Posted on 12/22/2018 8:40:19 AM PST by kjam22
check to see the pickups haven’t been jarred loose a little
If it eliminates your chords that's definitely going to be a big problem. ;)
LOL.... yes you are right. Let me rephrase and say it eliminated cords. Not Chords.... Thanks for catching that!
Sounds like your wireless gizmo is a V/UHF FM tranmitter rather than a digital type, because with digital you might hear broken-up or “pixelated” audio but not hiss. Hiss in an FM system means there’s not enough signal strength from the transmitter to fully quiet the receiver, just like when you’re tuned to a distant FM station. Putting your hand on the strings probably acted to couple a bit more signal, thus the hiss went away. So I’d say you have found the problem and corrected it.
We looked it over. Everything seems good.
Yes... It had a little hiss while using a cord. But not nearly as bad as some I have seen on YouTube etc. And changing cords made it better or worse etc etc. But putting the wireless in made it completely dead quiet.
Sounds like the ground wire got knocked loose when the guitar was dropped. The instrument should be grounded to the stud of the stop tailpiece with a wire going through a small hole in the control cavity.
He says that the wireless system elinminated the noise.
Cords do pick up interference, especially cheap ones.
At the risk of being a little off topic, I replaced the single coil pickups in a telecaster with quality stacked humbuckers. Quieted down the 60 cycle hum quite a bit. Lots a little brightness but not much.
Thelmannn wire.
As a fellow Les Paul owner who also happens to own two Fender Strats, am Epiphone Casino, Tele, and Rick 325, I cant than you enough for the nice little diversion from the cares of the world!
Youre not n to something with the grounding. When you touch the strings you are grounding it. Im guessing a grounding wire came loose when it fell.
Guitar pinglist ping.
Yeah.. when I dropped it... at start of practice for the Church’s big Christmas pagent and it broke I was really stressed. Fortunately I only live about 3 miles from there. Called my wife and she brought a strat and cables etc. Played the performance with that and took the Gibson in for repair the next day.
Argh make that youre on to something with the grounding.
It requires disassembly of the guitar (An opportunity to set your action lower if need be) and the Buzz Kill is used to line the pocket beneath the pickups and any other areas including spaces around the output jack.
The stuff is a 4" wide roll of thin copper sheeting with an adhesive backing. Worked like a charm for me. YMMV.
This is making me think I need to find a project guitar one of these days - currently I have a PRS CE24 and a MIM Fender Strat. Both have the bridge upblocked, and I shielded the pickup cavity in the Strat and swapped in Texas Special pickups.
OTOH, I still need to replace my amplifier with one that sounds good at lower volumes since I just play in my spare room these days.
Yeah.... I thought that was the direction I might be headed. Like I say... it is not real bad hiss, but not dead quiet either. The wiring all looks in tact, and maybe the guitar was always like that. I don’t know for certain. But I do know using the wireless rig eliminates the hiss/hum all together.
I’m an electrical engineer. From my experience you have noise on the power supply. A higher quality amp would probably solve the hiss.
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