i don't hate mids, i just hate the nasty upper mids and sharp treble that are inherent in stevie's tone. it actually sounds fine most of the time, but when he starts getting into the higher frets, its a disgusting sound. i agree with most of what you said about clean sounds. for distortion, i like either very smooth sounds w/some bite in the treble, or a full-frequency type-sound. my jag has a 10k power rails (ceramic) pup in the bridge, which has a ####load of upper mids, and treble, but when you drive an amp hard enough, the output stages tone and speaker tone become completely inherent in the sound, which results in fat mids, plus lots of snarl and treble, but never shrillness on the upper frets.
