Can someone explain this phenomenon?

HotHead

HotHead

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When you remove all the pickups from a guitar, but you still get a faint signal sent to the amp. I have a 2-pickup guitar with a 3-way switch, but didn't wire the middle position. When I hit the middle position, it has that same faint signal. I imagine it has to do with current from the cable bouncing around the cavity, but I'm not quite sure.

It's pretty useful if you need to go from distorted to clean instantly.
 
Re: Can someone explain this phenomenon?

Define "remove". Circuitry can leak.
 
Re: Can someone explain this phenomenon?

Your avatar has never made more sense than right ****ing NOW!
 
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Your guitar is an antennae to the cosmic background radiation. I hope you have some sort of dark matter container at home.
 
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You think thats weird... I run into something even stranger pretty often.
Turn on a high gain amp leave the cable in the amp, but unplug your guitar and move across the room. Open up the control cavity and mess around grounding things by touching a screwdriver between them. You will be able to hear it through your amp even though the guitar is UNPLUGGED and across the room. There is a lot going on in the electromagnetic spectrum that you cannot see.
 
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