It's too long a story to explain but yesterday I re-wired my guitar. 2 humbuckers, 3 way selector and 1 volume pot.
Now I have a nasty hum when I play thru my amp (only noticeable on the high gain channel) ... the hum disappears when I touch a string or the bridge... I'm assuming it's a grounding problem.
Just to check I re-wired everything correctly... the wires coming from my pickups went to the three way selector, then to the volume pot then to the jack. Each pickup has a shield and two wires - one red and one white. I earthed the shield and the white wire and wired the red ones to appropriate place on the switch. Is this correct?
I'm confident the rest is ok so I won't bother with the details. The thing I'm not sure about is whether the white wire from the pickup should be going some other place than to earth.
As well as this hum I've also noticed that when I roll of the volume on the guitar (thru the high gain channel of my amp), instead of the sound cleaning up like it used to it the distorted remains unchanged until literally the last 10% or so of the turn of the pot and then instead of cleaning up it just goes to mud. Any clues to why? Time for a new volume pot?
I'm thinking just about getting a new volume pot,a new switch and a new jack and start from scratch.
Also on the grounding thing... could the problem be on the jack on my amp... should I look into that too?
Thanks for any help
Now I have a nasty hum when I play thru my amp (only noticeable on the high gain channel) ... the hum disappears when I touch a string or the bridge... I'm assuming it's a grounding problem.
Just to check I re-wired everything correctly... the wires coming from my pickups went to the three way selector, then to the volume pot then to the jack. Each pickup has a shield and two wires - one red and one white. I earthed the shield and the white wire and wired the red ones to appropriate place on the switch. Is this correct?
I'm confident the rest is ok so I won't bother with the details. The thing I'm not sure about is whether the white wire from the pickup should be going some other place than to earth.
As well as this hum I've also noticed that when I roll of the volume on the guitar (thru the high gain channel of my amp), instead of the sound cleaning up like it used to it the distorted remains unchanged until literally the last 10% or so of the turn of the pot and then instead of cleaning up it just goes to mud. Any clues to why? Time for a new volume pot?
I'm thinking just about getting a new volume pot,a new switch and a new jack and start from scratch.
Also on the grounding thing... could the problem be on the jack on my amp... should I look into that too?
Thanks for any help