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

[Sleeping At Sea]

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.
Perhaps this is how it's meant to be voiced but I have a really hard time taming the top-end on my amps.

Is increasing the string action the only course of action I have or is there anything else I can look at?

Thanks!

 

[Gio_Force_One]

I think a lot of times direct mounted pickups either have spring on the screws or sometimes foam underneath so you should be able to just adjust the screw and move that side of the pickup down. Not sure what the cutlass would have , every guitar that I’ve had with direct mount pickups were adjustable. My charvel had foam underneath the pickups.

 

[Sleeping At Sea]

I think a lot of times direct mounted pickups either have spring on the screws or sometimes foam underneath so you should be able to just adjust the screw and move that side of the pickup down. Not sure what the cutlass would have , every guitar that I’ve had with direct mount pickups were adjustable. My charvel had foam underneath the pickups.

That would be great if that was the case but I'm 'pretty' sure they haven't done that. I tried to tighten the screw and it's already at the bottom and if I un-did the screw it just lifted it out - the pickups didn't move at all.

In more positive news I did make some adjustments to my neck relief saddle heights and lifting the action slightly higher seems to have levelled it out a bit which is good. Still, would be great to be able to drop the pickup height a bit!