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Psycho knob

Sorry for the delayed response. I installed the knob and it worked for 2 days. However there were some issues. First, when switching from 1st.to 2nd pos there was a loud cracking noise. As I went through the positions the vol got louder,but the disto

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Psycho knob

Sorry for the delayed response. I installed the knob and it worked for 2 days. However there were some issues. First, when switching from 1st.to 2nd pos there was a loud cracking noise. As I went through the positions the vol got louder,but the disto

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Capacitor

I am building a weed whacked bass. I am putting a double piezo bride on it. I would like to add a capacitor to the 1/4 inch jack. Somewhere I read that most of the feed back happens in a certain range and if you add the right capacitor you can really

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Buzz or maybe humm

Well hello I am new to this group. I just soldered a pickup for the first time and I plugged it in and it works, wow. It is a single coil pickup and I hear a slight humm.I have double checked the ground and everything seems good. I was trying to make

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unbalanced pickups

I've just finished a CBG with 2 mini humbuckers. The neck pup is much louder than the bridge pup. The neck pup measures 6.7K and the bridge pup measures 7.5K. I wired with a master volume/master tone so after the selector switch both pups share the s

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Wiring

Just got some parts arrived for my next build which is a VW Hubcap guitar. The pickup I am going to fit is a single coil (sized) twin rail humbucker. Which comes with wiring that I'm not familiar with, I suspect the extra wires are for out of phase s

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Rattle and Less Hum

There's a lot of 60 Hz hum in my acoustic/electric dulcitar. The amp runs on a battery, so there's no wall-wart leakage, at least not directly. 

Besides wearing a wrist-mount grounding strap that connects across the brass bolt that contacts the strin

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First wiring job . !

I am almost ready to do my very first complete wiring job, on my own build. It will have a lipstick neck pickup, and a strat type pickup at the bridge, with a 3 way toggle switch SPDT. Neither of the pickups are humbucker type, and just have hot and

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Brass pickup covers?

Hi folks, I had an idea the other day and, knowing very little about the electronic side of things so far, I was after an opinion as to whether it would work. Trying to think of a cool look for self wound 3 or 4 pole pickups, I wondered about having

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