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4 way wiaring problem
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4 way wiaring problem
I’m having problems with a 4 way wiaring for a telecaster. Everything is connected correctly. But it seens like when I’m not touching the guitar it buzzes with just the light pocking at the metal parts
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Did you separate the ground wire from the cover on the neck pickup? If the pickup cover is still connected to one end of the coil it will give you grounding issues. Found this out the hard way too and thanks to Doug Graham was able to fix it…but I had no schematic to work off.
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The guitar came from the factory with this setup. I’m leaning toward the fact that what you said might be the issue
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Hey Magnus. A few questions just to confirm. If you’re not touching the guitar, it’s reasonably quiet but, when you touch ANY metal part it buzzes? This happens if you touch the knobs or control plate? If you touch the neck pickup cover? If you touch the metal cup holding the output jack? If you touch the bridge?
Does this happen in every switch position?
The guitar came from the factory with a four-way switch and you haven’t altered the wiring?
Do you access to a multimeter?
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Yeah so I’m not touching it, then when I I poke metal parts . It’s not so much buzzing as more like light spark sounds. I have replaced the vol and the three way. It came factory with those. A 4 way. The tone works fine. But fender did use up all their soldier
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Also, can you take a photo of the wiring and upload?
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OK. It’s hard to say for certain from a photo but the wiring seems correct. I’m going to guess that yellowish wire is the ground from the neck pickup cover. That’s good, if so.
From the additional information about a ‘light spark’ sound, I’m going to go out on a limb and say the guitar is functioning as normal. Sounds like that light spark is just your body grounding to a metal part. That’s what should happen. As a test, hold the guitar as you would to play it and place one hand on the strings/bridge. Keeping that hand there, use the other hand to touch the other metal parts again. Probably, you won’t get that same spark sound from touching the other parts as long as your first hand stays in contact with the bridge.
If this is the case, it means the guitar is doing what it should do. If you had a buzz that was constant when you were in contact with a metal part, that would indicate a problem — that’s what I originally thought and what Dave mentioned. Light spark doesn’t sound like that problem.
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Yeah the sound I talk about only comes when I don’t have my hands on the guitar.
Just wanted to make sure this was normal.
Cheers mate
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Usually when I get noise when I touch things that should be grounded, the jack is wired backward.
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