if its a hum that disappears when you touch the wires it sounds like an earth - when you touch that wire YOU effectively earth the wire.. hope you manage to sort it.
if its a hum that disappears when you touch the wires it sounds like an earth - when you touch that wire YOU effectively earth the wire.. hope you manage to sort it.
This is a common misconception and you don't earth/ground the wire, touching the ground wire grounds you.Originally Posted by BuffaloGhost
When you connect direct to a good ground, either a) your body stops acting like an aerial picking up RFI and making any moise worse, or b) your body acts like a big ground plane and soaks up a lot of the RFI around, significantly reducing the level of hum (I'm not sure which, or it may be a combination of both).
If you acted as a ground, then touching the signal wire would kill all noise- but instead it makes it louder. In this instance RFI being picked up by your body is being fed into the guitar signal, making the hum worse.
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