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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 4:06 pm
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I finally bought a new tele (standard) after years of have off market brands. Love the looks and the fell, problem! when i have the pickup knob turned to the bridge pickup only, the amp hums. does not do it in the neck poistioin, and only a little hum in the both poistion. Any help? Is there a diff bridge pickup i can switch to that still looks like the org, but with no hum? Thanks. Roger


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I think that's because the bridge is uncovered, but the neck is covered. Try the dimarzio area T model bridge if you don't want hum. With single coils, it's natural. Hope i helped, this is from the top of my head!

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hendrixfan99 wrote:
I think that's because the bridge is uncovered, but the neck is covered. Try the dimarzio area T model bridge if you don't want hum. With single coils, it's natural. Hope i helped, this is from the top of my head!

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(I do not intend on hi-jacking this thread!)

I know this sounds a bit nooby, but would a noisegate pedal reduce hum etc? Particularly with the single coils?

Thanks, James.


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Single coil pickups will naturally have some hum. the best you can do with the stock coils is to fully shield the pickup and control cavities with thin sheetmetal. Copper is best. You should also ground the shielding.

If you want to go even further you can replace the pickups with noise-less ones. I have a set of Kinman broadcaster pickups in my Tele. Its totally silent. www.kinman.com. Warning, they are not cheap.


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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:51 pm
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cowboy1948 wrote:
I finally bought a new tele (standard) after years of have off market brands. Love the looks and the fell, problem! when i have the pickup knob turned to the bridge pickup only, the amp hums. does not do it in the neck poistioin, and only a little hum in the both poistion. Any help? Is there a diff bridge pickup i can switch to that still looks like the org, but with no hum? Thanks. Roger


With Tele's it's all about shielding. Shield the pickup and control cavities with copper tape or shielding paint. Shield the backside of the pickguard with copper tape. ground the bridge to one of the pots.

That should take care of your humming

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Ahhh, cheers ppl, usefull stuff....had same kinda thing with mine :)
....rock on! *or wateva u do with ur tele*


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you could always do what I did and swap out the stock pups your Tele for Samarian Cobalt Noiseless. I'm very pleased with mine.


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Besides the sheilding make sure the pickup is grounded to the bridge. look at the joe strummer model wiring for a hint. :wink:


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Ground the bridge itself to your tone pot. That will cut down on much of the hum.

Here's how:
Take a wire and strip each end. Next solder one end to the tone pot . Then loosen the bridge a bit and stick the other end of the wire between the bridge and the body. Re-tighten bridge.

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A noise-gate would clamp down and remove the all sound below a certain threshold - so when you started to play the noise would be there with all the rest. The theory with gating is that the signal that is desirable will have so much amplitude that the parts that aren't desirable will be drowned out.

It solves some of the problem but not all.


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