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    GAStronomist Simon Barden's Avatar
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    I doubt it's shielding that's required with humbuckers unless you have a very electrically noisy environment. With single coils maybe, but not humbuckers. I'm assuming you've got another humbucker equipped guitar to compare against?

    So I'd still be looking for a bad or missing ground connection or the output wires crossed at the jack.

    Did you locate and connect the ground wire for the bridge?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Simon Barden View Post
    I doubt it's shielding that's required with humbuckers unless you have a very electrically noisy environment. With single coils maybe, but not humbuckers. I'm assuming you've got another humbucker equipped guitar to compare against?

    So I'd still be looking for a bad or missing ground connection or the output wires crossed at the jack.

    Did you locate and connect the ground wire for the bridge?
    Yeah, other humbucker guitar has no issues aside from a small amount of hum that seemingly comes across the amp sim regardless of what's plugged in (or not).

    I've tried a number of ground checks, and nothing seems to have worked. Put a wire from bridge to pots, bridge to common ground, extra vol to common ground, etc.

    That said, I had only tried bridge outside of coating to the parts, so that could be it. It does have a wire from the bridge post, but it's entirely possible that could have been busted on install, so will have a play some more with that, but otherwise it's as it should be in regards to the diagrams, with an added ground fix

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