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Greg_L
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A wire strapped from your guitar to your balls will do nothing to minimize single coil noise. They just make noise.
Grounding yourself is possibly the single-most stupid advice ever given or received in regards to electric guitars and amps.
What about those old Fenders and the "death cap" that I keep hearing about? What was the deal with them?
As I understand it, not being of the parish, some mains supplies were of indeterminate "polarity"? That is live and neutral were either not marked on the outlet and standard or the wholes supply was "floating" whereas neutral should be bonded to ground at the entry point of the building.
This meant that amps often hummed like a cnut so they fitted a capacitor of about 100nF that connected the chassis to either live or neutral, whichever gave least hum.
But not only can 100nF pass enough 60/50Hz current to kill the buggers would go short! Hence, live chassis!
Before my time on amps but I did repair AC/DC radios in the day and they were lethal but LEGAL!
Dave.
One of my brother's friends had an issue with his clothes dryer, and I went to check it out. He showed me that the dryer would run intermittently, and when it stopped he would push against the panel cover and the dryer would start again. I took off the cover and deadfront and saw that the neutral for that circuit had been nicked by the wire stripper when installed and had stretched and BROKEN. It was making intermittent contact with the grounded deadfront, and when he pushed against the panel cover he was inadvertently closing the circuit! Was a simple fix of cutting off the broken end and re-landing the wire to the neutral buss. Never seen that instance again in 35 years. But it can happen!
I'm an Inside Wireman with 35 years experience, amigo. That link is nonsense and so is purposefully grounding yourself.
Quit dispensing electrical advice of any sort.
I don't think it's off-topic. If you are depending on the neutral for all of your equipment grounding and personal grounding means you could wind up in a body bag.
"Purposefully grounding yourself" is what people do when they play electric guitars...ALL of them. It seems that this concept is difficult to grasp for some people. I'm getting comments that would logically call EVERYONE who plays an electric guitar "stupid" for grounding themselves....as if grounding oneself to a guitar is some kind of unfortunate accident that sometimes occurs when people play them.
Mmmmm....people don't "purposefully" do that to intentionally solve noise issues...it just happens that way because we touch the strings/bridge.
The take-away point is that in a properly wired situation....you won't get grounding noises to begin with.
You may want to consider why you get them, and rather than improving the skin contact to your gear with some wire down your pants and a brass plate....spend the time to fix the problems at the source.
Heck, there are even power conditioners/hum eliminators that can solve it for you if you don't want to deal with fixing your house AC and studio grounding scheme.
Mmmmm....people don't "purposefully" do that to intentionally solve noise issues...it just happens that way because we touch the strings/bridge.
The take-away point is that in a properly wired situation....you won't get grounding noises to begin with.
You may want to consider why you get them, and rather than improving the skin contact to your gear with some wire down your pants and a brass plate....spend the time to fix the problems at the source.
Heck, there are even power conditioners/hum eliminators that can solve it for you if you don't want to deal with fixing your house AC and studio grounding scheme.