STK-S10 YJM Fury

[megaroel]

STK-S10 YJM Fury this is big news well at least to me that is yngwie moving over to seymour duncan thats just awsome. now i wonder how would STK-S10 YJM Fury sound in a AL ??? hmm what do you guys think ? I love seymour duncan i even have a tattoo of the s logo.lol this made my night.. now i wonder what yngwie would look like playing a Silhouette Gold Roller with the new duncans? oh and trick him by putting some slinkys on the silo.

 

[Progdude]

Im quite interested in hearing this new Duncan YJM pickup. I liked the HS-3 and YJMs that Dimarzio did. Im wondering what Duncan offered him to leave Dimarzio. I thought YJM and Larry Dimarzio were pals....

 

[shredderbetter]

I own 6 yngwie strats so when I seen the move I had to have a pair ~I'll be honest VERY little difference maybe a lil hotter not much but i have to think it was just a bought endorsement? Musics a hard business you gotta make $$ any way you can

 

[Progdude]

I own 6 yngwie strats so when I seen the move I had to have a pair ~I'll be honest VERY little difference maybe a lil hotter not much but i have to think it was just a bought endorsement? Musics a hard business you gotta make $$ any way you can

Thats it? Just a bit hotter?

 

[Trev]

Thats it? Just a bit hotter?

...and a bit more wedge for YJM no doubt (which is no bad thing!)

 

[shredderbetter]

yeah like 15mv more output! and not much else?? I really don't know why he left dimarzio he's been with them for close to 30 years? ~he thanks them on EVERY record and leaves... it's just GOTTA be a pay to play thing ~I'd love to see the meeting "here's a dimarzio now wind it 10 more yards and put my initials on it" OHH and charge 10% more! I'm actually putting the dimarzio's back in already sold the SD'S

 

[Progdude]

So tone wise they arnt as good as the Dimarzios?

 

[shredderbetter]

they are pretty much the EXACT same thing?? like I said maybe a lil warmer over all but still low output his dimarzios are 92 mv these about 110mv?? not worth the investment~enjoy the kickback yngwie!

 

[GoKart Mozart]

Wierd...I figured that YJM, Satch, Vai, Gilbert, etc. would always be associated with Dimarzio. Oh well.

 

[frankfalbo]

yeah like 15mv more output! and not much else?? I really don't know why he left dimarzio he's been with them for close to 30 years? ~he thanks them on EVERY record and leaves... it's just GOTTA be a pay to play thing ~I'd love to see the meeting "here's a dimarzio now wind it 10 more yards and put my initials on it" OHH and charge 10% more! I'm actually putting the dimarzio's back in already sold the SD'S

Sorry to dig up an older thread, but who are you? The Seymour Duncan YJM has NOT (repeat) NOT shipped yet. Not to ANYONE other than Yngwie. What pickup did you try? Also I ask who you are because I'm originally from Illinois and have some guitar buddies around Algonqiun, Elgin, etc. maybe we know eachother...

 

[paranoid70]

I own 6 yngwie strats so when I seen the move I had to have a pair ~I'll be honest VERY little difference maybe a lil hotter not much but i have to think it was just a bought endorsement? Musics a hard business you gotta make $$ any way you can

OT: I played around with an Yngwie Strat at NAMM this year... the scalloped neck is simply insane on that guitar. More power to you if you can play on it, but it felt soooooo weird to me.

 

[Progdude]

Sorry to dig up an older thread, but who are you? The Seymour Duncan YJM has NOT (repeat) NOT shipped yet. Not to ANYONE other than Yngwie. What pickup did you try? Also I ask who you are because I'm originally from Illinois and have some guitar buddies around Algonqiun, Elgin, etc. maybe we know eachother...

I dont know who the guy in question is but I think you and I did some trading back in like 2005. I used to have a YJM Strat and I think we traded some pedals and an Ibanez Lo-Pro or something...

Anyway Im wondering when we can actually hear what this new YJM pickup sounds like. Im really excited to hear it! Any sound clips or youtube videos coming soon?

 

[B2D]

Sorry to dig up an older thread, but who are you? The Seymour Duncan YJM has NOT (repeat) NOT shipped yet. Not to ANYONE other than Yngwie. What pickup did you try? Also I ask who you are because I'm originally from Illinois and have some guitar buddies around Algonqiun, Elgin, etc. maybe we know eachother...

Oh HO!! Busted.

How ya doing, Frank?

 

[azazael]

So he was just lying that he had the new pickups then?

 

[frankfalbo]

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)

 

[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...