If your shielding isn't connected to the ground of your input, it will not work. All pieces should be soldered/connected and tested for continuity. Your pickguard shielding should make contact with your cavity shielding. You have to shield the input jack cavity and solder a jumper from it to the main cavity shielding. It will work when done properly. Continuity is your friend.
Hi, question, if i didn’t shield the input jack but my strat’s pickguard has good shield covers most of the area and connected to the pots and pickup cavity, will it still work? Thanks
If the input jack housing comes in contact with the shielding of that area, no jumper is needed because the metal of the input jack holder is already connected to ground.
@@studioruangsvara Yes definitely. Infact, you dont really need to shield the cavity of the input jack. I shielded my Strat (Entire pickguard and every inch of the cavity but I did not shield the Input jack cavity. My strat is dead quiet! and im playing my strat in a room with networking gear, desktop computer, multiple monitors, Laptop, and a Server Rack.
There is hack you can do to supress some of the 60hz hum... wrap the coils in electrical tape, and then wrap that in copper shielding but be sure to leave a small gap between the ends of the copper tape as you dont want them to touch, then take a piece of wire and solder it to the copper tape around the coil and to the ground of the pickup.
why is it fender guitars or other guitar companies don't shield the guitar just like what you did on this video presented, or not even using copper shielding tape?
I think made-in-USA Fender Strats do have shielding paint in the pickup rout. Squier Strats don't -- mine doesn't, anyway. Mexican Strats, I don't know.
I will tear every last bit of that copper foil crap out of a guitar when if it’s present. Shielding a guitar is great if you hate you high end frequencies and want a dead and lifeless sounding guitar. NO THANKS.
You're right! If it is a cage then the pickup should be inside the cage too! Silly me. However, the idea of keeping all other electronics inside the cage to prevent picking up interference is based losely on the faraday cage.
@@NotOrdinaryInGames definitely! With good grounding and shielding, your guitar will sound better than without any of those done properly! Only then you'll experience how your guitar truly sounds like.
@@PedalRebel880just recently did this with copper tape on the inside of my new player series (fat 50’s and roasted maple neck… pretty sick) but I didn’t solder the connection points or the input jack, bc I don’t have a soldering iron. I did it with the electronics in, I just moved them to the side. Any idea if what I’ve done is at all functional? Also, I felt great Asian shame when you said you’re not worthy of the Strat yet, bc I’m a terrible player and only ever owned an Ibanez and a Strat and ur clearly a much better player than I . 🤦🏻♂️
