EMG users... solderless/soldered differences?

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OK I swear blind I'm going nuts here.

I have various guitars which have EMGs all installed by moi. Now, the guitars where I've actually soldered the connections using the old style 25k pots and that all sound great. These include two ESP SV Standards, an MII and a Jackson Stealth.

Two of my guitars, an Ibanez RG and a Jackson KV2, have the solderless setup.

Now I would swear to a nun that the two guitars which have been wired using the solderless kit sound a lot different. As in, not a good way, almost weedy? I've gone through numerous times and, in the case of the KV2, I'm just running the EMG 81 straight to volume then to the output jack just to eliminate wiring screw ups.

Has anyone else noticed the same thing, or am I just being nuts? Oh, and batteries are new too (Duracell Ultra).

Short of grabbing a few 25k pots and rewiring the KV2 to prove it, I'm just wondering if there's some fundamental thing that I've missed?
 
I have both, they sound the same to me. The guitars themselves would make for a greater difference.
 
Well, I've played around a little more with my KV2. EMG 81 wired straight to jack sounds ballsy, lifey and what I'd expect - side by side with the Jackson Stealth as they're pretty similar sounding guitars depsite the obvious constructional differences.

I added back in the rest of the circuit, i.e. the neck pickup, pots, 3 way switch and there's a definite lack of ballsyness. Yet none of the pots look dodgy to me.

The only reason I'm asking as someone else posted something like this AGES back on HC and I distinctly remember shooting him down. I'm wondering if I wasn't too hasty?
 
I would expect some difference by going straight to the jack, you removed everything else from the circuit. But I would also expect the same thing with passives. Pots make a difference by loading the circuits down slightly, just like going from a 250ohm to a 500ohm pot.
 
I think the tone cap is different. It doesn't seem to roll off the highs as much.
 
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