shielding

Dear all, This is my first post on TalkBass, I know I could find information searching through the various threads but I figured I may as well introduce myself, as I hope to make this place my go-to site for learning to play the bass. I am 39, I am Italian and I've lived in England since 2005...

I have my fender rumble 40 and Mackie 402VLZ-4 mixer both plugged into the same wall socket. When I plug my bass and headphones into the Rumble, I get no popping/static whatsoever. But when I do the same (bass and phones) on my mixer, I get popping if I touch the strings and my other fingers are...

I've seen ostensibly high quality XLR cables that connect the cable shield to pin one only versus some that connect the shield to pin 1 and the connector body (which is typically earth as opposed to signal ground). I've also seen cables arranged with each end treated differently. I've read...

Hey guys. So... trying to revive an old project bass buildt with left over Fender parts. Worked pretty good ’til we installed the old Fender pickups from my CS Fender Jazz 64 NOS - 00. So first - It sounds great but the copper shielding doesn’t work and there is a severe ground problem that...

I'm currently working on assembling a early 70's style precision bass with an all parts body and a fender neck. I had lined the pickup cavity and control cavities with all parts copper tape so I won't get any feedback and buzzing. I soldered the pickups and everything worked fine until I...

Hi y'all I think I know the answer, but I've been chasing the problem for some time. I have a VM Special Jaguar - I removed the old controls, running all passive. Shielded with snail tape, grounded poles to shielding, electrical taped the controls. On any pickup selection (V/5way rotary/wierd...

I have a SX w/p style p/u's and wiring... getting a buzzing sound when I'm not touching anything metal i.e.tuners,bridge,strings ... checked the wiring and there is a ground wire from the tone pot to the bridge,,, would shielding help with this?

Hi All, Need some help from the experts here. I have a 4003W that I bought new in 2015. The excess noise has been driving me nuts so I finally decided to do something about it. I spent two hours taking it apart and doing a bang up shielding job, or so I thought. Based on experience learned...

so I've recently bought vintage v4 as my 1st bass and I'm already fed up with it. It came with one part of coil like miter and under pickguard. I decided to put everything like it should be and do grounding by the way. I think I picked wrong aluminum foil because it was with glue (it looks like...

So a while ago, I had an issue with my Yamaha TRBX174 humming when the strings weren't being touched. Over time, I've managed to reduce the issue to the point where it no longer hums(with some help from friendly TBers), but still pops quietly when I touch the strings. I recently redid my janky...

Hi everyone, I've had some shielding issues with my Fender jazz and had some questions with how I'm supposed to ground to the shielding. there's a screw in the neck pickup cavity that connects to the volume knob which then goes into the cct. board. the other black wire I'm guessing goes the...

So my Fender Jazz (MIM Geddy Lee) had no shielding or ground wire to the output jack. I used MG solutions silver paint to do all the cavities and cable routes (both pickups, bridge) and tested them all for continuity. Almost 0 ohms reading. Great! I them soldered up the pickups back to the...

I am building bass guitars and I plan on using shielding. I find copper film works well but is a bit of a hassle with the install. I have never used the paint on shielding because it seems so expensive. Could somebody share their experiences with either? I hope to learn more about both. Thanks...

Hi there, So I'm looking for some advice. I've just paid to have my jazz bass setup at my local guitar shop. I've been going there for years: it is a small independent place and they are really the only good one in the area. I told the guy that the bass had a hum issue and that it probably...

I am not a savvy tech person which is why I chose to use a prewired preamp (only the hot leads from my 2 PuPs needed to be added and their grounds (along with the ground from the bridge) needed to be handled. I bundled the grounds and soldered them to a pot and crimped the hot leads to the...

I know Carvin/Kiesel does, but who else? At this point, it's a dealbreaker is the bass is not copper shielded at the factory... Why is this important if I can shield it myself? Because that's what I want :) thank you

I'm getting close to putting shielding paint the the pickup cavity of a build I am doing. I have read of where folks have used a multimeter to check conductivity when doing this. What setting would I use. I know I'm lookng for a zero or as close as possible on the meter, but zero what? Thanks...

Hi Bassists, Luthiers and my other low friends... My bass has this buzz problem....I just bought it...sent it back 2000km to shop to get checked out....BUT i feel I need to get other opinions on this,,,what is this?? Check the video then please reply...

I am interested in shielding my wiring from electromagnetic interference and am planning to do so with shielding tape. I am interested in replacing or modifying my plastic pickguard so that the wiring is shielded as well. Will custom pickguard manufacturers make one out of aluminum or metal ...

So I'm in the process of shielding a passive Peavey Fury P Bass clone. I coated the whole interior cavity and pickguard with copper tape, and tried to ground it by soldering a wire from the shielding to the ground lug of the jack. This ended up making the hum worse, and it gets louder the closer...

Hello. This is my first post, so thank you in advance for any input I get on this.. I just purchased a used Brute MJX-4 which the seller claimed to be virtually unplayed since purchase and I have every reason to believe this is true based on the condition. However, once I got it home I noticed...

I am sure I have read about this a few times on here, but I am failing to find the threads this morning (it's early and I've only had one coffee ;) ) I have a bass that I am refinishing, which has the compartment (badly) painted with shielding paint. The paint is cracked and missing in some...

I need some supplies....which has the best? Don't need the cheapest just a wide selection and great service etc...Thanx!

Shielding a Squire with copper tape

I only got one reply under pickup forum so I’ll try this one Starting another project this weekend I’m refitting an American Peavey Forum I picked up for $100 Spent a couple of weeks playing her and myself and friends love it Ordered new electronics hardware and strings I will also be shielding...

Hello everyone, I've been working on repairing a hollow body bass and a guitar, the guitar is finally finished. I was cautious about the feedback during a live setup in a medium size room with a 100W bass amp, 80W keyboard amp and my 80W guitar amp. Of course, when I would turn up the volume...

I've got an SX Ursa 3 (PJ) bass that I want to do a full shielding job on. I will be using the same spray shielding paint that I used on my Squier Jazz, but as I recall I had some difficulty with my Jazz basses pickup cover shielding when I did it.... I recall there was a tutorial on how to...

Going to shield my Classic 50's Precision bass. Have shielding paint. I'll be painting the pickup and control cavities. My question is if I paint the cavities and just paint up over the edge of the cavity around a screw hole, wouldn't this complete the ground once I screw down the pick guard...

I'm planning on mounting a couple of phone jacks on a 1U blanking panel across the back of my amp rack in order to create a patch point for the FX loop of my pre-amp (I need a specific jack spacing for a device I'll be plugging in there). Am I inviting RFI problems if I don't fashion some sort...

I've applied 2 coats of this gold colored shielding paint in my pickup cavities and cant seem to get any connection when testing with a multimeter. Thoughts? Maybe I'm just not using very good stuff.

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I'm new to this shielding business, so please forgive my ignorance! I carefully applied copper tape to the entire electronics cavity of my Warwick thumb, which has an existing wire running into it from the bridge. I also applied the copper tape to the inside of the control cavity cover. Is...

While I've grounded pole pieces successfully on other pickups before with no problem, for whatever reason the conductive adhesive on the roll of StewMac tape I currently have won't work with either my Lollar J's or P pole pieces. I've cleaned the surface of the magnets with alcohol & naptha...

In the next couple of weeks I intend to shield a Rickenbacker 4003. I love the bass, but, it was so embarrassingly noisy during a rehearsal, that I haven't taken it back. I fully intend on using Stew-Mac conductive paint & painting several coats, as instructed, as well as using copper tape on...

On my older Fender Aerodyne Classic Precision Bass, it hums like heck unless my hands are touching the strings, etc. I have a new Fender Special Edition Deluxe PJ Bass that has no conduction paint or copper shield in the cavity or the pickguard. But yet, this bass is silent whether or not I...

Dear Bassheads that are wired with the skills, experience and / or knowledge to pick up (in this case comprehend) and subsequently answer a few questions related to the subject of electronics, if so may I ask you to share your wisdom? Is it possible to have a bass pick-up configuration of two...

Creating a new thread since this one is getting bloated with different questions. I just changed my bass from active to passive, replaced all the switches and pots, and made it have a parallel/single Coil/series switch for each pickup, a three-way pickup selector switch, a master tone, and a...

Hello! So I have a Fender MIM ash pbass body that I've swapped American standard pickups and pickguard into. I shield the entire cavity (ctrl and pu cavities are contiguous) with copper tape as I've done many times before, but the system shorts out yielding no sound when I put the pg on - I'm...

I'm close to the end of my StewMac roll of 2" copper tape, and I tried something new. I was at a local electronics store and saw they have rolls similar to the StewMac ones. Turns out they source from Spark Fun, and the comparison seems to work well. Both have 2" wide rolls with conductive...