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Blues Deluxe/p90 hum

dogfootbluesdogfootblues Posts: 116
edited May 2012 in Musicians and Gearheads
Irecently installed a p-90 in my telecaster and i thought i maybe soldered it wrong because there was a crazy, unbelievable hum, and when i put a pedal ontop forget it. Thought it was the pickup but no. One night playin i turned my dinning room light off and the fucking hum stopped. When the lights on the hum is back, when off its not. Its also like this at my storage shed/practice space. Any help?
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  • DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    60 cycle hum is your friend. :/
    old embarrassing thread about it here ...

    I noticed it real bad on my guitar when sitting at the computer.
    I also could get radio signals out of my Fender amp using that guitar.
    Lol.
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • dogfootbluesdogfootblues Posts: 116
    im on lunch so ill read that after work. its only with my p-90 telecaster. is there anything i can do about this?
  • DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    That noise is just part of the beast (it IS the P90s).
    I think i got either Pac or MiG to concur that a "noise gate" might actually be a good "solution" to the P90 problem.

    The gate kills your signal when it falls below a level that you set.
    Given the main problem with the P90 hum noise is that it sounds like bloody hell when you STOP playing, all you really need to do is make sure the gate kicks on when you stop playing, so that the horrible noise is muted.

    I'm no guitar tech, but if it isn't currently "shielded", you could shield the cavity of your Strat so that there isn't so much interference.

    Your options outside of those two all get in to areas where you are going to end up stripping the P90 sound from your P90s in order to solve the "problem", which leaves you with little whimpy pups in the process.

    Try to isolate your guitar from external electrical circuits (i had to learn to stay away from my computer -- think it was the old tube monitor, actually) ... and get a noise gate ... thems would be your two "best" options, along with checking for\installing shielding.

    They make something called "hum canceling" P-100s ... but they are known to be somewhat of an oxymoron. (ie. stripping the P90 out of the P90)
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  • DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    uh.
    here is 1 more idea i just found:
    "get a parametric EQ and dial out 60hz"

    makes sense, but would obviously affect the tone.


    also, from over at thegearpage ...

    "Move away from your amp, face the guitar in a different direction, make sure your not on a circuit with any type of dimmer."

    and a recommendation for the following "noise reduction" pedal:
    the decimator
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    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • dogfootbluesdogfootblues Posts: 116
    see my casino has p-90s and im used to the normal hum. Now my tele with the p-90 sounds like the casino (hum wise) until i turm my dinning room light on, whice is a dimmer. So i dont have it on when i play. But the thing is at my practice space the noise is there. we only have one outlet through our light bulb whice a few extenstion cords are run with some power stripes. Could the cords and power stripes be causing the crazy ass hum? And i mean ear grinding loud as fuck wanna smash my tele and jump off a bridge hum.
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