Noisy Duckbucker

[vampirock]

Excuse me I didn't mean to hijack this thread,but I'm so desperate to find someone that can help my problem,I hope that was you antigua,so sorry but can't find a way to message you in private,so here's the problem.I had seymour duncan duckbucker that Im wired in series,and its so noisy especially when using distortion,but the noise goes away when wired in parallel,does duckbucker only meant to be wire in parallel?because I really the duck to be wire in series,can you help me?thanks

[newey]

Oct 3, 2023 4:51:32 GMT -5 vampirock said:

Excuse me I didn't mean to hijack this thread,

Sorry, I had to move your post. As far as I know, there should be no reason why you can't run a Duckbucker in series. A series connection will be higher output than parallel- which means more output from your strings but also potentially more noise. And distortion/Hi gain can magnify noise issues.

Is the guitar shielded?

[ssstonelover]

My suspicion is that there may be either:
a) a wiring error (one of the colored wires is on a wrong switch lug (see image)
b) touching issue between wires meaning a wire strand is too long and making contact with a lug it should not be touching (you will have to look very closely, the individual wire strands are super thin like human hairs)

As a doublecheck check the DC resistance between the bottom left and bottom right lugs on the DPDT switch (see the image) using a multimeter and alligator clips. The difference between the parallel and series mode should 1:4 meaning if the parallel is (just an example) 2.5K, then the series will be 10K. If the difference is not ~400%, then something else is going on. That could include that you wired the switch to give parallel and single coil (which is noisy and would have a DC resistance of 5K in the reference example) so start with the wire color codes and placement on the DPDT switch first....