Well, like I said, this process happened gradually enough (over the course of a couple years) that I can't confidently say where the tone has been affected or not. If there's no reason it should have been then that's cool, that's what I came here to learn about.
Of course my initial newb enthusiasm from the years-old original post has tempered somewhat, but I still like the pickups quite a bit! Maybe not quite as versatile as I'd led myself to believe but still surprisingly so for the specs in my experience.
