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How does 'voicing' sound?

This might seem like an abstract question, but I find the concept of voicing abstract - what does voicing mean when it comes to a pickup? Is there an example of two pickups in same position, playing the same line but with different voicing? This has been bugging me for a while, I understand that a high voiced pickup will have more treble and less bass with a peak high, and the lower voiced one will have the opposite, but are there any samples of this difference, I'd really like to hear it!
 
This is for guitar pickups, rather than bass pickups, but it may give you some idea of how different pickup voicings can affect how a pickup sounds:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/audio-samples/humbuckers_and/

This is a comparison of different basses rather than different pickups, but if you pick two similar basses with different pickups, you can get some sense of the differences in the pickups:

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