Hey team
I've made a partscaster tele with my extra quaranTime, and I very clearly have a grounding issue. Whenever I touch the strings, or anything metal (bridge, knobs, etc.), I get a huge jump in noise. Moreover, there is TONS of noise with even a little bit of gain present. The pickups work – other than a hideous amount of noise, the axe sounds as it should when I play.
It's set up with a double humbucker configuration, each with a Duncan Triple Shot mounting ring. I have a 3-way LP style toggle switch, a volume, and a tone knob.
I have everything star-grounded to the volume pot, including the bridge and pickup selector switch. I'm POSITIVE that the bridge is grounded. I pulled it off TWICE to check that there was enough exposed wire under the bridge to make contact. I tried swapping the hot/ground wires coming from the triple shots to the pickup selector with, no change. The input jack is definitely grounded appropriately to the volume pot. When all that didn't work, I placed a screw into the body inside the control cavity and sent a wire from the star-grounded volume pot to the screw. No difference.
I'm not sure what's going on here. What am I missing? Why isn't my new baby ground properly?
I've made a partscaster tele with my extra quaranTime, and I very clearly have a grounding issue. Whenever I touch the strings, or anything metal (bridge, knobs, etc.), I get a huge jump in noise. Moreover, there is TONS of noise with even a little bit of gain present. The pickups work – other than a hideous amount of noise, the axe sounds as it should when I play.
It's set up with a double humbucker configuration, each with a Duncan Triple Shot mounting ring. I have a 3-way LP style toggle switch, a volume, and a tone knob.
I have everything star-grounded to the volume pot, including the bridge and pickup selector switch. I'm POSITIVE that the bridge is grounded. I pulled it off TWICE to check that there was enough exposed wire under the bridge to make contact. I tried swapping the hot/ground wires coming from the triple shots to the pickup selector with, no change. The input jack is definitely grounded appropriately to the volume pot. When all that didn't work, I placed a screw into the body inside the control cavity and sent a wire from the star-grounded volume pot to the screw. No difference.
I'm not sure what's going on here. What am I missing? Why isn't my new baby ground properly?
