Yngwie's action?

[Endrik]

Does anyone know how high is Yngwie's guitar's action at the 12th fret?
5mm? 6mm?

Thanks!

[Burn]

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too freakin' high....

[YetAnotherOne]

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She looked about 16.

[Joe_Steeler]

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enough to slide a McDonalds french frie under the string.

[pagemalicious]

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enough to slide a McDonalds french frie under the string.

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[1trussell]

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I just watched the videos on the enhanced Uleash the Fury cd. I don't care what you guys say, that man is a fucking God when it comes to the guitar. He can weigh 400 pounds and have an ego like Scott Stapp for all I care. My mouth drops whenever I see him play.

[Burn]

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yeah, imagine what he could do without storing his lunch under the strings! I personally can't play fast with high action...

[nateb]

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enough to slide a McDonalds french frie under the string.

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By the looks of him, I thought he was sponsored by burger king... [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[1trussell]

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yeah, imagine what he could do without storing his lunch under the strings! I personally can't play fast with high action...

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I personally can't play as fast as Ynwgie so I guess it doesn't matter that much. He uses such a light guage string in addition to the scalloped fretboard, I think he could have the action as high as physically possible and he could still shred rings around most people.

[markD]

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I personally can't play fast with high action...

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it's just the opposite for me. i find the lower the action the harder it is for me to play. for some reason i learned to lift my fingers VERY high off the fretboard when i play. i'm talking about having them completely off the strings and everything. maybe YJM is the same?

[1trussell]

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I do the same thing. I've tried to barely lift my fingers off the strings, at the advice of Michael Angelo. I can't fucking do it! It's actually frustrating. Whenever I lift my pinky off the string, it comes all the way up. I guess I'll never be able to play as fast as these guys. Oh well, I can always listen in awe.

[Burn]

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hmmmmm... I play 8's on most of my guitars, but my action stays super low, but have not tried the scalloped fretboard yet... hey! here's one: what guage string and action
did Jason Becker play with??

[axeman81]

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I believe Yngwie uses regular 10-46 or 11-52 but he has a .008 on the high E to save his fingers on tour.
He has also stated many times that he prefers higher action to low action.
Remember that with a scalloped fretboard, you only move your fingers exactly enough to have it "connect" to the fret, this way you save finger-moving-time if you on a normal neck would tend to use too much pressure, so your left-hand TIMING would be different on scalloped vs. non-scalloped!
Hence it is probably possible to play just as fast if not even faster, on a scalloped neck with high action, rather than a regular neck with similar action.

I myself like the "middle-road" string action, because I think you get more powerful resonance from the strings if they are a little higher than your average super-low-shred-till-yer-dead kinda setup!

[thetroy]

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I believe Yngwie uses regular 10-46 or 11-52 but he has a .008 on the high E to save his fingers on tour.
He has also stated many times that he prefers higher action to low action.

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That is right. I don't understand why so many people complain that he's using 8's to play faster

[Endrik]

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I just wondered because people say that even Yngwie couldn't play with my guitars or something like that [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] I think his action is as high as possible so the guitar would still function properly. Well I have mine guitars set-up like that. I would use 5-6mm @ 12th fret but the guitar's "ocatves" aren't right at that action, it's impossible to get the guitar work properly with that action so I have them about 4-5mm @ 12th fret, 3,5mm is the lowest I can go. I personally hate low action, it sounds like shit to me. High action sounds better and it doesn't slow me down.