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Topic: Help! Humbucker is Humming |
Clyde Willis
From:
Denham Springs, LA 70726
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Posted 14 Jun 2002 2:06 pm |
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I am trying to install an EMG "Select" humbucker in a lap steel I'm building, using the schematic that came with the pickup, but I get this heavy 60 hz hum when I plug it in the amp. Hum vanishes when I touch the cord plug, but if touch the bare tone or volume pot shafts, the hum comes back in a big way.
I'm sure its something simple, but I'm fresh out of ideas. Any advice would be most welcome as I have been working on the this guitar for a good while and I would really like to get it finished and see what it sounds like (minus the hum).
Thanks CW |
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Tim Rowley
From:
Pinconning, MI, USA
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Posted 15 Jun 2002 9:59 pm
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Sounds to me as though you have the leads reversed. White should be "hot" and go to the tip terminal of the 1/4" jack, black is the neutral and goes to the sleeve terminal. Opposite of house wiring. See if maybe they need to be switched around.
Tim R. |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 16 Jun 2002 8:05 am
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| Let's move this to the Electronics forum from No Peddlers. Perhaps more people will respond with suggestions. |
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