Direct mounted pickups – how to balance tone? (JR Cutlass)

The JR Cutlass is the first guitar I’ve had with direct mounted pickups and while I don’t usually tinker that much with my pickup heights, I am wondering if there is actually anything you can do to help get a more balanced tone?

On the bridge pickup the higher strings seem louder than the bottom strings. I’d have to measure but I’d say perhaps a db or so. The neck pickup sounds very consistent going through each string but moving to the bridge the high end is just a bit too piercing…

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