Hey everyone.
I know this is talkbass, but this is a guitar question. I figured that
1. Everyone on here is probably more intelligent than 75% of the guitar community out there.
2. The ideals behind wiring are essentially the same.
If you absolutely refuse to help me because it's a guitar, I understand that too, but with all this preface, I digress.
My guitar (MIM Telecaster) suffers from an annoying 60Hz hum that stops whenever I touch the strings, pots, etc.
I grounded the bridge, and I've double checked just about every connection. I've got a Seymour-Duncan STK-1 in the neck (It's a Humbucker with a phantom coil) and a Little '59 in the bridge (Single coil-sized humbucker). The Little '59 is practically unusable with distortion due to microphonic feedback. Upon reading different posts here, I've come to the conclusion that the pots cannot be responsible for the ground problem? I've also tried changing the capacitor. Lastly, the cavity is NOT shielded, but I wanted to try everything before I turned to shielding. My biggest issue was that before I installed the Little '59, there was no ground problem. And I had the stock single coil bridge pickup installed previously.
I dunno. I've just tried about every damn thing I could think of.
Any suggestions on what I could do?
Thanks a lot!
I know this is talkbass, but this is a guitar question. I figured that
1. Everyone on here is probably more intelligent than 75% of the guitar community out there.
2. The ideals behind wiring are essentially the same.
If you absolutely refuse to help me because it's a guitar, I understand that too, but with all this preface, I digress.
My guitar (MIM Telecaster) suffers from an annoying 60Hz hum that stops whenever I touch the strings, pots, etc.
I grounded the bridge, and I've double checked just about every connection. I've got a Seymour-Duncan STK-1 in the neck (It's a Humbucker with a phantom coil) and a Little '59 in the bridge (Single coil-sized humbucker). The Little '59 is practically unusable with distortion due to microphonic feedback. Upon reading different posts here, I've come to the conclusion that the pots cannot be responsible for the ground problem? I've also tried changing the capacitor. Lastly, the cavity is NOT shielded, but I wanted to try everything before I turned to shielding. My biggest issue was that before I installed the Little '59, there was no ground problem. And I had the stock single coil bridge pickup installed previously.
I dunno. I've just tried about every damn thing I could think of.
Any suggestions on what I could do?
Thanks a lot!
