STK-S10 YJM Fury

[Progdude]

azazael: I'd rather say he was misinformed or misunderstood.
B2D: doin' fine thanks!
Progdude: Yes I'm sure we did some trading at some point.

As for YJM sound clips, all the prototypes we've made up until this point have only been in my hands for a matter of minutes before we ship them off to Yngwie. I've got 40 pickguards sitting at my desk awaiting pickups, and Yngwie's special potentiometer (more on that later) and that will consume the first production job order. Then immediately following will be production units. Every part for the pickup is custom, which includes the typical delays that are associated with it. The saddest delay is one of the toolmakers doing the bobbin mold was diagnosed with cancer during the process. Sad but true. So we can freak out all we want but life happens.

They'll be done and in production soon, but then what kind of sound clips are the RIGHT kind of clips? Should I try to play like Yngwie? Should I just play "normal speed" in a Strat with an A/B comparison against SSL-1 vintage strat pickups? It's a tough call. It might be best to have Yngwie lay down a track or two in his studio and just put that up. It's such a high performance pickup, and part of what's great about it is how it tracks under high speed. The neck is fluid, the bridge is aggressive, but both of them have an immediate recovery from rapid picked notes (especially the neck)

Yeah that sounds like a good idea. If you can get YJM to do some sound clips that would be great! If not maybe just some clean/dirty tones both rhythm and lead with a guitar similar to YJMs.

[B2D]

As for YJM sound clips, all the prototypes we've made up until this point have only been in my hands for a matter of minutes before we ship them off to Yngwie. I've got 40 pickguards sitting at my desk awaiting pickups, and Yngwie's special potentiometer (more on that later) and that will consume the first production job order. Then immediately following will be production units. Every part for the pickup is custom, which includes the typical delays that are associated with it. The saddest delay is one of the toolmakers doing the bobbin mold was diagnosed with cancer during the process. Sad but true. So we can freak out all we want but life happens.

They'll be done and in production soon, but then what kind of sound clips are the RIGHT kind of clips? Should I try to play like Yngwie? Should I just play "normal speed" in a Strat with an A/B comparison against SSL-1 vintage strat pickups? It's a tough call. It might be best to have Yngwie lay down a track or two in his studio and just put that up. It's such a high performance pickup, and part of what's great about it is how it tracks under high speed. The neck is fluid, the bridge is aggressive, but both of them have an immediate recovery from rapid picked notes (especially the neck)

40 pickguards? Jeebus! So Yngwie's refitting a bunch of his guitars then, wow. Also... how exactly is EVERY part custom, and why? How different are they? That's a technical aspect I'd really be interested in knowing about, just for my own knowledge.

Sorry to hear about your fellow pickup maker... is this someone we know at Duncan? My condolences to them.

I agree that Yngwie doing a track with them in his studio would probably be best. But why not add one of your typical Duncan samples to that? The ones where all the strats play the same lick into the same amp w/ the same settings, etc?

[azazael]

Well to be honest he probably wants all his usable guitars moved to SD to get away from any possible promotion of Dimarzio.

Also I expect he is getting them all for free so hey i'd milk it and get all my guitars pickups done if I could too lol

[frankfalbo]

... how exactly is EVERY part custom, and why? How different are they? That's a technical aspect I'd really be interested in knowing about, just for my own knowledge.

Sorry to hear about your fellow pickup maker... is this someone we know at Duncan? My condolences to them.

The guy isn't a pickup maker, he's the mold maker for the bobbin and cover molds. We do have a machinist in-house, but these bobbin molds were done a few hours south of here.

As for the parts, the bobbins needed to be an exact size, and not the same as any other bobbin we use, the forbon bottom has different holes in it than our original Classic Stack, each magnet is a custom size, not the same as exising magnets that we use, in order to get his exact stagger, rather than just pushing same-sized poles down into the coil, or out the back of the pickup. The top bobbin is different from the bottom bobbin (not in traverse, but in form factor) so that they fit together in a certain way, and the cover is an exact dimension so that it pinches down on the pickup before bottoming out. And then there's the stuff I can't talk about...