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Recommendations for Pickups

I have a Yamaha RBX6JM John Myung that I just put and Audere preamp in. I am trying to figure out what pickups to use. I have a Conklin with Barts in it and am leaning towards those. I need to be able to switch from slap, finger, pick and tapping tones without a lot of fuss so I need something with variety of tone:hyper:. The guitar is alder body with flame maple top, maple neck and ebony fretboard.
 
I would like a punchier sound, where there is good articulation of the fundamental tone. I also like a bridge pickup that growls a bit. I tend to pan toward the bridge pickup and add more bass playing fingerstlyle and pan towards the neck on slap. Slap tones I like a good round tone on the lower stings and snappy on the top end. I just added an Audere preamp and the tone is much better, but still not quite there.