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Post subject: Neck Pickup Making Odd Noise
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 3:17 pm
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My strat has a set of vintage 60 something reissues and lately I noticed the neck pup making an odd noise as the note trails off.

A string pluck produces the note just fine and then there's a short buzz on the tail end of the note, almost like fret buzz but not quite, and it only does it on the low E. I can switch to middle or bridge and it doesn't do it. Seems obvious that something is wrong with the neck pup but I'm not ready to close the door on that because I've seen problems before that appeared obvious and ended up being crazy weird. I thought it might be Stratitis but not with one pup.?.? I've tried raising and lowering it thinking the problem might be magnetic but that didn't change anything.

Does this problem sound familiar to anyone?

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Post subject: Re: Neck Pickup Making Odd Noise
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 3:45 pm
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Try plugging the guitar into a different amp and report back with your findings.

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Post subject: Re: Neck Pickup Making Odd Noise
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 5:00 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
Try plugging the guitar into a different amp and report back with your findings.

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Whatever your hunch is it must be right. Tried a different amp and it didn't do it.

It's doing it on the 5F2A that I built 2-3 months ago.


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Post subject: Re: Neck Pickup Making Odd Noise
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 5:38 pm
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I suspect one of your tubes has become microphonic. It happens periodically.

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