Convince me to buy a Luke

[ZeroFivefour]

I bought my Luke 1 in April 1994. I had never tried any Musicman guitar before. Loved it straight away. I liked EMG pickups anyway, as I had retrofitted some into my first guitar ( a cheap and nasty strat copy). But I realised the single coils were different to standard SA's. They had more power and clarity. They are SA57's. However when I bought my Luke II I realised the SLV's in that were much more vintage and overwound sounding, a lot more stratty, but without all the inherant noise issues associated with passives. Either way the single coils in both guitars have a beautiful sound. I play mainly clean & low gain, no metal music or anything like that.

I'd recommend them to anyone, and tell them to forget any preconceptions, as EMG's get a real bad rap on forums like this, and that might put a lot of folk off, without ever actually trying them. A mind is like an umbrella. It only works when it is open.

Totally agree with martyhk0 and Craiguitar here!

I also have ran emgs in at least one of my guitars since 1987. I had an original luke 1 with the 85 bridge and single coils, I now have a reissue with the same EMG pickups as the original Luke. One of the major attributes of the Luke guitar with emgs is its sonic versatility imho. I have recorded with the emgs using a dual recto and have obtained some insane huge 'rip your face off' sounds as well as some of the most beautiful sounding sweet tones using the different Luke pickups/combinations.

Luke knows what he is/was doing when he and EBMM designed the axe. I also run other guitars with passive pickups from a few other manufactures, including the axis with its killer dimarzio HH set up. But for me the luke is my absolute go-to guitar.

Cheers,

Tom

 

[Jorge ven]

 

[Jorge ven]

 

[Jorge ven]

BUY ONE!!! NOW

 

[Andy G]

Simply the finest guitar in the world as far as I am concerned. Elegant, timeless, classy, understated, awesome thin v neck, powerful fx friendly pickups, robust and best in the industry vibrato, good colours, lightweight, best headstock shape, played by one of the finest contemporary musicians, beautiful figured necks ; maple or rosewood, choice of piezo, sucked sweet shape, desirability, created by the best guitar manufacturer in the world. I cant say enough outstanding things about this instrument. Buy one. Hell! Buy 10! They're all different and beautiful.

Regards
Andy

 

[vinnas]

"1. I hate EMG pickups. That is until I tried the Luke. Totally different story then any EMG I ever tried or heard, so just forget it has EMG pu's. You won't even know they are there."

That´s exactly how I felt about my Luke, which I got some months ago. You know that they are passive, and the sound from it is different from passives. But I kept asking 'why so many people say bad things? after all they sound great'.