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Post subject: Vintage pickup noise
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:15 am
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I noticed a lot of players complaining about noise from vintage pickups. I build a lot of Strats and I recently built a retro looking model with American Vintage pickups. They sound amazing but the downside is the noise. Fender's diagram for wiring the vintage setup only has you connect to the white and black input. I have all but removed all noise by taking some of the new design which was very simple. Ground the body to the volume pot with a screw and wire and run another wire from the screw to the tremola claw. Now I can overdrive like mad if I like and minimal noise. When playing clean it's very quiet.


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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:42 am
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sounds interesting. Can we have a picture or diagram please mate.

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BINGO....I did the same thing for my Cyclone, I ran the same grounds one fron the volume pot to the body, with a wire soldered to a wire clamp, (a little one) and screwed it into the body, and the spring claw as well.
She' s gonna be a loud b*** with an AtomicII bridge and a tex-mex in the neck. It is a good technique tried and true.


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I second Nikki's request- could you please post a picture or diagram?

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Does this help?
:note the wire clip at the bottom coming off of pot.


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Post subject: Re: Vintage pickup noise
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:36 pm
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nucci1960 wrote:
I noticed a lot of players complaining about noise from vintage pickups. I build a lot of Strats and I recently built a retro looking model with American Vintage pickups. They sound amazing but the downside is the noise. Fender's diagram for wiring the vintage setup only has you connect to the white and black input. I have all but removed all noise by taking some of the new design which was very simple. Ground the body to the volume pot with a screw and wire and run another wire from the screw to the tremola claw. Now I can overdrive like mad if I like and minimal noise. When playing clean it's very quiet.


My 06 MIA came grounded this way. I just assumed it was standard on newer fenders. My '74 has been shielded for years so I didn't re-ground her when I saw the new setup.

Thanks for passing it on though. - Mark

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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:05 pm
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The factory has been doing this on contemporary models as long as I can remember but this is a variation of that. Fender often uses 2 separate wires from the volume pot. I tried that, the one wire worked better. I think having 2 more ground wires from the pot causes a field possibly not as streamlined as spliting at the screw in the body.

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