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07-03-2011, 01:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Los Angeles | |  Strings make LOUD pop when touching pickups - Fender ADJV - Audere pre
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Ever since I installed an Audere preamp into a brand new 2011 Fender American Jazz Deluxe Ver, the pickups make a super loud pop when they touch the strings.
It is as loud as plugging in an input jack to a live amp, volume all the way up.
I don't know what could cause this as I've never encountered it before, and the installation went perfectly -- everything works 100%.
Any tips?
Thanks!
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07-03-2011, 01:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Montreal, QC, Canada | | | Isn't this normal? Metal strings touching a magnetic pickup? I don't recall this ever not happening. |
07-03-2011, 01:53 PM
|  | Bongo and Jazz Bass Fan | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Santa Barbara, CA | | | Lower the pickups?
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07-03-2011, 04:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Los Angeles | | | Usually it will make a mild, muffled popping sound.
This is extremely loud, as loud as anything I can physically play with the volume all the way up.
And it occurs with the volume up, or down!
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07-03-2011, 06:57 PM
|  | <---Shinola Shite--^ | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Manitoba, Canada | | Metal strings touching magnets with a coil wound around them = sound. Add preamp that intensifies mid and treble output = loud noise.
Take the covers off your p'ups. Paint the poles with clear nail polish, three coats. Popping will be reduced. Work on right hand technique.  
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07-04-2011, 11:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Los Angeles | | Quote:
Originally Posted by 96tbird Metal strings touching magnets with a coil wound around them = sound. Add preamp that intensifies mid and treble output = loud noise.
Take the covers of your p'ups. Paint the poles with clear nail polish, three coats. Popping will be reduced. Work on right hand technique. | Cool. Now I've owned tons of active basses and none of them did this.
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07-04-2011, 11:55 AM
|  | bassist for staind | | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by 96tbird Metal strings touching magnets with a coil wound around them = sound. Add preamp that intensifies mid and treble output = loud noise.
Take the covers off your p'ups. Paint the poles with clear nail polish, three coats. Popping will be reduced. Work on right hand technique. | great advice ! in the studio a strip of vinyl electric tape over the pickup does the same thing.  |
07-04-2011, 12:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Seattle | | | Yeah I was thinking take pick-up covers off, and install electric tape. than work on right-hand technique.
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07-04-2011, 12:05 PM
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07-04-2011, 01:18 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Aguilar Amplification | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Guadalajara, México | | | I had the same problem when recording using my Music Man Sterling bass. As already suggested I covered the pickups using electric tape while recording. That worked.
I tend to pluck the strings hard to get my sound. I wouldn't blame it on technique, not everyone has the same touch and feel. Instead get the best bass to fit your playing style.
If that means changing covers on your pickups or using pickups without exposed poles (as I did moving to Bartolini) then so be it.
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07-04-2011, 01:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Bergen County, New Jersey | | | every bass i've ever owned has done this... passive or active. have you tried not doing it?
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07-04-2011, 01:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: London, England | | On Dark Side of the Moon, after all the alarm clocks ring, that popping sound is Roger Waters ( or maybe Gilmour  ) pushing the strings up and down on the pickup poles.
Completely unhelpful to the OP but I thought I would mention it. Handy little thing to know.
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07-04-2011, 11:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Los Angeles | | | Thanks for the tips! I'm going to varnish the pickup poles for sure.
To be doubly clear, I know that all basses do this, and active basses even more so.
But this sound is so loud that I thought something was wrong. At least these new Fender US Deluxes sound and play amazingly.
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07-04-2011, 11:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Los Angeles | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bThumper38 Yeah I was thinking take pick-up covers off, and install electric tape. than work on right-hand technique. | Right on.
On technique, I play extra hard on purpose in order to get a specific effect. I am not constantly making it touch because of bad technique.
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07-05-2011, 12:01 AM
| | <---Shinola Shite--^ | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Manitoba, Canada | | | I didn't mean your technique Is wrong, merely another solution, sorry if I Peaved you off. If that's your style, that's good. Rock on brother.
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