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Re: Electric Guitar - fix for static noise?
Per
some other ideas
other shoes, no shoes, antistatic spray, acrill clothing?,wool clothing, a
conductive copper foil under the pickguard tied to guitar ground, are your
strings to the ground ?, change the pickguard ?
Have an extstatic day
Claude
>I have a wonderful Stratocaster, but whenever I briefly touch the pick
>guard with my right hands pinky (which happens all the time when you
>play)
>a small amount of static power is built up and creates an unpleasant
>audio
>artifact. This must be a well known issue for all you guitar craft savvy
>people on this list? How can it be fixed?
>
> This Strat has a great sound except for that static power noise. I have
> brought it when doing studio musician labor and my producers have
>always
> picked this guitar before any other. But at such important recordings I
> have been forced to play in an uncomfortable way, making sure I never
> touch the pick guard by mistake, or putting loads of Gaffa Tape on the
> pick guard, making the Strat look like a piece of junk (which it
>actually
> is, because I partly built it myself). Now I've finally set my mind on
> fixing this noise issue one time for all, since I'm going to use this
> guitar for looping at a public guitar show later this spring. Don't want
> those "little noise sprouts" to get multiplied in my loops.
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
> http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)
> http://www.myspace.com/looproom
>
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