Showing posts with label hum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hum. Show all posts

Monday, December 27, 2010

Guitar Wiring Ground and Other Connections - Quick Guide

If you will make the ground in your guitar wiring in a wrong way, your instrument can:

  • not work
  • add a lot of hum to the signal
  • be too sensitive to vibrations, so there will be a lot of strange noises (it's because of poor connections)

Five main things, that you should keep in your head, when you're making a guitar wiring ground
  1. Avoid loops
  2. Try to keep „the star shape” (star ground system)
  3. Keep it short
  4. Make a plan before you start soldering anything. You can also test connections with jumper wires.
  5. Don't use old or crappy looking wires. They can be broken inside.