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Permalink Reply by Gilles C. Caron on October 20, 2016 at 7:48am

I forgot...

The cavity cover plate was shielded with aluminum paper

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Permalink Reply by Rickyboy on October 20, 2016 at 9:00am

hi and thx to everyone for your help......I'm not a complete idiot  but I have to say that some of this in the explanations is like a diff. language. { there's a reason I printed the newspaper for a living and wasn't an electrician  ..ha ha ha  }  But I WILL figure this out.One thing I liked hearing was that not everything needs to be shielded but everything should be grd.'d. And that you can use aluminum foil to shield and that it doesn't need to be copper. I have some one sided metal tape I could use under the pick up and the vol/tone controls/pots. I'll keep checking back here to see if there is additional info.. Thx folks !!!!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Gilles C. Caron on October 20, 2016 at 9:32am

Great...

You're of the right track.

Nothing about being an idiot here, I worked in electronics all my life, until I retired. So these things are easier for me. But don't ask me to take care of your budget, I'm not good with numbers.

Have fun...

Oh, and I tried the aluminum foil for aliens, and maybe that I should had tried the thicker one because it didn't work...

And that's why I shield my guitars, because I picked up a strange radio station a few times when I was younger, because the strings were acting like an antenna...

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on October 20, 2016 at 10:38am

I fell for all that over shielding once. Never again. If your not going to be playing under florescent lights or within 20 yards of a large electrical station you will never hear the difference. Most of your pops and hums are going to come from the electricity itself. Or improperly grounded equipment. Not much beyond getting a line conditioner is going to help there. Lot cheaper just to live with it. 

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Permalink Reply by JL on October 21, 2016 at 2:02am

My band played a gig in a little bar in an older part of town with apparently really bad wiring, really bad noise through my amp, and as I moved around, turned, changed angles, the noise changed pitch/tone/volume, and the character of the noise changed when the kitchen used the industrial grade mixer.  Clear indication of RF noise.  The only place it disappeared was when I straddled the floor monitor and turned 2/3 away from the audience, which didn't present well visually, lol.

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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on October 21, 2016 at 11:23am

That's the blues

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