Pup Height for Antiquity I's for Strat?

[JumpMarine]

I'm working on my strat and was wondering what a good height for my antiquities to start out with? I'm also continuing to get a faint but annoying grounding hum from my guitar that goes away after touching any metalic part of the guitar and gets excessively worse as the gain goes up. I do expect some more with an increase in gain, but this is worse than usual. I started with a neck/mid tone and bridge tone set up had the hum, looked everything over and switched it back to the stock strat schematic that came with the Ants. Hum is still there. What may I be missing or am I going to have to do the Guitarnuts.com shielding job?

 

[CharlieNC]

Re: Pup Height for Antiquity I's for Strat?

try 3/32 on the treble side and 1/8 on the bass side (inches). Fret the strings on the last fret and measure from the top of the polepieces to the bottom of the strings on the little e and the big e.

 

[LPCustom]

Re: Pup Height for Antiquity I's for Strat?

I'm working on my strat and was wondering what a good height for my antiquities to start out with? I'm also continuing to get a faint but annoying grounding hum from my guitar that goes away after touching any metalic part of the guitar and gets excessively worse as the gain goes up. I do expect some more with an increase in gain, but this is worse than usual. I started with a neck/mid tone and bridge tone set up had the hum, looked everything over and switched it back to the stock strat schematic that came with the Ants. Hum is still there. What may I be missing or am I going to have to do the Guitarnuts.com shielding job?

I would check that the ground wire on the tremolo is still hooked up and also hasn't been pinched by one of the springs.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Pup Height for Antiquity I's for Strat?

try 3/32 on the treble side and 1/8 on the bass side (inches). Fret the strings on the last fret and measure from the top of the polepieces to the bottom of the strings on the little e and the big e.

Good for the neck and middle...but you can move the bridge pickup a little closer. If you notice your low E string sounding out of tune when you fret it above the 12th fret move the middle pickup a little further away until the out of tune-ness is corrected. Lew

 

[JumpMarine]

Re: Pup Height for Antiquity I's for Strat?

Thanks guys!