static humbukcer hum/buzz

[NegativeEase]

Re: static humbukcer hum/buzz

Check your Bridge grounding to the jack, if it's soldered to a pot, remove it and homerun it to the jack -makes a difference. Second check your wiring on your humbuckers and pot grounding -when you split humbuckers for paralleling or phasing it's easy to create a noise problem if you make a mistake or short something cramming it back together.. Lastly, shield your cavities with copper tape or Faraday paint and bring one ground to the jack from the shielding (once again NOT to one of the pot casings). These guitar techs busing grounds to a pot casing instead of homerunning them to the jack need to stop -or go back to basic electronics school. Homerun grounds ALWAYS to the jack -it improves the routing of external EMF to ground and reduces the overall signal to noise in the system.

[greekdude]

Re: static humbukcer hum/buzz

Check your Bridge grounding to the jack, if it's soldered to a pot, remove it and homerun it to the jack -makes a difference. Second check your wiring on your humbuckers and pot grounding -when you split humbuckers for paralleling or phasing it's easy to create a noise problem if you make a mistake or short something cramming it back together.. Lastly, shield your cavities with copper tape or Faraday paint and bring one ground to the jack from the shielding (once again NOT to one of the pot casings). These guitar techs busing grounds to a pot casing instead of homerunning them to the jack need to stop -or go back to basic electronics school. Homerun grounds ALWAYS to the jack -it improves the routing of external EMF to ground and reduces the overall signal to noise in the system.

Will keep it in mind. Makes perfect sense!

[greekdude]

Re: static humbukcer hum/buzz

Hello, just a follow up, I have already odrered new push/pull pots, wires, to try the components on the buzzing strat first before re-doing the wiring on the Carvin. But today I saw that neither of the guitars had any buzz at all, no matter the orientation, position, AC or lightts.

[Darg1911]

Re: static humbukcer hum/buzz

Hello, just a follow up, I have already odrered new push/pull pots, wires, to try the components on the buzzing strat first before re-doing the wiring on the Carvin. But today I saw that neither of the guitars had any buzz at all, no matter the orientation, position, AC or lightts.

Maybe a neighbor has a ham radio with a big a$$ linear ...

[greekdude]

Re: static humbukcer hum/buzz

^^^ I am gonna track him, I got a μTesla monitoring device!!

[greekdude]

Re: static humbukcer hum/buzz

UPDATE! it's not the neighbor or anything!
the way I play is :
guitar -> boss me-25 -> headphones. The boss output jack was most of the times connected to the amp, which I rarely use. So the amp was most of the time off. But lately I had it disconnected (since I didn't use the amp). Now I couldn't imagine there would be such a huge difference if I connect the output of the boss to the input of the amp. I connected it (with the amp switched off as usually) and the problem is gone.... What puzzles me is that the blazes still didn't buzz....