Push Pull Pots - I Get a Hum When Dirty
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aphantomvaper
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Yes its normal.
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When splitting a Humbucker, a 'double' coil wound to combat that 'hum', is split, you get a 'Single' coil which will exhibit 'hum' (like any other Single Coil). That's where the Volume control comes in...
Therefore its perfectly normal for a single coil or a 'split' Humbucker. Some may offer a tapped HB to also 'buck the Hum' as you still have 'both' coils active, just a reduction in the number of winds. but a 'true' split would be like a traditional SC.
Birdsofprey
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You’ll find if you move the guitar as to not face the amp it may hum less also something as easy as resting your hand on the bridge / strings may quiet it a bit.
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Hey, lets keep it clean in here.
Tucson Thump
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Congrats on the new guitar and on finding the best forum for enabling!
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The overdrive channel of an amp compresses the signal, which makes signals with greater amplitude less loud relative to the original signal, and softer signals more loud. Thus, you hear more hum and noise.
Humbuckers were designed to prevent hum, hence the name. Split them, as others have said, and you get the hum single coil guitars have. It's all about the pickups amplifying electromagnetic interference.
This can be caused by lots of things, like appliances, light dimmers, wall warts, cables with poor noise rejection, electrical wiring boxes, computer screens, amp transformers, and goodness knows what else. Not only does facing in a different direction often kill the hum, standing in a different spot in the room can solve it. If you use pedals, ground loops can also hum and make normal hums and buzzes worse, so working on eliminating ground loops and other sources of noise is a good idea.
Or simply don't split the coils when using the overdrive channel.
Humbuckers were designed to prevent hum, hence the name. Split them, as others have said, and you get the hum single coil guitars have. It's all about the pickups amplifying electromagnetic interference.
This can be caused by lots of things, like appliances, light dimmers, wall warts, cables with poor noise rejection, electrical wiring boxes, computer screens, amp transformers, and goodness knows what else. Not only does facing in a different direction often kill the hum, standing in a different spot in the room can solve it. If you use pedals, ground loops can also hum and make normal hums and buzzes worse, so working on eliminating ground loops and other sources of noise is a good idea.
Or simply don't split the coils when using the overdrive channel.
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Tucson Thump
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What .. you didn't have it inset and surrounded by paua when you had the Private Stock built?... and glue it onto the top horn of your Private Stock ...
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