Anyone has a Malmsteen strat? Tell me more!

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Inge Malmstein

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Maybe this is gonna be my next guitar (after i sold almost a dozen of other guitars...) and i'd like to know what your experiences are.
-I've heard the scalloped neck makes it not easier to play fast, but easier to grip "sure". How does this work for chords?

-How is the guitar routed? SSS? HSS?
The reason is that i would start to swapping pickups and pickguards, if i have the possibility, and that is exactly what i DON'T want to start. I did this long enough with other guitars.
Not that this is a bad thing, but then i''d be a that point where i can't stop thinking "uhm, this could be changed... how about a HSH Combo"... and so on.

-Did you replace the 3 way switch with a regular 5-way to get the pos. 2 & 4?
Or can this be achieved easy with the 3-way, if you balance between the switch between the positions, as it was done in the early days of the strat?

-Does anyone use the pickups splitted?

-about the old and the new version:
The old one has a US-Std. Tremolo, the new one has a vintage trem.
How does this work for palm muting?
I have no experience with vintage tremolo and think i'd prefer the regular US-Std. Trem.
On the other side i like the look of the bigger 70's headstock of the new one, which the old one doen't have.

-Something interesting i should now?
 
Re: Anyone has a Malmsteen strat? Tell me more!

well i dont have an Yngwie strat, but i have a scalloped neck...yes, you do play faster because you develop a very light touch (watch Yngwie play, he barely presses, and his picking hand picks nots with a very small movement. As far as chords go, with a light touch, you won't bend them out of tune.
 
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Did I just hear Malmsteen strat?? You mean one like this...
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Ive owned 2 of these & they were both built like a tank, and sounded amazing. I would suggest buying one of the newer 1s compared to the older 1s. The older 1s had a huge radius (baseball bat) neck w/ very shallow scallops, and wasn`t the most comfortable thing to play. Hell, he didnt even play them. I loved both of em immensely, but decided to buy a couple old relics instead, and had the necks scalloped by a luthier.I wouldn`t say that you have to retrain yourself to play ( lighter touch ), but it helps. Its a total preference issue with these guitars. They wont make you play faster, thats a myth imo. If anything, when your playing and looking down at the neck, it gives the illusion that the action is sky-high & may actually trick you into thinkin its to obscure to play fastly. Just my take though, if you`ve never played 1. The worst that can happen is, not liking it. Just give one a try. :)
 
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@ Zerb HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
I already saw this pic, and i know the original pic from the songbook.

@malmsteendingsbums...

How about the sound of the old and new model?
2 YJM vs HS-3 (and stock middle PU)?
Do the pickups almost sound the same? Did you split them?

Did anybody ever remove the pickguard to look how the guitar is routed?
 
Re: Anyone has a Malmsteen strat? Tell me more!

If you have a violent attack, and wish to keep it that way, stay away from that guitar.

If you wish to be fleet-of-finger, then buy it, buy it, buy it.

If you pay very, VERY close attention to your attack, your movements will soon become effortless. They MUST be, or else you'll sound like garbage. Soon after that, your fingers will have the "itch" to play faster.....should you choose to. It's all up to you.

It's not a situation where the "high" of a live show will benefit you by tapping harder or more cleanly. It's a situation whereby your fingers move from string to string with such ease & grace, that the "patient hand" is ready to accomplish MORE in the same time frame. Albeit, gracefully.
 
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It's not so much that you play faster, but you will play with greater accuracy and more control since you have a better sense of where you are between the frets, hence you'll develop a better command over faster runs.
 
Re: Anyone has a Malmsteen strat? Tell me more!

i have a scalloped fretboard on my modded strat, while it took me a while to get use to it through practicewith it and figuring out how to use it to your advantage u get a sh!t load quicker
 
Re: Anyone has a Malmsteen strat? Tell me more!

How much do the positions 2 & 4 "quack"?
Do the pickups have enough twang, or should they be splitted?
 
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I also have a guitar with a scalloped neck , it is very good , you will find out that the notes a more clearer , expecialy the high ones .

You can´t really play blues stuff on it , it sounds to clear on a scallop , if you want to do this you should also have a none scalloped one .
 
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zonniewiw said:
You can´t really play blues stuff on it , it sounds to clear on a scallop , if you want to do this you should also have a none scalloped one .
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Don't tell Ritchie Blackmore this...
 
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zonniewiw said:
I also have a guitar with a scalloped neck , it is very good , you will find out that the notes a more clearer , expecialy the high ones .

You can´t really play blues stuff on it , it sounds to clear on a scallop , if you want to do this you should also have a none scalloped one .
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For this i still have my explorer. :13:
Or my first fender strat, which has become a frankenstrat, if it's not gonna be sold next sunday.

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7329047152&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MESE:IT&rd=1
 
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Mincer said:
Don't tell Ritchie Blackmore this...
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He uses also one I know , but it just is a to clear sound to really "blues" on it. Yngwie also switches guitars to a none scalloped one when he starts freaking out on blues .
 
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