Help with AHB-1 Blackout!

BigBadBrandon

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I bought a Schecter Blackjack SLS a few months ago with active Blackout pups. However, I've noticed that when I'm in the bridge pickup, a get a harmonic type noise when I'm not playing. The noise gets louder or quieter depending on how the I hold the guitar. I've looked around but I haven't been able to find anything.
Thanks!
 
Re: Help with AHB-1 Blackout!

sorry, I don't actually have an answer ... I have a question hehe...I'm looking into buying the same guitar...besides your pup problem...how is it? is it worth it, well build ? How are the Blackouts ? are they lifeless like some people say or are they warm sounding ?
 
Re: Help with AHB-1 Blackout!

I bought a Schecter Blackjack SLS a few months ago with active Blackout pups. However, I've noticed that when I'm in the bridge pickup, a get a harmonic type noise when I'm not playing. The noise gets louder or quieter depending on how the I hold the guitar. I've looked around but I haven't been able to find anything.
Thanks!

The only thing that would come to mind would be:
*being next to a computer, monitor or TV
*next to any flourescent lights or light ballasts.

The only other thing I would possibly suggest is checking to see if by chance there's any wires in the cavity with a bad/loose connection, or if any wires or other metal parts are touching any metal parts and shorting out. It shouldn't be, as it's a new guitar, but you never know.

Otherwise, I'd try and put some foam under the pickups to try and isolate them a little bit. If it's a floyd rose equipped guitar, stuff the spring cavity with cotton balls (under, in between, and on top of all the springs, under and on top of the claw and the space between the tremolo's block and the wood closest to the neck...). Other than that, I don't know what to say. Good luck though.
 
Re: Help with AHB-1 Blackout!

I actually really like it. The neck is very smooth, and you have plenty of access to the higher frets. The Floyd Rose also stays in tune very well.
 
Re: Help with AHB-1 Blackout!

The only thing that would come to mind would be:
*being next to a computer, monitor or TV
*next to any flourescent lights or light ballasts.

The only other thing I would possibly suggest is checking to see if by chance there's any wires in the cavity with a bad/loose connection, or if any wires or other metal parts are touching any metal parts and shorting out. It shouldn't be, as it's a new guitar, but you never know.

Otherwise, I'd try and put some foam under the pickups to try and isolate them a little bit. If it's a floyd rose equipped guitar, stuff the spring cavity with cotton balls (under, in between, and on top of all the springs, under and on top of the claw and the space between the tremolo's block and the wood closest to the neck...). Other than that, I don't know what to say. Good luck though.

I actually am sitting by a computer monitor, and all the lights in the room are CFL, if that matters. Could that be the culprit? I just think it's weird that my guitar with EMGs never did this.
 
Re: Help with AHB-1 Blackout!

I actually am sitting by a computer monitor, and all the lights in the room are CFL, if that matters. Could that be the culprit? I just think it's weird that my guitar with EMGs never did this.

Does it make the same noise when your not near the monitor? All of my guitars -EMG equipped ones also - pick up stray noise when I'm near my computer. Usually the lights I don't have an issue with, but the computers and monitors are usually the issue.

So if it does it only near the monitor, that may be the answer. If it does it away from the monitorr also, then it might be something else. Have you tried the guitar on another amp, say at a music store to see if it does the same thing? If it makes the same noise, then it boils back to either something in the wiring, or the pickups themselves.
 
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