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What after market humbucker pickup would match this sound for the bridge?

WarmothRules

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I built a warmoth baritone recently and would like to find a pickup that sounds like the pickup in my squire 7 string. My squire has the best sound of any of my guitars with it's stock pickup. The squire's body is basswood maple neck rosewood board and my warmoth baritone is an alder body, maple neck and pau ferro board. The squire's sound sounds nice and even, no boosted or cut frequencies and the bass is slightly punchy and tight but not overly tight and the treble is nice and pleasing, even mids no cut. I run my guitars threw a boss super overdrive as a boost which tightens everything up so my guitars with duncan distortions and my other 7 string with a dimarzio evolution in the bridge are quite harsh. Also I own an agile baritone with it's stock pickups it has an overly smooth boosted bass tone, scooped mids and lacking treble threw the boss super overdrive, I want to avoid that. I'd assume the squire has ceramic magnets and it's like a medium output i'd say maybe on the high output side.
 
I've got 2 basses with the same body woods, same pickups, same hardware, same neck woods, but different fretboards.  They sound almost but not quite the same, and I don't attribute it to the fretboard woods.  Jeff Beck has identical Strats, and of those, he prefers one to the others.

My point being, it's hard enough to get 2 things to sound the same that are 99.99% identical.  Your 7 string Squire I'd guess has shorter scale length and wider neck than the longer, skinnier 6 string baritone.  I don't think you will have much luck getting 2 things that are fundamentally different to sound the same.  If you think it's the pickup, try and find a 6 string version of your 7 string Squire pickup.  However, I'm hesitant of any maker that offers 6 and 7 string versions of the same pickup without further explanation. Logic dictates it can't be.  A seven string pickup wound with the same gauge wire and number of windings will have 1/6 more wire on it, which yields a different DC resistance.  If the DC resistance is kept the same with the same gauge wire, the 7 string is underwound in comparison.  Then there's the magnets.  Bigger pickup, bigger magnet, stronger magnet. 
 
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