chamelious
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Just got an EMG 81 and put it in my yamaha drop 6, it sounds great but has quite a large amount of noise when theres no noise gate on, see file attached. Is this normal?
I did it myself, cold solder joint?????
Regrounding? The manual specifically says not to connect the pickup to the ground in the guitar...
Hopefully Light will clear this up if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, cold solder joints can happen if the connection gets moved around while the joint cools, if the components being soldered together were not hot (meaning only the solder itself was hot at the time the connection was being made) and I have even been cautioned not to blow on solder joints to encourage them to make the joint solidify faster.
I've been told that a solder joint should be shinny when its cool and if it looks cloudy or like it has a satin finish on it, you've got a cold joint. That info had me opening up every one of my electrics and re-soldering quite a few joints.
I'd appreciate a correction and even more info if it's there to be had on cold solder joints though.
I did it myself, cold solder joint?????
Regrounding? The manual specifically says not to connect the pickup to the ground in the guitar...
Hmm yeah thats what i read when i looked it up just now, could that cause the high noise floor?
It should be grounded exactly like any other electronics, (i.e., the shield, if you have one, needs to be grounded, all the pot bodies need to be grounded, etc.), except you do not ground to the bridge.
Hmm, i connected everything as in the EMG wiring diagram, including wiring a shield to a volume pot. The only thing i didn't do was attach a wire that seems to be attached to the guitar body in a few places, to anything else. Does this need to be connected to something?