Hi Guys!
Sorry for digging this old thread, but i feel that somehow my question fit to this topic.
Im an owner of MM Luke II and Bogner XTC - cause obviously im a big fan of Lukather
I wanted to obtain Luke tone and i must say that im a bit disappointed. When i am playing alone - it is great, tasty, fat and smooth, but when it comes to rehearsals with my band it is tragic, it is really hard to cut through them, like 'blanket effect'.
I saw few videos and photos with Lukather Bogner settings and this only made me sure that something is weird. Lukather has really low treble setting like 10-11 o,clock on audio taper pot (!!), presence on 12 (so basically it is totally inactive), pre-eq off, microfone definetly off-axis - with this settings even god fingers cant cut through mix, and yet he can...
So i am asking how is it possible?
The only thing that comes to my mind are those Transition pickups - maybe they are much brighter and open sounding than emg's? What do you think guys?