Multiple Grounding Points

[alex73013]

I have a single pickup guitar and the brigde grounding wire and pickup grounding wire (braided part of pickup wire) are soldered to the volume pot with the ground wire (braided wire part) going to the negative point of the output jack. But I recently installed a jazz switch in place of a tone knob. I have the capacitor end that goes to ground soldered to the braided wire that goes to ground of the negative point of the output jack. I did this because it was easier than soldering the cap to the main grounding point on the volume pot. I don't have any extra noise or grounding issues that I notice.

My question does this affect anything negatively?

Note: I also have some copper tape that the controls reside on which also provides a grounding connection to the volume and jazz switch.

 

[alex73013]

Re: Multiple Grounding Points

Never mind. I thought about it and there shouldn't be a problem given that a strat with two tone knobs the furthest knob from the volume knob has a grounding wire that goes to another tone knob and all the controls typically reside on shielding tape. In essence there are multiple connections to ground.

 

[Joey Voltage]

Re: Multiple Grounding Points

I have a single pickup guitar and the brigde grounding wire and pickup grounding wire (braided part of pickup wire) are soldered to the volume pot with the ground wire (braided wire part) going to the negative point of the output jack. But I recently installed a jazz switch in place of a tone knob. I have the capacitor end that goes to ground soldered to the braided wire that goes to ground of the negative point of the output jack. I did this because it was easier than soldering the cap to the main grounding point on the volume pot. I don't have any extra noise or grounding issues that I notice.

My question does this affect anything negatively?

Note: I also have some copper tape that the controls reside on which also provides a grounding connection to the volume and jazz switch.

No. That's fine, it will not effect anything, and there is next to zero possibility of a ground loop in a guitar. FWIW the ground reference in a guitar is not actually provided by the guitar or back of the pots, it's actually provided by the amplifier input via the sleeve connection of the guitar cable.