Mustang sheilds and grounds?

[velocityguy]

Hello I'm New and with question!
Has anyone Sheilded/Star Grounded a Mustang before? Mine has copper plates installed in the bottom of each cavity that are connected by wires to each other and then to the volume pot and I'm wondering if that is shielded enough already? My hum isn't that bad when I'm clean but I never play clean. My chain has 6 pedals including a Little Big Muff that is usually cranked and when I use that it amplifies the hum greatly.

[newey]

VG-

Hello and Welcome!

I can't tell you anything specific about shielding a Mustang, other than to say that a more thorough shielding job certainly can't hurt.

But high gain is noisy, so any benefit may be incremental at best.

You might get more noise reduction by sorting your pedal chain a bit. The order of the effects can affect noise, and there may be one or two pedals that are the major culprits- which could then be bypassed or otherwise cleaned up. If the Muff is the big noise generator, as you seem to indicate, there may be a way to reduce the hum from that device.

If your goal is limited to reducing the hum a bit, that's realistic. A total elimination of it isn't going to happen.

[velocityguy]

I ordered an ISP noise decimator because the Big Muff really is the problem...not the guitar. Hope it works! Thanks for the advice.