Members burton4snow Posted September 30, 2015 Members Share Posted September 30, 2015 I have put pickups in this guitar that I know are dead quiet but I still get a loud hum worse than single coil hum. My guitar tech wired it up and it had the hum. I rewired again still hums. I showed the wiring to my guitar tech and he said it looks good, neater than he would do. Checked the bridge ground. These are Dimarzio Rails and they are dead quiet in my other guitars. Any suggestions? Is my guitar Haunted!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burton4snow Posted September 30, 2015 Author Members Share Posted September 30, 2015 The one thing I did was replace the pickguard and I put tin foil on it and the last pickguard had copper on it. There is this little copper tab coming out from the pickup cavity. Maybe it doesn't ground with the tin foil. That is all I can think of that would be an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted September 30, 2015 Members Share Posted September 30, 2015 Alumnum is a very good coductor as long as it is in solid contact with the copper..We like pictures ,it's difficult to troubleshoot something we can't see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burton4snow Posted September 30, 2015 Author Members Share Posted September 30, 2015 The one thing I did was replace the pickguard and I put tin foil on it and the last pickguard had copper on it. There is this little copper tab coming out from the pickup cavity. Maybe it doesn't ground with the tin foil. That is all I can think of that would be an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Nich Posted October 2, 2015 Members Share Posted October 2, 2015 As stated before, pictures would help.. but from what I remember, shouldn't you have a wire running from the bridge ground to the volume control pot back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 As stated before' date=' pictures would help.. but from what I remember, shouldn't you have a wire running from the bridge ground to the volume control pot back?[/quote'] Yup... on Mustangs it is frequently a bare wire (or piece of thin unwound guitar string) that runs under the bridge / vibrato plate to right under the grounded control plate without connecting directly to the back of the pot, but either way will work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 Here's a picture of my '71 Competition Mustang... if you look very closely, you can see the bare wire between the control plate and pickguard. It runs from under the control plate to under the corner of the pickguard, and then on to under the vibrato / bridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burton4snow Posted October 2, 2015 Author Members Share Posted October 2, 2015 Thanks everyone I figured it out. Well didn't really figure it out, but I rewired it and it's fine now:idk: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted October 3, 2015 Members Share Posted October 3, 2015 What did you do different ? We all learn when we communaicate.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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