YNGWIE MALMSTEEN

[Ni6htWalker]

awesome thread,does anybody know what amp Yngwie used on the Trilogy,Odyssey,Eclipse albums?

[mikespitzer]

Hello gang

I just came across this long and old thread today -- very interesting discussion about the Yngwie tone.

I am Michael Spitzer, I worked with Yngwie in the past as some fans may know.

Much of your discussion and theories about the DC10 echo gain and more is interesting .
But I should point out this is more applicable to his LIVE sound.

Having been in the studio with Yngwie I can say that he virtually never used this signal chain when recording albums.

For studio recording albums, the signal chain was usually very simple ...

Guitar ---->Grey DOD 250 ----> Boss NS2 -------> Marshall Model # 1987 (50 watt amp) ----- Speaker Cab

If a song needed it, a WAH would be added in front --- but the DC10 and CE-1 were only LIVE units --- not used in the studio at anytime I saw.

Also G12-65 speakers, gray 250 pedals and Fender XH picks were used up until around Trilogy.

After Yngwie left the hospital after his car wreck, he learned his management had ripped him off and he needed to start replacing gear.

It was around this time (Odyssey) that marks the shift in his gear ...... G12T-75 speakers, Dunlop 1.5 picks, the Yellow DOD 250 pedals , etc...
This was the gear you hear from 1988 to 2005 when he started changing things again.

[Snakepit]

Hello gang

I just came across this long and old thread today -- very interesting discussion about the Yngwie tone.

I am Michael Spitzer, I worked with Yngwie in the past as some fans may know.

Much of your discussion and theories about the DC10 echo gain and more is interesting .
But I should point out this is more applicable to his LIVE sound.

Having been in the studio with Yngwie I can say that he virtually never used this signal chain when recording albums.

For studio recording albums, the signal chain was usually very simple ...

Guitar ---->Grey DOD 250 ----> Boss NS2 -------> Marshall Model # 1987 (50 watt amp) ----- Speaker Cab

If a song needed it, a WAH would be added in front --- but the DC10 and CE-1 were only LIVE units --- not used in the studio at anytime I saw.

Also G12-65 speakers, gray 250 pedals and Fender XH picks were used up until around Trilogy.

After Yngwie left the hospital after his car wreck, he learned his management had ripped him off and he needed to start replacing gear.

It was around this time (Odyssey) that marks the shift in his gear ...... G12T-75 speakers, Dunlop 1.5 picks, the Yellow DOD 250 pedals , etc...
This was the gear you hear from 1988 to 2005 when he started changing things again.

That's great, thanks a lot for sharing that. When Yngwie gets his clean live, does he have a separate amp for that or does he just ride his volume knob on the guitar?

[chrisb]

Sooo, time flies!
For anyone interested, Tom Cram, former guru at DOD/Digitech came out with an awesome Overdrive/Preamp derived pedal recently, the Spiral Electrix Yellow Spiral. Sounds absolutely killer!

https://www.spiralelectricfx.com/collec ... l-drive-65

Time does fly indeed - sounds great as always. We also now have the reissue reissue reissued again DOD and Tom back with the sparkle gold 250...lovely

[chrisb]

Hello gang

I just came across this long and old thread today -- very interesting discussion about the Yngwie tone.

I am Michael Spitzer, I worked with Yngwie in the past as some fans may know.

Much of your discussion and theories about the DC10 echo gain and more is interesting .
But I should point out this is more applicable to his LIVE sound.

Having been in the studio with Yngwie I can say that he virtually never used this signal chain when recording albums.

For studio recording albums, the signal chain was usually very simple ...

Guitar ---->Grey DOD 250 ----> Boss NS2 -------> Marshall Model # 1987 (50 watt amp) ----- Speaker Cab

If a song needed it, a WAH would be added in front --- but the DC10 and CE-1 were only LIVE units --- not used in the studio at anytime I saw.

Also G12-65 speakers, gray 250 pedals and Fender XH picks were used up until around Trilogy.

After Yngwie left the hospital after his car wreck, he learned his management had ripped him off and he needed to start replacing gear.

It was around this time (Odyssey) that marks the shift in his gear ...... G12T-75 speakers, Dunlop 1.5 picks, the Yellow DOD 250 pedals , etc...
This was the gear you hear from 1988 to 2005 when he started changing things again.

Great info Michael, thank you.

Curious, did Yngwie run the grey 250 with Level at 9 o clock and Gain full in the studio also the same as shown on a pic of his 84 live board. I always think this sounds way too distorted into a cranked 50 watt JMP for his clear 84/85 tone, in fact I find the reverse settings sounds closer to me.