Alex-Wright

Hi again, After metering the resistance of the soldering job, it shows no connection between the white pickup wires and the shielding, and the problem is there even when the control plate is removed (away from the cavity), so the pot lugs touching is probably not the root cause. In addition, removing the pickup covers does not stop the loud buzzing, so I'm quite confused... I'm wondering about how the initial setup differs from the talkbass tutorial's end result: It suggests removing the solder on the lugs on the end two pots and attaching the new ground wires there - originally the case of the pot was used at this point to connect the black pick-up wires and the original ground wires which ran between the pots (which I removed). Do you know if this may be where the connection with the pick-ups is being made? When I meter between the lug connection and the body of the pot there is no connection but there is with the white wires coming from the same pot dependant on the position of the knob. Thanks again, Alex.

Thanks very much for your response, brensabre79 (Bren I assume?)! I'll give it a go and let you know how I get on... Alex.

Hi guys, Great post - saw the instructions online and tried myself (well, handed them to a more electronically savvy dad!) After following the instructions, I've plugged in the newly insulated beast, and the hum is much LOUDER than before, and instead of it disappearing when I touch the grounded bridge, it gets louder still! Needless to say, I'm most confused! From that very limited description, does anyone know what may be wrong? The only difference I can see from the original instructions is that I've insulated the whole cavity with copper, and instead of wrapping the pickups with copper, I've lined the inside of the plastic pickup shield with copper (I don't know the proper name - it's the bit you can rest you thumb on to play and slide off to see the pickup coil) - this was to avoid the copper touching the other wires and shorting stuff out... Any help would be much appreciated. Can take pictures of wiring if anyone is kind enough to take an interest... Thanks in advance, Alex.

Tell me about it! Had my eye on a nice Fender 70s Reissue Jass Bass (mexican). Have been saving up for a while now, and was about 70 quid off the online prices of around £520. Looked at them again yetserday, and they're all around £612! I'm pretty sure most retailers were selling the Geddy Lee one for around £700 not too long ago, which is now at nearly £900 in the space of a few days! Ah well, shouldn't complain to the good people at basschat - I just wanted to let off some steam about it! Alex.