I noticed that also, however I always use my tone control fully wide open on my guitars. If a certain pup is too ice picky I use the between the pup sound. I set the amp tone controls to have the cleanest tone and not too crispy. Then I find that nice between the pups sound on each guitar that I have, the partscaster and Strat Clone are between the front and middle pups for cleans, and on the Ibanez it has one setting that sounds like it is half of each hum-bucking pup. all three guitars work well that way. Then for more bite and oomph, I set my overdrive stomp tone controls, and I put that in the front of the amp for more bite.