Help! Static noise! Help!

profgalen

profgalen

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I never had this problem when I lived in Florida. Sense moving to the North I’m having a problem with static electric happening when my fingers run across the pick guard of my Fender Duo-Sonic. It creates loud popping-crackling sound in the amp. I know there must be a fix. I just don’t know what it is.
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Maybe if I found one of those anodized metal pick guards?


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It gets cold in the North. Furnace runs forever, air in your house gets drier and drier. Don't know why but that's when static is bad. Do you have a humidifier?
 
jelloman said:
Pull the pick guard off and see if it shielding on the back side...
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There is some. It probably could be better. It’s an Off-Set Series. Mexican made a few years ago. Same as the current Player Series. The pick-ups have been changed to Seymour Duncan Antiquities.


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I’ve had this same problem on a few guitars, and this has always fixed it: Apply copper foil tape shielding to the back of the pickguard and ground it. If you don’t ground it, it won’t do a thing.

I also foiled the entire puck cavity while I was in there, but I’m not sure that was necessary.
 
PaulD70 said:
I’ve had this same problem on a few guitars, and this has always fixed it: Apply copper foil tape shielding to the back of the pickguard and ground it. If you don’t ground it, it won’t do a thing.

I also foiled the entire puck cavity while I was in there, but I’m not sure that was necessary.
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I’ll give it a try. Will it be grounded just by contact with the two pots and the jack? The tone pot is grounded to the bridge.


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The shielding needs to connect to anything that’s grounded. If it touches the housing of the tone or volume pot you should be good. But I’ve always confirmed with a digital multimeter.
 
I've had some issues with my sc guitars and static. Strangely, in two cases they seemed prone to it when new, then got over it. Happened with both my Tele and my Collings.

Short-term fixes I have found that sometimes help are to rub the pick guard with a dryer sheet, or to use the anti-static weapon that I have on hand for playing vinyl.

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