Hi everyone,
I recently bought a new Charvel DC-1 ST Desolation that came with some active EMG 81/85s and I went ahead and decided to swap them out with a set of passive Black Winters. The set up is a 3 way toggle, 1 vol and 1 tone knob. This was my first go around installing pick ups and soldering so a complete beginner.
After hooking them all up, whenever I turn on the overdrive on my Blackstar HT-1rh head, even on a very low setting, lower than 12 o'clock, or run some gain via Bias FX through a Scarlett 2i2, I get some loud noticeable hum. On clean it's not an issue, but even on the lowest setting with overdrive flicked on it's humming, I've tried 3 cables just to see if that's the issue, but it's the same, however whenever I touch the audio jack, bridge or tuning peg of the guitar, the hum ceases and is as good as when it's on clean, which is what I'd like all the time, touching the strings only ceases when holding all of them down, but not as much as the jack, peg or bridge.
I've taken the guitar into the shop twice, the bloke said he's ran his meter on it and it is grounded, and there is a bridge ground on it which I did solder to the toning pot, he's also said the solder joints (although sloppy as I packed a ton of solder on, oops :|) are also good. I don't have any shielding on the inside though except for the wiring cover on the back.
So my question is, is that hum just standard for high gain pickups like these and is it the standard to get a gate? I watched a bunch of videos demoing the BW prior to getting them and didn't hear any humming on high gain, but couldn't see any mention of using a gate. My EMGs were super tidy when maxed out on Overdrive, although the were active, I also was using the overdrive on max with my old Ephiphone with stock passive Alnico pickups with no hum on the same settings too, and I've been considering just buying 2 new pots again, another capacitor and a mono jack and just doing it all again but clean and with only a small amount of solder, despite the chap at the shop saying everything's okay.
I can post a picture of the guts if need be, sorry if this is a common thread, I've been googling, and youtubing, and going back to the shop for answers, so this is my last stop. Thanks in advance!
I recently bought a new Charvel DC-1 ST Desolation that came with some active EMG 81/85s and I went ahead and decided to swap them out with a set of passive Black Winters. The set up is a 3 way toggle, 1 vol and 1 tone knob. This was my first go around installing pick ups and soldering so a complete beginner.
After hooking them all up, whenever I turn on the overdrive on my Blackstar HT-1rh head, even on a very low setting, lower than 12 o'clock, or run some gain via Bias FX through a Scarlett 2i2, I get some loud noticeable hum. On clean it's not an issue, but even on the lowest setting with overdrive flicked on it's humming, I've tried 3 cables just to see if that's the issue, but it's the same, however whenever I touch the audio jack, bridge or tuning peg of the guitar, the hum ceases and is as good as when it's on clean, which is what I'd like all the time, touching the strings only ceases when holding all of them down, but not as much as the jack, peg or bridge.
I've taken the guitar into the shop twice, the bloke said he's ran his meter on it and it is grounded, and there is a bridge ground on it which I did solder to the toning pot, he's also said the solder joints (although sloppy as I packed a ton of solder on, oops :|) are also good. I don't have any shielding on the inside though except for the wiring cover on the back.
So my question is, is that hum just standard for high gain pickups like these and is it the standard to get a gate? I watched a bunch of videos demoing the BW prior to getting them and didn't hear any humming on high gain, but couldn't see any mention of using a gate. My EMGs were super tidy when maxed out on Overdrive, although the were active, I also was using the overdrive on max with my old Ephiphone with stock passive Alnico pickups with no hum on the same settings too, and I've been considering just buying 2 new pots again, another capacitor and a mono jack and just doing it all again but clean and with only a small amount of solder, despite the chap at the shop saying everything's okay.
I can post a picture of the guts if need be, sorry if this is a common thread, I've been googling, and youtubing, and going back to the shop for answers, so this is my last stop. Thanks in advance!
