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I don't know. Maybe I had it when I bought the Strat (didn't know a thing about guitars back then), or maybe I introduced it when I changed the neck and bridge pickups. But, I'm an electronic technicain, so i know all about grounds and circuts and pots and schematics and how to solders, etc. etc., so I followed all the rules and precautions on making sure everything was connected just right, and all the grounds where connected to the pot and output jack, but at the time, I could swear that there still was a hum in there somewhere after I was finished.
Well, a couple of years later, I had to change on of the tension springs, so I took the whole guitar apart again, rechecked every single wire according the the guitar and pickup schematics, and then I metered every connection that was supposed to be grounded to ground (including the strings, which are connected to the bridge, and even the sheilding they put on the back of the pick gaurd), and everything check out just fine. Yesterday, on one of my power amp settings (which I haven't done in a while), there was definatly a hum... and when I touched my strings, it was gone. Lift my fingers off the strings, and it was there again. So, I definatly have a grouding problem somewhere.
So what gives??? Is there anything I'm missing here? Do I possibly have a defective pickup coil, or is it an amp problem (Line 6 modeling amp is plugged into a dedeicated circuit breaker which has been checked)?
Louie
Well, a couple of years later, I had to change on of the tension springs, so I took the whole guitar apart again, rechecked every single wire according the the guitar and pickup schematics, and then I metered every connection that was supposed to be grounded to ground (including the strings, which are connected to the bridge, and even the sheilding they put on the back of the pick gaurd), and everything check out just fine. Yesterday, on one of my power amp settings (which I haven't done in a while), there was definatly a hum... and when I touched my strings, it was gone. Lift my fingers off the strings, and it was there again. So, I definatly have a grouding problem somewhere.
So what gives??? Is there anything I'm missing here? Do I possibly have a defective pickup coil, or is it an amp problem (Line 6 modeling amp is plugged into a dedeicated circuit breaker which has been checked)?
Louie