I'm looking at building a five-string bass, and I'm trying to scope out my options on pickups. I'm not looking for the best on the market, just a pickup that sounds decent. I'll be using one pickup in the bridge position alone. The sound I'm looking for is something like Tony Levin (he uses musicman pickups): fat, can be overdriven fairly easily, and with decent clean sound, but can get into a kind of dirty jazz/blues line.
I've read up on some of the active/passive stuff, and I've kind of come to the conclusion that it really doesn't matter either way, if the sound is there.
Any thoughts?
edit: changed from six strings to five.