Played a real nice Luke today

[Tone?]

So i went to a real good music store and played this killer Luke.

I also tried a Silhouette special they had but the Luke just sounded more 'deep' and sang.

What an awesome guitar. The thing i loved the most is the neck. The necks on EBMM guitars are so 'personal' and the opposite of sterile. They arent just another 'strat' shaped neck, which is why i love them so much.

This one was particularly light as well. Lighter than my Axis. By looking at the EBMM site the Axis is supposed to be lighter than the Luke isnt it?? It was so damn resonant and the strings were old on top of it!
Anyway, as a question to those who have more than one Luke or more experience with them, are they pretty consistent with the way they all sound?

I have already 'messed' up by getting guitars without playing them first, this one was kinda expensive but i might get it as soon as i find a job, cause it just sang. Plus the guy who owns the store is a real good guy.

cheers!

 

[Multiversal]

ALL Lukes are wonderful!

 

[robelinda2]

the Luke neck is pretty awesome.

 

[jabba]

What an awesome guitar. The thing i loved the most is the neck. The necks on EBMM guitars are so 'personal' and the opposite of sterile. They arent just another 'strat' shaped neck, which is why i love them so much.

Ya, I know what you mean. When you play an EBMM guitar, you can feel the superior engineering that goes into each model.....almost like they've evolved the process of guitar production in some respects....the neck on the Luke is a good example.

 

[TNT]

Yeah,

Like any "premium" guitar - I have found them consistent over the years (I mean decades).

Always individual nuances though, for the right reason - normally "wood", the living element of a guitar.

 

[kbaim]

My take is they're consistent, but not identical. The ones with piezos tend to sound a tad thinner and also have slightly less volume than the regular lukes, but also can add in the killer acoustic tone. The BFR's sound deeper and have somewhat more sustain.

I switch between all three fairly easily.

 

[leftyguitarblue]

Love my Luke. it's versatility rocks.

 

[Sweat]

My take is they're consistent, but not identical. The ones with piezos tend to sound a tad thinner and also have slightly less volume than the regular lukes, but also can add in the killer acoustic tone. The BFR's sound deeper and have somewhat more sustain.

I switch between all three fairly easily.

What Keith said is very true, but bottom line is a Luke is a great guitar in any config.

 

[DavidOfOz]

If I start plying one of my Lukes, I'm in serious strife...I simply can't put it down once I start. This leads to sleep deprivation, lack of motivation to do anything but play guitar, and a loss of general productivity. Maybe EB should put a health warning in the Luke packaging.

There is a definate difference between the BFR and the Dargie in terms of sound, though I'm not articulate enough to find the right words to describe that difference. The BFR is certainly more "resonant" (and yeah, Keith, "deeper" could be the right word). Both sound great, play great. My other non-EBMM guitars are being seriously neglected.

 

[greenwizard]

^^ Sell them!!! Buy another Luke!
=)!

 

[slukather]

The Luke guitar rocks, l love my Luke guitars.

Scott.

 

[brasco68]

The Luke is just a rock solid axe...even playing it acoustically you can feel the sustain. It screams!!

 

[Tone?]

The only thing that is making me iffy is the active pickups in it.
I have always been a passive playing myself, so i dont know how it will rub on my plugged in.
I dont want to buy it and change the electronics in it.

 

[Jimmyb]

I don't see the difference between active and passive as being that big personally. I'm a big Gilmour fan and I've heard stuff he's done with his active one and also stuff he's done with his passive ones.

There don't seem to be great differences in the tone he gets switching between the two. I think ultimately, it all comes down to your style of playing.

If you've played it and liked it, that should be your main consideration in my mind.

 

[starsky]

In my experience if you try an axe you like a lot in a shop you should buy it, assuming you're in the market for a new one of course.

Some guitars have more mojo than others, despite being the same make and model, and you may not find as good a one **for you** very easily if you pass up the good one when these situations arise.

I've bought a few guitars over the years which I had no intention of buying, but trying them out they just played and sounded right to me at that time.

My Lukes sound and feel slightly different to each other, both are great and I switch between them regularly.

I also think a lot of people react psychologically to the fact that the EMGs are active. If it sounds good, then it sounds good! There's no noise from them, which is really the only sign they are active to me, and they have a wonderful tone and range.

It's really a question of personal taste, and whether the Luke sound is one you like. They certainly play great

 

[gerry d]

the old EMG debate..... the Luke sounds fantastic with EMG's..... I played one on some studio stuff and asked some friends to identify the guitar by it's tone.... guess what...? they all loved the recorded tone.... and thought it was a strat and a LP that I recorded with.... so much of this stuff is just in peoples imagination.... EMGs sound wonderfull... there is no mystery..

 

[Slingy]

This is my first guitar with actives and the EMG 85 in the bridge sounds fantastic. It's not so hot that I need a padded input or anything. I'm really liking the tone of it.

Although the EMG-85 has more measurable output than the 81, its frequency response and string interface are different. The 85 uses two Alnico magnet loaded coils with a wide aperture to maintain a beefy lowend and a fatter top end. Because of a more natural tone, it works great as a rhythm and blues pickup because it has loads of output but isn't muddy. Itís a perfect choice as a rhythm pickup in combination with an 81 in the bridge, which is the same pickup combination used by Zakk Wylde.

 

[kbaim]

When I first picked up a luke I didn't know what active and passive were, or that emg's were active. Only came to all that later.

I just went by how much better my tone seemed to be playing the Luke in the store than my humbucker guitar at home when playing clean. So I bought the Luke (actually ordered one and borrowed the store one until my special order was ready 3 months later...then bought that one as a backup.)

Then realized you can order them with a piezo (not knowing what that was at the time). By that time my clean playing was sounding a lot better...where it made up like 90% of my playing, so the piezo Lukes were the next logical step for me.

Then EB comes out with the BFR's and the cycle continues.

 

[Tone?]

Even if i get it, is changing the actives easy???

Can Seymour duncans and Dimarzios fit in there easily without mods??

 

[Slingy]

I don't know the answer to that, but you can swap different models of emg actives via a quick connect cable, no soldering.