Hi, i desperatley need help here... i just installed ("just" = 2 weeks ago) a set of LiveWire active humbuckers in my guitar. The LiveWire Metal (LW-HMET) in the bridge, and the LiveWire Classic (LW-CH1) in the neck.
But my problem is... the neck pickup (the classic) hums pretty loud when im not playing it... it picks up me playing perfectly, it give the full sound when i play... but when im not playing it hums.. and its annoying.
But thats only when im not touching metal on the guitar! If i touch the strings, the bridge, the output jack plate (or the jack itself) or if i even touch the switch (the metal part)........ the the humming gets ALOT quiter, to the point where its perfectly acceptable.. although it shouldnt be humming at all should it? either way when i touch metal... its fine... when im not touching anything it hums like crazy!
So i figure theres a bad ground somewhere, but i cant friggin find it, ive taken my guitar up to a local music store and had the guitar tech there look at it and he tried adding a few extra grounds here and there... after seeing that they did nothing... he didnt know what to do.
But now, heres the catch... my guitar only has 2 controls... 1 volume, 1 tone.
If you look at the official wiring schematic for the LiveWires located here:
youll see thats for having 4 controls. But since i only have 2, i wired it like you would 2 passive pickups... although i installed the stereo jack and wired that like your supposed to with the actives.
I have drawn (spent 2 hours drawing this) a schematic of how i have the pickups wired. So PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!
Please take a look at it and tell me if you can figure out what is wrong? Maybe somethings bad? like the neck pickup? Because ONLY THE NECK PICKUP HUMS, The bridge works fine.
here is the schematic of how i connected them:
But my problem is... the neck pickup (the classic) hums pretty loud when im not playing it... it picks up me playing perfectly, it give the full sound when i play... but when im not playing it hums.. and its annoying.
But thats only when im not touching metal on the guitar! If i touch the strings, the bridge, the output jack plate (or the jack itself) or if i even touch the switch (the metal part)........ the the humming gets ALOT quiter, to the point where its perfectly acceptable.. although it shouldnt be humming at all should it? either way when i touch metal... its fine... when im not touching anything it hums like crazy!
So i figure theres a bad ground somewhere, but i cant friggin find it, ive taken my guitar up to a local music store and had the guitar tech there look at it and he tried adding a few extra grounds here and there... after seeing that they did nothing... he didnt know what to do.
But now, heres the catch... my guitar only has 2 controls... 1 volume, 1 tone.
If you look at the official wiring schematic for the LiveWires located here:
youll see thats for having 4 controls. But since i only have 2, i wired it like you would 2 passive pickups... although i installed the stereo jack and wired that like your supposed to with the actives.
I have drawn (spent 2 hours drawing this) a schematic of how i have the pickups wired. So PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!
Please take a look at it and tell me if you can figure out what is wrong? Maybe somethings bad? like the neck pickup? Because ONLY THE NECK PICKUP HUMS, The bridge works fine.
here is the schematic of how i connected them:
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