Guitar buzz

GuitarHen

GuitarHen

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So, I recently installed a Seymour Duncan invader into my bridge position. The guitar now gives of ALOT of feedback and a lot of buzzing. Also the pickup just doesn't sound clear. It kinda.. Crackles on some notes. I know the invader is soposed to be rough but this just sounds wrong. Any idea on what's going on?
 
Re: Guitar buzz

Sounds like you have some bad solder joints or something going on. Did you ground the pickup properly? I would double check that first. Re flow any solder joints you need to.

Did you only swap the pickup or did you change jack, pots, switches or anything else? Do you have any of the problems when using other pickups in that guitar or just the invader?
 
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Just the invader. And I switched the old pot for a Seymour Duncan Liberator. All the joints are nice and silver. And I've redone the joints twice.
 

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Re: Guitar buzz

The main problem is Buzzing, and a slight crackling. on the E,B,G strings its obvious when I play a single note
 
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It's a common problem and a right annoying one too, I would have thought redoing the solder joints would have helped. I've found shielding is always good too, you could try that, with the control cavity on your guitar I assume it wouldn't be too much bother? Buy some good quality copper shielding ;)
Hope that helps, that's what stopped (or at least reduced significantly) buzzing on one of my guitars.
 
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Some of the contacts on the switch dont look so hot but the photos are hard to tell. You said you replaced the jack make sure and check it too... If its just the invader check the height and make sure its not hitting the strings... and if all else fails redo the wiring for it.
 
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you've added in a liberator, so you can easily change the pup back to your original one without having to do any more soldering to prove if it happens with your old pup too. that'd show if it's the new wiring bits or the pup at fault.
 
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I'm gonna go ahead and shield it, and buy better quality ground wires. I keep thinking that maybe the ground are wired in the wrong places but every time I try a different way it makes no difference. So maybe its just the quality
 
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And yeah I've thought about too. Its just a pain in the ass with the string changes that come with the pick up switching.
 
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