buzzing from newly assembled strat

[dasfonzie]

SO i wired up my strat with new antiquities, pots and caps and all that jazz.

But i started to restring it, and test it and such, and all get is a nasty buzzing sound, you can still hear the notes very faintly, and the buzzing is amplified alot if i touch the volume pot (didnt put the knobs on yet).

I assumed it was a bad grounding or osmeting, but I'm looking at it, and everythign seems fine, I followed a diagram from the main page here.

I think it might be something with the central ground? I'm not really sure how that works.

So if anyone could help, I'd really appreciate it.

 

[beandip]

Re: buzzing from newly assembled strat

take off the jack and look at it, or just go through one by one and resolder everything and double check.

 

[Naps]

Re: buzzing from newly assembled strat

yeah, if it's got two places to solder to on the jack and you have them reversed, it will make a big hum sound and almost no (if any) sound. I did that on my strat when I put it together. Some guys on the forum helped me.

 

[dasfonzie]

Re: buzzing from newly assembled strat

yeah the problem was the jack, butn ow that i fixed that, i discovered that the switch is bad as well, so igotta get a new one poop