vinnyburns
Experienced
I definitely prefer the sound of the neck pickup on a 22 fret guitar.
Personally I prefer the sound of neck humbuckers in 22 fret guitars. They do tend to sound a bit fuller and fatter generally. The only time I prefer 24 frets is if I want to play 5th fret harmonics - these get cancelled out on 22 fret guitars.
Yep it is.The hunt is also exciting
Depends on the sound you're after.
Traditionally, most electric guitars had the pole pieces of the neck pickup right on the 1/2-way division of then string node which is also where the 24th fret would be on a 24-fret neck.
[I've actually seen some ES-175s though where the neck pup pole pieces are a little further towards the bridge than this node.]
So if you're after a traditional tone you probably won't be able to nail it with a 24-fret neck (unless they also figure out a way to make a pickup with pole pieces right under the 24th fret that doesn't sound like crap when you actually play at the 24th fret which is highly unlikely).
If you don't care about traditional tones then go for it.
"Good" or "bad" tone is highly subjective.
But as for me... I'm an old fart and have never liked the neck pickup tones possible on 24-fret guitars.
yes, i'd seen a video of stariani explaining why his 24-fret model had a single coil sized humbucker.The sound is different (does not mean one is worse).
I read Satriani's approach to this:
- his older signature model have 22 frets because of this difference, he use PAF Pro (humbucker double coil format) in the neck position
- his new signature model have 24 frets, and he changed the neck pickup to humbucker in single coil format to compensate the distance