Members jramirezz0044 Posted January 24 Members Share Posted January 24 (edited) Hello guys I'm new here. It's nice to meet everyone I need help with a problem I'm having. So whenever I pick up my guitar or if I barely touch it it starts giving me a buzzing noise-like feedback but whenever I touch my 1/4 or around it stops. If I touch my bridge or the bone of the bridge it stops also. I tried different cables and I even switched out my preamp, the palathetic pickup, and where the 1/4 goes in also but it still does it. So I left my guitar in my bed laid it down (Basically to figure out where it was coming from) I was touching the strings and it started doing it, I also touched the bone of the bridge and the bridge itself and it also started doing it but where the 1/4 is, when I touched it, it didn't do it. I'm thinking maybe is the palathetic pickup but since I changed it out to a new one and its still doing it, so maybe there's some sort of interference I think idk. Is this t]something that happens normally? is it fixable? Edited January 24 by jramirezz0044 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members badpenguin Posted January 25 Members Share Posted January 25 (edited) 5 hours ago, jramirezz0044 said: Hello guys I'm new here. It's nice to meet everyone I need help with a problem I'm having. So whenever I pick up my guitar or if I barely touch it it starts giving me a buzzing noise-like feedback but whenever I touch my 1/4 or around it stops. If I touch my bridge or the bone of the bridge it stops also. I tried different cables and I even switched out my preamp, the palathetic pickup, and where the 1/4 goes in also but it still does it. So I left my guitar in my bed laid it down (Basically to figure out where it was coming from) I was touching the strings and it started doing it, I also touched the bone of the bridge and the bridge itself and it also started doing it but where the 1/4 is, when I touched it, it didn't do it. I'm thinking maybe is the palathetic pickup but since I changed it out to a new one and its still doing it, so maybe there's some sort of interference I think idk. Is this t]something that happens normally? is it fixable? What it sounds like you are describing is 60 cycle hum. It hums, you touch the 1/4 jack, no hum. That says that the guitar isn't grounded properly. Unlike an electric guitar, the strings on an acoustic are not grounded. Simple fix: ground them. There used to be a device that attached to your wrist, and then attached to the ground on your output jack. Like a "leash". It used your body to be ground, like it does when you touch the jack. I've used just a long wire loosely wrapped around my wrist, and the other end attached to the output jack. Edited January 25 by badpenguin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jramirezz0044 Posted January 25 Author Members Share Posted January 25 thanks for the advice man! I'll try it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted January 25 Moderators Share Posted January 25 is the sound a hum or a crackle? Taks are known to have a battery contact issue. What are you plugging into? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted January 26 Members Share Posted January 26 badpenguin's comment about a grounding issue is probably on the mark but I suspect there's a problem with the output jack. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jramirezz0044 Posted January 29 Author Members Share Posted January 29 On 1/25/2024 at 6:12 AM, daddymack said: is the sound a hum or a crackle? Taks are known to have a battery contact issue. What are you plugging into? Hum and I’m always connecting to a mixer or a interface Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted January 30 Moderators Share Posted January 30 Check the battery contacts ...and check the ground wiring on the output jack. Both are typical failure points on Takamines. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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