Since making this thread I've bought and returned an AZ2204N, so I can leave some description for whomever stumbles upon this thread later.
First off, I have a lot of guitars and have owned many over the years, but almost all have been dual humbucker so I'm not well-versed in single coils. From that vantage point, I found the Fortuna pickups bright and scooped. Very clear.
The humbucker matched the single coils rather than the other way around, which is to say it's one of the thinnest sounding humbuckers I've played. Think Custom 5 mids and highs with the bass dialed down and output only a bit hotter than a PAF - that's obviously a rough estimate because I didn't swap anything else in to compare and some of that could be the natural tone of the guitar. Comparing to a WLH I have an Eclipse, the Fortuna was brighter, clearer and lacking some balls, but again some of that could be the guitar. I didn't find it unusably bright and scooped like a Kiesel Lithium though.
There was no significant volume jumps and all 9 positions on the switch were useful. I actually would've loved to have kept it as far as the tone is concerned because it covers a lot that my other guitars don't.
I returned it because the neck felt like they forgot to carve it. I don't mind a D shaped neck but this thing was more like a slightly rounded square. Way too much shoulder, so shifting your thumb up to the bass side is weirdly difficult. I've played necks that were more immediately offensive (like >1" thick) but didn't mess up my playing as much as this. Just a really weird profile for my hands. The return policy was 1 month but I returned it after playing it for 2 days because I was that confident I wouldn't adjust to the neck.
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