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Jory Simmons
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Elkhorn, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 29 Aug 2020 1:56 pm |
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I’ve been playing a Mullen RP For about 14 years now… And I am on my fourth one. The first three had the Mullen stock pick up and it was always fine but on my last one I ordered it with a Wallace true tone… I was hoping it would give me more of an push pull tone. I didn’t notice it right away but it had a pretty bad hum with the V pedal down all the way. I just replaced the TT with a 705… And man what a difference!! The hum is gone ... And my steel is louder and brighter… Of course now I have to completely rethink my tone settings… But that’s OK LOL! Just thought I’d share this with everyone also it was suggested that I attached the ground wire to one of the screws in my RKR knee lever...Which I did but then I noticed when I played a chord And then hit that lever there was static in the sound… Well I didn’t like that at all so I reattached the ground wire to a screw on the changer frame. No more problems. Well that’s my story and I’m sticking to it everybody be safe out there!
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Gene Tani
From:
Pac NW
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Posted 29 Aug 2020 3:07 pm
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705's sound great in some steels, I'm taking it out of one because it sounds lie a calliope. It's a good calliope sound, just not what i'm looking for. part of the problem maybe that it's a tall pickup housing and baseplate in a shallow pickup cavity, I measured them here: https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=360731
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 29 Aug 2020 4:45 pm
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| I reattached the ground wire to a screw on the changer frame. No more problems. |
That's what needed to happen with the TrueTone and you would have no hum.
Ricky
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Tommy Shown
From:
Denham Springs, La.
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Posted 30 Aug 2020 7:22 pm
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I have a 705 on my LeGrandeII and it works superbly. No hum, real clean tone
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Justin Emmert
From:
Greensboro, NC
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Posted 31 Aug 2020 4:23 am
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| I have a G2 with the stock single coil pups and had a hum as well. I lived with it for a while and researched it a lot here on the forum and decided it was just a single coil thing. I finally decided to do something about it when I tried to do some recording and felt I had to get rid of the hum. Long story short.....per a suggestion on the forum, I turned the guitar 90 degrees and the hum went almost completely away. when I turned the guitar back to its original position, the hum did not come back. Weird right? |
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John De Maille
From:
On a Mountain in Upstate Halcottsville, N.Y.
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Posted 31 Aug 2020 9:19 am
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| I have a 2003 ZumSteel, that, I put a 19,500 True Tone pickup in and there is absolutely no hum at all. |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 31 Aug 2020 12:05 pm
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Yes all single coils MUST be grounded to the Changer and THEN you will have No Hum.!!! UNLESS> ha...well I won't go into several reasons they will hum as its too far few between...bla bla.....there's nothing like the real growl of a single coil pickup.
Ricky
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