Same pups, different neck position. Curiously, before Gibson deleted the nineties LP long scale bass sereis for good, they brought out Special Faded models in walnut and cherry which had the neck pup farther up the neck than on any other modern LP bass before. Do those sound different than their predecessors? Not really. Playing a 92 LPB-1 and one of those 2005/6 Special Faded side by side, the older model with the pup closer to the bridge even sounded a little bassier.