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Okay, so obviously when a pickup is closer to the bridge it is more trebley/bright and the opposite for neck position buttttttt, are pickups that are made for the bridge wired to be brighter to emphasize the bright or wired to be deeper to even it out?
I have a gutiarhead pickup that im putting in my guitar in the bridge position and it's a 4-wire humbucker. There are two ways to wire it though, one for neck and one for bridge. I can only assume this is for tone but I dont know if wiring it the bridge way will make it brighter or deeper or what.
The different wiring is for the phase of the pickup rather than the tone. If you look at the pickups in the diagram you'll see the adjustable poles are at opposite sides.
As for your other question, in my experience the bridge pickup is designed to emphasise the bridge position characteristics and vice versa for the neck.
When pickups are sold as sets, the bridge pickup tends to be wound hotter (as in, more winds). More winds make a pickup darker and louder. Why make the bridge pickup hotter, you may ask intently with wide eyes full of wonder and hope? Basically, the strings move more the closer you get to the middle of the vibrating length (12th fret when open, 13th when your fretting the 1st fret, etc), so the neck pickup would be louder if both pickups were wound just the same. This does happen to result in darker bridge pickups and brighter neck pickups. In my experience, the neck pickup is usually the brighter one and has the most low end, while the bridge is more mid range. Also, a lot of companies intentionally over-compensate with the bridge pickups because people like their bridge pickups to be louder.
4 conductor wiring has a lot of possibilities. With just the two wires that aren't wired together you can get a phase reversal, but using all 4 you can put the coils in parallel or turn off one of the coils for a brighter (and weaker) tone. You'll want pretty hot pickups if you expect to get strat/tele style single coil tones out of a humbucker, but it mixes well with other pickups.
ANYWAYS, if you look closely, you'll see both the neck and bridge diagrams there are actually exactly the same. Red and white get soldered together, black goes to ground, and green is the signal. They were just being a bit technical in which coil the wires came from, as if anyone wiring it up gave a damn.
