Although some of your topics are stuff I already know. I like your style and no nonsense vids. I think they'll demystify and encourage people to have a go at building/modding/repairing.
@@vigneshg2935you can you use a specific paint or tape and just put it in your electronics cavity. You can usually find these things at a guitar store or online. Goo luck
You sure about this? Actually the way you know if you have a ground problem is if the buzz gets louder when you touch the strings. If the buzz goes away when you touch them it’s normal. No ground problem. Close but no cigar.
I should have seen this video when it came out. I've had this issue for 2 years on one of my Les Pauls after I swapped pickups, and while I knew it had to do with grounding, didn't understand why until about a few weeks ago, when I realized that the ground wire coming from the tailpiece was loose on the tailpiece side (so impossible to see inside the cavity and given it was soldered to the pot there was no movement possible either.) I just fixed it by pushing a new ground wire in, when deciding to redo the whole cabling (and putting new pots in as one was damaged) less than 2 weeks ago and only today your video was in my recommendations. Too late for me, but i'm sure very helpful for others running into this issue! Well explained!
Information is good, but not complete. Grounding doesn't exist in a vacuum and it's not limited to guitar itself. If your gear is not grounded it can cause the same symptoms. A simple case happened to me: I plugged the guitar into soundcard, soundcard into laptop and laptop into the electric outlet. The buzzing was stopping when I touched the guitar, but my laptop is metal too so I noticed that when I touched laptop the buzzing was going away as well. I removed the laptop plug from the outlet and the buzzing stopped. The core reason was that the outlet was not having the grounding connection. So, it's not always your guitar, but it's a good place to start checking with your multimeter.
I thought I had grounding issue but really I think it’s because I live near a transformer. So if I angle the guitar in the right direction I can minimise the noiss
I had that problem and it was my wall outlet wasn’t grounded. I moved my amp to a different room and plugged in a different socket and all was fine. Try that first .
Hey. My strat was a huge buzzing problem. I have a video on my channel if you want to see what I mean. It only started making loud feedback ever since I shielded the cavities and installed a loaded pickguard.
Did you ground the shielding? It sounds like something isn't grounded but it could be a lead touching the shielding try putting some tape in the cavity where the swith sits because it might be grounding out there I have a video series called building jimi hendrixs harley benton guitar if you want to see how a strat should look on the inside take a look at that and compare your guitar to it
Oh no. I only wanted to play guitar through my computer and soundcard... I didn't think there'd be all this grounding mumbo jumbo to think about. Almost all the wiring in my guitar is done in tiny cavities like in the volume/tone pots themselves. Are you sure this isn't simply caused by using an unbalanced TRS cable instead of a balanced one?
Every time you ground a guitar you lower the chances to catch SOS signal from radio waves. People may die because of you! Don't ground your guitars, save lives today.
I had exactly the same problem, drove me crazy! I took the pickup out to trash it and decided to try this. I soldered an extra ground to the back of my pickup (a humbucker), and just for laughs, wrapped it in aluminum foil. NO MORE NOISE!
My guitar also need the amp pots to be perfect and I have to twiddle the amp knobs or it wont play. I live in a 2 pin country so does it mean my amp cant ground like in a 3 pin country eg UK?
No it has nothing do do with it it would only be a problem if you hade a amp from uk and moded it by clipping the third pin(with you should NOT do it will kill you) sounds like you have amp problems like dirty pots
Ok so trying to fix a friends guitar I checked resistance across everything and it shows 0 making me believe all the grounds are good. But it still humms really bad when plugged in and volume is up. Currently no strings on it cuz I been trouble shooting. Any other ideas. Guitar is a single humbucker and a single volume knob. I replaced pot already with a fender 250k pot.
use continuity mode instead to check all the grounds and if there is a sound you know things are connected also look over the solder joints and make sure they are clear like chrome, you could also twist the wires inside i have a video on this , shielding the cavities could also be a good thing. but you should put strings on the strings aren't grounded if they aren't on the guitar so the bridge ground is doing nothing. but i get a scenes your more talking about background hum than what im talking about in this video so maybe the pickup is just noisy and needs to be wax potted some times they forget to do it even on expensive pickups. i hope this helps let me know if it did and if you need more help there is probably more stuff you could do that i just forgot about right now ☺
my telecaster is VERY noisy, and touching the strings doesn't stop it, but when I put my foot on a pedal or my finger on a knob or the control plate, the noise stops
I have this issue where i lift my hands away from the strings, it hums. Would a noise supressor or power conditioner get rid of the buzz? Im not so confident with a soldering iron
Sounds like there is a ground problem most likely the bridge I know it might sound like a hard thing to fix but I promise you can solder one or two wires 🙂 open up the guitar and look inside and see if there are any loose wires. Let me know what you see🙂 what kind of guitar is it?
heya , ive just tried testing everything in my guitar and annnoyingly everything seems to work as intended yet i still hear mains hum when im not touching any metal parts . do you know what could be up with the guitar? i know its the guitar because ive taken it to a studio and it was still noisy there so its not my house or the cables ive been using
Well it can be the pickups maybe they are not made to be completely free from interference maybe they need to be wax poted what pickups do you have in the guitar?
@@zurowetz it's a pretty cheap guitar so I didn't expect to be able to fix it anyway but I don't know, it's a strat from China by the looks of it and it has single coils just like this vid. I don't know what waxing is. Is it something I'll be able to do easily myself?
@@Tokii141 I don't know why I thought you hade nicer pickups but if you don't care for them the best thing is to replace them but wax potting is easy you just need a jar with bees wax and you put it in boiling water and once its melted you put the pickups in it and look for bobbles and once all the bobbles are gone you take them out and let them cool I have a video series where I show all the steps on turning a cheap guitar into something awesome maybe you could take a look and see if it helps you ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r31vGW-wVJA.html&ab_channel=zurowetz if you have any more questions just ask and I'll do my best to help good luck!
This is normal. When you touch the strings or other grounded parts of the guitar and it goes quiet it is because the guitar is grounding YOU, not the other way around. When you don't touch the strings your body forms a capacitor via its proximity to the guitar and the hum is a by product of this. You can test this by touching a different metal grounded object instead of the strings and it will ground you and the hum will go.
Yo man, i have like a problem in my guitar. So i am using fender tele and when i play it at like distortion it will make like a noisy sound when i play it. Like when im soloing or playing riff it will make a noisy sound that sometimes annoy me because my guitar playing sound really bad with that noise. How to fix this problem and does my pickup/amp influence this problem? Btw im using the metalzone for distorted sound
Maybe im mistaken but it sounds like its sometimes? Than maybe there is a wire inside that is somewhat loose if its always there than there are 3 things you can do 1 get humbuckers because they are hum cancelling or something like that like noiseless pickups most of the people using a metalzone will do so with humbuckers because of this reason 2 shield the cavity it can help with noise 3 you can install a dead coil and it will take the hum away its probably the easiest to do if you have room for another pickup somewhere on the guitar or if you have a router if you use a mini humbucker it might fit inside the control cavity 😃I hope this helps let me know how it goes 👊
@@zurowetz thank you so much bro, coincidentally i also want to buy the jackson archtop humbucker guitar. Maybe it will fix my problem bcs my tele also have a problem with it's inside
@@nayottamak7261 a good thing with learning how to fix things with guitars is once you got some fixes under your belt it get easier to fix things 😃 what is wrong with your tele?
@@zurowetz so basically my tele jack input like a long time ago maybe one year ago is a bit loose and it was broken so i try to fix it with my dad cause he know about electricity but i think when i help him i scratch a cable or maybe the inside of my tele so i think it was the problem. But im getting confused now bcs when i play my tele in another amp the noise/burning sound didnt come and im using spark 40 audio. Maybe the amplifier had a problem?
@@nayottamak7261 sounds like it might be te amp if no wires are loose in the guitar or broken then it shouldn't be the guitar you can't scratch the wire maybe go to a music store and try your tele with a new amp and see if its all good or all bsd with the new one 🙂
The human is making the gutiat buzz by being a big watery mass affected by all the waves around it. If you touch your guitar strings and the *hum GOES AWAY* then you dont have a grounding issue. Whatever you are touching is now grounding the human atenna, so the hum goes away. Touch something like the chassis of a toster or a Kitchen Aid (that is itself grounded) while wearing the guitar on a strap around your body and the hum will go away too. Hum that gets worse when you touch the strings is bad earthing. Not the other way around
Start checking all the solder joints if they are cold or dirty that can make noise and fix them if needed then twist the wires coming of your pickups that can also help and hopefully its all good but if not it can be that you have noise pickups and need to either shield the cavity or install a dead coil 🙂
i have a guitar that buzzes loadly when your not touching it and even louder yet when you touch anything metaland i dont have a meter .. how do i go about fixing the issue?
It sounds like to me like the solder joint that is grounding the last leg of the volume pot is broken luckily its easy to fix just reflow the solder I just made a video on it called fixing volume control maybe it can help😁
Hey man, I got that Dave Murray Pickguard installed on my Squier Strat but the Hotrails and JBJR still have hum (that stops when my hand touches the bridge). The ground wire on the jack is fine and so is the ground for the bridge. I believe the luthier screwed up the wiring on the pickups. Any tips?
Well its a prewierd pickgurd so there's no much he could have screwed up but if you think he did my first to do would be talk to him and explain the problem and see if he can fix it but if not look and see if the solder joints look clean if not reheat them I have videos on how to wire up strats you can look at example building jimi hendrixs harley benton guitar part 4 is a good one in tat video I also cover shelding which might be what you need 🙂let me know how it goes and if you need any help just write to me 👍😃
My electrical circuit is arranged like this (I checked it with a multimeter), but I still have such a problem I think the problem is the grounding of my house, am I right?
Very possible, especially if its an old house. My house for example still runs on a 2 wire electrical system, with 3 prong outlet covers to hide it... You can check by removing the outlet cover and looking inside, or by using a multimeter or outlet testing tool. Be sure to turn off the electricity to a certain outlet at the breaker before taking it apart though.
Same here, I checked my strat's ground connections with a multimeter and they're ok. However, there's still noise, I'm starting to think my amp is the problem.
So you're telling me I have to bust open my guitar and manually fix it? Isn't it the supplier's responsibility to deliver a product that functions as intended?
Oh well well as long as you're blood didn't seep into the fretboard creating a pentagram and summoning Cthulhu I think you will be alright if you just sleep it off or walk it off 👍
