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It's on 24 fret guitars vs 22 fret - the neck pickup is in a different place.
It has nothing to do with harmonic nodes or anything like that, it simply sounds different because it's closer to the bridge - just like a middle pickup sounds different to a neck pickup.
I'm unlike many people in that I don't just think I hear something then believe it's there, I'm very mistrusting of initial impressions. But there was a time where I was either going to keep a 24 fret guitar that I liked every other aspect of or spend a good bit of money on a 22 fret guitar. So I really wanted to be sure there was a significant difference. I recorded loads of samples and blind tested between them to see if I could consistently hear the difference between the two and I could.
It's a big thing for me because that very deep neck humbucker sound is one of my favourite guitar tones and it just can't be done with a 24 fret guitar. I even tried all sorts of EQing to see if I could get away with keeping the 24 fret and save money, I was quite obsessed with it for a few weeks.
So I'm absolutely confident they sound different but, again, it's nothing to do with silly theories about harmonic nodes, it's just that moving a pickup to the middle position sounds different - no one would ever think otherwise - so moving it to half way between the neck and middle position of course makes it sound different for the same reason.
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