i soldered up my piezo and plugged it in. it hums really bad but when i put my finger on the plugged in ends of the cable, the hum stops! why is this??
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It was the jack! i re-soldered the piezo to a new jack and that completely got rid of the hum! but now instead of giving me a hum it had really bad feedback. so i put some hot glue on the underside of the piezo, squished it directly under the bridge, put a generous amount of hot glue on top to encase the piezo and that completely solved the feedback issue! i couldn't be more happy with the results. it completely blew my expectations out of the water sound wise. i will only be using the hot glue method on future builds. i posted pics on my profile! its tuned G-D-g which i really love so far.
MichaelS Country Boy Guitars said:
I have had the same problem and it turned out to be a bad jack, no matter how many times I soldered it, replaced the jack and now its fine. The jack I used had a bad crimp from the ground to the solder points, it just spun around. Buy good jacks! All the other things mentioned above also do happen, test them all. The bad jack was very frustrating because it looks fine, but works crappy. good luck.
I have had the same problem and it turned out to be a bad jack, no matter how many times I soldered it, replaced the jack and now its fine. The jack I used had a bad crimp from the ground to the solder points, it just spun around. Buy good jacks! All the other things mentioned above also do happen, test them all. The bad jack was very frustrating because it looks fine, but works crappy. good luck.
I have had the same problem and it turned out to be a bad jack, no matter how many times I soldered it, replaced the jack and now its fine. The jack I used had a bad crimp from the ground to the solder points, it just spun around. Buy good jacks! All the other things mentioned above also do happen, test them all. The bad jack was very frustrating because it looks fine, but works crappy. good luck.
Yes, resolder your ground making sure the solder flows well. Another thing is try a different guitar cord. Possibly a faulty cord. You may have to also run a ground wire to the strings somehow.
do you think drilling a hole right next to the bridge and soldering a wire to the bridge where the the strings lay across then soldering the wire to the ground on the jack would work?
Don Thompson said:
Yes, resolder your ground making sure the solder flows well. Another thing is try a different guitar cord. Possibly a faulty cord. You may have to also run a ground wire to the strings somehow.
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MichaelS Country Boy Guitars said:
MichaelS Country Boy Guitars said:
Yes, resolder your ground making sure the solder flows well. Another thing is try a different guitar cord. Possibly a faulty cord. You may have to also run a ground wire to the strings somehow.
Don
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