New bass grounding issue?

[NickyDeez]

Just got a new Fender Jazz Bass for my birthday and I believe there's a grounding issue with it. Whenever I'm not touching the strings I get a small amount of feedback. I've never had this on any of my previous basses. Any suggestions?

 

[Zooberwerx]

If you balance the pups at 50/50, the buzz should diminish significantly. Such is the way of single coil pickups. See if that helps and get back to us. We may also need to address shielding, grounding, outside interference, etc. BTW, exactly which model are we talking about?

Riis

 

[NickyDeez]

It's the fender 60s jazz bass here's the link
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[walterw]

if you touch the strings and the noise goes away, then there's not a problem.

you can make a project of shielding the insides of the thing and reduce the difference, but this is pretty much normal.

 

[NickyDeez]

If you balance the pups at 50/50, the buzz should diminish significantly. Such is the way of single coil pickups. See if that helps and get back to us. We may also need to address shielding, grounding, outside interference, etc. BTW, exactly which model are we talking about?

Riis

It seems like I can't balance the pups because of the way the bass is made

 

[Chasarms]

It seems like I can't balance the pups because of the way the bass is made

With a traditional vol-vol-tone jazz setup, balanced would be both volumes all the way up or at least in the same position.

A single-coil jazz is going to be noisy. It can be controlled to some degree, but it is the nature of the beast.