Yngwie has used a variety of acoustic guitars over the years. Ovation guitars are great, but the reason he uses them easy on stage may not be important to you. The key point is to find a nylon-string guitar that feels comfortable, has low action, and good upper fret access.
Yngwie prefers a set of strings that are light on the high strings and heavy on the lower strings. He used to use Fender R Super Bullets, which are:. He now uses his own signature Yngwie Malmsteen Fender Bullet strings , which are:.
You can see that the higher strings are the same, while the lower strings are slightly lighter. The lighter gauge strings and the lower tuning creates low tension on the strings, which makes bends and vibrato feel effortless. Find out more about string gauges, metals, and string tension in this guide.
The above photo may look like a typical vintage-style Marshall head, but it actually packs quite a few modern features in. The front of the head is designed to look like a vintage amp with basic tone controls, but the back of the amp gives you access to features such as:. For a guitarist playing at home, the attenuator control allows you to keep the sound of a cranked tube amp at any volume level.
This means you can crank the amp, then dial the output power down all the way down to 0. If you do want to try and get a Yngwie tone, the key point is to get yourself a Marshall tube amp.
While you can get a great sounding Yngwie tone using only a guitar and amp, there are a few pedals that play an important role in shaping his tone. The DigiTech Whammy is a fantastic pedal that allows you to experiment with pitch shifting and harmony ideas. Honestly, out of all of the pedals covered in this guide, the Whammy is probably the least important to get you a Yngwie tone.
It can produce some typical delay and reverb effects, but you can take things much further into ambient and extreme effects. The Space Echo is a beast of a pedal and complete overkill if you just want to add some reverb to your tone. Yngwie uses the BOSS CE-5 for his clean guitar tone, but he says he also has it on one of his settings to use with his drive tone. This suggests that Yngwie only uses this delay for extreme delay effects instead of having a subtle background delay.
Learn more about delay and the best delay pedals in this guide. In a couple of interviews, he demonstrates what happens when the pedal is turned off. There was a huge wash of hum and noise. The NS-2 does an amazing job of dealing with this without destroying your tone.
I talk about the important differences between noise suppressors and noise gates in my Guitar Effects Course. Normally, cranking an overdrive pedal all the way results in a horrible mess, but it seems to work for Yngwie. It has basically all of the different ones that were listed out earlier in one small 6-pack assortment. Not everyone will or has to use the same pick, but the overwhelming consensus is that the Jazz 3 is incredible for shredding.
If not the Jazz III, what guitar picks do the pros use then? This segment will demonstrate this by taking a look at a few of the most well-known guitar acrobats of all time.
Yngwie Malmsteen. So what guitar picks does Yngwie Malmsteen use? To answer this question, the man himself uses a 1. Delrin is a super tough plastic that allows it to be very thick. Steve Vai uses 1. Paul Gilbert also has a signature Ibanez guitar pick that is 1. Paul Gilbert has also mentioned that he likes the Tortex 0. His band, Mr. This guitar is also set-up in the same way as his other two Strats, only difference being the maple-cap lefty neck.
Yngwie uses this guitar mainly for live gigs. This guitar features a scalloped rosewood neck, and a custom pickup wiring so that he can use bridge and neck pickups at the same time. Rest of the specs are identical to the previously mentioned guitars. His second rosewood Stratocaster. Rest of the specs are identical to the other guitars. One of his few white Stratocaters whose color has not aged to a yellowish over the years. This one comes with a scalloped rosewood neck, and a 22nd fret, which was additionally added by previous owner.
It is quite different from his other guitar, as it has the Fender Noiseless pickups, instead of the DiMarzios. What pick do you use? Let me know in the comments below! Skip to content. What is the best pick for shredding and speed picking? Very good question! So what does this tell us?
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