Noise. The Search Continues.
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No, it really should barely make a sound in humbucker mode :icon_scratch: If all the noise is at the same level no matter what, you still got yourself a problem. Did you reheat that ground connection at the jack? It looked like a very dull silver instead of shiny. If the problem isn't grounding anymore, possibly some main connection that involves the hot end of the pickups could be making a bad connection, either to or out of the 5-way. If the signal level gets degraded by this, your amplifier will happily amplify the noise and the signal. This is why the Signal to Noise ratio is so important in a guitar, the actual signal is a low level as it is.
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Better yet you can wash the guitar in gasoline and dry with match. JK
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Prob not that then, but it wouldn't hurt to go over all solder points, and make sure nothing moves as it is cooling down.
Just to be sure.rewired jack opposite to my original wiring.now that IS noise. Quickly changed back but original noise persisting.will work through other solder points. By the way, do all connections from p-rails to DPDT on/off/on switch need to be to the same side ie can I run wire from top lug to the 5-way switch from left side instead of right?
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Yeah, I double checked your picture so I was sure I know what you are talking about. Those two rails of the DPDT are independent, and you can just move the wires to the other side if it is easier to resolder that way. If you had two p-rails they each could have a side and both do the same setting at the same time. When you use your 5 way switch, are you sure the right pickups are being selected? You can verify by tapping the pups lightly with a small allen wrench. The flip flop of the selector switch is the biggest cause of funky noise and the easiest to do on accident. I think from all that you are learning from this, you are getting close to fixing it.
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It's prob not wrong if you can hear each distinct pickup voice. It's just personally I caused complete circuit failure from flip flopping my switch, I overlooked it several times before I plugged the darn thing in. :icon_biggrin: I hope you are having luck with your geetar. Were kind of running out of ideas, so keep plugging away, and inform us of the progress. You never know what piece of information you can give that us will ultimately help solve the problem.
Having heaps of fun re-soldering.detached tone control completely but no quieter.soldered new length of shielded wire vol pot to jack but no difference. Might try different grounding method instead of washer-lug.couldn't source piece of copper so cut length of old plumbing copper pipe down it's length,flattened it.at moment have 5 wires attached to one lug.maybe problem there.
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leejord said:
Sounds like a blast. Did you ever show the diagram of your circuit on this forum? :icon_scratch: I don't remember seeing it anywhere, but I know you have been working on this for a while. Darn guitar anyway.
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Nope, nothing funky there. :icon_scratch:
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Maybe I'm going crazy, but I'm looking at your 5-way the way it is drawn, and I'm checking a 5-way in my hands with a cont meter. You can also see how the contacts move: You have it drawn, just the way it looks, and that's fine, but that wiring configuration only works on the opposite side, otherwise you have to reverse all the wires. An easy test would just be swap the four wires over just to see. The rails are mirror images of eachother, so move each wire to the left if you want to try that.
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Yup, I still think so. I can't see all of the contact wheel of the switch, so it's a little hard to tell. The perspective is flipped over, but I am guessing your white wires are pickups, and the red wire is the output to the volume and tone. If you are looking at the switch like the guitar is upright, but turned around, so you are looking at the back, that output wire would always on the lower left side( or the other side in a mirror imaged order). Confusing as hell, huh? (no matter which way the switch is flipped, lower left is always right) I would move those wires over still. If you don't have desolder braid, a simple way instead of just cutting and stripping the wire again would just be heat a wire up a pull it off. It will at least leave you a spot easy enough to resolder if I was wrong.
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I don't think the lugs are wrong. They might not be as specific to guitar grounding as a different lug, but they are always used to ground or connect something. Goodluck, hopefully this will be it for you. P.S I love the dimples all over the control plate, that will teach that noise. :icon_thumright:
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