I have a 2011 Les Paul studio with the original 490/498t pickups. A day ago, I took the pickup covers off, cleaned up the wax and reinstalled them coverless. I made no altercation s to the control cavity. Upon retuning the guitar the neck pickup is literally 1/3 volume of the bridge (which was unaffected by removing the cover). It's not a bad tone (kindve strat-ty) but it's extremely thin and lacking in girth. I cannot imagine removing the pickup cover resulted in this, but was wondering if I may have held the soldering iron on the back of the pickup too long to desolder the cover? Other than this I am clueless and frustrated. The guitar has the quick connect system. Everything else is working as it should...did I possibly fry the neck pickup?