Hi everyone, new member here!
So obviously everybody is familiar with the noise (I always assume RF) that you hear when you take your hands off the strings. It varies depending on which way you’re facing, how near you are to your amp, it goes away when you turn down your guitar’s volume, touch any grounded part, etc.
I’ve experienced it on every guitar I’ve ever had, but on my new, used (2017) McCarty it’s louder, and much more noticeable than any of my humbucker guitars, as well as everybody else’s guitar I’ve compared it to side-by-side including my friend’s Custom 22 (passing my plugged-in cable back and forth).
Poking around the control cavity with a chopstick didn’t show anything to be loose or cause any change in noise, I haven’t looked in the pickup cavities (it doesn’t change when I switch pickups anyway). It changes slightly when engaging/disengaging the coil splits.
Any ideas? Are 58/15s any noisier than other pickups?
Thanks, BLK
So obviously everybody is familiar with the noise (I always assume RF) that you hear when you take your hands off the strings. It varies depending on which way you’re facing, how near you are to your amp, it goes away when you turn down your guitar’s volume, touch any grounded part, etc.
I’ve experienced it on every guitar I’ve ever had, but on my new, used (2017) McCarty it’s louder, and much more noticeable than any of my humbucker guitars, as well as everybody else’s guitar I’ve compared it to side-by-side including my friend’s Custom 22 (passing my plugged-in cable back and forth).
Poking around the control cavity with a chopstick didn’t show anything to be loose or cause any change in noise, I haven’t looked in the pickup cavities (it doesn’t change when I switch pickups anyway). It changes slightly when engaging/disengaging the coil splits.
Any ideas? Are 58/15s any noisier than other pickups?
Thanks, BLK