The neck YJM Fury

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Napthol

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Isn't the YJM Fury neck pickup a little thicker than say a vintage Strat pickup would be? Seem to recall that it is a little beefier. Hoping to find a neck pickup that would be in the ballpark of the YJM Fury neck pickup.
 
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I have both the Classic Stack and the Vintage Stack. I love the way the Classic Stack sounds, but there are times I'm looking for the same kind of sound just a little beefier. That's why I bought the Vintage Stack. Kinda hoping if I found the right preset with my X3 I could get similar to a YJM Fury neck tone.
 
He doesn't mention the gain he is using, but there is more bass in his distorted sound than in Yngwie's. You could always buy a single neck Fury if you want that exact sound.
 
What do you use in the bridge? I have used the Custom Stack Plus (kind of noiseless SSL-5) in the neck of an HSS, also the Duncan YJM Fury neck. Both are beefier then a vintage single coil and both worked for me, just different flavors. The Custom Stack Plus was a little bit more stratty and the notch position with an SSL-1 I liked it a bit better, but that YJM Fury neck sounded way better for soloing. My bridge humbucker was a Dimarzio OEM version of their PAF Pro in a MIM Sambora guitar.

Edit: I decided to move away from HSS just to try other things and that is why I sold the YJM Fury but it is a nice option. Any reason why you don't just get the YJM Neck?

 
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Actually I had the YJM Fury bridge and neck installed in one of my Strats. I kept them in there for a few weeks, but I couldn't get as close to his sound as I would have liked. You can't just have the pickups, you also have to have an amp that will get you close to his sound. In the POD HD Series line they have a Park 75 which will nail his tone. But the regular Marshalls in those units suck.

I use an older POD X3 which has a fantastic JCM-800, but it doesn't have the Park 75. It's got a Plexi but I don't use those amps because the gain is way too low.

But anyway who knows. Maybe I will put just the neck Fury back in and toy with it.

I was reading about the Jimi Hendrix Strat pickups. I wouldn't mind trying a neck.
 
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the hendrix pups are nice! bright and low output though. all the positions are the same by the way
 
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Actually I had the YJM Fury bridge and neck installed in one of my Strats. I kept them in there for a few weeks, but I couldn't get as close to his sound as I would have liked. You can't just have the pickups, you also have to have an amp that will get you close to his sound. In the POD HD Series line they have a Park 75 which will nail his tone. But the regular Marshalls in those units suck.

I use an older POD X3 which has a fantastic JCM-800, but it doesn't have the Park 75. It's got a Plexi but I don't use those amps because the gain is way too low.

But anyway who knows. Maybe I will put just the neck Fury back in and toy with it.

I was reading about the Jimi Hendrix Strat pickups. I wouldn't mind trying a neck.
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Gotta go DOD 250 dimed, into the Plexi, gain dimed, with everything else on 5.
 
I'm very curious about what the Jimi Hendrix neck pickups would sound like. It says it's fat and full. I wonder if the bass is too boomy though.

I use a lot of gain too.
 
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its bright, scooped, low output, and has a big bottom end for a vintage strat pup. i dont use a ton of gain so cant really comment on that
 
That's what has me a little concerned. The big, bottom end you refer to. Can a pickup be bright and still have a big bottom end?
 
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That's what has me a little concerned. The big, bottom end you refer to. Can a pickup be bright and still have a big bottom end?
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it generally applies to low resistive impedance A5 bobbins IMHO
Anyway the big bass is what I hear as the regular bass on a, say, SSL-1, but appears big because mids and general level are lower, this works way better in front of the low impedance input of a vintage fuzz , like the venerable fuzz face for example (which doesn't like high output pickups and low impedance buffer out of other effects in front of it, in fact a fuzz face might be the first effect of the chain, directly connected to the guitar output ).
Since you're supposed to apply a higher gain to the signal, the perceived pumped bass contributes to the classic crossover distortion that makes the fuzz so distinctive.
 
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None of the other models really get into that tonal signature of the YJM. Like the Dimarzio HS3 and YJM, they’re all high DCR stacks which means a lot of phase cancellation from the bottom coil is part of the sound. Other tech-forward designs try to reduce the penalty of the bottom coil, which goes against what makes Yngwie’s pickups sound like they do. He didn’t like early prototypes we made him based on Stack Plus tech, or with thicker wire and lower DCR. He said they sounded too Fendery, and he’s correct.

The obvious answer for me is the YJM Bridge in the neck. It’s got full length magnets, and a few more turns of wire.
 
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