thascalus
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Post by thascalus on Nov 4, 2010 6:50:00 GMT -5
My shielded Strat is complete and it has three knobs, four if you count the one holding the guitar! But seriously, after shielding should I still hear a buzz/hum from my amp? The buzz goes away when I turn my tone knobs all the way down, and its comparable to the amount of buzz I get from my friend's un-shielded Strat. Its like the shielding is making no difference.
(side note: the best friend's un-shielded Strat will not buzz if I turn the tone knobs down, just like mine)
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Post by Yew on Nov 4, 2010 10:50:44 GMT -5
I dont beleive it should, I reccomend waiting till one of the guys who has actually done the sheilding procedure to come among first though, as i dont have a clue about it
(also i need to get the broardbucker explained to me one day...
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Post by ashcatlt on Nov 4, 2010 11:06:15 GMT -5
The buzz likely isn't going away when you turn the tone knobs down, it's just that the higher harmonics of the noise signal are being shunted to ground along with the rest of the treble from your pickups and the lower harmonics are usually masked by your playing.
It should be noticeably quieter than it was, but testing it against some other guitar won't tell you much. Did you go through with a meter and check to see that all of your shielding is electrically continuous and that it all has a solid connection to the jack sleeve?
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Post by ashcatlt on Nov 4, 2010 11:09:05 GMT -5
yew - start a thread with your questions, or jump into this thread and we'll try to clear things up for you.
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Post by thascalus on Nov 4, 2010 18:56:45 GMT -5
I'm still learning all this stuff, so when I replaced my single ceramic capacitors with a pair of bumblebee type re-pro's (snagged from eBay for $12) did I put them in backwards? Will flipping them the other way round make a difference?
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Post by ashcatlt on Nov 4, 2010 19:01:39 GMT -5
There is no backwards on those caps, and they can come before or after the variable resistor without any difference. As long as the tone controls work the way you expect (lots less treble when turned down) you're fine there.
The noise problem probably comes from a discontinuity in the shieding. Got a meter?
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Post by thascalus on Nov 4, 2010 21:44:45 GMT -5
Yea. How am I going to find this discontinuity? One lead at the tremolo claw ground, the other... everywhere? Update: I dont think I have a discontinuity in my Faraday cage. I did follow the steps at this link: and after I got past step 3. Step 4: Unplug the other end of the cord from the amp (or the stomp box it is plugged into). If the noise level dropped significantly the problem is the cord. Replace the cord. This not only reduced the noise significantly, it reduced it completely. I guess I've answered the question in my original post, because I was using the same guitar cord for both guitars. I guess it's just a cheap piece of $#!@ cable. I can't believe theres not a thread for guitar cables on these forums. Obviously I want a combination of low-price and shielding without falling for the pitfalls of hype and myth listed here
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Post by thetragichero on Nov 9, 2010 10:18:50 GMT -5
i only buy guitar cables that were buried in the soviet tundra for at least a period of 50 years
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Post by Yew on Nov 11, 2010 19:10:24 GMT -5
yew - start a thread with your questions, or jump into this thread and we'll try to clear things up for you. Im sure ill get round to it one day.. Havent got any guitars to wire yet
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Post by jcgss77 on Nov 11, 2010 21:10:42 GMT -5
i only buy guitar cables that were buried in the soviet tundra for at least a period of 50 years Cryogenics technology?
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Post by newey on Nov 11, 2010 21:46:06 GMT -5
Makes 'em superconducting . . . ;D
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Post by gumbo on Nov 12, 2010 2:51:13 GMT -5
....but trying to read the User Manual in Russian is a real pain....
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Post by cynical1 on Nov 12, 2010 12:35:37 GMT -5
Manuals are for amateurs. Real men just fire it up...and pick up the pieces before the wife gets home...
HTC1
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Post by irwired on Nov 12, 2010 13:46:00 GMT -5
I got the pickin up the pieces part But oooooo that smell...........of burnt carpet..... thats the hard one IMHO Cheers IRW
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Post by Yew on Nov 12, 2010 18:28:51 GMT -5
Irwired, i was hoping that your post would be about southern fried cuicken
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