I do have the neck pickup tilted unevenly and both pickups are relatively far from the strings (the bridge pickup is pretty much parallel). This makes for just the right tonal balance on this bass with both pickup volumes turned up. There's no knob tweaking that made for the right balance otherwise across the full frequency range. Relatively to my other Alembics, I think the low-end output of the bridge pickup is low rather than the neck pickup being unusually bassy.
This works out well for playing with a pick too. I would normally pick in between the pickups, but with the Exploiter body shape, your arm tends to scoot more toward the neck.
David Fung
