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Re: Does the JB create more hum than the Distortion?
The magnet is involved in neither the picking up hum nor in the hum canceling. They should be equivalent since they only differ in the magnet.
In any case, a humbucker is designed to cancel all hum unless there is a serious mismatch in coils. The only exception are coverless humbuckers which expose a short about of bare wire between the pickup cable and the actual coils.
The most likely explanation for serious noise picked up is that somebody didn't connect the shield in a 4-conductor pickup wire - which is really 5 conductor. You must ground the bare wire which is connected to the cable shield which grounds the pickup baseplate.
The magnet is involved in neither the picking up hum nor in the hum canceling. They should be equivalent since they only differ in the magnet.
In any case, a humbucker is designed to cancel all hum unless there is a serious mismatch in coils. The only exception are coverless humbuckers which expose a short about of bare wire between the pickup cable and the actual coils.
The most likely explanation for serious noise picked up is that somebody didn't connect the shield in a 4-conductor pickup wire - which is really 5 conductor. You must ground the bare wire which is connected to the cable shield which grounds the pickup baseplate.
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