Yngwie Malmsteen

malmsteen's famous duck guitar is a 1972 stratocaster

In this image Yngwie Malmsteen can be seen holding this guitar.

this is the one ive had fo many years , its just amazing its a viper

Yngwie Malmsteen shows us his signature Fender Yngwie Malmsteen Stratocaster. According to Malmsteen, the guitar sports "YJM Fury Pickups by Seymour Duncan, and they're just amazing," he said at (0:55). "These really scream." The guitar has a "scalloped neck, of course, with the Dunlop frets, brass nut, standard tremelo" Malmsteen said.

Yngwie Malmsteen also plays an Ovation Viper. "The one I have is based on the Viper, but I have different soundholes," Malmsteen says at (2:50).

and you have some v's? yeah I have some V's i have this v that is scalloped years ago and i have put stratocaster pickups in it and ive put a tremolo on it to

this is a guitar that steve vai gave me i gave one of my guitars to him and were all good friends you know

he show a dean sky guitar at 5;03

i have this guitar that brian may gave me

Throughout this video, Yngwie Malmsteen is using an Ovation Acoustic/Electric guitar for a classical piece. He plays Tocata with the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. The only thing I could not figure out is the Ovation has a classical acoustic headstock, as opposed to the sharp, circular headstocks most ovation currently have. This may be due to the earlier model Yngwie uses

In this video we can see Yngwie holding his red fender stratocaster signature. He says it's the same guitar but in red, because he's a ferrari freak.

In this video, you can see Yngwie Malmsteen playing his Fender Doubleneck Stratocaster.

Yngwie Malmsteen Playing on a Gibson ES-335

Some of Malmsteen's guitar amps are Vintage Marshall JMP Mark II Superleads, according to the guitarist in this Premier Guitar interview. "There are only two manmade objects you can actually see from outer space," Malmsteen said at (3:30). "One is the Wall of China, one is the Yngwie Malmsteen wall of Marshalls. And today, we are gracing the stage with nine stacks with three heads on each one."

Malmsteen also plays through his signature Marshall head, as seen in this Premier Guitar interview at (4:20). His cabinets are also custom made to go with the head. "All of these are filled with 75 Celestions," Malmsteen said, and all the amps are switchable between 50 and 100 watts.

this is a picture from yngwie in front of a giant stack of jcm 900's

the stack second from left contains a jcm 2000

Yngwie used Fender Roc Pro 1000 heads and combos for several of his live symphonic performances and accompanying records, as well as his "Play Loud" instructional videos, in 1998 - 1999. Interviews where he talked about these amps are tough to find, but at the time he said that their volume and treble response were more controllable than his Marshalls (but with similar tone) which made them better for small spaces and for playing with a symphony.

In this video, Yngwie Malmsteen says, "One of the most important things... this is super important... this is something that i have developed with Fender its called the overdrive pedal thats what gives that big sustain. It's very liquid sounding. Very powerful sounding. It's not fuzzy, it's just perfect, you need to try it out."

this is malmsteens siganture DOD pedal

A DOD Overdrive Preamp 250 is part of Yngwie Malmsteen's tour guitar rig. According to the diagram in a March 2001 issue of Guitar One magazine, his pedal drawer includes the DOD Overdrive Preamp 250.

Malmsteen uses a Boss CE-5 chorus pedal, as seen in this Premier Guitar interview at (5:40). "If I play clean, I usually have [the chorus] on," he said.

"My sound is the overdrive...and the gate," Malmsteen says in this Premier Guitar interview at (5:40) as he shows us his Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor pedal.

Malmsteen plays with a Dunlop Cry Baby Wah Pedal, as seen in this Premier Guitar interview at (5:50).

Malmsteen's onstage setup also includes a Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Fuzz Face, seen in this Premier Guitar video at (6:10), but he doesn't use it. "I just like the way it looks," he said. "It looks like a landmine."

In this diagram made by Boss, the Boss CS-3 compression pedal is visible.

According to Boss' diagram, Malmsteen uses the Boss OC-2 octave pedal.