Post by dressner on Feb 7, 2008 13:58:44 GMT -5
OK some of you may have read my PRS thread:
guitarnuts2.proboards45.com/index.cgi?board=wiring&action=display&thread=1202284203
But basically I had a noise issue I blamed on the guitar and returned it, got a Schecter and I still have the problem. I like the Schecter a lot better, it has 24 frets and a push/pull pot for coil tapping and it looks cool as hell... but I digress .
But I've narrowed the noise making culprit to the power in this room. Last night I lugged 2 amps and 5 guitars all over the house, up and down stairs, plugging in and testing, rinse, repeat.
Now there is one guitar among the bunch that I can play in this room with absolutely no noise at all, its the strat with samarium cobalt noiseless pickups you guys walked me through rewiring a little bit ago.
guitarnuts2.proboards45.com/index.cgi?board=wiring&action=display&thread=1197877828
Now I don't know if its just the shielded pick guard on that guitar, or the expensive noiseless pickups, or the superior wiring advice given by you guys or a more probable combination of all three, but I find it funny that all these humbuckers are still humming when those single coils are completely quiet.
One more note on the noise, it goes away and comes back depending on how I move the guitar, tilt it etc. Apparently with no rhyme or reason, but I haven't played with it that much.
Ok the stewmac article stickied here is not working at all at the moment, but advice I've read before regarding noise falls into two categories: fixing the wiring in the house and/or conditioning it before it gets to the amp, or shielding the guitar/pickups. Personally I'd rather have guitars I can play anywhere with the worst power supply like (apparently) my strat so shielding is the direction I'm betting I need to go.
On to the questions:
This guitar though has no pick guard to shield, all the wiring is accessed on the back side like a les paul. Do I shield the pickups like the one stickied thread posted here or the cavity in the back or both?
All of the info I can find is on shielding single coil pickups, is this not supposed to be a problem at all with humbuckers? This is RF interference not EMI right?
Do these "Duncan Designed" pickups just suck? Would new pickups fix it? Is this a problem caused by the coil tapping? Or caused by the coil tapping done poorly?
Anyway I think thats it. Thanks for reading my long winded post and any response will be appreciated even more.
PS, I don't just have the coil tapping set to single coil either. Set to single coil, its just more noise rather than less noise.
guitarnuts2.proboards45.com/index.cgi?board=wiring&action=display&thread=1202284203
But basically I had a noise issue I blamed on the guitar and returned it, got a Schecter and I still have the problem. I like the Schecter a lot better, it has 24 frets and a push/pull pot for coil tapping and it looks cool as hell... but I digress .
But I've narrowed the noise making culprit to the power in this room. Last night I lugged 2 amps and 5 guitars all over the house, up and down stairs, plugging in and testing, rinse, repeat.
Now there is one guitar among the bunch that I can play in this room with absolutely no noise at all, its the strat with samarium cobalt noiseless pickups you guys walked me through rewiring a little bit ago.
guitarnuts2.proboards45.com/index.cgi?board=wiring&action=display&thread=1197877828
Now I don't know if its just the shielded pick guard on that guitar, or the expensive noiseless pickups, or the superior wiring advice given by you guys or a more probable combination of all three, but I find it funny that all these humbuckers are still humming when those single coils are completely quiet.
One more note on the noise, it goes away and comes back depending on how I move the guitar, tilt it etc. Apparently with no rhyme or reason, but I haven't played with it that much.
Ok the stewmac article stickied here is not working at all at the moment, but advice I've read before regarding noise falls into two categories: fixing the wiring in the house and/or conditioning it before it gets to the amp, or shielding the guitar/pickups. Personally I'd rather have guitars I can play anywhere with the worst power supply like (apparently) my strat so shielding is the direction I'm betting I need to go.
On to the questions:
This guitar though has no pick guard to shield, all the wiring is accessed on the back side like a les paul. Do I shield the pickups like the one stickied thread posted here or the cavity in the back or both?
All of the info I can find is on shielding single coil pickups, is this not supposed to be a problem at all with humbuckers? This is RF interference not EMI right?
Do these "Duncan Designed" pickups just suck? Would new pickups fix it? Is this a problem caused by the coil tapping? Or caused by the coil tapping done poorly?
Anyway I think thats it. Thanks for reading my long winded post and any response will be appreciated even more.
PS, I don't just have the coil tapping set to single coil either. Set to single coil, its just more noise rather than less noise.