I had gotten very used to Bill Lawrence pickups, from three builds. They pump out a lot of bass, midrange, and treble... which lets you choose the midpoint and width of the resonant peak with what else you do in the setup - woods, capacitors, amp settings, speaker choice, stompboxes etc. I couldn't get seven-string Lawrences, so I went with a DiMarzio Blaze bridge and PAF neck. My impression after the Lawrences was that the DiMarzios were ALL midrange, with some bass. But, no highs to speak of, even wired parallel rather than series.
Midrange is the "classic" sound of humbucking pickups into a Marshall amp, and midrange is what the human ear likes the best - but I have to re-jack all my tone settings to get even close to what I want out of the DiMarzios, and they could never be called crisp, glassy, bell-like or anything like that. This is with entirely normal woods and construction, alder, maple neck with pau ferro board, and the guitar sounds balanced acoustically (wee-ll, as "balanced" as an unplugged electric solidbody can, I actually like that sound after all these eons). But the pickups assassinate every frequency over about 3.2K. I can split the bridge PU coils, but it just gets softer, not much toothier.
With the exception of a splittable, series/parallel switchable Lawrence L500, I think I've turned into a single-coil kind of guy.... :hello2: