Anyone tried the YJM Fury pickup yet?

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jimlp said:
I wasn't banging on Duncan, unless Yngwie had some personal problem with Dimarzio there would be no reason to leave just to get a quality pickup made as they make Fantastic noiseless pickups already. Just because Yngwie was looking for the highest bidder doesn't make Duncan a bad guy, if he was having problems with Dimarzio and left for other reasons then that is a different story.
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Maybe Yngwie tried some Duncans and experienced an intense occurrence of what I call brand lust. Let's say there was nothing wrong with the DiMarzios per se; I have YJMs and an HS-3, and they're fine pickups. But maybe he got a taste of the Seymour Duncan magic and wanted to find out what they could do for his kind of pickup and his sound. Maybe he kind of fell in love with the company and decided he wanted his next pickups to be Duncans.

I've experienced this myself. I love Gibson's Burstbuckers, and I love Duncans. I wonder what Seymour's take on the Burstbucker would sound like. I'd spend a lot of money if the Custom Shop would make them. I love my Ibanez RG270DX, and I love USA Jacksons. I wonder what it would be like if Jackson reincarnated that guitar as a Custom Shop Jackson.
 
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i really have to question the intellect of individuals who use this forum to gain knowledge and insight into pickup design and manufacture (among other things) and then turn around and attack the very people who made this possible.

if this forum had arms, she'd smack you across the face.

EDIT - :laugh2:
 
Re: Anyone tried the YJM Fury pickup yet?

Wasn't this thread asking if anyone's tried them , not " lets all start yet another stupid, childish and pointless argument " ???

Has anyone tried them or not ?

If not, I'd ask the thread starter to delete the entire thing to avoid any more " pissing contests " and start a new thread from fresh.
 
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isn't the tag line to the current dimarzio pickup ads "the best players use the best pickups"? and why is anyone surprised that in the US, ads tend to hype a product? i see it as normal.
 
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Dr. Jimmy said:
So has anyone actually tried these????? How do they sound?
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On topic, huh? Either way, cheers Evan for sharing. It would be really interesting to have that level of development behind my own pickup :) I'll just be happy with my Invader ;)
 
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I think Evan and Frank have handled this with the most class. well done gentlemen. Evan, thanks to your post, i have an entirely different view of yngwie. one that i am now sure he deserves, instead of the commonly held view of him. btw, i am not a fan of his music but i appreciate evan's and frank's handling of this discussion. again, well done gentlemen.
 
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I put a set in recently. It's an Xaviere "Strat" from Guitarfetish. I have it set up with 3 DPDT toggle switches instead of the standard 5-way. Each toggle controls one pick-up with up bing full hum, center off, down 'tapped'.

I haven't played it too much yet to have a full perspective but my intitial impressions are they are quite good. They didn't seem nearly as hot as the specs indicate. If they are then they are quite smooth. There's definately a modern voicing to them but there's just enough of that vintage character to remind you it's a Strat you're playing.
 
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sbecker67 said:
I put a set in recently. It's an Xaviere "Strat" from Guitarfetish. I have it set up with 3 DPDT toggle switches instead of the standard 5-way. Each toggle controls one pick-up with up bing full hum, center off, down 'tapped'.

I haven't played it too much yet to have a full perspective but my intitial impressions are they are quite good. They didn't seem nearly as hot as the specs indicate. If they are then they are quite smooth. There's definately a modern voicing to them but there's just enough of that vintage character to remind you it's a Strat you're playing.
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With the Dimarzios, YJM middle and neck and HS-3 in the bridge, I always found that the bridge is noticeably thinner. I couldn't find a balance there with rig settings that would allow fast switching, unless I have gain to kingdom come.

How are the Duncans?
 
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uOpt said:
With the Dimarzios, YJM middle and neck and HS-3 in the bridge, I always found that the bridge is noticeably thinner. I couldn't find a balance there with rig settings that would allow fast switching, unless I have gain to kingdom come.

How are the Duncans?
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I use HS-3 in the neck and bridge (ssl-1 middle) and the " strat balance" is there.. i like both positions balanced but still different sounding a la hendrix, blackmore and former HS-3 users jon norum and yjm. what always works best for me is having the same pickup in the bridge and neck

 
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A couple things. I must applaud Evan and Frank for putting up with what I consider to be good, honest points falling on deaf ears.

I never really care about the personal lives of musicians... I mean, should we go into how Jimi Hendrix treated his girlfriends or John Lennon's violent nature to his? Of course not. I like Yngwie and for some odd reason, despite his technicality, his style seems more approachable and possible than, say, Paul Gilbert who frustrates me even when he tries to slow down to show something and I think his tone is terrible. But Paul seems a less arrogant guy and Mr. Malmsteen... but again I don't really care about personalities of people whom are here on Earth to entertain us with an instrument.

That said, and the people in this forum should know more than anybody, that TONE is a process. It takes YEARS of fiddling, messing around and tweaking to get what you want and even then, it continues to evolve. Think of Edward Van Halen... how many tones has he had over the years? How many pickups, guitars and amps has he used? I would imagine his working with SD to do the Frankie pup was an interesting story that I'd like to hear as well. Frank? Evan? ;) Everybody here knows that pickups are an alchemic/mechanic/electromagnetic circuit and the process of making them is an art as well as a science. I don't even work for SD and I was offended by UBD's post because he of all people should know the mojo and variances (however slight and subtle) can occur depending on wind, magnet and other factors.

I'd definitely like a YJM in the neck of a Strat for sure! I love the "violin" tones he gets and that is something I'd be interested in and being a fan of Yngwie, I DEFINITELY have noticed a difference in tone since he switched to SD... not so much better but different.
 
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Come on people. We all like music and gitars and no one has one favorite song. So at the end I don't have a single favorite guitar player and a favorite guitar sound. Thaht is why we look for different options that we feel each vendor can satisfy. I am not an expert but I personally belive that if you take away the vintage sound options from both SD and DM catalgos then you get two complete different tone directions out of each brand and that is what I really love at the end of the day.

One last word about the "YJM Fury SD forum incident". emails and blogs are a great tool to share infor but some times could not the best way to have a real conversation and I belive that this was another example of that. Don't take emoticons too serius guys !!! :friday:

Thanks for your comments Frank and Evan!! That is what I love about the SD forum, input from the real SD staff.
 
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I actually have a set of these in one of my Strats now. I like them, though I have to say I like the neck/middle pickup a lot more than the bridge pickup. I think it's great that the bridge pickup has a different personality than the neck, but I find it a little difficult to dial-in. I think I'll get there though. The neck pickup is a thing of beauty and can nail Yngwie's tones with ease. The bridge pickup has a raw side to it, which is probably what Yngwie wants. I prefer it a bit smoother though. I suppose I should make some recordings and post them. I'll try to get some time to do that.
 
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Evan Skopp said:
Not only was he was dialing in the tone, but also the feel. Put tone aside for a moment. He was very specific about the way the pickup needed to behave under his fingers. He wanted his picked notes and his hammer-ons and pull-offs to sound nearly identical. He had never before dealt with that challenge in pickup design. He has a style that he calls "legato-staccato," and it has to sound the same above and below the 12th fret. That was something he didn't have in his previous pickups, but we were able to dial it in.
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Great point Evan. This is something I mention a lot: the FEEL of a pickup and the way one's TOUCH influences the tone. It's a matter of the left hand and right hand working together to shape the tones that the player is looking for, and some pickups allow me to get that and some do not.

It's probably different for every accomplished player and it's a combination of everything: guitar, strings, frets, pickups, effects (if you use 'em - I don't), amp, speaker...and the player her or him self.

But electrically speaking (after the guitar, frets, string choice are dialed) it's the pickup that really gives the tone its personality and starts the audio signal rolling down the guitar cord and into the amp. Some pickups let me shape the tone I like with my hands better than others - and I have Seymour's pickups in most of my favorite electric guitars for that reason.

I have Dimarzios in none. Just never connected with Dimarzios and I've tried to like a lot of them. Just couldn't coax my tone out of any Dimarzios that I've ever owned.

I've found that it's more likely that Duncans will give me the feel under my fingers that I'm looking for more often than most other brands.

For me, there's something old school and familiar in all of favorite Duncans - even those that have a more modern sound.
 
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I'm curious as to how a YJM Fury neck model would match with a humbucker in the bridge in say, an S/H configuration...I have an older STK-S1N poised to go in my new (re)build, but I also have a Dimarzio Virtual Vintage Heavy Blues lying around I haven't tried yet...but after seeing this thread I started wondering about the Fury. :scratchch
 
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SMark said:
I actually have a set of these in one of my Strats now. I like them, though I have to say I like the neck/middle pickup a lot more than the bridge pickup. I think it's great that the bridge pickup has a different personality than the neck, but I find it a little difficult to dial-in. I think I'll get there though. The neck pickup is a thing of beauty and can nail Yngwie's tones with ease. The bridge pickup has a raw side to it, which is probably what Yngwie wants. I prefer it a bit smoother though. I suppose I should make some recordings and post them. I'll try to get some time to do that.
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FWIW, I feel exactly the same about the Dimarzio set (HS3 in the bridge).

Malmsteen must do something in the rig to patch up the bridge pickup.
 
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uOpt said:
I have one of those and I don't think that can be all of it.
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Disconnect both (all) tone pots from the circuit. Leave just a 250K volume pot and 5way switch. That was YJM's setup with HS-3's and it works for me..
I don't use a lot of gain (just a DOD250 and NMV marshalls)
 
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