Taming Pickup Volume with Capacitors and Resistors

[syddd]

Hello Everybody

Can someone steer me in the right direction here?

I have experimented with taming pickups with capacitors and resistors before, so I understand putting capacitors and resistors in parallel so that I am reducing the low end and letting the top end through to get a slight volume cut like below;

            |---C1---------|
Volume------|              |---------Pickup------Ground
            |---R1---------|



However I am trying to conceptually understand what happens in the below scenario - is it going to be two stages of frequencies getting let through high pass filters? Or does this start getting too curly?


            |---C1---------|
            |              |
Volume------|---R1---------|---------Pickup------Ground
            |              |
            |---C2---R2----|


P.S. Yes I have tried lowering the pickup volume, it works to an extent but loses the top end response

[bluemurder]

Both scenarios are very similar as they will both reduce low end, depending on the resistor/cap values. The overall volume is not really reduced.