I have no idea if that's related to the scatterwinding, as I only had scatterwound pups from BKP and a couple motor city pickups, but no matter the specs, they always clean up better with the volume pot and soft picking than all the other non-scatterwound pickups I had or played
even when I compare hotter pickups like the Miracle Man or Aftermath, they still clean up through gain a lot better than mid output models from Seymour, Gibson or PRS
I did a couple band practices in the last weeks with Seymour Custom Shop and PRS pickups and they were very disappointing in clarity, dynamics and had that harsh top end when I tried to get a "clean" tone under gain
I never use clean channels... I just set gain around noon and turn off my booster, a vintage maxon equalizer
with BKP I have no trouble with that, but with other pickups it's a pain in the ass
I could blame their output levels (Scott Ian El Diablo = 22k, PRS Dragon II = around 13k, but feels hotter than that), but the same happened with the Gibson 490t (8k, alnico 2) and PRS McCarty Treble (8k, alnico 5), which are quite low output
they just can't clean up like a BKP and they get muddy easily in the mids under high gain