P90 hum

[dragonworks]

If you're in a high gain situation you have to be ready to drop that vol control to zero between riffs. Good shielding can minimize the hum but will NOT remove it completely...perhaps a dummy coil (sans magnet) in the back somewhere wired into the output jack so it's always in the circuit would impart hum cancellation . I don't have any actual experience with this but I have been reading about it & (I think) PRS is doing something like this on one of their models...


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[travelin travis]

suhr does this for strats via a coil on the tremolo cover and some other secret thing i that i dont understand. i think you should just get over it. rock n roll is noisy.

[legionserial]

Just put a noise gate between the guitar and the amp...

[hungovermorning]

Originally Posted by travelin travis

i think you should just get over it. rock n roll is noisy.

Testify! I've played P90s for years. It's part of their charm.

[kludge]

Originally Posted by legionserial

Just put a noise gate between the guitar and the amp...

Doesn't work for hum. Usually, the hum is louder than the subtle bits of signal, and the gate will chatter and wreck the tail of your notes.

Shield the guitar correctly, use quality cables and keep them short, make sure the amp is grounded correctly, don't use too much gain, and then buck up and deal. That's the reality of pickup hum.