Recently, I replaced the pickups and capacitor in my Cort Sp-Pb P-bass and whenever the tone pot is touched, an extremely noisy, loud buzz can be heard, which I would attribute to grounding issues. I have checked the grounding issues in relation to this, but this isnt the main reason Im making this thread.
Despite the loudest buzz/hum going away when the strings, bridge, tuners, or volume pot is touched, there is still an audible fizzy, staticky type sound that does not go away. Could this be a shielding issue? Something to do with Grounding?
These are the pots im using:
Alpha Control Pots | stewmac.com
The capacitor that has been installed was removed out of a early 1960s Teisco half scale bass because I loved the tone of the half scale when the tone pot was set to 0, sadly the neck has been fatally broken due to dry-rotted wood
This is the only remaining photo of the capacitor in its original wiring harness, i do not know the cap code on it cause it was mostly rubbed off/unreadable
I will post a video of the noises coming from my bass later, everybody is sleeping at the moment (9am)
Despite the loudest buzz/hum going away when the strings, bridge, tuners, or volume pot is touched, there is still an audible fizzy, staticky type sound that does not go away. Could this be a shielding issue? Something to do with Grounding?
These are the pots im using:
Alpha Control Pots | stewmac.com
The capacitor that has been installed was removed out of a early 1960s Teisco half scale bass because I loved the tone of the half scale when the tone pot was set to 0, sadly the neck has been fatally broken due to dry-rotted wood
This is the only remaining photo of the capacitor in its original wiring harness, i do not know the cap code on it cause it was mostly rubbed off/unreadable
I will post a video of the noises coming from my bass later, everybody is sleeping at the moment (9am)
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