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Jan 02, 2005 16:04

has anyone here tried to mod their jazzmaster's cicuitry in order to quiet the hum of the pickups? anyone attempted it successfully? i've been performing a mod or two on several areas of my jazzmaster recently, and have attempted some modifications based on those at guitarnuts.com. to be honest, what i've done hasn't made much of an impact on the ( Read more... )

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shawn_o January 2 2005, 14:43:02 UTC

put fullsize humbuckers in it.

novamute January 2 2005, 15:20:51 UTC

if i'm gonna kill the tonal character of the thing, i could put emg's in. but what'd be the point?

shawn_o January 2 2005, 15:35:08 UTC

uummmm.......ok?

i didnt say anything about emgs. i take it you are a fan of the soapbars. why not check out all the soap bars seymour duncan makes?

if you keep a single coil style pickup in the guitar, you are going to experience a little bit of hum. you may be able to do some mods and get it to where it doesnt hum very much if you are standing 20 ft in front of your amp and anything else electrical. chances are, that will never happen though. if youre really concerned about hum, and you want to eliminate it, put humbuckers in it. HUM-buckers.

novamute January 3 2005, 13:07:58 UTC

you may be able to do some mods and get it to where it doesnt hum very much if you are standing 20 ft in front of your amp and anything else electrical. chances are, that will never happen though.

yeah, its those i pretty much asked if anyone here had tried, and with what success...

*shrugs*

scopo January 4 2005, 22:12:14 UTC

I need to get in a fiddle with my Jazzmaster's grounding. It's frustrating, because with both pickups on (stock, they're reverse wound/reverse polarity, so they become a virtual humbucker - so there shawn!) it's almost silent, but either pickup on its own, esp with compression &/or overdrive - noisy as hell!

But from what I know it's an inherent problem of Jazzmasters, they hummed like that from the day they were new and Fender never really fixed it.

It's made worse with the Japanese ones because they don't have the brass plates/'bathtub' in the body cavities, and the earths just run from pot to pot ...

I think that with copper shielding tape in all cavities & a common ground path, a Jazzmaster *should* be as quiet as a standard Strat or Tele (ie, not very, by modern standards!)

novamute January 5 2005, 02:30:14 UTC

yeah - mine's an mij and i think i'm starting to appreciate just how important those copper bathtubs are ( ... )