gafbass02 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 (edited) I recently removed the emgs from my blue 62ri jazz and paid a well known local store to wire in the new electronics which I supplied, the pots,pups and brass earth jobbies that go under the pups. As it's a 60s model it has the visible strip on the front.this was a job beyond my technical ablitues so I paid to get it done among other work. On getting it home it really buzzed but in my house most basses do but this was really bad. I unscrewed the pups to look at shielding it and found the bridge brass doodah wasn't connected to anything!!!! So I soldered it to one of the pots is this right? Bit gutted really I paid and he did half a job. Specially as the guy plays a 60s jazz hmself figured he'd know how to wire one! I wired to the neck pup vol pot chassis which was where the neck pup earth brass doodah was wired to is this ok? Edited November 17, 2008 by gafbass02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gafbass02 Posted November 14, 2008 Author Share Posted November 14, 2008 iPhone foible, I don't seem to be able to edit posts on the Iphone so excuse me replying to my own post! I just wanted to add that I shielded the bass with adhesive copper as well and the buzz has gone as much as it ever does in my house, so it worked but am I going to fry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek99 Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 mine (a 62 Reissue CIJ) is connected to the bridge, I'm interested to hear that adhesive copper has reduced your hum levels as I took delivery of some copper tape just today and was wondering how much difference it would really make. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bremen Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 [quote name='gafbass02' post='329391' date='Nov 14 2008, 08:33 PM']iPhone foible, I don't seem to be able to edit posts on the Iphone so excuse me replying to my own post! I just wanted to add that I shielded the bass with adhesive copper as well and the buzz has gone as much as it ever does in my house, so it worked but am I going to fry?[/quote] No, you are not going to fry. The reason the bridge is grounded is to rduce hum, not a safety thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gafbass02 Posted November 19, 2008 Author Share Posted November 19, 2008 that's good to know, well i'm still alive and the shielding has really helped. So just to check it's ok that I wired the earth plate thing to the pot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bremen Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 [quote name='gafbass02' post='332587' date='Nov 19 2008, 07:53 PM']that's good to know, well i'm still alive and the shielding has really helped. So just to check it's ok that I wired the earth plate thing to the pot?[/quote] Yes, that's fine. Happy to hear you're still buzzing, and the bass isn't :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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