Recent content by HRmusic90

I see what you mean... Good idea...

So I finally got around to making a video showcasing the noise. The video is from my phone, but the audio is what I hear in my headphones. The signal chain is: Guitar -> Zoom G2.1u -> RME Fireface UCX -> Sound Forge The preset on my Zoom is a high gain one. I realize the extra distortion will...

Glad to hear that. At least someone's making progress :thumbs up: I do have on end of the cap soldered to the pot case. That's how my Mockingbird is wired up: The other wiring info I used was from GuitarElectronics.com: 2 Humbuckers/3-Way Toggle Switch/2 Volumes/2 Tones (But there they have...

So, I took the original pickups that came with the guitar and alligator-clipped them to the pots to complete the circuit: It still sounds awful. It makes a lot of noise by itself. When I touch anything grounded, it goes away.

So far as I can tell there isn't. The bridge ground is the black wire at the top, grounded to the top-left pot. That's the only original wire left from the original hardware. Given that fact, it might be tempting to focus on that as the culprit, but I very much doubt it. That same wire was once...

So here is my wiring, mostly redone... The only wiring that's missing are the pickups themselves. But I thought, before I do that. Let me see if I get any noise with just the components so far... I do :(

Yeah, another thing contributing to the mess is the lack of space. The original guitar had smaller, 1/4 inch pots. These are the larger 3/8 inch. The pots I'm using are Dimarzio "custom taper" pots. They're supposed to be 500 k-Ohm ±10% but I had a couple that have been a little out of spec...

Ok, so I got a digital multimeter and checked the pots. It does read zero for everything that needs to be grounded. For my volume pots, I get about 3.4 k-Ohm open (i.e. pot at "10") and about 1.7 k-Ohm "closed" (i.e. pot at "0"). As for added noise, I plugged my guitar directly into my audio...

It doesn't? That's what the green wire coming off the top of the toggle switch and going to the neck-volume pot is supposed to be. Did I get that wrong?

I hope this is clearer. I tried to draw out how I have things wired up.

A few years ago I decided to use my cheapest guitar for experiments. I had always wanted to change pickups, tuning heads, etc. I also went a step further and put in all new pots, knobs and toggle switch. I did something wrong. I was getting some really awful noise out of it. I didn't know how to...

When you say you see the volume meter responding, be careful that it's not the MIDI velocity meter that you're seeing. (My apologies if you already knew the difference. I don't at all want to sound condescending.) Is it the volume meter for the soft synth you're seeing? You can check one of two...

Oh it wasn't wound versus unwound. It seems to be stainless steel versus nickel. The original pack I bought was a pack of 12 wound, stainless steel D strings.

So I went out and bought a couple single D strings. I cut off the original one and put the new one on. And that worked. My intonation is fine now. Wondering what on earth happened I looked more closely at the old one and new one. I noticed the old one looked darker than the new one. This set...

It is similar. I'm very hesitant to cut off the D string and replace it with a new one because I just put on a brand new set, but I may try that option too.