Luke and EMG 89?

[Dead-Eye]

I've been wondering if anyone here has replaced the humbucker in a Luke with an EMG 89. EMG claim that in humbucker mode it sounds like the stock 85, is that true?

The Luke is my father's main guitar and he told me that the only thing that keeps it from being perfect for him is that you can't get any kind of single coil sound from the bridge pickup, so naturally I thought of putting an 89 in there. Any thoughts?

 

[phatduckk]

give it a shot. i think a luke with an 89 would be pretty rad

 

[JDouglee]

The 89 is good, it's humbucking mode is not an exact 85 sound, but it's close.

 

[Boy Oldigs]

I owned a Luke with an EMG 89. I replaced the bridge pickup so now you have a coil tap! Pull up on the volume knob and the bridge pickup splits to single coil.
Super stratty quack in positions 2 and 4.
My guitar tech has also replaced the master tone with an EMG spc circuit which is an active midrange boost.
Make the neck pickup sound like a humbucker, or, with your lead channel one, use it to goose the gain even more...

 

[kbaim]

I'm about to switch to EMG 89 in 2 of my Lukes. Bought 2 pickups from GC last month. The first is scheduled to have it done feb 12 in Vegas. Probably go in my Black BFR.
Waiting on the second to see if the first one works out.

 

[NorM]

I have 4 SiLOs with 89's and 85's and honestly I couldn't taste a difference.
3 have the 89 in the neck and one in the bridge.
But then again I use reverb and chours so much that I might not be able to tell. Still, the split coil capability makes for a bunch of versitility that I enjoy.

 

[Dead-Eye]

Guitar is back from the shop. Haven't had much of a chance to try it out yet, but seems to sound good so far. Only conclusion so far is that next time anything gets done, it will be at another shop: When I opened the box they put the old 85 in, I noticed they had broken one of the screw mounts off.

 

[emanon]

Dude, did you get some kind of deal on the work?

 

[Dead-Eye]

I only noticed it at home, but it's OK, they replaced the pickup.