got my YJM Fury pu installed...

[dstroud]

man I love this pickup!!!!! Also known as my "YJM Furry pickup in white" ... Man this thing has some serious output and tone. I can switch from my humbucker guitar with a Duncan Distortion to my strat with this pickup and not change the dials. But the sound is very different. It's still got that clean sound to it and just a bit of that clang - but not enough to be ice picky - which was what I didn't like about the HS-3. To me it diffinitely has what I did like about the HS-3, doesn't have the things I was fighting with, and the sound is just bigger. Me likey - thanks Ant for the suggestion!

 

[glpg80]

is that the new SD pickup that is out?

 

[Jakem]

Nice! I've been curious on how it sounds compared to the Dimarzios...

 

[dstroud]

is that the new SD pickup that is out?

Yeah, but don't call them and ask for the "YJM Furry"... it's "Fury, not Furry"

 

[dstroud]

You thought the HS-3 was ice picky? It's a dark pickup, far from ice picky IMO.

yeah, I agree it was dark, but at the same time it was maybe "spikey" is a better word - when my amp was really loud and you stand back a ways certain notes would kinda take your head off - maybe not necessarily high end, but something... This pickup doesn't do that at all.

 

[Meathead]

Cool thanks for the review. I need to drop a set of high-output, noiseless single coils in a strat for playing Queen tribute gigs...can't have the hum going on all night.
I think I remember Anthony saying something about these are the single coils for guys that are used to double coils...and single coil players won't like them.

 

[dstroud]

You thought the HS-3 was ice picky? It's a dark pickup, far from ice picky IMO.

Agreed.

I have an 80's HS-3 and it sounds killer.

Now I have to try this YJM FURRY pickup

My HS-3 is a newer one - of course I hear the new ones aren't as good as the old ones. So the Fury is good now, because there isn't an old one, but after a while, mine will be really good and the new ones will suck

 

[dstroud]

Cool thanks for the review. I need to drop a set of high-output, noiseless single coils in a strat for playing Queen tribute gigs...can't have the hum going on all night.
I think I remember Anthony saying something about these are the single coils for guys that are used to double coils...and single coil players won't like them.

It's a pretty comfortable feeling pickup. I didn't mind playing the HS-3, just in the guitar I had I couldn't get the tone dialed in - I was missing some of the smoother mids it seems like I hear in Yngwie's tone. And of course I'm totally talking about the bridge only, I only play the bridge. I'll make a clip later - gonna crank the plexi... no attenution... it's gonna be loud

 

[Meathead]

Cool thanks for the review. I need to drop a set of high-output, noiseless single coils in a strat for playing Queen tribute gigs...can't have the hum going on all night.
I think I remember Anthony saying something about these are the single coils for guys that are used to double coils...and single coil players won't like them.

It's a pretty comfortable feeling pickup. I didn't mind playing the HS-3, just in the guitar I had I couldn't get the tone dialed in - I was missing some of the smoother mids it seems like I hear in Yngwie's tone. And of course I'm totally talking about the bridge only, I only play the bridge. I'll make a clip later - gonna crank the plexi... no attenution... it's gonna be loud

Do eet!!

 

[jmgman69]

The furry bastard

 

[dstroud]

I was missing some of the smoother mids it seems like I hear in Yngwie's tone

but I don't think he's even recorded anything with the Furry yet so how could you not get the smoother mids that he couldn't have had yet?

I was saying the things I heard in his tone, I wasn't getting out of the hs-3. I know he was using an hs-3, but there are too many variables like the amp and guitar and fingers and pedals - that I didn't feel I was getting close to his sound. With this pickup, the sound with my gear, sounds more like what I percieved his sound to be... or course now his sound will now probably be different with his new pickup, we'll have to wait until a recording comes out, but who cares, I just like what I have now