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Post subject: Vintage Noiseless tele bridge pickup problem...HUM
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 3:37 pm
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hi guys. please oh please help a guy out.

I posted this in the pickup section but have had no luck.
i have a MIM Tele which i bout years ago. i replaced the pups with vintage noiseless ones a few months after i bought the guitar and all seemed fine. about a year or so later, i found that the bridge pup wasnt as noiseless as it used to be. i got it replaced and installed the new one and this didnt solve the problem. i then took it to a tech who checked all the pots and grounding and all seemed ok. this is extremely frustrating as the neck pup is brilliant and dead quiet and the bridge is just, well not! anyone got any ideas or had similar troubles? also i noticed that the bridge pup is a little quieter but i think i read somewhere that they are lower output then the neck position. this is the third pickup i have tried so i doupt its that. please shed some light on this if you have an idea. cheers !!!


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless tele bridge pickup problem...HUM
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 6:11 pm
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It's probably unrelated, but I had hum from my practice MIM for several weeks, and while it varied, it was always much stronger at the bridge. Until I one day stood up and faced the other way. It turned out that my halogen lamp to the right of me was a big noise generator.
As I said, probably unrelated.

Does the noise subside when you touch the bridge?
Does it get louder if you play any particular open string?


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless tele bridge pickup problem...HUM
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 2:16 am
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arth1 wrote:
..........faced the other way. It turned out that my halogen lamp to the right of me was a big noise generator.
As I said, probably unrelated.

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Halogen lamp , neon , transformer / motor and wi fi , cell phone can generate noise .

First thing , is it the guitar OR your room ?


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless tele bridge pickup problem...HUM
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 4:26 am
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Cheers for the replies. Its deff the guitar not the room as its anywhere I play it. Being near a halogen light or LCD screen isnt the problem either although even if I am holding the guitar in front of the screen, the neck pup is still perfectly silent as they are designed to cancel out interference. The hum is there regardless of if I'm touching the bridge or not too. :( its not overly loud, its just that I've had these pickups before and they were fine and both silient. Hmmm thanks again


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless tele bridge pickup problem...HUM
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 5:51 am
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Bad ground wiring, poor cavity shielding and improper soldering of the wires are important factors for any guitar pickup (even noiseless) to buzz and sound dull or weak.

The 60-cycle buzz issue is ground-related.


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless tele bridge pickup problem...HUM
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 6:07 am
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chromeface wrote:
Bad ground wiring, poor cavity shielding and improper soldering of the wires are important factors for any guitar pickup (even noiseless) to buzz and sound dull or weak.

The 60-cycle buzz issue is ground-related.


+1

That is what I write on his other post at " Pickups and Accessories"

But this tech look at the guitar !!!!!!


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless tele bridge pickup problem...HUM
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:20 am
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Hey. Yeah I had a tech check all the grounding and they said it was all good. I guess they could have missed something. I tried switching over the connections at the pickup selector so the positions were switched. The neck pup was still silent and the bridge was dodgy. That does kinda hint at bad grounding at the bridge end. I'll take a video and link to it. Cheers guys. This forums great :)


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless tele bridge pickup problem...HUM
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:42 am
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harpham13 wrote:
The neck pup was still silent and the bridge was dodgy.


The pickups you had bought are defective or dead. Buy a replacement!


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless tele bridge pickup problem...HUM
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:08 am
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i thought that, and replaced it. this is my third one now it just seems a little unlikely that all three have been bad. im now uploading a video of the problem. it should show what im talking about. cheers :)


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless tele bridge pickup problem...HUM
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:16 am
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here's a video of the problem...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnnJSrl2 ... e=youtu.be


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless tele bridge pickup problem...HUM
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:26 am
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I just ear your video.

First thing I ear, pickups switch is dirty or ground missing ( at the switch) , fix that .


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless tele bridge pickup problem...HUM
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:49 am
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yeah its the first time i noticed that when fiddling earlier. i think i may just have to try and find someone else to have a look at it then. its hard to find decent guitar techs in norfolk though haha. thanks mate


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless tele bridge pickup problem...HUM
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 11:00 am
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Do you have contack cleaner with lubricant and a voltmeter ?

You must have a reading ( connexion, close to "0" ohms ) ) between your switch plate ( the chrome plate where are your controls ) and ouside ( ground ) of output jack and bridge too.


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless tele bridge pickup problem...HUM
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 11:17 am
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i don't have a voltmeter but i have electrical contact cleaner. ill give it a clean and get rid of the dirty noises haha. i may have to purchase a voltmeter then and have a fiddle. or just take it back to the guy who saw it before and see what he can do. so '0' is the reading that i need it to be then? if its higher i guess that means there is a fault with the ground on the particular part


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless tele bridge pickup problem...HUM
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 12:44 pm
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harpham13 wrote:
i don't have a voltmeter but i have electrical contact cleaner. ill give it a clean and get rid of the dirty noises haha. i may have to purchase a voltmeter then and have a fiddle. or just take it back to the guy who saw it before and see what he can do. so '0' is the reading that i need it to be then? if its higher i guess that means there is a fault with the ground on the particular part



If this guy don't what I mean by a reading close to "0" ohms between those 3 parts, run far from him ........

Can you show us some photos of under the control plate ; pickups switch , pots ?


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