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TheGreatGreen said:
Yeah that makes sense. He used a ton of rack gear, tons of cables, and the EMGs' low output impedance signal is great for maintaining integrity over long cable runs.
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having had experience with both it is a very wise strategy. but the EMGs for me square off the rounder finer nuances of the vintage guitar tones a bit too much for my tastes.
that being said i’d love a side axe loaded with them and have been looking.

how’s this cool story including some Luke shreddery?

 
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mixn4him said:
Also the Rivera at that time too, which was just a copy of the 3+ pre amp..
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i used a Rivera tbr-1 as a power amp live for years and became acquainted with the clean and dirty preamp tones in it.

Luke was the using the Bonehead sig and Los Lobottom subs at that time. when i ran into him in the Brauer hallway rolling my rack out of Dave F’s shop he pointed out the Rivera and gave me a thumb’s up.

truthfully, and with all due respect to Paul, the Rivera crunch tones i’ve experienced (TBR/Bonehead/Knucklehead) aren’t my cup of tea. too stiff. although i learned the day i traded my tbr for a mesa 395 is that they really came alive with EMGs as the guy i traded with demonstrated to me. those amps like to be hit hard on the front end.

my fave Rivera is the Sedona acoustic amp Doyle Dykes endorsed which i got to check out through him, but the newer venus recording amps look cool. and i still love my og rock crusher and used it last night!
 
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mentoneman said:
having had experience with both it is a very wise strategy. but the EMGs for me square off the rounder finer nuaces of the vintage guitar tones a bit too much for my tastes.
that being said i’d love a side axe loaded with them and have been looking.

how’s this cool story including some Luke shreddery?

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Yeah, the amount of extended high end they retain is really different from standard pickups, like they can almost approach piezo territory. The first time I installed an 81 / 89 combo in my guitar, I thought the 81 almost sounded closer to a stronger single coil than a standard humbucker, almost hi-fi sounding.

But I will say that once you get used to those extended highs and learn to dial your rig to accommodate the way they sound, they can be awesome. And despite them almost exclusively being used for metal, they can get surprisingly dynamic too.
 
Got an EMG SL20 Lukather Pickguard in my white MIM Strat. Killer in any amp I’ve used it with.

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Put it this way:

Back in the day when I was trying to determine what might be a fair S/H price for it before I paid the better part of a grand in import duties and whatnot (plus the cost of the geetar of course), the only pics I could find were in a German s/h ad. The only price I could find anywhere, RRP or s/h, was in that ad.

So yeah. Given this is a bit of a Luke-appreciation thread, I expect someone will know it, but I guarantee you if I posted that in most geetar threads nobody would recognise it. Not a chance.
 
Monkey Man said:
Put it this way:

Back in the day when I was trying to determine what might be a fair S/H price for it before I paid the better part of a grand in import duties and whatnot (plus the cost of the geetar of course), the only pics I could find were in a German s/h ad. The only price I could find anywhere, RRP or s/h, was in that ad.

So yeah. Given this is a bit of a Luke-appreciation thread, I expect someone will know it, but I guarantee you if I posted that in most geetar threads nobody would recognise it. Not a chance.
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looks like a Mcguire collab with EB Luke.

one of my biggest all time regrets was passing on a valley arts luke sunburst strat for $500 but my legitimate excuse was i had just picked up my mark IIB coli for $400 and was out of extra gear money!
 
Yikes. Sorry to hear about the Valley Arts miss bro'.

Yeah na... hopefully peeps will keep guessing. :LOL:

Clue:
It's not a collab effort in any shape or form. 100% EBM.
 
Rip said:
I was not expecting to see him playing EMGs. Should I assume they are active pickups?
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Yup.

AFAIK he started playing EMGs in the Valley Arts days (beginning in the '80s) and they've almost always been either stock or optional.
 
I think Luke may have used EMGs as early as the late 70s, those first EMG "Overlend" models with the huge logo. He had them in the Robot when it was still sunburst, so at least very early 80s. But apart from the weeks or months he used his Ibanez model and a small detour into Anderson pickups in the late 80s his main guitars had EMGs for about 35 years.
 
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