Hum free = Stacked pickup?
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Jag513
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Re: Hum free = Stacked pickup?
Is your guitar properly shielded? If not, go to www.guitarnuts.com and look under the Wiring and Shielding section for instructions. It makes a world of difference in terms of lowering noise.
Is your guitar properly shielded? If not, go to www.guitarnuts.com and look under the Wiring and Shielding section for instructions. It makes a world of difference in terms of lowering noise.
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Lewguitar
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Re: Hum free = Stacked pickup?
Single coil pickups hum. That means single coil Strat pickups, Tele Pickups and P-90 pickups....those are the three most popular single coil pickups. They're all going to hum. If you love that tone you put up with the hum.
I do...because that's the tone that turns me on and makes me feel like making music. No other pickup really does.
If you're using single coils like that you can shield the daylights out of your guitar (like SRV) and it will help...but only help. It's still going to hum.
But SRV sounded pretty good...right? So shield the daylights out of your guitar if you love the single coil tone and try to ignore the hum and make some music.
The only way to kill the hum is to go with side by side humbuckers or Stacked humbuckers. That's it.
All humcancelling pickups have a somewhat compromised tone. Less sparkle.
Less openess. Less transparancy. Frequencies are cancelled and lost forever.
Can you live with that? If you can you're a humbucker kind of guy.
I like bridge humbuckers...but neck humbuckers have never sounded half as good to me as a great neck single coil. The Duncan Antiquity Surfer or SSL-1 for example.
Thurisarz said:
Single coil pickups hum. That means single coil Strat pickups, Tele Pickups and P-90 pickups....those are the three most popular single coil pickups. They're all going to hum. If you love that tone you put up with the hum.
I do...because that's the tone that turns me on and makes me feel like making music. No other pickup really does.
If you're using single coils like that you can shield the daylights out of your guitar (like SRV) and it will help...but only help. It's still going to hum.
But SRV sounded pretty good...right? So shield the daylights out of your guitar if you love the single coil tone and try to ignore the hum and make some music.
The only way to kill the hum is to go with side by side humbuckers or Stacked humbuckers. That's it.
All humcancelling pickups have a somewhat compromised tone. Less sparkle.
Less openess. Less transparancy. Frequencies are cancelled and lost forever.
Can you live with that? If you can you're a humbucker kind of guy.
I like bridge humbuckers...but neck humbuckers have never sounded half as good to me as a great neck single coil. The Duncan Antiquity Surfer or SSL-1 for example.
rspst14
Tone Cat
Re: Hum free = Stacked pickup?
There are various hum-cancelling designs. Kinman uses a pretty unique construction method, but I can't remember all the details behind it. Check out his site if you want more information on that.
There are some good noiseless single coils, as well as some not so good ones. After doing a ton of research, I settled on the noiseless set listed in my signature below, and I'm very happy with it. Classic Strat tones, none of the hum. They also have some other benefits as well. They have very little magnetic pull on the strings as compared to traditional single coils, so the sustain is excellent, even when you set them very close to the strings. I'm also interested in trying the new Duncan noiseless pickups that Lew has been raving about...guess I'll need another Strat.
Ryan
There are various hum-cancelling designs. Kinman uses a pretty unique construction method, but I can't remember all the details behind it. Check out his site if you want more information on that.
There are some good noiseless single coils, as well as some not so good ones. After doing a ton of research, I settled on the noiseless set listed in my signature below, and I'm very happy with it. Classic Strat tones, none of the hum. They also have some other benefits as well. They have very little magnetic pull on the strings as compared to traditional single coils, so the sustain is excellent, even when you set them very close to the strings. I'm also interested in trying the new Duncan noiseless pickups that Lew has been raving about...guess I'll need another Strat.
Ryan
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Lewguitar
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Re: Hum free = Stacked pickup?
Yes. Those are single coil pickups that will hum. However, when you're using both Jazz Bass pickups you WILL usually have hamcancelling when the two are combined as one is usually RW/RP compared to the other.
Lew
Thurisarz said:Thanks guys! Great posts!
I was thinking of bass pickups, like Jazz and SCPB/Tele bass pups, it's the same that i should shield for them to?
Yes. Those are single coil pickups that will hum. However, when you're using both Jazz Bass pickups you WILL usually have hamcancelling when the two are combined as one is usually RW/RP compared to the other.
Lew
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