Yngwie Malmsteen

"We have also Fender Yngwie Malmsteen strings. I've used these for quite some time now, but now Fender has officialy put my name on it. It's a diffrent kind of gauge than you normally buy. It's very, very good. (...) The only string I will play, by far."

I’ve used Fender Super Bullets for years now. I use a strange gauge .008, .011, .014, .026, .036, .048. Throughout the years, I found that if the wound strings are too thin, it really affects the sound and you dont get that massive thick sound. But the high strings never sound better when theyre thicker. The action on my guitars is very very high. Everybody thinks that since I’m playing those fast things, the action is low. But that is what I think makes the guitar sing not the thickness of the strings because it allows it to breathe more. I always tune my guitar a half step down, except for the jam in G3. For that, I was in standard tuning.

In this November 29, 2013 Facebook post, Malmsteen can be seen in an article for Bass Player Magazine, this article reads:

"Swede'N Low As a bassist, Yngwie Malmsteen likes to take it up a notch"

"There may never be a six-string shredder to rival Eighties guitar icon Yngwie Malmsteen. It may not be a surprise to learn, therefore that Malmsteen has also played bass guitar-thank you very much-on most of the albums he's made over the past two decades, including his latest, Unleash the Fury (Universal)."

"I've yet to hear a bassist approach the instrument the way I hear it in my head, so it's easier for me to play the parts on my albums," says Malmsteen. "In classical music the contrabasses and cello parts are integral within the structures of the melodies and counterpoint, and that's how I like to approach my bass parts."

"Malmsteen generally deplores the current state of rock bass, "It's fallen by the wayside," he complains, "It has such a secondary role in rock music, whereas in the Seventies there was a lot more bass playing going on."

"Much as Malmsteen and his neoclassical chops changed people's notions of what is possible on the electric guitar in the Eighties, the Swedish virtuoso has raised the bar on playing bass with his blindingly fast runs and cello-like vibrato. But Yngwie Malmsteen maintains that he never resorts to flash for it's own sake."

"I play very fast on the bass only when a song calls for it," he says. "I don't always play a million notes a bar. I let the guitar do that." --Joe Lalaina

"BOOMBOX:"

"Basses:" "Early-Fifties Fender Precision with a maple neck and early-Sixties Fender Jazz bass with a rosewood neck, both equipped with DiMarzio pickups and Hipshot detuners

"Strings: " "Dean Markley Blue Steel, .40, .60, .80, and .100"

"Head:" "Ampeg SVT Classic"

"Cabinet:" "Ampeg SVT 8x10"

"Picks:" "Dunlop [Delrin 500] 1.5mm"

"Effects:" "MXR Dyna-comp Compresser and a SansAmp direct box and EQ"

Before his signature string set with Fender, Malmsteen had an endorsement with Dean Markley strings, making him signature ball-end Nickelwound strings in .10-.46, .9-.42, .8-.46, & .8-.48.