Along with purchasing the Gibson Dirty Fingers pickup, I was told my tone would be much clearer on distortion and my output would be incredibly high. I only found that the first thing came true, but I must say, I still found the purchase to be more than worth it. Every note that I hit is quite clear and my tone is admittedly more aggressive, just the output feels the relatively the same. Great buy, just not life-changing like some people I heard were saying.