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Post subject: noisy new jazzmaster
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:01 pm
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hi all/ive just bought a new from a shop jazzmaster/the serial number begins with a q so i think it was made between 02 and 04 in japan/the trouble i am having with it is really bad hum/with the pick up switch in the middle its beautiful/absolute silence/as soon as i switch to either pick up the noise appears/sounds like when you grab a lead thats plugged into an amp/its fairly noisy in lead mode and even worse in rhythm and is ridiculously noisy when running through a ehx big muff/this is the first time ive ever had a guitar with single coil pick ups rather than humbuckers(which obviously buck the hum)so i dont know if this is normal/ do i just put up with it and get a noise gate or is the guitar faulty?


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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:44 pm
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thats just the way p 90s are. single coils hum, and p 90s are just really big single coils. The middle position is more silent because the neck pup is probably reverse wound to add hum canceling when both are turned on.


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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:46 pm
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some jazzy pickups are just strat coils under the pickup cover. make sure there is sheilding under them or you will get an insane amount of hum too.

and jag_man jazzmasters are just like strat coils there not p90's. leo fender designed them as mellow jazz pickups not gibson rocking p90's

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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:49 pm
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the_dude wrote:
some jazzy pickups are just strat coils under the pickup cover. make sure there is sheilding under them or you will get an insane amount of hum too.

and jag_man jazzmasters are just like strat coils there not p90's. leo fender designed them as mellow jazz pickups not gibson rocking p90's


I stand corrected. my fault, thats good to know.


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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:28 am
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I think though that the Classic Player Jazzys the pickups are hotter and made to sound like p90's more than a traditional jazzmaster.

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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:05 am
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Single coils in general are noisy in this picker's environment; we have a big sodium-vapour street lamp about a hundred feet outside and TV in the next room.

An Electro Harmonix Hum De-Bugger has tamed the dreaded hum, even on the big singles on a Mosrite.

Highest recommendtion for that product.

Jazzmasters are fabulous guitars. Personally, 'put American Vintage Reissue Jazzmaster pups on the '95 MIJ and it is now perfect; will stand face to face with any MIA, tone-wise.


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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:42 pm
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the_dude wrote:
I think though that the Classic Player Jazzys the pickups are hotter and made to sound like p90's more than a traditional jazzmaster.


Could be. I played the new Jazzer recently and I didn't think it sounded much like my CIJ Q-Series Jazzmaster.


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