New Humbuckers extremely noisy

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joe20000000

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Hi,
I know there're probably hundreds of posts on here relating to noisy pickups but i can't find any with the same symptoms that my guitar is suffering from.

I've recently installed the Hot Rodded Humbucker set into my guitar with new wires, pots, jack plug and switch.

I've actually installed them now 3 times as there is so much noise (buzz) that the actual guitar can hardly be heard.

I have re-wired everything using different cables and parts but with exactly the same hum/buzz noise each time.

With the volume turned down there is nothing, the noise is most when the volume is at half and then reduces when volume is full.

If I touch the strings the noise gets louder. If I touch the jack plug it gets less.

If anyone has any ideas i would be very grateful, I'm at the stage now where I would admit defeat and give it all to a professional to fix but unfortunately where I live, such people cannot be found!
 
Re: New Humbuckers extremely noisy

Take some pics and post them here, and maybe we can sort this out for you. This certainly should not be happening. And, hey, ICTGoober, be nice.
 
Re: New Humbuckers extremely noisy

Take Mincer's advice! Certainly post pictures! We're here to help.

Your issue sounds like a combination of bad grounding and potentially incorrect wiring of the pickups.

Grounding issues are typically revealed by noisy pickups but the noise goes away when you either touch the strings, or the jack. This is assuming the wiring of the pickups is correct, but the grounding is not so good. The fact that the noise gets less for you when you touch the jack but gets noisier when you touch strings means that in addition to grounding, your pickups are most likely not wired correctly (hot or series link being connected to the wrong places, in fact, for a humbucker to do this, it's very likely that you the series link is not connected properly)
 
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Check that your output jack is not wired backwards.

Otherwise check for missing ground wires. Are all your pots grounded together?


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If there is such buzz that the pickups are barely audible then I'd be guessing install too.
The volume issue suggests cooked pots.

Post pics - and what wattage iron do you use???
 
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ICTGoober said:
I thought I was. I was also CORRECT.
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Okay, since you don't seem to get it... stop acting like a complete ass to people. I don't know where you got that chip on your shoulder, but leave it out of this forum!


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ICTGoober said:
I thought I was. I was also CORRECT.
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Even if you are correct which I doubt, it does not give you the right to be rude. If you can not help you might want to keep your opinions to yourself. Your, rhetoric is quickly getting tiresome.
 
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joe20000000 said:
Hi,
I know there're probably hundreds of posts on here relating to noisy pickups but i can't find any with the same symptoms that my guitar is suffering from.

I've recently installed the Hot Rodded Humbucker set into my guitar with new wires, pots, jack plug and switch.

I've actually installed them now 3 times as there is so much noise (buzz) that the actual guitar can hardly be heard.

I have re-wired everything using different cables and parts but with exactly the same hum/buzz noise each time.

With the volume turned down there is nothing, the noise is most when the volume is at half and then reduces when volume is full.

If I touch the strings the noise gets louder. If I touch the jack plug it gets less.

If anyone has any ideas i would be very grateful, I'm at the stage now where I would admit defeat and give it all to a professional to fix but unfortunately where I live, such people cannot be found!
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Sorry this thread went off the rails!
It seems likely that you do not have a continuous ground from the pickup, volume pot, and jack. Perhaps one of those is not actually grounded? OR perhaps one of them is grounded to hot rather than to ground? My other guess is that your hot signal is not actually making it from the pickup to the jack.
Try just running a wire from the pickup ground straight to the jack ground and a wire from the pickup output straight to the positive terminal on the jack. ( Do this with just one of the pickups.) If it sounds correct then the problem is somewhere in your pots or your soldering job or crossed wires. If it still buzzes and hums then your jack is bad, your jack is wired incorrectly, or you have mixed up the wires coming out of the pickup.
Try that and let us know what happens.
 
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Dave Locher said:
Sorry this thread went off the rails!
It seems likely that you do not have a continuous ground from the pickup, volume pot, and jack. Perhaps one of those is not actually grounded? OR perhaps one of them is grounded to hot rather than to ground? My other guess is that your hot signal is not actually making it from the pickup to the jack.
Try just running a wire from the pickup ground straight to the jack ground and a wire from the pickup output straight to the positive terminal on the jack. ( Do this with just one of the pickups.) If it sounds correct then the problem is somewhere in your pots or your soldering job or crossed wires. If it still buzzes and hums then your jack is bad, your jack is wired incorrectly, or you have mixed up the wires coming out of the pickup.
Try that and let us know what happens.
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This is spot on. In addition, there is a bridge (not the bridge pup, the metal before the tailpiece) ground wire that needs to be connected to a ground.


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It would be helpful if the OP came back to the thread and either reported on how things were going or posted detailed pics so we could help further.
 
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GilmourD said:
I'm not sure that the crickets he'll hear there know much about wiring pickups. :p

Sounds like it could be the output jack being wired backwards.
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Yeah, I thought of that.....because I've done that, too.
 
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