Like you'll see on Telecaster neck pickups and Les Paul chrome covered pickups. Next step if the above helps and you still need more reduction is figure out how to have covered pickups. Get a roll of Nashua Aluminum Flashing Tape and line the cavities and back of the pickguard with it, make sure a grounding wire goes to the cavity shielding and tabs rise over the top edge to connect with the pickguard shielding. Sure it's the 50s way but we have a lot more noise now. Fender likes to use two separate wires that if that really worked we'd use two separate wires from the guitar to the amp. Use shielded cable from the volume pot to the jack. Maybe we here can see where the problem is. Take the pickguard off and post pictures of the pickups and wiring plus body cavities. phone in your pocket, computer on the desk, wifi, or live near high voltage power lines, then get away from all that and turn the way you are facing to see if the noise goes up/down. If you are sitting in front of a loud electrical device. +1 positions 2/4 should be hum cancelling if the pickups are factory, and thus the hum will drop. +1 touch the strings and the noise drops then it's wired 'correctly' (maybe not well shielded but wired ok). If the noise gets like hanging onto the end of the cable to the amp, then you have a short inside. Alternatively, the venue can connect both the source and destination through an isolation transformer or iso coil. To fix this, the performance venue uses a ground lift switch that breaks the loop and cancels the hum. Ultimately when COVID lockdown lifts, I will take it to the guitar tech. The same goes for your pedal rig, instrument, and other gear connected to a power supply.

Would appreciate an interim low cost solution. Not sure if these DI units would do the same thing as a noise gate in Fx unit and take away the sustain. Or 'Behringer MICROHD Hum Destroyer HD400' So if you guys concluded that it is a grounding issue on the guitar and need the guitar tech to fix it then as an interim solution, will a DI box with ground lift work? I wished I hadn't bought the guitar during covid but the deal was just too good to pass. Now I am not into opening up the strat and check the wiring and solder it kind of guy.

But does that tell anything wrt grounding issue vs. If I use 'Noise gate' from the Fx unit then the noise can be eliminated but that reduces my sustain so want to use noise gate sparingly. That tells me grounding problem with the strat, right?Ĥ. The noise goes away if I touch the string(s) or any metal part like tuning keys or bridge or metal sheath of the output jack.

If it is a 60 cycle hum from pickups, how come I don't get it with variax single coil pickups? Perhaps variax standard has noiseless pickups. When I simply replace variax with my strat, I get noise even at low 'practice level volume'. This suggests that there isn't anything wrong with grounding of Fx, amp units and cables.Ģ. I have been playing Variax Standard 2017 with MultiFx and Roland Mobile Cube amp, and there is no noise in this set up even when I use Variax single coils instead of the modelling. Want to find out a solution, it is driving me mad.ġ. I hear a lot of noise from it and need your advice.ĭue to COVID can't take it to a guitar tech. Just bought a 2019 Fender Player Strat from eBay for a good deal.

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