector switch. Any idea what this is because its not on the Y2D that can be bought from any guitar shop.

This was about the time when the cartilage degenerating in his right wrist (bone on bone) started to affect him. After almost 50 years of playing, it forced him to change from his earlier anchored "rolling" style of picking to more of a stiff wrist. Compare his technical ability of the 70s until about this time (especially today) and you will have an appreciation of how he had to learn a different technique and plays through the pain. I saw the Dregs several times in the late 70s/early 80s. Incredible!

When the best guitar player ever is talcking and gives some advices...More he makes the demo of his fabulous second Ernie Ball Musicman Signature Model....Steve is a great human being but a part of him is cybernetich ! How to play as so well as him ?...Even working all days and nights it's impossible to get his inspirations anyway......

When hearing Steve play off the cuff like this, it becomes easy to see just how much this man influenced Steve Vai and other musicians like him. Every time I listen to a Satch or Vai track, I can definitely hear a little Steve Morse in there, no matter what song I'm listening to.

I played practically every Dimarzio pickup ever made over my years of playing but for some reason NEVER tried the Steve Morse bridge model. Recently I wrote Dimarzio explaining what I was looking for out of a pickup explaining I like a pickup that has it’s focus on the midrange without being nasally and they steered me toward the Steve Morse model. THANK YOU DIMARZIO!! This thing gets as heavy as you want and absolutely sings for solos. Well duh! If the great Steve Morse uses it, you know it’s gotta be awesome!

I'm a fan!

I have a Steve Morse set. It's absolutely awesome. Very powerful! Great tone and harmonics and also very earthy sounding.