I've got a YJM (neck) and 2 H-3s Dimarzio's on order. If you like Malmsteens' sound, this is his most popular setup. Of course your going to munge the signal these coils produce, but remember the first axiom of the pickup: crap begats crap. If you need to DSP the snot out of your finger's art work, I have a small problem with that. You should, IMHO, plug into your favorite head, turn all the wave-shaping knobs hard-left then let the pickups speak alone. And now for the xxxx dollar question -- do you like what you hear?

I can almost garntee 'ya -- if you luv 'em bald-faced, then you'll luv 'em chewed up by whatever Digitech, Boss and other's will do to YOUR signal.

But if you gotta fiddle, and twiddle, eq, dq, flop and fold to get "it", sorry, but I think you'll be finished with that groove PDQ.

Me, I just want to play man. I don't want to waste precious practice time by dialing in/out my pickups' short comings.

I'll write back once I get my new coils installed.