Sound of the neck pickup: 22 fret vs 24 fret

[ryan_p]

Apologies if this has been posted earlier  : if so, please feel free to link this to the older Thread.

Apparently, this is a bit topic online - some seem allergic
to the sound of a neck pickup on a 24 fret guitar - it seems less warmer (plain physics) than the neck pickup would on a 21/22 fretter. Now, to me, that would be apparent if one sits playing alone, on an amp at home. One may not be able to hear that in a band situation (unless his name is Eric Johnson).

Sample this sample :

I cannot tell the difference.

How about you folk?

Regards
Ryan

[paulman]

This is making me a little crazy, because I never considered that before.  Time to de-fret my Further! (j/k)

[jazzyvee]

It's something i've thought of before but it's never been something i've focussed on when buying a guitar. Regarding the video, personally I'd rather hear guitar reviews done with a clean sound. As soon as I heard the overdrive/distortion on the review I stopped watching. Also the pickups are different so what are you actually hearing being compared. Not like for like for sure.

[hankster]

If you start from my standing proposition - that I never met a guitar I didn't like -  then it sounds great regardless.

R.

[ryan_p]

I think you can make it out only if you play it at home with no other extraneous noise / music and only if you listen closely. Once you're a part of a mix - too much going on to latch onto such details.

Years back, when I played bass on a lounge gig, I played the house Gibson bass which had a sliding pickup. The difference was noticeable when you moved from the neck to the bridge but then again, smaller shifts didn't really have that much incremental difference.

A lot seem to harp on the harmonic mode at the 24th fret location, where a pickup would be placed on a 21/22 fret guitar, but that logic is flawed - that node changes the minute one frets a string.