I think it sounds great, better than they did in the Gretsch. I do have CTS pots and a Switchcraft switch/jack in the Hofner now, the G had pretty cheap looking electronics (mini-pots and a loose, cheap switch) originally so that helps. The one thing I did have trouble with is the bridge PU isn't angled the same as the strings, so before I had it screwed down it was louder because it's kind of like... /[ if that makes any sense (angled strings, horizontal PU seen from the side) I wasn't skilled enough/ambitious enough to make an angled PU surround for the bridge one. THe neck PU doesn't seem to have the same problem though, that one is on a much similar plane to the strings. I thought I'd use the neck one more than the bridge one anyway, but I seem to use both. The guy who put the active PU's in my bass cut the original surrounds and the metal covers to hold the "Jazz" style PUs in place, which of course didn't work, and the wiring was screwed up enough that when I did plug it in all I got was an air-raid siren shriek that blew out the speaker on my amp. (Cheap solid-state practice thing, so no big loss). I always wondered what the Hofner sounded like originally but since the original parts were long gone when I got it, and I've never seen another one who knows.
