I want my stock Tele sound, and looks, but lose the hum.

Soujurn

Soujurn

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What is the best way to get rid of the hum from my stock Fender American made Telecaster?
Change pickups?
 
Re: I want my stock Tele sound, and looks, but lose the hum.

If it were a Strat, I could help you big time (Suhr BPSSC does wonders).

I guess change the pickups if you really want. Go to your local guitar tech. He'll know what to do (but probably in the most pricey way possible).
 
Re: I want my stock Tele sound, and looks, but lose the hum.

I have a Tele with a set of these in it, very quiet but still sounds like a Tele!
 
Re: I want my stock Tele sound, and looks, but lose the hum.

ErikH said:
This is your answer. Shielding gets rid of A LOT. I finished my Strat last night and even with the JCM800 model on my amp, the singles are damn quiet.
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It wasn't hard to do at all was it?
 
Re: I want my stock Tele sound, and looks, but lose the hum.

WORSHIPTEAM said:
It wasn't hard to do at all was it?
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Hell no. ;) This is the second guitar I've done it to actually. The pain was actually getting the foil formed to the cavity. I used heavy duty Reynold's Aluminum Foil and 3M spray adhesive. Since my Strat has the universal route, it was a little easier.

My wiring is a little different too. Since I don't have the cap, I left the pickup grounds on the back of the pot. The jack goes to lug 1 with a jumper to the casing so when I do get the cap, I just need to desolder those and connect them to the ring. The tone caps are also still on the casings, but the connecting casing wires are gone.
 
Re: I want my stock Tele sound, and looks, but lose the hum.

You can shield the cavities and ground them. You can also make a shield for the pickups with tin foil and spray adhesive.
 
Re: I want my stock Tele sound, and looks, but lose the hum.

AxeGuardz is addressing this issue with some great looking performance products including a shielding coating that is not on their site yet. Call them.
 
Re: I want my stock Tele sound, and looks, but lose the hum.

ATele without hum is not a Tele.:)

In all seriousness I would leave it alone if you are happy with the way it sounds. If you are interested in getting a different sound... then a pickup change is in order and then you can go with some type of noiseless pickups. I haven't played a lot with noiseless single coils, but from my limited experience most of the noiseless pickups I have used are not very inspiring. Yes they are quiet, but they also sound very sterile. The Fender Noiseless pickups come to mind. I have played them in Teles and Strats and I don't like the way they sound..... but they are quiet!
 
Re: I want my stock Tele sound, and looks, but lose the hum.

Unfortunately, though it does make it quieter, the only reason why shielding works is that you're knocking out a lot of the high end, thus, in my opinion, knocking out a lot of the tele sound. I never encourage shielding if you want the sound to stay true. Then again, I never encourage anything done to a Tele if you want the sound to stay true.
 
Re: I want my stock Tele sound, and looks, but lose the hum.

timorousme said:
Unfortunately, though it does make it quieter, the only reason why shielding works is that you're knocking out a lot of the high end, thus, in my opinion, knocking out a lot of the tele sound. I never encourage shielding if you want the sound to stay true. Then again, I never encourage anything done to a Tele if you want the sound to stay true.
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???

How does shielding remove the high end, or affect the tone at all for that matter?

That makes absolutely no sense.
 
Re: I want my stock Tele sound, and looks, but lose the hum.

Shielding prevents a lot external interference from reaching the amp via the guitar. It does nothing to prevent the vibrating strings from creating current inside the pickups.

I know about shielding but was looking more for ideas of other pickups that didn't change the sound of the Tele, at least too much so it sounds like a Les Paul or something.
 
Re: I want my stock Tele sound, and looks, but lose the hum.

+1 for the vintage stack for tele set

love em

t4d
 
Re: I want my stock Tele sound, and looks, but lose the hum.

ratherdashing said:
???

How does shielding remove the high end, or affect the tone at all for that matter?

That makes absolutely no sense.
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i've never found a reasoning as to why, but it does, according to every guitar tech I know and also according to John Suhr (who specializes in noise reduction). However, a BBE Sonic Stomp could probably help bring the high frequencies back if you do choose to shield.
 
Re: I want my stock Tele sound, and looks, but lose the hum.

ErikH said:
This is your answer. Shielding gets rid of A LOT. I finished my Strat last night and even with the JCM800 model on my amp, the singles are damn quiet.
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Yep it works, but there's a price to pay...

ratherdashing said:
???

How does shielding remove the high end, or affect the tone at all for that matter?

That makes absolutely no sense.
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Imagine adding a .01-.02 cap directly to the circuit and that it's on ALL the time - That's the price you pay ;)

There's better ways to reduce noise IMHO :usa1:
 
Re: I want my stock Tele sound, and looks, but lose the hum.

ratherdashing said:
???

How does shielding remove the high end, or affect the tone at all for that matter?

That makes absolutely no sense.
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Big shielding = added capacitance = lost highs.

If you knew how capacitors were made, it might make more sense to you.
 
Re: I want my stock Tele sound, and looks, but lose the hum.

Soujurn said:
What is the best way to get rid of the hum from my stock Fender American made Telecaster?
Change pickups?
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Pickups: go with The Tele Stack pickups. Also, you can try one of those aluminum Tele pickguard shields (they make 'em for Strat so there should be a model somewhere for Tele).
 
Re: I want my stock Tele sound, and looks, but lose the hum.

Gary Ladd said:
Yep it works, but there's a price to pay...



Imagine adding a .01-.02 cap directly to the circuit and that it's on ALL the time - That's the price you pay ;)

There's better ways to reduce noise IMHO :usa1:
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The price is small, IMO. I don't notice hardly any lost highs on my Strat since shielding it.
 
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