One of the best things you can do to your tone, if you want a full pickup sound is to take the tone control right out of the circuit... or better yet, the volume control too. Straight to the jack... EVH could tell you more about it.
Not my thing, I prefer to have a few tonal options... but I might cut the tone control off my bridge pickup, just to try it. I'm more of a neck player anyway, and that tone control gets a workout.