TelePaul
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Get your single coils shielded? Yes or No.
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danny.guitar
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Maybe.....
TelePaul
J to the R O C
danny.guitar said:
Punk! Go back to your clapton covers!
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marshall409
Active member
Nah
Doesn't seem worth it.
Its part of the guitar to me now.
Adam
Doesn't seem worth it.
Its part of the guitar to me now.
Adam
BlackHawk2029
New member
naah. i tend to find some of that noise to be a character of single coils, and it needs to stay that way.
Light
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If it is a problem for you, the absolutely, but if it is not a problem, don't bother.
Light
"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
Light
"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
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Greg_L
Banned
I did it following the instructions precisely, but it didn't make enough of a difference to justify the work.
Jamz0r
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BlackHawk2029 said:
This seems to fall in the "old dog" category.
I'm usually game for reducing noise any way I can.
ez_willis
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You didn't do it right. Period.Greg_L said:
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ggunn
Crystal Flavolian
ez_willis said:
Not necessarily. It depends on a lot of things, but the coils themselves are more susceptible to picking up hum than is the internal wiring, and you cannot shield the entire coil. Shielding the cavity can help, but it won't make single coils noiseless.
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Greg_L
Banned
I beg to differ. I'm not retarded. I'm pretty handy with a soldering gun and generally understand things mechanical/electronic. I followed every procedure precisely, and while it did help some, it didn't help enough to warrant the effort. The guy that wrote the instructions even said that it doesn't always work. I guess I'm one of those cases.ez_willis said:
TelePaul
J to the R O C
ez_willis said:
There is absolutely no way you can say that empirically. Period.
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Nick_Black
Mirthmaker
oh yeah, , you should alway's shield, especially if you have a CRT monitor for recording, becouse yes I can see some people liking the noise, but with alot of cheeper guitars you can get shocks from the strings, and the noise can sometimes rule out the actual music, the only guitar I have that isn't shielded is my strat clone, but only becouse it's coverd in ductape that I don't wanna remove
Light
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Nick_Black said:
That has nothing to do with the guitar, and shielding won't help a bit. That's an issue with the amp, and needs to be taken care of.
Light
"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
Jamz0r
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Actually, that sounds more like a grounding issue.
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Nick_Black
Mirthmaker
shielding does ground. tho I admit Light is probably right in it being the amp.
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travelin travis
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ez_willis said:
It didn't work for me either. I'd like to think that I'm pretty good at following directions and shielding isn't a complicated thing to do.
Light
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Nick_Black said:
Shielding is GROUNDED, but it has no effect on the guitars ground. You can not, for instance, use the guitars shield as a ground buss, or at least not very successfully.
But yes, shocks are a problem with the amp, or with the power, or with the PA (if the shock is coming through your lips when you touch the mic). Some idiot electrician wires a recepticle backwards, and it can ruin your whole day.
Light
"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
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Nick_Black
Mirthmaker
shieling like you said is grounded, and since static electricaty is alway's trying to find the easyest way to ground, it will more likly take the highly conductive shield than your body, unless ofcourse your body is closer... which is probably likly... I'll shut up now... listen to light, he's smarter than me.
Light
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Nick_Black said:
In theory, a shield should work as a ground buss, and it sometimes does. What I'm saying is that I frequently have problems with it, and have never had problems with a groung loop in a guitar from soldering proper ground wires. In other words, it is a bad idea to rely on the shield for your ground.
Light
"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
