One thing that always gets overlooked when people say someones tone has changed is the recording process. The mics, mic placement, the console, tape or digital, eq after tracking all of these things play a major part in someones sound
Re DiMarzio's, he did have the DiMarzio YJM, now known as the HS-4, before the Seymour Duncan YJM. Not sure what positions but old fender catalogs probably hold the answer there. Thinking the difference isn't huge to most of us.
Besides the arpeggios at light speed Strat/Marshall parts of Yngwie's sound and playing, I really think the things that make Yngwie sound uniquely like himself, are his vibrato and personal idea of intonation. Elmo, you rule at explaining and nailing Yngwie's sound and style while being a stellar player who sounds like Elmo, not to be confused with Yngwie who while similar, is different altogether. Whew. Great show man , I am so glad I found your show, you are a true talent.
I did not hear any mention of the guitar strings, Yngwie uses Fender gauges .08/.11/.14/.22/.32/.46. This is like an set of 8's with the top two heavier bass strings. Quite a big part of his tone, IMHO. Thanks Elmo, enjoying this series!
yngwie's sound actually went through alot of changes over the years, just because of the different mixing/production techniques. odyssey was my favourite, it sounded nice and sharp like yours, but they used some stereo tricks to make one guitar sound really wide. fire and ice had a nice warm thick eq to it(but i wish it had more stereo width). i think releasing the animal is the closest to sounding like a modern professional sound
Odyssey’s guitar sounds great with the mix but it’s so thin i doubt it’d be a tone someone wants in the bedroom. My favorite tones eclipse especially the in the title track
You always hear that high gain yet articulate tone from the amp and overdrive pedal sounding like it`s more gain than it really is along with the dohk dohk dohk delay in Malmsteen`s tone. That`s the base line. I can take a early Zepplin tone on my Boss Katana and add delay and a smidge of reverb and be in the ball park.
Ive been using a Friedman Dirty Shirley Mini head through my Marshall 1960 lead Cab. And a Maxon Apex 808 with my Ibanez Jem and I've been getting close as well. But this sounded great! Awesome video and playing! I learned a lot about Yngwie's gear! My next piece of gear shall be 1987x plexi head and possibly some YJM fury's for the strat!
My 1987x reissue is a 2018 model made to my order. I think they installed a bright cap. When using the Fender YJM overdrive, it's too saturated and buzzy. I had to use the lower output channel 2 inputs for a more pure tone.
Ive seen many try and some pull off his licks but No one had that instant speed and flair then i saw Cesaro P. This MF could play behind a curtain and you would swear on your life its Malmsteen. Check this shit out😲 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MKbmDu32b4c.html
Interesting you use the overdrive instead of the amps overdrive. I always for no reason tried to use the Marshall DSL (I had stolen) distortion if possible.
Elmo Great vid, I´ve been chasing the ¨yjm tone¨ for a while, in my last experiences with DOD 250 ´ve used a dyna comp at full volume and very low compression. this hight volume boosts the dod 250 while emulates a tube compression at high volumes so you don´t have to kill your neighbours.
If you want his vintage sound a bit easier..he exclusively bought any Fender LEAD II series guitar and took the alnico X-1pickups out of it..they were exclusive to the Lead II. Wound tighter.. 9600 ohm vs what was in the Stratocaster from 79-82.
Love your videos Elmo. I have the Fender Yngwie pedal and a Fender GDec. Primarily play my PRS or Schecter but will be getting a strat this year soon I hope lol. After many years still far from you and Yngwie lol. Thanks for the videos!!!
I aspire to have a tone somewhere between Malmsteen (Unleash the fury) and early 90's thrash-metal. I am a rhythm player and I enjoy getting a real nasty riff going. However, leads are leads and Yngwie's suits me on so many levels. So to accomplish my desired tone: fender malmsteen signature strat (2016, so SD yjm's), Ibanez 4x12 cab, Laney Ironheart tubeamp 60w. Now, the Ironheart has 3 channels: clean, less clean, lead. I set it at the less clean and power things up with a fender Malmsteen od. To keep things under control I have a Boss cs3 in the beginning and a Boss noise-suppressor at the end of the chain. The Ironheart has quite a tasteful reverb but I do supplement my tone with a Bi-yang delay-pedal. Dunlop cry baby - wah. I do dial in a more Malmsteen-like tone from time to time. But I prefer a slightly more gritty one. One reason being that if it's to clean I will hear the mistakes even more often 😁. One thing with single coils is that they are quite unforgiving, they won't let you get away with f*cking up. This is what Iike about them, besides the tone. But I don't want to hear every bit of sloppy playing. And. I know my tonal roots and I was a big big fan of Dave Mustaine (rhythms, not his leads) for many years so I try to balance these two tones, which are more or less opposities of each other. And I'll add, for anyone looking for that Marshall-sound but might lack the money. Go Laney--they are more or less a poor man's Marshall. Just a tip 👍
@@MrPolevaulter Sure is. Those Caparisons have their own tones, especially his current 8-string (Applehorn, was it?). I once dialed in his settings on my, still didn't get close. Tone is in the fingers, is so true. Every bit of the quirkiness in his playing comes from them fingers, that's for sure. But yeah. I really enjoy Laney. I started out using them to get the Marshall-sound without busting the bank. Had a good deal running through my then-band's distributioncompany so I got them cheap. Somewhere along the way I became a Laney-fan. I've converted two individuals this last year after having them play at my house. Dark side, man. Laney's and cookies 😈
your videos are all great, very informative and helpful. I subscribed ! What do you think of Boss DS1 stacked together with a Boss SD1 to reach for that Yngwie sound? I have a Blackstar G12 amp which has some pretty good effects but I don't really get a great Yngwie sound out of that thing. I might get a DOD250 to overdrive it... Thank you for your suggestions !
Another great video! IMHO Yngwie tries too hard these days - it's like he's competing with himself. Unfortunately it makes it easy for people to bash him. But you can never take away the pure talent that he had as an 18-ish year old playing for Alcatrazz - he'd achieved more by the age of 20 than most other guitarists including inventing a new genre of music. It amuses me when people say thinks like "Yngwie - pah, what a rock star!" - yes, he actually is lol
Great video! Agree 100% I get that tone with the plexi, yjm strat and OD also. I saw that his pedal board has an MXR dyna comp. It was engaged with the rest of his pedals. Wonder how much of a factor it plays in his tone? Have you seen that?
Would love to see a comparison of your axefx vs your plexi. Same amps, etc in the Axefx. Do they respond the same, etc. Will they do the magical in between sounds? Morley rocks. 👍💝👍
Could you please show us how the overdrive is set? Is the volume up all the way, with the gain knob set low? Or is the gain knob up and level low? Are both knows on 5? There are tons of these videos that say use this amp and this overdrive, but none that actually show the settings.
Hey what’s up! Question.. You said that I can use any tube (valve) amp. Well, I have an EVH 5150iii EL34 50watt. Also just ordered the DOD 250 preamp reissued and I’m playing through my fender Strat with DiMarzio HS-3 at the bridge and HS-4s in the middle & neck. What channel do you think would work best for me ? Or do You think I’ll be good or should I opt for getting a Marshall? Love your videos Man! Keep it going!!! 💪🏽🤘🏽
Technincally speaking, and just to be really anal about it, the HS-3 & YJM pickups are both humbuckers. They´re just much lower output than a regular sized one, also the coils are stacked on top of each other, rather than side-by-side on a regular sized humbucker. I tried a strat with Mojo Tone Quiet Coil pickups, they are single-coil sounding humbuckers with no hum. Amazing sound. the coils are side-by-side like on a regular HB, and it makes for a much better sound than the stacked ones. Also, I thought YJM dimed his Plexis, adding the overdrive to tighten up his sound and give it a little more saturation?
Great tone and definitely Malmsteen-ish. As you say, even he changes through the years. Your plexi seems more distorted than mine, more gain. Did you have to use a power soak so you can crank it? What are your settings on your Plexi? Thank you!
Question : I have a Eric Clapton Strat and a 1965 Fender Deluxe Reverb Amp and a OCD pedal ... will this sound like Malmsteen.... I have all the tablature guitar books . ??? What else should I buy . ( I had a Yngwie Malmsteen Stratocaster from the custom shop but I sold it )
Volume on full, presence 4, bass 6, mid 8, treble 7. That's what I use, not what he does. What you want is power amp breakup, so you need to play loud. Clean or crunch channel I guess.
I bought an Marshall JCM 800 Studio with 20 Watts and I use the Zakk Wylde Berzerker Overdrive with a Fender Yngwie Malmsteen Strat with the Dimarzios. But I don‘t get the Overdrive Sound right. Even with Gain, Tone and the Preamp on 10. it still Sounds to Crunchy and not that High Gain. Any Tipps? Cheers Mate
@@MrPolevaulter Hi Elmo, I think figured it out...the amp is crunched (preamp on 10 on high sensitivity mode. I switched to a Maxon ST9 pro+ Now it sounds more like Yngwie, but if you have more tipps on the Amp or pedal setting I would be super excited to hear. Thank you very much...you are awesome :)
Elmo, What do you think changed with Yngwie's sound/tone? Do you think that just like the rest of us he got a bit older and can't perform the way we do when we're younger or is it something else? I'd be interested to hear your view if you've got the time.
I've been thinking of that, but I'm not sure. Might make a video on the topic. I heard he's preparing to release an album. Maybe that would be a good time.
Personally I've noticed his sound now lacks treble. Not at all the tone he once had. Seeing as he had the "play loud" sticker I'd suspect his hearing has suffered and lead to his more current tone
Very good sound and player.... i tried to use this sound but i cannot play.... i think that you are just a little better than me😂 and this make the difference
About the delay, you suggest to have it on pedalboard or add it after on signal that comes from microphoned speaker?? I have an isolated box that give me a speaker signal that goes into mixer where I can add delays / reverbs . I like to play with baking tracks at the night...
Elmo Karjalainen what delay do you use? I use to connect It on microphoned signal because I can have it in stereo ( tc M-one XL) but I am trying to know if there is some improvement to my rig. With the head I will have also send return option
@@MrPolevaulter his playing too has unfortunately deteriorated too. Only age can't be blamed because for example John Petrucci in some ways plays better now than in his 20s, 30s.
Awesome video! My "Yngwie Sound" is a Fender Malmsteen Signature with SD fury's and the Marshall YJM100. I would like to buy an older plexi to use with the DOD's.. Cheers from Brazil!!
I have found that when I try to use Reverb with my Yngwie sound it is just overkill, even though I know he uses reverb live. What do you think about Reverb for YJM tones?
@@MrPolevaulter tq so much...for your attention.....not everyone can afford to buy his guitar...in my country the cost to buy his guitar is about 7 thousand plus sir...
Hey what’s up! Question.. You said that I can use any tube (valve) amp. Well, I have an EVH 5150iii EL34 50watt. Also just ordered the DOD 250 preamp reissued and I’m playing through my fender Strat with DiMarzio HS-3 at the bridge and HS-4s in the middle & neck. What channel do you think would work best for me ? Or do You think I’ll be good or should I opt for getting a Marshall? Love your videos Man! Keep it going!!! 💪🏽🤘🏽
Thanks for the question. I haven't tried the amp, but I have tried a lunchbox version of it, and the 6505 Mini. Based on those I'd say use the clean channel, and crank it so you get power amp breakup, and then use the DOD. Not sure if it will be exactly what you're after, but it should sound great. Also it will be loud :D
