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Also, its a misconception to try & get the p/up is as near as possible to the string. Certainly, it has an effect on volume - but you will often find that lowering your p/ups gives a much better tone, and on some guitars even modest height adjustments can noticeably affect tone. You want to try and get the volume levels of each p/up about the same so you don't get volume spikes or dips when you change p/up selections, and you also want the tone & volume to be consistent across all 6 strings.
I thought it was more common to fret the very last note on the neck?
My method is if there's a primary pickup (for example I'm mostly on bridge pickup) then set that up first so that it sounds balanced across the strings on a clean setting. Then try it with some other sounds and get a feel for it, if it needs any adjustments count the 1/4 turns and note them on a piece of paper so you can get back to where you were before as necessary. Go on feel, don't worry too much about what other people have as measurements.
Once you've got one pickup sorted it reduces your options with the other pickups, assuming they're matched in terms of output. So once the bridge is done, I try to get the neck sounding balanced with the bridge in terms of output, and balanced with itself in terms of bass/treble response.
From what I gather Teles sound bright anyway and my Vox Cambridge sounds quite bright so I shouldn't really be getting muddy bass strings, should I?