HSS vs HH (again, but) in newest Luke III guitars

[Rbg]

Hi everyone,

I am new here and planing to get my first MM guitar. Being a huge fan of Luke my obvious choice are new LIII. I think I will be selling most of my guitars and potentially will keep only one relic 63 copy Strat I assembled from different parts over the years as I am quite attached to that one and that's where I can do some modding if I feel like. At this point of my life ideally I would rather have only one does it all instrument. I used to be a mostly Strat/super Strat guy for my entire life. So here comes the question: Everywhere I could find online says that new humbuckers are not muddy and 4 and 3 position are quite straty, but I am still afraid that going with mahogany body and HH configuration will put me closer to LP tones than Strats. Why just not go HSS and don't think about it? Well I really like Eclipse sparkle and BFR grapes of wrath models and those are only HH models. Any real life experience suggestions on how new HSS and HH compare to each other would be very helpful. Thank you!

As a side note all new instagram and YouTube videos show that the man himself plays his HSS luscious green at home, live and studios...

 

[racerx]

I own a Luke 3 -- I'm very satisfied with every pickup position and especially pleased with the parallel split sounds when activating the boost. Not just "hey this sounds convincing for a split", it sounds really great in it's own right. If I only had one guitar or could only bring one guitar - it would be my Luke 3 and second place isn't particularly close.

I can't speak for HH vs. HSS explicitly, but the only reason I could fathom is requiring the single coil neck sound. I've personally never been a huge fan of mixing singles and humbuckers outside of the Valentine/Tele-ish implementation but I don't have a meaningful or scientific reasoning behind it - just preference.

If its any consolation I don't think you can make a bad decision either way

 

[Rbg]

Thank you! I often play runs on the neck pu it lets me get away with some sloppiness to some extend lol.
Btw do we know if that BFR has SS frets? They look shinier on the photos but may be just bc of that ebony fb.