YJM Fury and Metal

[StratFreak]

The Seymour Duncan site says that the Yngwie M. signature pickups are "Recommended for rock, neo-classical, shred, hard rock, power metal, and heavy metal." I am very much into classic rock and old metal. For anyone who has tried the YJM, are they in fact good for this music ?

I am planning on buying the set of 3 for my Mahogany MIM Strat to replace the stock pickups.

Thanks

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: YJM Fury and Metal

Is thorny question, no? Any chance you can play a Duncan-era YJM Fender Strat before you commit to them? Reason being, if they're anything like the DiMarzio YJM or HS-3, they'll do in your guitar pretty much what they do in Yngwie's guitars -- a hum-free Fender single-coil Strat sound, more or less.

This is great if you understand how Yngwie uses them. It's bad if you're expecting some loud, hot humbucker sound. Because that's not what it is.

You can play heavy with those pickups, but you have to be careful about how you craft your amp tone, and how you layer the gain structures of the pedal and the amp. Yngwie uses (or at least he did use) a DOD overdrive pedal, a 50-watt tube Marshall, and Marshall 4x12 cabs with G12-T75's. A little dirt from the pedal, a little dirt from the amp, with the brightness and articulation of the G12-T75's.

 

[StratFreak]

Re: YJM Fury and Metal

Im not looking for super hot humbuckers, i simply want something that sound nice on clean (which they do) and on high gain. I dont need super hot pickups, cause i want a clean, rock, and old metal tone. I think these YJM's do it

 

[joesatch]

Re: YJM Fury and Metal

since the YJM are actually stacked and 4 wire, you can use them with the Blackouts Modular Preamp. Wonder how that would sound. I'm thinking kick ass.

 

[StratFreak]

Re: YJM Fury and Metal

what exactly does a modular preamp do ? and where is it located ? (i know i sound like a super noob)