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Originally Posted by Ronkirn
If all pickups were “made as well as they could be” in theory the output from any of them would be a “flat line” across the audio spectrum, thus contributing nothing to the sonic characteristics of the composite of the guitar.
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There are some good points in what you said, but pickups are not microphones. If a pickup has a “flat” frequency response, it doesn't automatically mean it will sound just like any other “flat” pickup.
Harmonics are also an important subject to consider. Also, my experience shows that a pickup frequency chart is not “static”, meaning it interacts with many elements of the guitar it's installed in in a pretty unpredictable and not simply “proportional” way. I think you slightly oversimplified the process of tone creation. :)