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I don't mind it during practice, but I need it to be feedback free for gigging
I use a relatively cheap strat that I modded by adding a p90If you don't mind me asking. . . do you have an expensive guitar that came with the P90s, or do you have a low end guitar that came with the P90s, or did you swap out the original PUs for the P90s in whatever guitar you're using?
I'm curious because I've been looking at a Harley Benton SC-450 P90 GT Classic Series with P90s and am curious to see if they're noisy as in your situation.
it was originally an HSS, but it replaced the bridge humbucker with the p90. I wanted something a little more snappy. The humbucker buzzed a little bit before, but now it's a lot. I think i'm just gonna get a noisegate pedal, but it's still relatively irritating.How many P90s did you add to your (cheap) strat? Is your strat a 2-pickup model (not the usual 3-PU style) like this one with two humbuckers?
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thank you very much sir, that just saved me like 70 bucks for an mxr noisegateIF it's a strat, I would recommend getting some copper sheilding tape and coat both the inside of the route and the underside of the pickguard. I did that with my G&L Legacy and it significantly quieted the buzz. You can get a roll of copper tape for $10 on Amazon. If you want to go the cheap route, you can use aluminum foil and double stick tape. Make sure everything is grounded, check continuity after you install it.
they just buzz a lot. I don't mind feedback, but i want to be able to hear my guitar instead of all the humming. it probably doesnt help that i play with distortion mostly, but I got some copper sheilding tape and that significantly quieted the buzzingAs in they feedback more than say, a strat or other single coil guitar? I have heard that some non hum-bucking pickups can become microphonic where the coil is wound a little loose and the coil windings can move, making them into mics? If you tape the pickups with the volume up, or even shot into to them, does that make a noise?
yeah i was checking out some seymour duncan antiquity pickups cause I bought the cheap amazon p90 for $16A p 90 is a big single coil. It’s going to buzz more than a Tele or strat.
Shielding helps. A noise gate helps, mastering your control of the volume knob helps.
Others had mentioned installing stacked humbucker p90s. While that’s a possibility, I’ve found they don’t quite sound like ‘real’ p 90s. Nothing sounds like a good vintage p90.
Another thing to consider….. cheaper guitars have cheaper everything. I’ve heard a lot of noisy shitty sounding Chinese made p90s.
Sometimes installing a good set like Lollar’s or Lindy Fralin’s make a huge difference.
the other two pickups are single coils, but the p90 buzzes less, but It still has a lot of hum since i use some moderately heavy ODThe other two pickups are also singles, no? Does the P90 buzz a lot worse than those?
Shielding is always a good idea. I generally just use heavy duty aluminum foil and stick it in using a spray adhesive. Remember that the whole shield needs to connect - some of the material should lap up out of the route onto the body so it can make contact with the pickgaurdcwhen reassembled. Best would be to surround one of the screw holes so you know it’s going to stay connected. Then it also needs to connect to the sleeve of the jack. This usually happens in a Strat just by virtue of the grounded knobs touching the foil on the pickgaurd which is usually fine.
But if that pickup really is a lot worse than the others it might indicate some real issue probably in the wiring. Soldering to the back of a pot is hard, and if that connection maybe isn’t as good as it could be, you can end up with more noise.
Turn off the lights. Dimmers change the noise . See if there is a best position for it.where banks of noisy lights with dimmers in the same circuit as your amp, just old wiring, etc., are beyond your control.