Ben Schmaus Bench Zen
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High Resistance for Gibson Mini-humbucker
I have a customer with a 2018 Gibson SG special with mini-humbuckers who is complaining about the pickups being too hot (distorting their amp too easily). I took resistance readings and, to my surprise, the readings are very high. The neck humbucker (see photo) reads over 16kohm and the bridge reads 23kohm. From the specs I’ve seen, mini-hums…
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Ben Schmaus Bench Zen started the discussion Reinstall Loose Barrel Jack on G&L Asat in the forum Quick Questions 9 months ago
Reinstall Loose Barrel Jack on G&L Asat
i have a 2010 g&l asat bluesboy with a loose barrel jack. which is to say, when a cable is gently unplugged the jack comes out of the body. there is no nut on the inside of the control cavity to hold the jack in place – it looks like the wood itself is threaded. the jack barely protrudes into the control cavity so i don’t see an obviously good…
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Ben Schmaus Bench Zen replied to the discussion amp hum/buzz, single coils, and grounding in the forum Quick Questions a year ago
Reply to amp hum/buzz, single coils, and grounding
Hey Chris. I posted a short continuity testing video as a reply to gerry above that you can d/l (it doesn’t play through the site) and view. It should demonstrate a good connection between the bridge and cable sleeve.
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Ben Schmaus Bench Zen replied to the discussion amp hum/buzz, single coils, and grounding in the forum Quick Questions a year ago
Reply to amp hum/buzz, single coils, and grounding
for reference, here’s a short clip showing continuity between the various metal parts and the sleeve of a plugged in cable.
the neck pickup is a fender vintage 62 and the bridge is a fender yosemite.
i do have a similar noise with strats and even an LP with duncan 59 HBs, albeit to a lesser extent.
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Ben Schmaus Bench Zen replied to the discussion amp hum/buzz, single coils, and grounding in the forum Quick Questions a year ago
Reply to amp hum/buzz, single coils, and grounding
there’s a bare wire under the bridge that runs to the control cavity where it’s soldered the the back of a pot.
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Ben Schmaus Bench Zen replied to the discussion amp hum/buzz, single coils, and grounding in the forum Quick Questions a year ago
Reply to amp hum/buzz, single coils, and grounding
Oh, and this is a thinline tele (but without an f-hole). So the only parts I could easily shield would be the neck pickup cavity and pickguard.
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Ben Schmaus Bench Zen replied to the discussion amp hum/buzz, single coils, and grounding in the forum Quick Questions a year ago
Reply to amp hum/buzz, single coils, and grounding
Hey Gerry. Yeah, the bridge pickup does the same although maybe not quite as loud. Still very noticeable though. The pickups aren’t RWRP. So the middle position, unfortunately, isn’t hum cancelling.
Not sure if this might be a factor, but I broke the neck pickup coil wire around the eyelet for the hot connection and had to carefully unwrap a…
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Ben Schmaus Bench Zen started the discussion amp hum/buzz, single coils, and grounding in the forum Quick Questions a year ago
amp hum/buzz, single coils, and grounding
ok. so i have gerry’s wiring book (which is awesome) and i’ve read that, if all your ground connections are correct and you have a buzz that goes away when you touch the strings then the guitar is grounding you.
here’s a clip of an mjt tele that’s pretty noisy through the amp til i touch the strings. i’ve triple checked the ground…
