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Marty if you bypass the treble .0047 uf cap you'll get a lot more volume out of that pickup. Most likely you're not getting much because with the cap in all you get is treble and flats don't put out a lot of treble, rotos are more trebly than most flats though. I have a 72 4001FL and got very little out of the treble pickup with flats until I bypassed that cap, and I know Sérgio agrees, hahah! There is a famous quote from Owen the young'un from england, "It was a pointless twang"

Yes, I failed to mention that I had put a cliplead on the .0047 cap to shunt it. HUGE difference, but not very bright sounding, just louder.
It's pretty close to even now, but I still have to get used to it.