What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

[JohnnyGuitarCA]

Hi everyone,

What are your impressions of the YJM pickups? Some of those YouTube clips of them sound amazing.

What you you like and dislike about them?

Also, please mention the styles of music that you play with these pickups and what gear you use.

Thank you very much!

 

[AlexR]

Re: What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

I come at this from a vintage strat pickup type person. They just seemed like some of the other vintage offerings.....but flattened out tonally. They seemed geared toward much higher gain than I played with.

 

[Mincer]

Re: What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

I like em! Great with at least some gain (Yngwie doesn't actually use than much), but they are just really great vintage-voiced, quiet singles. I play fusiony rock, and with tube screamer levels of gain, and they sound great to me.

 

[stevie_bees]

Re: What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

How do you reckon they'd work with a Clapton mid-boost Dave?


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[Mincer]

Re: What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

I've never tried, but I bet they sound better than the Laces that the EC model came with (I never liked those). I also dig the mid-boost, so I couldn't see a reason why they wouldn't sound great together.

 

[IMENATOR]

Re: What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

I have only used the neck version, in my opinion it is more versatile than what you would think based by being Yngwie's signature. Yes these really shine on high gain but I like them with mild overdrive too and clean is very nice (not like an SSL-1 but I like it), auto-split and combined with regular SSL-1 in the middle gives me a noise canceling usable quack. A few months ago I took it out of my HSS strat and put a Custom Stack Plus STK-S6 just to compare (again, I had used it already) and I like the YJM Fury better, but the Custom Stack Plus is very good too. I have combined my FJM Fury neck with a JB in bridge too and imho those two can live together. I will put the YJM Fury neck back and put it with the stock Dimarzio H8 (kind of Paf Pro?) as I want a bit more treble from the bridge.

I had the original DiMarzio HS-4 before, that was kind of unusable for my HSS guitar, I adjusted the neck pickup height to have the tone I wanted to match with the DiMarzio H8 bridge on high gain but when switching to clean the neck was too loud, who knows. When the Duncan came out I tried it with my JB already installed and imho these two are way more balanced. Tonewise I would say the Dimarzio is fatter so less versatile, the Duncan is not that fat sounding and that makes it more versatile and usable for me.

Edit: The sound of the attack of the FYM Fury neck when you pick the string really makes you wanna do less legato and more alternate picking, that sounds super cool when playing around frets 12-5, its attack sounds better than the Custom Stack Plus and is very similar to the old DiMarzio.

 

[AlexR]

Re: What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

^ I liked the YJM more than other stacks too. But of course any stack pales compared with a real s/c. I feel that the YJM offers the 'overdrive player' more than a regular s/c, which is where I think they are marketed toward.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Re: What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

I have an older YJM Strat with Dimarzio's and those are great p'ups..have'nt tried the SD ones...but I'm not really into his tones on recent albums (probably more to do with the poor production). Frankly I've never been a huge fan of his tone since I prefer darker tones..

I've got a couple of clips up but they're not the best quality..(and not in his style either..). Don't get me wrong..I'm a massive fan ..but he's more of an "inspiration" than an "influence" :bigthumb:

Small looped dirty crunch clip..




Clean-ish with some modulation..

Nasty blues-rock wah jam... :laugh2:

 

[orpheo]

Re: What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

I like 'm but not as much as I like the SSL1's. For now, they're still my favorites.

 

[orpheo]

Re: What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

the ssl1's are cleaner, more chime, more sparkle. the YJM's are a bit too warm for my taste.

 

[Mincer]

Re: What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

Haha, I love warmer singles. But I don't really hear the YJMs as that warm (not as much as the Five Twos, or the Alnico IIs). There is certainly some chime there.

 

[Mr. B]

Re: What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

I had them in a strat for a while. They are a great set, and more versatile than you would think. Malmsteen knows how to use them. With something like his amp setup, and his drive pedal, they are fantastic. In the end, they required a very specific set-up to get the real magic out of them. They needed an EQ and setup that was so different from what I usually run that I would have had to keep that entire set-up just for that one guitar because my others did NOT sound good with the same set-up.

 

[Open lane]

Re: What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

I love the yjm duncans. Yes, you can get the whole yngwie type tone but i have a friend who was playing some clean bebop stuff on a yjm strat through a marshall class5 and it sounded great. Also, with a hermeda zendrive, a yjm model sounds more like eric johnson than yngwie. I am a big fan of the yjm duncans and have found them to be anything but the one trick pony i was expecting.

 

[Open lane]

Re: What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

-- here is a clip of me playing a pat martino style lick on a yjm strat loaded w/ the duncans. I like the smooth tone i get from it but usually feel kind of stupid playing jazzy licks through it, just because it is. Still, seems to work fine.

 

[Mincer]

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That sounded cool!

 

[Open lane]

Re: What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

Ty! It's. Great set of pickups, imo. Pretty versatile when i want them to be but also do the yngwie/od thing well. Most of the clips i've come across on youtube have it in a shred context, i was really impressed when listening to my friend play bebop on it a couple weeks back.

 

[IMENATOR]

Re: What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

-- here is a clip of me playing a pat martino style lick on a yjm strat loaded w/ the duncans. I like the smooth tone i get from it but usually feel kind of stupid playing jazzy licks through it, just because it is. Still, seems to work fine.

That sounds jazzy. I tried to roll the tone knob on my strat but it was not like your tone. My current strat is poplat body with maple neck and rosewood fingeboard. I guess the alder body + maple fingerboard made a difference here.

 

[Open lane]

Re: What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

Ty. Yeah, i was pretty surprised when i was able to dial in jazz tones on the thing. I almost feel kind of stupid using it for that type of application. But hell, it seems to work if i happen to have it out anyway.

 

[crusty philtrum]

Re: What are your impressions of the YJM pickups?

Kinda fat in the middle, and on the top. Leathery on the bottom, and kinda frilly 'round the edges.





Oh, wait, you mean the pickups ? .....

dunno, never heard them