Yngwie Malmsteen

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).

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

In this video at 5:45 Malmsteen states "I got some V's, I got a V that years ago I had its scalloped and put Strat pickups in it... Yeah and uh, put a Tremolo on it too... Yeah that was years ago they did that..."

In this video at 4:43 Malmsteen states "...I got a guitar that Steve Vai gave me, here an old Steve... [indiscernible] very good friend of mine... And I gave him one of my guitars, we're all good friends and stuff..."

The message on the back of the guitar reads:

"To Yngwie J. you are greatness But more than that, a [indiscernible]! we had [indiscernible], ay mate? Steve G3-03"

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

In this video at 4:58 Malmsteen states "...I actually have an Uli guitar as well..."

In this video at 4:42 malmsteen states "I got a guitar Brian May gave me..."

Malmsteen's famous '72 Fender Stratocaster dubbed by fans as "Play Loud" due to a sticker the guitar once wore or "The Duck" due to its yellow finish and Donald Duck sticker on the Headstock, has come to be associated with Malmsteen as his go-to guitar rig. Malmsteen has used this guitar throughout his musical career and has had fender make several copies of it.

Malmsteen prefered the 70's headstocks because he claims they have more sustain. He also modified his Stratocaster by converting the neck from a 3-Bolt to a 4-Bolt (if needed) refretting the neck with Dunlop 6000 fretwire, installing Wilkinson Tremolo Springs adding a brass nut, removing the middle String Tree, installing DiMarzio HS3 Single Coil guitar pickups and most famously Scalloping the fretboard.

Fender honered Malmsteen by making a signature model based on this guitar.

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

Oh, I did get two new guitars during the tour. Steve gave me one of his signature models and I gave him one of mine. It’s great. Neal Schon gave us guitars, too. He gave me a beautiful white 67 Reissue Flying V and and it’s beautiful! He gave each of the other two guys a Les Paul. So go, Neal, go!

In this photo we can see Malmsteen holding his 1969 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop which was later set to be sold for $25K. This was said to be the only Les Paul that he would ever actually owned or played.

In this photo we can see Malmsteen with a Sunburst Gibson Les Paul strapped over his shoulder, as well as a Fender Stratocaster in his hand in what appears to be a Fiesta Red Finish. This guiatar can be seen once again here in the background of this photo.

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.

At 2:06 we can see on the left of Malmsteen, the TSL60 is in the 5 stack of amps and it is the 2nd from the top. This concert was played in Monterrey, Mexico and was filmed in February 2020.

At 2:06 we can see on the left of Malmsteen, the JVM410H is in the 5 stack of amps and it is the 3rd from the top. This concert was played in Monterrey, Mexico and was filmed in February 2020.

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).