“I don’t know why I’m so late to the game. I am kicking myself”: Yvette Young shares a closer look at her next signature guitar – which features her latest gear revelation

Yvette Young has been busy. In addition to lending her chops to James Gunn’s Superman last year, making music to help emo kids go to sleep, and releasing her very own signature pedal, the Walrus Audio Qi Etherealizer, Young has also been chipping away at perfecting a new signature Ibanez Talman.

This was followed by the Orange Cream Sparkle YY20 just a year later, which sports a more Tele-style functional setup.

In an interview with Guitar World last year, Young confessed that this upcoming model is “her main instrument right now – I just love the pickups,” and teased that it “it may or may not be coming out.”

Indeed, in a recent interview with Guitar.com, Young confirmed its release and gave a closer look at the new Pink Sparkle-finished signature model, equipped with P-90 pickups – a first for the guitarist.

“We went through the YY10, which had the Strat-style pickups, and then I went through the Tele-style pickups” she explains. “And now I don’t know why I’m so late to the P-90 game. I am kind of kicking myself because these are just so chunky.

“I feel like I’ve been into a lot of heavier stuff lately, kind of leaning into the more grungy sludgy stuff, a lot of fuzz tones, a lot of overdrive and things like that.”

As for which pickup brand Young decided to opt for, she reveals that, “These are Wilkinsons. I tried out so many different P-90s from all these companies, and these Wilkinsons just knocked it out of them. I did a blind test, too. I didn’t even know what I was trying.”

Aside from the P-90s and finish, other specs that we can expect from the final model – whose official release date hasn’t been announced yet – include “special art inlays” and a rosewood fingerboard.

“I’m just over the moon to release this guitar, because I think, tonally, it’s really where I’m at right now. The Pink Sparkle is a tribute to my first guitar that I ever got, sent by Ibanez,” she concludes.

In more recent news, Young revealed what it was like to record guitar for the Superman movie – and the gear she used during the whole process.

Janelle is a staff writer at GuitarWorld.com. After a long stint in classical music, Janelle discovered the joys of playing guitar in dingy venues at the age of 13 and has never looked back. Janelle has written extensively about the intersection of music and technology, and how this is shaping the future of the music industry. She also had the pleasure of interviewing Dream Wife, K.Flay, Yīn Yīn, and Black Honey, among others. When she’s not writing, you’ll find her creating layers of delicious audio lasagna with her art-rock/psych-punk band ĠENN.