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What didn't you like? I know many people in to high gain love them but they take a bit to get used to the idea of getting the gain difference from somewhere else and make the mistake of comparing them on the same settings as higher gain pickups.
That's a great point. You ain't slamming the front end of an amp with a vintage PAF. I believe that is why we had
Super Distortions from Dimarzio and the JB from Seymour Duncan, to create a hotter signal and get that first
tube driven stage to compress and saturate more than you can with a PAF.
Enter Tubescreamers and other Overdrive pedals and you can slam the front end even more. I am just not buying
that someone can get reasonably tight and percussive high gain tones with a PAF and NOT also using some kind
of additional tool to hit the front of the amp (virtual or real) harder.
Also, Alnico can mush out and get soft and flabby (especially A2 or A4) when you really ratchet up the gain levels.
Not unlike speakers, where Ceramic stays tighter and holds together better than Alnico, I find it similar with pickups.
Magnets matter.