Tube amp build (s)

[Simon Barden]

Ibanez what? Humbuckers or single coils?

[JohnH]

Ibanez what? Humbuckers or single coils?

Oh, should have said. Humbuckers - it's this exact guitar (an impulse buy last year while hanging out at DW with my brother)

It's a great guitar - love the shape of the neck, etc. I've never noticed a hum problem before, but then I also tend to run it through a bunch of pedals so that's not surprising

[Simon Barden]

Oh, should have said. Humbuckers - it's this exact guitar (an impulse buy last year while hanging out at DW with my brother)

It's a great guitar - love the shape of the neck, etc. I've never noticed a hum problem before, but then I also tend to run it through a bunch of pedals so that's not surprising

Humbuckers, so shouldn’t be noisy except with a lot of gain. Black hardware, so I’d first check for a good ground to string connection. The bridge ground wire may have been pulled and now isn’t touching a scraped bit of the bridge.

Otherwise general ground and signal connection checking. I’d probably squirt some contact cleaner in the barrel jack (looks like it has one) and check that’s done up tight.