Hey guys,
Please pardon me if I sound extremely incompetent as I am still learning about guitar electronics/wiring.
So my R7 Custom tends to be much more noisy than my other guitars. It feedbacks much more easily, which isn't always bad. It's almost as if the electronics are hotter than normal, even compared to other guitars with the same pickups (Duncan Custom in the bridge and a Duncan '59 in the neck). Basically if my amp is dialed in with a good amount of volume and gain, the guitar goes nuts almost immediately if I don't have a hand over the strings. Now I know this isn't abnormal but the guitar seems to just be abnormally hot.
Could there be an issue with the quality of my soldering (i.e. cold joints) or with the grounding? The bridge ground wire isn't shileded or anything, which is how it came. It's connected to the neck volume pot. There is a wiring (ground wire I assume) b/t the neck volume and tone pot casings. There is also another wire like this between the bridge volume and tone casings. The bridge and neck pots aren't connected to each other so I'm guessing the bridge pots are gounded through the input jack? Also some of the solder contact points on top of the pot casings look slightly orangish or brownish as if they were burnt a bit. I'm not sure if that is a problem.
Overall the guitar sounds great. I'm just trying to understand why it is so much noisier than my other guitars and if there's a way I can fix it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Please pardon me if I sound extremely incompetent as I am still learning about guitar electronics/wiring.
So my R7 Custom tends to be much more noisy than my other guitars. It feedbacks much more easily, which isn't always bad. It's almost as if the electronics are hotter than normal, even compared to other guitars with the same pickups (Duncan Custom in the bridge and a Duncan '59 in the neck). Basically if my amp is dialed in with a good amount of volume and gain, the guitar goes nuts almost immediately if I don't have a hand over the strings. Now I know this isn't abnormal but the guitar seems to just be abnormally hot.
Could there be an issue with the quality of my soldering (i.e. cold joints) or with the grounding? The bridge ground wire isn't shileded or anything, which is how it came. It's connected to the neck volume pot. There is a wiring (ground wire I assume) b/t the neck volume and tone pot casings. There is also another wire like this between the bridge volume and tone casings. The bridge and neck pots aren't connected to each other so I'm guessing the bridge pots are gounded through the input jack? Also some of the solder contact points on top of the pot casings look slightly orangish or brownish as if they were burnt a bit. I'm not sure if that is a problem.
Overall the guitar sounds great. I'm just trying to understand why it is so much noisier than my other guitars and if there's a way I can fix it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.