Seymour Duncan Artist Signature YJM Fury STK-S10 Pickups
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In the following video, Guitar World's Paul Riario reviews the new Yngwie Malmsteen YJM Fury signature pickups from Seymour Duncan.
the fact that Yngwie got through 20 sets before he was happy with them certainly makes me confident theyre not gonna sound crap lol
The newer YJM stratocasters with the Seymour Duncan pickups are some incredibly versatile guitars. I was testing one out and plugged into a Fender Super Reverb, and man does it have a powerful clean sound, I took it home immediately. I was blown away at how much punch ala SRV kind of tone that it had to it. I didn't expect that sound to come from stacked single coils. I can nail some Zeppelin tones through a Bluesbreaker while rolling off the volume a little bit.
I also found that the scalloped frets take no time to get used to and after a while you don't even notice them except how easily you can bend the strings.
I was reading the comments and actually thought there was going to be a review without someone criticizing Paul.... but, no..impossible....why is there this thing against him? He's just a dude with an awesome job. You do it well Paul!
It's not Paul at all. He's awesome! It's the consistently bad tone Guitar World records for all these demos.
oh that's why? I like his playing style though.
Oh yeah so do I! They just get bad tones and Paul takes the blame unfortunately :(
+Keon Crosswell He's a great player, but he's awkward on camera and lacks charisma when he talks. In my opinion, at least.
oh ok I see
Finally a demo of a signature artist that actually sounds like how the artist will play it. Very cool Paul!
READ ON if you want Malmsteen’s early sound using these pickups. I’m by no means an expert but this is what I’ve found works best from endless tinkering with different amps! It’s a 2-3-4 rule that has worked for me with or without Marshalls.
I think the reason Yngwie’s tone sucks now (this is subjective of course), is because he’s still cranking his Marshalls with higher output pickups and it just doesn’t work. And my aim was to fix that.
Use the CRUNCH channel, crank the gain all the way up and use the following EQ settings: Bass on 2, Middle on 3, Treble on 4. Also have the presence on either 2 or 3. These settings may seem relatively low but they work because they’re all low and aren’t overshadowed by anything, just like how low output pickups work when everything is cranked!
Use an overdrive pedal (I don’t recommend his signature one from fender) such as an SD1 or a Tube Screamer with the drive all the way down, level all the way up and tone in the middle. Adjust amp volume to taste.
I’ll be astounded if you aren’t satisfied with the tone you will get. If that’s the case, you have one of the few decent amps that this rule doesn’t apply to. I’ve tried different Marshalls, Mesa, Peavey, H&K, Friedman; even an EVH worked!
Try it out!
Close your eyes and tell yourself its a set of PAFs and it is.
Wow🤯
finally guitar world nailed a good lead tone :p
Yngwie himself said he always hated his tone and should never have trusted Dimarzio when they told him they had to be that 'trebbly'.
YJM is much happier now so it seems as Seymour added some balls and bass to his version.
I run the YJM Fury's in my Rory Gallagher custom shop and I've never heard a better set. I also have Strats here with Lollar Dirty Blackface's (Eric Gales), J1 Bluebirds (Jessey Davey), and Lindy Fralin Blues Specials (with baseplates).
For blues I can't find a better pickup if you choose the right pedal and amp. I run through either my Jessey Davey Duellist pedal or Free the Tone Matt Schofield and a Blues Deluxe 3 with lower wattage tubes in the preamp.
I understand Yngwie may be making a sales pitch, but I believe him. His tone was shrill with the Dimazios. Each to their own I guess. (I do own Dimarzio Evolutions in my Jem and love Dimarzio's work also).
The Dimarzio HS-3 was an awesome pickup imo , I had it in my first guitar along with a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails ... and now I finally bought a Fender and already installed the HS-3 and about to install the YJM Fury today. HS-3 has that Alcatrazz early sound to it which is great and you can do the strings 'scratch' thing with your pick and it will (no wonder) pickup all of that easily as well.
The DiMarzios are not bad but it's hard to dial out that shrill high end. I think the HS-2, famously used by Eric Johnson, are much better. As for Duncans, they are much more well balanced. I think the Classic Stack set is phenomenal.
Wow. That's the first time I see this guy shred like this. He must've been practicing months before, for this review.
I thought Yngwie on used a 3 way pu selector
He really only uses the neck and bridge pickups, so 3 or 5 doesn't matter much.
I think they sound great. nicely buttery warm, without the muddiness.
Good distorted, but I miss that stratty clean tone for my purposes. Maybe I'll just get a bridge model...
wow!!! the neck pickup it's just beautiful
I believe the guitar is the premium Fender Custom model - 5 way position and quarter sawn neck. Beautiful guitar and great Review - Thank you Sir!!!
Awesome Paul !!..........Thanks for posting this even though it's been a long time
i don't listen to YJM.. i'm scared of him.. :(
You shouldent be.
best guitarist. still listening 20 years after getting into him. his last album sucked though. 2019
@@commentfreely5443 Unfortunately he's self produced and managed by his wife. The cut costs by using local musicians on tour and Yngwie does virtually everything himself in the studio. I miss the days when he used powerful singers and had an actual band.
I’ve been watching lots of YJM videos one thing I notice is every player that plays a scallop neck is pretty damn good just saying I’m grateful I’m in that group to a lesser degree
in this video, his guitar doesnt use straploks and has a 5-way selector switch. I have a malmsteen guitar with the new pups and it has a 3-way selector switch and it USES straploks, anyone care to explain?
Exceptional job Paul, thanx for your time. And oh yes, almost forgot... keep on rocking!
That's amazing with gain they sound a little reminiscent of a church organ. Not to mention the shredding was amazing...
I’m considering buying a set of these but can someone please demo them without the yankstien flash. I’d love to just hear the pickups in a variety of sounds.
Do not get me wrong, I have always been huge fan of YJM and I consider
him true guitar legend. But Yngwies most significant records and tunes
were played by guitars equipped with HS3 Dimarzio and that is and always
be his true signature tone.
So whoever of you YJM fans, wants YJM signature tone, you can have it only with Dimarzios.
SD Fury are interesting pups but it is not YJM signature tone, they are completely different and you can hear it clearly in this clip and also on the YJM recent records. SD Fury is created as result of trading and business, and it is OK, but it is not anyway near YJM signature sound. Not sonicaly nor historicaly. I bought SD Fury but I should have bought Dimarzios. Of course this is just my point of view.
Yngwie himself said he always hated his tone and should never have trusted Dimarzio when he told him they had to be that 'trebbly'.
YJM is much happier now so it seems as Seymour added some balls and bass to his version.
I run the YJM Fury's in my Rory Gallagher custom shop and I've never heard a better set. I also have Strats here with Lollar Dirty Blackface's (Eric Gales), J1 Bluebirds (Jessey Davey), and Lindy Fralin Blues Specials (with baseplates).
For blues I can't find a better pickup if you choose the right pedal and amp. I run through either my Jessey Davey Duellist pedal or Free the Tone Matt Schofield and a Blues Deluxe 3 with lower wattage tubes in the preamp.
I understand Yngwie may be making a sales pitch, but I believe him. His tone was shrill with the Dimazios. Each to their own I guess. (I do own Dimarzio Evolutions in my Jem and love Dimarzio's work also).
Finally guitarworld put out something interesting :)
Good playing and cool tone. Thanks for the great demo.
Loving the clean gone which is where it all starts. Tempting upgrade for my 2012 USA Strat.
I like these pickups. Nice balance
looks like the poles line up better with the string spacing on the YJMs than they do with stock Fender single coils?
the tone is perfect
why the heck isn't there a bullet truss rod? Did you mount the YJM Fury on an older Malmsteen Model?
I don't get it (sorry, begginer).. for sure this aren't humbuckers, but they don't sound like single coils, can anyone explain that to me?
Why humbuckers when "single coils" (or something that looks like it) can sound good with distortion?
They are stacked so they actually are humbuckers in a single coil size...
sounds weird... Malmsteen doesn't use the middle PU at all so what's the point of making a set of three?
@JoshW272727 and how are you sure that he is not going to change the set again?
I'm a huge Yngwie fan and have played and have owned enough stuff in my lifetime to know the difference. I just got a set of the YJM Fury pickups and was pretty dissapointed. They are very high output, around 25k each.. although the pickup had more gain they are too round. I put then in two different guitars, a Master Built 57 Custom Shop Strat and a USA Hendrix Voodoo Strat then removed them immediately. The pickups are pure upper midrange so if you have an amp like a real vintage 100 watt Marshall 4 input head that is super bright then you might like them. They simply just don't have enough top end. I kept looking down to see if my tone knobs were off. I'm putting mine up for sale. I have a very hard time even imagining that Yngwie would ever use these. They sound nothing like what he used in past. Wanna be pickups... In the past I used Dimarzio Virtual Vintage Solos. Howie Simon of Alcatrazz uses them in his 70s strats. They nail the sound way better than the YJM series..
Even with 500k volume pot?
I wonder if you actually bought them. They're not high output at all.
scald98 you want to buy mine.. I just tried them in a 69 Fender custom shop body with a Fender Yngwie Scalloped neck. They just don't have the top end. I put Dimarzio HS3s and HS4s in it. Sounds great now. But I gotta say that I do love the YJM Fury pickups dynamically. Just as with all Seymour Duncan pickups they lack top end especially in the low strings.
gtrmike - exactly !
You might of bought a knock off set and not the real deal
great review buddy. you always deliver! this answered my questions perfectly! unfortunately i will decide against the pickups in my strat, i feel like a lot of that "strat-ness" on the cleansis lost with these. cheers
Does anyone know if this is the White or Off-White pickups?
(and I don't mean the playing :b)
is it the same pickup in the neck, middle, and bridge position?
is the fretboard on this guitar scalloped?
no, theres a neck pickup (for neck and middle) a bridge pickup (for bridge... obvs)
Not that its a deal breaker, but Yngwie used a 3 selector pickup switch and not a 5 way.
That pickups is medium out put I put one of my guitar YJM Fury Neck and Middle and Trembucker from Seymour Duncan I like metal music
0:48 Paul didn't sound to happy saying "Scallop Frets." Haha
Gotta use a light touch with the fretting hand, a big adjustment for some.
the are greats pups. i have done a vid with them and the yjm100
Getting my YJM pickups soon and playing them on mah Marshall amp :D
Are the 2013 models equipted with the glossy clear coated scalloped neck as well? I've seen some with plain finish bare wood before and wouldn't have them if you gave them to me. I want the model w/clear coated neck like the one in this video. What's avail. today brand new in this strat?
pickup ad,this isnt for the guitar,go check for the aliexpress version of the yngwie malmsteen strat
paul starts playing at 1:15
What was Yngwie's reasoning for desiring 21 fretsinstead of std. 22?
I'm not sure what his exact reasoning is, but it's really damn hard to sweep in the highest frets. I usually just use them for tapping in sweeps, and he seems to favor big sweeps all over the place, rather than sweep-taps.
Fenders always came with 21 frets back then
I wonder how it sounds with other guitars (not Strats) and what difference is between Yngwie's Seymour model and his previous DiMarzio's.
Are you sure you have the pickups at the right height? I have HS-3s in my Strat and was ready to rip them out, but then I set the pole to string distance on both E strings to 0.070" (two thick guitar picks thick). Wow! My intonation is now awesome and I've got gain out the ass. I know I've set them even closer before (and it sucked), but I think this distance (and that their distance are all even now) is some kind of sweet spot. Try it before you rip them out. Mine are staying!
is that with stock strings? stock gauge?
I like that pickups is medium Output pickups I have that pickups I have Seymour Duncan YJM fury neck and middle position and Seymour Duncan Trembucker bridge position Is high output More metal I have in my fender American Standard Stratocaster because I'm a heavy metal person
Was this demo played through a YJM100? Is there any guitar peripheral out there that Malmsteen doesn't have a signature model for? A strap perhaps? A pick? Holy hell.
paul is a damn beast lol
I put these in an Affinity strat and the only thing i like about them is the bridge tone. Its great for 80's hair metal like Whitesnake. But there's not much bell tone in the neck.
the Yngwei guitar makes use of all three?
GREAT PICKUPS!!
that clean test sounds like a cross between The Call of Ktulu and the Pretender
Hang on, I thought Malmsteen's signature strat had a 3-way switch instead of 5-way??
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My YJM did not gome with straploks, but it is an older model. For the pick up selector my guess is this guitar originally had the stock HS3's in it and they just dropped in a loaded pickguard with the STK-S10's which had a 5 way switch.
In my opinion the HS3s have a better sound than these new ones. I love their airy tone. But that's personnel preference I guess.
nice guitare sound about more a overdrive sound did you used feed back ?
@Hallman88 yea it is. it's a yngwie signature, he has that on all of his strats
McFly, do you know what volume pot he uses? 250k or 500k?
On rig rundown he said he uses 250k pots.
gracias
@@johnmiller9219 no problem!
Excellent thanks
Does any one here own a scalloped fretboard? I wonder if it's radically different or similiar to a standard fretboard.
The YJM Fury Pickups is a good pickups I put one of my Stratocaster is a USA Made Strat is perfect pickups for me like I play my Heavy Metal cover
huh... thanks for explaining Paul
@warewolfguy Yes, but he didn't like how they removed the hum (stacking coils) so went to Seymour.
those pickups do sound great, but I really think they take the chimey, bluesey, fenderish sound that I personally love. I would by the guitar, but I don't think id replace my original fender pickups. Maybe it just wasn't demo'd as a fender, but as a Yngwie. no disrespect to the greatest, but how would it hold up playing some hendrix? Or maybe sultans of??
I wonder how much the scalloped neck affects the tone. sounded good to me for a humbucker
DT Hellland it doesn’t affect it at all. Especially if you’re using a maple neck
Nick Salvatore where does that logic come from?
jubjub if it was a rosewood fingerboard you could argue that you are losing the tone offered by the additional wood glued to the neck. With a maple neck it’s one piece of wood
It affects the tone. More resonant and mid range. Some guitarists are absolutely tone deaf lol.
@@andym28 do a blind comparison ;)
That pickup is gonna good to Distorion Pedal like my Metal zone and metal core
Thats great tone Paul! Whats your signal path?
@yungbubbabush did you push down hard?
@JunyaYashiki He does say G instead of J...
@berserkerfunestus I can see that. I have never played one. I can also see that you would need a very light touch, which I do not posess. I am very heavy handed.
When I saw him live he had full length body mirrors side of stage so he could gaze at himself. Amazing player, just seems to be a bit up himself. I heard he had a big fight with dimazio not giving him enough of a profile. I do agree dimazios have that something special about there tone, kinda 'air like' like a 335.
How fucking shiney is that maple fretboard!
Thank U very much Paul...!
@Guitar1sti sounds different that's all.Depends on the music you play to choose one or others.
pretty solid playing on this one
At the beginning when he said he wasn't going to be wouldn't be reviewing the guitar, I was hoping someone else would show up to take over....
In the beginning I thought he was playing The Pretender of the Foo Fighters:P
Great sounds
Can you review seymour duncan jimi hendrix....
Not good. Sounds like a squier. Were the Dimarzios this dull?
Paul, it would be nice if you had played some E A and D chords and maybe a rock riff so we could hear what the pickups sound like. I have a Legacy 3 amp but I don't play Vai music, I like that sound.
My Yngwie strat has only 3-way switch, wtf?
@JunyaYashiki really sounded like G, true. Oh and you have a great amp man! That head is one of my very favourites. EVH all the way! Cheers!
Is that axe can play jazz??
What height are the pickups set up at?
Yngwie sets his neck and bridge pickup higher than his middle pickup
Jacob Evans But how high?
the neck position is deinitely brighter and it has more warmth but tats SD quality for ya @!
@theh1n1shot Paul's setup lacks Malmsteen's vintage Marshalls, his incredibly thick picks, the DOD signature overdrive, the Eb tuning and his echo/delay stuff. Plus he's also not Yngwie....trademark vibrato and short picking arc and all that
It has a nice tone,but buying a YJM signature Strat is crazy with that crappy radius and old tremolo to that price.If you buy a De luxe Strat,and get that scalloped,you have a guitar that beat a Malmsteen any time,and to a much cheaper price.
But these pick ups actually sound nice.
@lange555 i mean that he got through 20 prototypes before he officially released them for us the public to buy :)
@asianaxeman True, but that's about it. You can't beat a HB for rich, warm, noise free distortion. The H-S-S config is, to me, the best of both worlds, and makes a guitar truely universal ;)
I would replace the stock block with big brass block if I bought this strat
Too bad if you buy the Fender Yngwie strat with the Fury's already in it, it only comes with a 3-way pickup switch. But then again Yngwie doesn't use the middle pickup so there's an extra postion even in that.
what no harmonic minor or bach ripoff licks?
@sixstringfretter I had a shit guitar and scalloped it just to see what it's like before I got my new one. I also play on 11's since I chord alot but wanted to see what it's like. Chording didn't feel right on it, but most people scallop their guitars can shred. The soloing felt good though. Though transitioning between the 2 wasn't so smooth. So I went back to a regular neck
@thompsonchd So does yours, what's the point?
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I've listen to both versions of YJM. Seymour Duncan's have more a vintage sound, cleans are way better. Dimarzio's are much better at handling gain, cleans are good. Personally I believe Malmsteen uses both, Fury set for Blues/Hendrix covers and HS set for his hits.
@Fldzpln11 Yeah, I can imagine that it would favor the shedders. I am a rythm guy myself with a heavy hand on the frets and on the pick. It doesn't sound like my kind of neck. My new Warmoth project guitar has the super jumbo fret wire, which has a scalloped feel. If you press too hard, the note will go sharp, but not that much.