Yngwie's new Seymour Duncan sig pickups!

[Jakem]

Surprised to see he left Dimarzio for SD! Maybe SD pays more...

http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/electric/stratocaster/stks10_yjm_fury/

 

[gbsmusic]

After hearing he wasn't with Dimarzio anymore you knew it was just a matter of time. Interesting that he went with hum cancling, I know the YJM Dimarios were noisy, at least the guitar I played was.

 

[Jakem]

After hearing he wasn't with Dimarzio anymore you knew it was just a matter of time.

I was expecting him to get sig pups from Fender.

 

[glpg80]

after just playing the dimarzio's HS-3 version which rates a whopping 23K in resistance i doubt the seymour will be as high output and articulate.

the pickup chart that seymour uses says "moderate output"

ill definately give all 3 pickups a try though. hell usually im the one wanting dimarzios in the neck and seymour's in the bridge and not the other way around

 

[Code001]

after just playing the dimarzio's HS-3 version which rates a whopping 23K in resistance i doubt the seymour will be as high output and articulate.

the pickup chart that seymour uses says "moderate output"

ill definately give all 3 pickups a try though. hell usually im the one wanting dimarzios in the neck and seymour's in the bridge and not the other way around

As high output? The DiMarzio HS-3s and YJMs are some of the lowest output pickups on the market... Resistance does not = output.

 

[JTyson]

ying yang is upset that George Lynch is out sig-whoring him

 

[Random Hero]

What a pouting cunt.

 

[gbsmusic]

After hearing he wasn't with Dimarzio anymore you knew it was just a matter of time.

I was expecting him to get sig pups from Fender.

Thats a good point. But if he does that rather than going with separate companys he's getting paid by 2. Maybe?????

 

[sixstrings]

After hearing he wasn't with Dimarzio anymore you knew it was just a matter of time. Interesting that he went with hum cancling, I know the YJM Dimarios were noisy, at least the guitar I played was.

What do you mean he went hum cancelling? He's always used hum cancelling single coils - HS2, HS3 & YJM are all hum cancelling. In fact, I've owned a couple of YJM strats and they were very quiet and excellent sounding pickups.

after just playing the dimarzio's HS-3 version which rates a whopping 23K in resistance i doubt the seymour will be as high output and articulate.

the pickup chart that seymour uses says "moderate output"

ill definately give all 3 pickups a try though. hell usually im the one wanting dimarzios in the neck and seymour's in the bridge and not the other way around

23k of resistance means little, and is only part of the equation of output. HS3 pickups have an output rating of 93 which is second lowest to an HS2 (which is 90) in the entire Dimarzio line.

I doubt the new Seymour Duncan YJM's will live up to Dimarzio HS3/YJM's. Seymour Duncan is a greater commercial pickup manufacturer, but they don't make better pickups than Dimarzio.

Seymour Duncan producing a new YJM pickup is like Kobe Bryant trying to claim he's greater than Michael Jordon.

http://www.squidoo.com/michael-jordan-kobe-bryant

In fact, I think it's quite arrogant of Seymour Duncan to state the following, "When Yngwie J. Malmsteen set out on a quest to bring his tone to a higher level, he turned to Seymour Duncan," when we still have yet to see Seymour Duncan produce a better pickup than a Super Distortion, PAF Pro, Evolution, Breed, Air Norton, FRED or PAF Classic.

Shit, Yngwie could have asked Dimarzio, Fender or even EMG for a new pickup, but Seymour Duncan won out on commercial value alone - because Guitar Center carries more Seymour Duncans than any other pickup. In fact, if pickup retailers had any pickup knowledge at all, places like Guitar Center would sell a lot more Dimarzios.

You ever notice that Guitar Center sells the shit out of Seymour Duncan pickups but none of the fuckers that work there know shit about guitar pickups? If they do, it's likely to be bullshit.

I don't have any interest in the Duncan YJM pickup because:

A. Dimarzio has always made superior single-size humbuckers than Seymour Duncan
B. Seymour Duncan doesn't have anything more special to offer than any other pickup manufacturer
C. YJM is synonymous with Dimarzio HS3, and he's at the twilight of his career, so his *new* sound is kind of irrelevant
D. Seymour Duncan has higher prices than Dimarzio
E. Seymour Duncan has shittier quality control than Dimarzio
F. Seymour Duncan offers about 4 great pickups (Custom Custom, Full Shred, Seth Lover, Pearly Gates) which are overpriced, and the new YJM isn't one of them.

I could go on but I'm disgusted with Seymour Duncan's arrogance. I'll leave it at that.

 

[Ayrton]

I could go on but I'm disgusted with Seymour Duncan's arrogance. I'll leave it at that.

No, please continue. I never get tired of your ridiculous rantings.

 

[Greazygeo]

After hearing he wasn't with Dimarzio anymore you knew it was just a matter of time. Interesting that he went with hum cancling, I know the YJM Dimarios were noisy, at least the guitar I played was.

i have a neck/ middle YJM in my Anderson tele....its very quiet. Maybe the gtr you were playing they were wired up not hum cancelling.

 

[Jakem]

What a pouting cunt.

 

[Ayrton]

I am still more interested in what cause the split with him and Larry.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

This is my opinion of course, but I have read that SD has been outselling DiMarzio hand over fist in recent times and just look at the mail order catalogs and at your local GC, see how many SD's there are compared to DiMarzio's. DiMarzio have always made excellent pickups, from way back and I liked the MK I YJM configuration that had HS-3's in the neck and bridge.
When I had my YJM, which was dead silent by the way, I stayed on the neck all the time as the HS-3 they had in the bridge on mine (2004) I didn't really care for the tone.
I realize I needed to take the tone controls out of the circuit, ect., to exactly match the setup Yngwie uses, I did use the same strings and gauges he uses now.
I can't bring myself to believe these new Fury pickups will be anything like the older HS-3's, which should increase in value used now...Also I have heard Larry is losing interest in the business, he loves photography now more than building new pickups, ect.
Atomic Playboy (yngwie308)

 

[70strathead]

after just playing the dimarzio's HS-3 version which rates a whopping 23K in resistance i doubt the seymour will be as high output and articulate.

the pickup chart that seymour uses says "moderate output"

ill definately give all 3 pickups a try though. hell usually im the one wanting dimarzios in the neck and seymour's in the bridge and not the other way around

I seriously doubt Yngwie the stubborn purist will change his specs on the pickups. The HS-3 and YJM Dimarzio are both equally the same output ( which is VERY low ) with YJM having the vintage staggering and more presence for neck/middle position. They just call it a different name now that he's with SD. the Fury, thats kinda gay I agree with Psychodave, the older HS-3's made in the 80's for some reason sounded warmer, im lucky i held on to those, great pickups for kicking in OD's.

 

[just42dave]

I could go on but I'm disgusted with Seymour Duncan's arrogance. I'll leave it at that.

No, please continue. I never get tired of your ridiculous rantings.

 

[mentoneman]

my ears never failed to hate dimarzios...i think they are eq'ued to cut onstage but are always harsh to me... but i have heard recent recordings of some of the singles that sounded nice so i'll give them that.

but i'll never purposefully buy them again.

read on the kinman site about how ol lar tried to bury chris kinman. lame.

if i need another hot silent sc again i'll go with kinman or maybe bill and becky lawrence. the lawrence 280L is cool for cutting crunch and gain although more ceramic sounding and stiffer than the alnico quack and hollow bubbling goodness.

 

[Chubtone]

I agree with Psychodave, the older HS-3's made in the 80's for some reason sounded warmer, im lucky i held on to those, great pickups for kicking in OD's.

Maybe Yngwie felt the same way and Dimarzio wasn't making them the way Yngwie liked and insisted on keeping the costs down? Maybe Duncan will build them at a more expensive signature quality level? Maybe Yngwie gets more of a cut from SD?

 

[70strathead]

I agree with Psychodave, the older HS-3's made in the 80's for some reason sounded warmer, im lucky i held on to those, great pickups for kicking in OD's.

Maybe Yngwie felt the same way and Dimarzio wasn't making them the way Yngwie liked and insisted on keeping the costs down? Maybe Duncan will build them at a more expensive signature quality level? Maybe Yngwie gets more of a cut from SD?

who knows Curt. I'm sure he'll get grilled with those questions at NAMM though!!

 

[sixstrings]

I could go on but I'm disgusted with Seymour Duncan's arrogance. I'll leave it at that.

No, please continue. I never get tired of your ridiculous rantings.

I'm not surprised to hear something like this from a little Seymour Duncan troll. Before I continue, perhaps you explain what's so ridiculous about it. What makes you think your perspectives are so superior?