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Badass Bridge Grounding Help

#21
So should I remove all of the tape from the covers or just from the pole surrounds?

Any idea why I'm still getting a little hiss/buzz, that gets slightly worse when I touch the poles? Also, the ground screw is still in the same spot, just through the copper now.
 
#22
It's probably because your body is acting like a huge antennae and is sending all kinds of electrical noise in the site directly into the pickups and put to the amplifier.
Are you getting this "little hiss" touching the strings or not touching?
 
#24
DRay521 said:
So should I remove all of the tape from the covers or just from the pole surrounds?

Any idea why I'm still getting a little hiss/buzz, that gets slightly worse when I touch the poles? Also, the ground screw is still in the same spot, just through the copper now.
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yeah, take all the tape out of the covers entirely.

if you touch the polepieces while you're grounded (like when it's strung up and you're touching the strings at the same time) it shouldn't be an issue.
 
#25
Jazz is done, only extraneous sound remaining is the single coil him.

Now with the P Bass, it's got that hum that I only hear when I touch the exposed poles. As Diabolus said, that's probably grounding, but I just had the ground wire resoldered. Any thoughts?
 
#26
that's probably not grounding either; does one coil make a little more noise than the other when you touch the poles? that's normal for series wiring, one coil has its poles right against the ground end of the coil, while the other has the poles against wire that's essentially "halfway" between hot and ground.
 
#28
DRay521 said:
It's not really one of the split pickups, but I do find certain poles are worse than others, and there's really no pattern to it
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some of the windings may be tighter against certain magnets or even have shorted against them, causing varying levels of noise when the poles are touched.

not a big deal really, and the old-school solution was a bit of lacquer (like clear fingernail polish) on the tops of the poles, so your finger didn't actually connect with the metal.
 
#29
walterw said:
some of the windings may be tighter against certain magnets or even have shorted against them, causing varying levels of noise when the poles are touched.

not a big deal really, and the old-school solution was a bit of lacquer (like clear fingernail polish) on the tops of the poles, so your finger didn't actually connect with the metal.
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Good deal, thanks!
 
#31
yep and yep, but i've heard plenty of BA bridges do fine when slapped right out of the package onto the old ground wire.

the notching thing is key though, skip that and you've got lousy ramps for the strings and are negating the primary principle in the design of the bridge.
 

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